[LAU] Fwd: What Live is about (was: Re: ableton live in vmware)

[Brett McCoy]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Rob<lau at kudla.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 September 2009 09:20 am, Brett McCoy wrote:
>> You use what works best for you. Just because you can churn out music
>> in mere minutes in Ableton Live doesn't mean it's *good* music
>
> I think this is a pretty dangerous argument to make, considering that
> spending hours patching kernels and tweaking JACK latency is not exactly a
> guarantee of listenable results either.

To be honest, I haven't had to worry about patching kernels or
tweaking latency with Jack in quite a while... using something like
Planet CCRMA or similar pretty much gives you a decent starting point
for making music out of the box, moresore than Windows. If you have
ever had to tweak a Windows machine for audio (an out of the box
Windows machine sucks for audio, there's a lot you need to do to get
good performance out of XP and especially Vista). Can't speak for Mac,
since I don't use it, but it seems to be a better solution out of the
box than Windows!

-- Brett
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