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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>> Subject: Re: Listening to: Minilogue<br>> From: seclorum@mac.com<br>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:16:50 +0100<br>> To: music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br>> <br>> >> I guess I should listen to Minilogue, but .. sorry .. the association with Ableton just turns me right off.<br>> > <br>> > Why?<br>> <br>> Because I can’t stand Ableton-produce tracks, really. There is something too accurate about the way the clips lock together, or .. something .. else about how Ableton enforces a convention on song-construction, for the purposes of convenience for the user. I just find it predictable and formulaic - things are very rigid clock-wise, and I guess I’ve adopted a pattern-finding approach to listening to electronic music that has the effect of recognising when things were just ‘copy/pasted’ into existence in the track structure. Maybe the jitter of MIDI is missing, who knows .. I’ll be the first to admit that I am being myopic about it, but the standard structural composition of your average Ableton composition seems to me to be too accessible for overuse.<br>> <br><br></div><div>This is actually why i have stopped using Ableton and started using Reason. I never used the clip window in Live since I mostly work with long linear tracks that I edit rather than clips. I construct songs as sound layers rather than looping events. I find this makes me listen to the flow of the song more than creating structures by loop factors of 4. Songs start out as gigantic blobs that I chisel down rather than a bunch of small bricks that I build up. </div><div><br></div><div>To each his own, though. If Ableton works for you, go with it.</div><div><br></div><div>Tony</div> </div></body>
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