Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions?

Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? by bphogan on Sunday October 09, 2011 @12:50AM (#3089691)

Ableton Live with the Session view is how I make my music. In fact, here's a stupid rough video of how I do my stuff.

http://www.bphogan.com/files/videos/livesession.mov

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Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? by przemoc on Sunday October 09, 2011 @06:44AM (#3090222)

Thanks for commenting. Ableton Live is undoubtedly a great software. AFAIK it's not suited for rapid prototyping.

Here is some nice stuff. Just in case somebody haven't seen it yet.

Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZYLp5uX9Yw

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Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? by bphogan on Sunday October 09, 2011 @11:09AM (#3090569)

Did you watch the clip I posted tho? Using the session view, I can prototype really quickly by recording simple loops. I used to use lots of other tools, but I am so much faster with the session view. I can record things in parts and then move them around to see if I like what I'm hearing. Very organic.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? by przemoc on Sunday October 09, 2011 @01:11PM (#3090789)

Sorry, I did not, as I am short on time recently. I have done it just now in speeded up way and indeed, session view looks quite interesting and useful for music prototyping (assuming you already clearly know what to play, doesn't look equally good for trial and error method).

Thank you for being stubborn and convincing me about AL usefulness. I won't spend 350EUR on it, though.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? by bphogan on Sunday October 09, 2011 @02:04PM (#3090904)

No problem. And depending on the USB midi input controller you get, you might be able to get a free LE (limited edition) copy with it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions? by przemoc on Sunday October 09, 2011 @02:40PM (#3090985)

Good to know. Thanks for this remark, but USB MIDI controller with Ableton LE won't be cheap either. :)

Also quoting wikipedia:

As of version 6, Ableton also offers a stripped-down version of Live targeted at the non-professional market. It has limitations on the number of audio channels and effects and does not feature some of the synchronization (MIDI Clock, ReWire) utilities the full version has to offer. The current Live LE version is 8.1.4.

As part of the Able10 celebrations, Ableton introduced Live Intro as an effective replacement to LE. Registered users of Live LE can now receive a free upgrade to Live Intro. The current version is 8.2.2.

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