Live 2.01 Impressions, or "ableton listens, users rejoice" Options

[filarion]

Paid my 80 Euros to upgrade to Live 2.0 a couple of days ago. Awesome new features like different timestretch engines (acoustic guitar tracks actually can be used in Live now), ability to turn those engines off for individual samples, better automatization, etc.

Performance looks to be the same like 1.5 - which means that it still isn't Altivec optimized, and faster on PCs, but the Ableton guys are Mac users themselves and are promising to add this (requiring a bunch of rewrites) for the next upgrade. Anyways, especially with software like Live the performance is nowhere near as important as creativity.

[Levon River]

Levon,

I'd love to hear this NN-XT drum kit I've been hearing about. Do you have a tune we could down load?

wonx, there's no one drum kit I've been using in the NN-XT(s) for the various projects I've been experimenting with in Reason; in some cases I've had several NN-XTs set up for different kicks, snares, toms, cymbals, etc.--depending on the tune. I generally use the NN-XT because I mostly like to use drum patches that have multiple velocity layers, and I can adjust the velocity switching and even assign velocity randomizing or cross-fading in the NN-XT. In only one case, I think, did I use a pre-fabbed kit (one of the Wizoo Platinum sets, IIRC--I can check), but even then I duplicated that track/NN-XT and edited the copy for just the kick, so I could separately EQ the kick, since it was muddying up the mix a bit and fighting with the frequencies of a stand-up bass patch.

As for a tune you could download, unfortunately the projects I've been doing with this have been OPMs (Other People's Music ), and I don't have any okay to circulate it. I'm happy to load one, though, erase the song information, and use the same loaded patches to create a short little sample song you could listen to. (Maybe I'll use BIAB to just generate a tune from scratch, load whatever that turns out to be into Reason, and let 'er rip. ) I don't know where I'd put it so you could download it, but I'll see what I can conjure up as soon as I can carve out a little time here in the hectic holidays. Stay "tuned"...