KVR Audio

Schumusica · Post by **Schumusica** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:24 pm

Since Live has VST and Midi now, time to do the switch? Or is it useful to run Live next to Cubase?

I just want a full-featured host with a clean GUI...

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:29 pm

You CAN run them both in Rewire, but it really depends what you want. I use Live 4 on its own with EnergyXT sometimes and with Reason rewired all the time. Its a brilliant environment to work in.

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:34 pm

Schumusica wrote:Since Live has VST and Midi now, time to do the switch? Or is it useful to run Live next to Cubase?

I just want a full-featured host with a clean GUI...

You might want to check out the latest Cubase before you plop down the 500 bux for Live. Supposedly SX3 incorporated some Live like time warp. It would be a lot cheaper for you

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soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:09 pm

Amberience wrote:You CAN run them both in Rewire, but it really depends what you want. I use Live 4 on its own with EnergyXT sometimes and with Reason rewired all the time. Its a brilliant environment to work in.

I agree, Reason rewired into Live is the shiz. Not using XT though.

tee boy · Post by **tee boy** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:16 pm

I did try Live a while back, but it seemed a way inferior app to Cubase. I honestly couldnt imagine using it to produce an entire track. Probably be good for djing or remixing, but no really my cupa tea. My advise is to stick with Steiny.

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:37 pm

Live 4 is great and I haven't really used Cubase since I got it but if Steinberg gets all the new stuff they've promised in SX3 right Live will be less attractive. Live is unbeatable as a sketchpad for ideas and experimentation but it's less useful when you're trying to fine tune a track and working more linearly.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:43 pm

I'm an impartial observer, not being a user of either, and I gotta say that it looks like a case of apples and oranges to me, just like in a recent Tracktion - Live4 thread.

If you're used to the way Cubase works, but just don't like all the menus, I still don't think that Live4 is the way to go, because it's a completely different way of working. And as mentioned, although you -can- work linearly with it, it's a bit more of a hassle to do so.

Personally, I'd stick to Cubase, but that's just one man's opinion.

actually, I'd switch to Tracktion with eXT. <grin>

MaxC · Post by **MaxC** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:43 am

Lunch Money wrote:If you're used to the way Cubase works, but just don't like all the menus, I still don't think that Live4 is the way to go, because it's a completely different way of working.[/size]

I definitely agree with you here. I tried the Live 4 demo because of all the great reviews it was getting, but I just couldn't wrap my ahead around it because it was so different from any other sequencer I had used.

The one thing that I thought was pretty cool though was the way you can assign controls to the XY pad for each VST. Is it possible to do something like this in eXT or some other plugin?

DHR53 · Post by **DHR53** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:09 am

Live has some teething problems that will need to be worked out... But it's really become more powerful and flexible with midi... it's still not a classic sequencer, and therefore requires a rethinking of your workflow... If your comfortable with some of the traditional sequencers, you have to be prepared to put some time in to it... and ask yourself is it worth it? I'm still leaning towards Logic myself because of the better cpu management...

Switch from SX2 to Live 4?!