Hallo, Kyle Klipowicz hat gesagt: // Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
I agree that it is not WHAT software you use, but what you DO with it. I've seen lots of good programmers make pretty mediocre music, and lots of technological babies churn out some great tunes. Hell, some of my best microsound work was 3 years ago with vanilla Acid 3 and Soundforge--no plug-ins. And I won't even get STARTED on my Impulse Tracker days.
Everyone always disses on Live on this list,
Is this so? I don't remember people dissing Live as a software. To me it rather seems consensus, that:
it has the most intuitive interface, optimized algorithms, and versatility that I've seen in a commercial OR open source package.
yes, exactly.
However what is dissed sometimes, maybe too often, is the kind of music that people create using Live, if they don't get creative with it like for example you do.
This is a hairy subject of course: For one, Live makes creating some kinds of music very easy. This is a very democratic thing that should be applauded IMO. In Pd OTOH creating the kind of music, that Live is good at, is quite hard. Though it is not impossible, just listen to some tracks on pdradio.iem.at.
The advantage of Pd of course is, that it excels at various other kinds of music, that are simply impossible at all to do in Live. That's why Robert Henke also has Max running when performing live with Live. Viewed that way, Live could be considered a very specific, highly polished and hand-optimized Max patch converted to a standalone application. However it totally lacks the thing, that makes Pd (or Max) interesting to me: the ability to look into the patch and hack it to do soemthing different.
Ciao