Interesting News from Summer NAMM 2012 :

A.I.R. Music Technology Ignite Software: Organic Approach To Music Creation

Not much info./details yet. but it sounds very interesting.

http://www.gearwire.com/air-music-technology-ignite-software .html

There's a video of this in action here:

http://youtu.be/dxPt3QVAHLc

Cool !

Thanks for the link.

Interesting.

It's a toy.

Egh... Looks like just another Live (Session View) ripoff to me, except that they have the clips just floating in free space instead of a grid. But I guess if it helps someone write good music, then it's okay.

Still, maybe I'm just getting old or something, but what's wrong with actually writing a song from start to finish? So many modern DAWs encourage people to write their songs as disjointed loops, and then just push them into a pile and call it a song.

I don't know, just my 2 cents. I am planning on buying an Axiom Pro later in the year, so according to that chick in the video, I will get this thing for free. So I guess I'll see for myself what it's all about... Definitely interesting--thanks for the share.

It's a tease really, because they don't actually show at all what - if anything - you can do in terms of editing any of those clips. Nor what you can do in terms of mixing them into an actual song.

So based on what is shown it offer less than a lot of iPhone apps.



Interesting observation. But if we go back three hundred years, Back would one day sit at the organ and improvise a Prelude, but the next day sit at his desk with a manuscript and quill and carefully write a Fugue.... I guess there have always been multiple ways into music creation and composition, and that's okay.

Also I think Ableton was originally designed to use the other way round - take a finished song and break it into its components for live manipulation, remixing, etc. But of course people quickly started using it for experimenting with elements of a piece during composition, much as they had previously done with ACID and for that matter eJay. And before that old-skool step sequencer patterns....

I think that Ableton makes arranging easier, and those of us who learnt to do it the harder way might feel that a younger musician who has only ever know Ableton would benefit from learning those skills of course