#Pro tools to ableton full#
#Pro tools to ableton pro#
#Pro tools to ableton software#

it gets even more difficult with ableton if you’re mixing on a console and using ableton as your “tape machine” because routing in ableton is not immediately apparent when using it and I don’t think ableton has a function for syncing to a tape machine. And generally the non intuitive nature of other DAWs is made so that you can use it however works for you with a much greater level of modularity with protools logic etc. With every other DAW when looking at your mixer window you can see everything in your session like internal and external routing, pluggins used on each track bussing etc ableton really only lets you see that detail for a single track at a time so it’s difficult to mix your project in a wholistic manner. Also the mixer view of ableton is very difficult to see what’s going on as a whole in your session. Then There’s VCA and Group track management shortcomings. There’s ableton only ever being stereo files is a big one. Maybe it has gotten better and I'm not aware of it, this was true in live 9 and 10 at least.) It's easy to test this stuff by setting up projects with a shared reverb send, or feeding a common bus with a compressor on it or whatever, and seeing how many duplicates of a CPU heavy track you can run in parallel. (The issue with Live is that it can't distribute workloads across cores on tracks that send to shared buses/sends, so if you have a global reverb send that everything uses, congrats you're now working with a single core. Whether this is a problem depends on one's personal workflow and plugin usage. FL Studio, Reaper, Bitwig, and other DAWs are orders of magnitude better at multi-core utilization in real world projects. I use a lot of plugins and don't like to freeze/bounce them. Personally speaking, the only reason I do not use Ableton Live (which I love otherwise) is because it's actually terrible at distributing plugin workloads across multiple cores. Everyone has pet features and pet peeves that makes them gravitate to one tool or another, and you could argue endlessly about those, but the fact is that people get the job done in all the modern DAWs.īeing able to use and be productive in multiple tools is always a good skill to have. It's purely a matter of personal preference (unless you are collaborating, or in a situation where you otherwise have to use one specific DAW for circumstantial reasons). I know using Live for M&M is often regarded as a questionable choiceĪny modern DAW is completely capable for the task. I know using Live for M&M is often regarded as a questionable choice, but why waste time and money buying and learning a new DAW when I find the one I already use so damn intuitive? At the end of the day, it's the skills of the engineer that matter more than the tools they use.Īnyone else a diehard Live mixer? Would love to hear some thoughts on this. I've tried Logic and it's left me mashing my face on the keyboard with frustration. I still like to make electronic music from time to time and I'm so used to the workflow that I can't imagine mixing in any other DAW.

Over the last couple of years my interests have focused in on mixing and mastering, to the extent that I now do it 'semi-professionally' for small clients with a much deeper understanding of the concepts behind it than I ever would have thought I could achieve.īut I still use Live.

#Pro tools to ableton full#

I made the full switch almost instantly and my production skills grew exponentially. Fast forward to when I went to uni, I was still using FL for producing my own songs but was soon introduced to Live. Soon after, I was still producing EDM but had also started recording my own rock songs.

#Pro tools to ableton software#

I googled 'best software for making dubstep', pirated a copy of FL Studio and that's where it all began. My interest in production started about 10 years ago when I decided I wanted to try making my own dubstep. I've been using Live for probably 5 or 6 years now.

#Pro tools to ableton pro#

I know the industry standard is Pro Tools and Logic, but I'm wondering how many people use Live to mix and master?