I hear it's pretty good. I have it cause it came with some hardware i bought but havent quite figured it out yet. Cant get away from Fl lol.

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I wouldn't say it's ass though.

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it's as good as your knowledge of the program

I love it. I use it both for dj'ing and production. I very much love working with Ableton for production. My experience was that it required a pretty bad ass computer to go with it (for dj'ing I got away with a P4 and 1 gig of ram, when I started producing I had to get a new computer - even with tracks frozen and most of the effects turned off... now with a DuoCore2 and 4 gigs of ram it's cake). The effects, stability, options, flexibility, and overall experience is awesome. It has a unique interface, so there is a learning curve, but well worth it.

I’m thinking of getting into producing. Witch would you guys recommend. Reason or Ableton?

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Two completely different programs. Personally I use both are rewire them together.

More specifically, I had Reason first and spent a lot of time learning from previous forum posts. When I wanted to do more with recorded audio, I moved to Ableton.

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I use both. I use Reason for instruments - awesome for that. I use Ableton as my main sequence - awesome for that. I really recommend both. I personally started with Reason so I had one program I could do everything in. Then added Ableton. But, you could really do it either way. The added use is that I can use Ableton for dj'ing... which I resisted for awhile but incorporate it quite a bit now.

You can get a demo version of each to try them out... download the trial for both and test them out.

I also use Live for composing and arranging. Mixing is quite a pain. You can easily route and insert sends but in the mixer (session view) it is quite difficult do keep your overview. Especially if you have separate midi and audio tracks for your percussions. Trackfolders and Hiding tracks would be really usefull here. I recomend bouncing and going to another sequencer at a certain point

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Originally posted by Benjamin_D How bad ass is ableton as for the production part of it. Using it for creating tracks and also remixing tracks.

IMO, great for sequencing, but I would not use any of its instruments. They're all pretty weak.

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