What I did was to sequence a track using NIN samples provided in software Ableton Live. I did the sequencing (or rather mixing) live and real-time.
Arguably, Live has a good interface which compared to many others is more user-friendly. Most of the features that a typical user needs at one time are on the screen and there is not that much of need to browse the menus. Like many other softwares, however, there is a necessity to "flip" sides of the interface and go from the editing section to sequencing; this could possibly be problematic. The other good feature of Live is that it recognises the beginning of the sample (or rather the "beat") pretty precisely and does not always go off-time (it should be mentioned that the whole syncronisation process highly depends on the initial loop of the sample.)
Restrictive practices that are to be experienced while using Live would allow the user to be more "creativity". As an example, since the demo version of Live did not allow me to save the file, I had to come up with an intelligent approach to playing and recording real-time using two different softwares (in this case, Live and Protools.)Here is my final result in MP3 format:
..and here is a video of two DJs called "Telephone Tel Aviv". It demonstrates how these guys utilise Live to get their jobs done:References:
Christian Haines Creative Computing 1.2' Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 06/09/2007
- Ableton (www.ableton.com) [Accessed: 06/09/2007]
- Ableton Live, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableton_Live) [Accessed: 06/09/07]
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