![]() ![]() The website also lists a number of money-saving Live 6 hardware bundles, and there's an informative "what's new in Live 6" movie as well as numerous video tutorials too. ![]() While you read the rest of this review, I recommend that you download the fully-functional demo from the Ableton website. I asked three trusted contributors-my brother John, who's been recording beautiful music ever since he got his hands on his first 4-track Dana Gumbiner, who operates a project studio and whose richly-layered pop music is contagiously sweet without being sugary and Walt Szalva, a veteran in music production for TV, radio, video games, and album releases-to give me their opinions. In other words, it may be too much of an application if all you truly need is the software equivalent of a multitrack tape machine, but if you're recording music as you're creating/composing/editing it, then Live is definitely the right tool. I am now whole-heartedly convinced that Live is a great environment for recording music, especially if recording is part of the process of creating the music. After a lot of Warping, tweaking Groove, modulating automation envelopes/patterns, and adding instruments and effects, I was impressed with how easy it was not only to make edits, but also to route audio and MIDI between different components of the application. Just to get my feet wet, I started by using it to create and edit loops of some wonderful jazz recordings courtesy of Mi3 (Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Pandelis Karayorgis), who dropped into my studio for two days recently. Stage use, but I've since realized that its ease-of-use (hey, if you can perform with it, it better have an extremely efficient UI) along with a very mature feature set makes it a formidable studio tool too. ![]()
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