Live, Maschine 2.0, and Thoughts

[deeplfo]

I wanted to reply to Paul regarding working with Maschine 2.0 and Live, but thought it needed its own thread.

Again, this is a very personal view of things, but I thought I'd share a little break through moment I had, during these past couple of weeks where I was working on that last track.  Actually it started a bit earlier, as my youngest son (10 y) and I, made a little poppy, rap, Trap-style birthday track for his older brother who turned 14 on new year's eve.

Anyway, as a person who's main DAW has been Ableton Live since v 1.5, I always was torn in the various methods of using the session view vs the arrangement view, a very common issue.   I had an aha moment when I was watching a certain Mr Bill, edit his glitchy tracks in Live.  The key point I took was that audio editing in Live's Arrangement view is Soooooooo good and cool.  For the electronic sound, it goes a long way to be able to introduce changes and micro-level kinds of edits to any piece of audio.  And all the ways you can slice up audio in the Arrangement view is the thing that allows creation of super edits and keep things going.  Now, what Live 9.0, brought was the awesome feature of taking sections of the Arrange view and turning them into scenes in Session view.  So, that's one part of the story.

The other involves Maschine 2.0.  The new version is so so good of an upgrade, even though it has a few rough spots, which I am sure will get addressed.  But among the things that Maschine 2.0 has a hand in this new working method of mine are the export of midi and audio from tracks and the mixer view, with all the midi and routing information readily available.

So, what I do for the beats is to start in Live's Arrangement view, create drums in Maschine 2.0, export the audio of a pattern I am working in Maschine 2.0 into a Live audio track.  I can program patterns on the fly, via keyboard, create variations, etc., and while it's playing bring the audio into Live, and build my section.  

In Live 9.0, I'll do some more Arrangement view editing, and once I've got those sections I then create new scenes from then, and then I may totally delete everything in the Arrangement view.  At this point I start building new sections and record them again into the Arrangement view.  Then more final editing there, and done.....

I wonder if the audio editing in Arrangement window will some day be available on Session clips.  Marc ???? :-)

Anyway, wanted to share that as it has made me feel more complete :-)


cheers,
Mohsen
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