new track..looking for critique

[Kim Johnsson]

Hi Tony!

> Yeah, everything I think I could do with it would degrade it rather
> than adding to it.  So I think I am going to leave alone as it is.

Good call :-) I like it, reminds me a bit of Andrea Parker. Whom I like :-)

> Yep - all modular.  I basically created a patch, did a pass recording
> it into a track in Live, then pull all the patch cords and do another
> pass with a new patch.  After that, I went through and did some minor
> arrangement tweaks and mixing.  It's a nice workflow, one that I am
> really digging into.

I've been trying to get into Live for some time now. A while ago (on
my music time scale that's about two years, if not more) I started to
make a song in Live by creating a bunch of individual clips, as one
would expect. That worked out ok, and it felt quite intuitive, the
effects & stuff sounded really great, and all in all I was quite
impressed with Live, but I found that arranging the clips to a final
song just didn't feel right, and some things were impossibly hard to
do (don't remember what, though). People make wonderful arrangements
with Live, but I somehow find it so much harder to do than on Sonar. I
do think Live is the perfect tool for
messing-around-and-seeing-what-happens, as long as all the time is
spent in Session View.

How does Live work for you? How do you use it? Do you record long
takes, or do you tend to make short clips and combine them later? I
would think that having short clips gives you the best flexibility,
and hence having long recordings of modular wondefullnesses kind of
takes you away from the original Live way-of-working/thinking. I might
be wrong, but I feel music like this would be easier to do in Sonar
(or some other linear sequencer); for me having an entire track in one
clip feels like an extra step, if all you want to do is record log
takes and then arrange them. Not criticizing, just wondering :-) Just
proves I don't quite get Live...

(I'm a Sonar Guy (since Cakewalk version 2 or so), and the latest
Sonar has some features ripped straight from Live, but I haven't
really looked into them yet.)

Cheers,

Kim