![]() I prefer hardware, for sounds, and for ergonomics, I like knobs, physical devices etc. It is either all ITB or an all hardware setup for me now. I was in for a lot of luck, as ton of vintage analog was left by in pawn shops. I ditched hardware midi and computers in the early 90ies. If you like event lists, a MPC might be good for you. ![]() ![]() WaveRider wrote:if you sequence hardware synths, you migh enjoy using a hardware sequencer and just record audio in a daw. how computers prioritize usb traffic does not allow for a good implementation of midi. I think the industry needs to stop using USB for midi and need to move on to something else. ended up having to make some concessions like not using the 8 midi tracks on my digitakt and 4 midi tracks on my digitone. did a dry run last night using my motu 8 port hub and using only 4 of the ports to see if i could get all my hardware working over just 4 ports. I'm about to pull the trigger on the er-m multiclock but those only have 4 midi output ports which means studios with a large hardware count need to do some creative daisy chaining but a lot of instruments like the elektron stuff use anywhere between 4-16 full midi channels so those available channels get used up pretty quickly. Using a central midi usb interface hub seems to lessen the issue. I have some instruments that drift in excess of 10 bpms and some that only drift less than a bpm. It's also the instrument manufacturers implementation of the midi over usb. Maybe because I used other DAWs before and they all have that stuff to the left side. Then there's the UI design that puts the track info and scene launcher to the right side of the screen for no apparent reason other than for the sake of being different but I just cannot get used to it. (and.if you accidentally release it too quickly the step gets deleted ) In Live, there's ("let's copy Elektron's shit") "press and hold a step to do step automation" which is getting really old- no option to keep the step selected and edit away without having to keep that pad pressed. Maschine runs circles around Ableton on that front but the software still has no plugin delay compensation and NI's monolithic installing/authorisation/updating closed ecosystem policy can go die in a fire. In 10 they finally added the option to name your audio ins and out but MIDI is still neglected. There is no sort of "instrument definitions" for MIDI hardware, something that other DAWs have had forever. This has still not been addressed in Live 10. Instead you have to mess around with Max devices. The biggest gripes are the lack of "Fold Notes" on Push's step sequencer which has been available in Live for ages, and being unable to assign MIDI CC output to macro knobs directly. I don't have a problem with MIDI per se, I have a problem with Ableton's lack of decent MIDI control in conjunction with Push. I would have ditched Live ages ago if it wasn't for Push. I'm only interested in Bitwig because it has decent integration with Push.
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