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mountain Apr 16 2013 at 2:31 PM |
There are a growing number of artists deploying the use of Ableton Live software, in some cases as their primary instrument to create art/music both live and in the studio, as well as those like Pat who use it as a tool. Beyond our traditional sense of what we think an instrument is, do you think that Ableton Live is an instrument or just another tech tool. |
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-m Apr 17 2013 at 10:19 AM |
I’d always dissed Live as a
College students Beatz box.
Then I saw Pat give kudos to
Dennis DeSantis (and Ableton)
on the Orchestrion DVD
credits. So...I purchased it
after watching some of the
videos for the product. I’d
have to say that even old dogs
can be taught new tricks after
using it for the past 6 or 7
months. All that said I don’t
really think of Live as an
instrument, tool yes (and a
very powerful one), but not an
instrument. I use it primarily
as a composition tool and as a
sampler. But I don’t care for
it when I’m ready to produce a
song (I also use Cubase and
Sonar). As a sampler most of
the things Live is capable of
are available in other
samplers (I also use Kontakt
extensively and have
programmed and scripted two
libraries for Kontakt). While
samplers are very powerful and
creative fun boxes in my
opinion they are not
instruments...the MIDI
controllers that drive them
are though, again, my opinion.
Of course Live can be used in
a live setting, think
Orchestrion tour, so it does
have that context however as a
young rock guitarist I used to
use stomp boxes live for
signal processing...but I
didn’t consider them an
instrument. When I saw Pat
perform Orchestrion I figured
he had to be using some type
of MIDI controller(s) to drive
everything but to me, even
after using Live quite a bit I
still don’t think of it as an
instrument. Interesting
question though...
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