Which DAW is best for Live Performance & Electronic music Production?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 63 posts since 19 May, 2015 from Lille
Hello everyone,
I just signed up to KVR, although I'm a current reader for a few years now .
I'm sorry for my english skills, I'm from France and not used to write a lot in english .
I want to move forward in my musical project but face a pretty regular dilemma I think : the DAW choice.
To sum it up, I tried 3 software : FL Studio for a little more than a year, Ableton Live Lite and demo (Suite version) for 6 months, and recently tried the Bitwig demo.
My musical project would be to focus on production for some time and then try to go live. That's the reason why I only tried DAWs with live performance capabilities, so that I wouldn't have to switch later. Genre speaking, I would live to produce melodic techno/deep house tracks.
So, now that I presented the context to you, here are my questions :
1 / From your experience(s), which DAW is the best for live performing in the three that I listed? Maybe there is another one that I haven't thought about?
2 / Bitwig demo, unlike FL Studio and Ableton Live, only shows a restrictive demo version. What is the added value of the purchased "full" version? Are the sample packs good?
3 / About FL Studio : is it possible to create full live sets just with FL Studio native stuffs? Performance mode seems goodto play one track live, but a whole set? I'm afraid that this won't be possible in FL, but maybe I'm wrong so I need your feedback on this .
Thanks in advance for your feedback .
I just signed up to KVR, although I'm a current reader for a few years now .
I'm sorry for my english skills, I'm from France and not used to write a lot in english .
I want to move forward in my musical project but face a pretty regular dilemma I think : the DAW choice.
To sum it up, I tried 3 software : FL Studio for a little more than a year, Ableton Live Lite and demo (Suite version) for 6 months, and recently tried the Bitwig demo.
My musical project would be to focus on production for some time and then try to go live. That's the reason why I only tried DAWs with live performance capabilities, so that I wouldn't have to switch later. Genre speaking, I would live to produce melodic techno/deep house tracks.
So, now that I presented the context to you, here are my questions :
1 / From your experience(s), which DAW is the best for live performing in the three that I listed? Maybe there is another one that I haven't thought about?
2 / Bitwig demo, unlike FL Studio and Ableton Live, only shows a restrictive demo version. What is the added value of the purchased "full" version? Are the sample packs good?
3 / About FL Studio : is it possible to create full live sets just with FL Studio native stuffs? Performance mode seems goodto play one track live, but a whole set? I'm afraid that this won't be possible in FL, but maybe I'm wrong so I need your feedback on this .
Thanks in advance for your feedback .
- KVRAF
- 3897 posts since 28 Jan, 2011 from MEXICO
I would say the best for Live performance is Ableton Live, because it has better controller support right now. Bitwig script developing is being done by users.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 63 posts since 19 May, 2015 from Lille
By performing live I mean that I would like to be able to trigger clips/patterns live (using hardware like Launchpad/APC40/Push) so that I could rearrange entirely my songs .
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- KVRian
- 1074 posts since 1 Jan, 2004
Well, Ableton Live is the way to go. It was designed for such purpose (playing live).
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- KVRAF
- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
This.D N A wrote:Well, Ableton Live is the way to go. It was designed for such purpose (playing live).
As to electronic music production, everything goes - just demo it and see what suits your taste.
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