Logic pro x vs ableton upgrade#
Logic pro x vs ableton full#
Logic pro x vs ableton plus#

Logic pro x vs ableton full#

Similarly, we might want to be able to smooth transitions and control playback speed of our home movies, but we’re never going to set up a green screen to use as a shooting backdrop or want to be in full control of motion graphics. Plenty of us want to be able to take great-looking photographs on our phones or DSLRs but fewer of us have the time to learn about Photoshop layering or extended retouching techniques. As with any creative process, your interest in music-making might remain at an enthusiastic but time-restricted level.

Let’s address the final question first and work backwards from that point.

Logic pro x vs ableton upgrade#

I say get both, because Live adds a flava that you cannot recreate in Cubase/Logic etc and via rewire you can incorporate that into a more trad DAW arrangement.A typical Garageband project (Image credit: Apple) Do I really need to upgrade to Logic Pro? However, if I wanted to record a 60 track power rock ballad then I would probably use Cubase. I just find production quicker in Live and it is usable for most trad DAW scenarios too using Arrangement mode.įor my electronica productions, Live is just the business.

Logic pro x vs ableton plus#

However, Live has really advanced a lot, and in terms of composition I find it a much more fluid and productive system for getting songs together quickly from scratch, I fecking love Session view composition (so much better than the pseudo session Play Order in Cubase) and I also love being able to mess around in real time with clips and fx automation which I find more intuitive in Live than Cubase, plus the effects and tools (such as Beat Repeat etc) are totally different in Live. are better suited for this, they also have a nicer and more accessible mixer than Live. If you are working with intensive MIDI and audio editing, scoring or using Arrangement mode (linear timeline) exclusively and require a solution which has several built in softsynths and reasonable-good quality fx plugins then traditional DAWS such as Logic, Cubase and Sonar etc. Why change a good thing? In the interim live has caught up with it most aspects and surpassed it in almost all others. Even sulpture and it's epic GUI is starting to fade away in light of the immediate success I have been having with sampler.Īpple has done nothing to engage people in what is a very credible piece of software. At the time I thought he was just being pretentious, as, well, this guy is awfully pretensious, but the progression seems quite natural and in reetrospect he was probably being blunt. His response was 'I used to but now they are all into MAX/MSP'. Once I aked a local glitch-rocker if he knew anyone using Logic, as I was just getting into it. It should be fine for that when I'm ready. I imagine that version 7 will be an adequate utility for mastering in years to come. In theory they could work very well, but in terms of realtime it seems always unreliable and awkward. I used to think that the two were a perfect pair. Max, however, with some time, completely could theoretically eliminate logic from the equation.Īlmost anything really can be done in Live, though the tools in Logic sometimes make things more direct. Then there is Logic, the customizable utility that can polish a turd and can soundflower some goodness into my live GUI. The reason I bring this up is because there is Live, my favorite realtime instrument/environment.

Logic is in my opinion less intuitive and it would have been easier to have banged my head through it if I went through the foundation of learning tools max had to offer first. I personally feel like the time I spent in logic was not a waste, but in the order of events should have come after learning max/msp. As far as regular posters here that use both, the first that come to mind are myself, machinesworking and adamjay.