ableton or..??

[brahma jay]

need advice:

ableton live, pro tools or logic?

whats best for producing and mixing electronic music?

getting a mac next week so have to decide whats best.

[kidkage]

need advice:

ableton live, pro tools or logic?

whats best for producing and mixing electronic music?

getting a mac next week so have to decide whats best.

There is no "best" when it comes to music software.

However, Ableton is a pretty intuitive program. It's a great sketchpad.
And "Session View" makes things really easy as far as performing music goes.

[MrWrenchey]

Electronic Music?
I'd go for Ableton. For professionally recording acoustic material (by acoustic, I mean anything you're throwing a mic onto), I'd go with Logic or Pro Tools.

Logic is cheaper, so I'd suggest getting that if you're on a budget. Otherwise, I prefer Pro Tools by a long shot. That's just my personal opinion though.

[smili]

Just wanted to add that for composing parts ableton is pretty fun and quick to work with. Not sure about for regular tracking / mixing - I've not used it for that.

[brahma jay]

thanks for the reply.
what if ill get both Pro tools and Ableton? how do they work together?
and whats good for recording and mixing vocals?

[Manslick]

Take a look at Propellerhead Reason. Also the interface called Balance.

[brahma jay]

thanks.
what about mixing?

[brahma jay]

and by the way, whats best for recording?

[Manslick]

Reason does it all.

There is no best. Sorry.

[kidkage]

thanks for the reply.
what if ill get both Pro tools and Ableton? how do they work together?
and whats good for recording and mixing vocals?

I'm not too sure about Pro Tools in particular, but I use Cubase in conjunction with Ableton.
ReWire is great. It links the two together.

Also, I don't see any reason why Ableton can't handle recording and mixing vocals or recording any audio at all for that matter.
I record guitar, drums, and vocals into ableton all the time.