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

[Brent Busby]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Brett McCoy wrote:

> That's precisely my point I was saying earlier. :-) If I were doing 
> more loop-based music, I'd be all over something like Live (or some 
> Linux approximation), but I am doing progressive heavy metal and 
> orchestral/symphonic music, so Live (or some Linux approximation) 
> would not work so well doing that. Not saying that kind of music 
> *can't* be done using something like Live, it's just not really suited 
> for it (at least going by what I read on the website), whereas 
> traditional DAW & sequencer apps work very well for that.

That's one reason that I like that in Ardour, you can make the timeline 
rulers for bars/beats/etc. invisible.  A lot of the music I record has 
time that is not generated by a machine, and the DAW is not syncing to 
anything.  A beat timeline is useless for projects like that.

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