Programming Beats in Ableton Live

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[corndogers564]

WOW! Thats sounds nice!

[MrBassgeige]

Ableton don't sound!

It's your soundcard who makes the sound.

You can also use REX2 in Live or extract your refills and make multisamples in Live. You also can't make beat with those ableton sounds that came with the software. And in Reason you can't use that great sound of an Massive, Kore or Maschine VSTi

[YesDimda]

@iluvtrance69

"If you are using a Virus Refill with nice sounds, who is the artist?"

Unless you're using precomposed loops, you're still the artist. If it's just a sound setting like in a typical VST, there's nothing wrong with using it.

That's like pointing at every rock band out there and saying "Hey man, you didn't make your amp nor did you make the guitar, you're not the real artist here."

It's just how you use it.

[LIGHTRONIX]

it's same guy who did that famous casio keyboard drum demo. look it up.

[mrklp]

@pixieking1987 Prodigy doesn't use Reason's synths on their albums. They're all replaced by hardware and VST instruments run through ProTools.

Liam uses Reason as a "sketchpad" to get basic ideas down quickly. Reason isn't used for the final product.

[pixieking1987]

seen the comments n my vote is ableton with rewire and reason, combination of good synths and samples with abletons features is a must :) ask Prodigy

[vanzahn]

I am adept with cakewalk, cubase and Logic but given that i can't get anything out of this so-called 'easy and intuitive' software do you think my copy may be corrupted? If i have no luck over the next week i may have to ask for my money back, which would be a huge shame as i hear nothing but good things about Live.

[Rising90zg]

nice beat :)

[RoC1909]

Well, it is BERKLEE. Unfortunately, they are not going to give you much for free. They want you to pay 1,000 bucks for the info. What you will get from that 1,000 bucks is what counts though. Berklee is one of the top music schools in the World. Bar none.

[Leprecaun123]

incorrect ableton has a VERY good 40 odd gb orchestral instrument plugin, also ableton can be used very effectively to use samples of your own and other peoples, and you can use external VSTi instruments.

[MCLaneous]

it seems that ableton sounds realllty midi aye? the reason stuff I have done doesnt sound so fake... reason refills got some amazingly real sounding things, all the ableton stuff i hear sounds like cheap midi synth... no offence maybe Im just missing something.