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by mkr-hn 1338 days ago
Live is first and foremost a tool for making electronic music in the same way Cubase is for making live band stuff. You can use one for the other, but you'll fight against the design goals that underly them. I would love Cubase's expression maps for handling keyswitches in Live for those rare times I use orchestral stuff, but I know I'll need to spend money on the top Max device for it if I want to get serious about sampled instruments. And I don't, because 99% of the time I'm making ridiculous sounds in Massive/Massive X. Live is all about the painless automation and clip launching. Automation is central to electronic music. Clips are fun to goof around in, but also let musicians cut up their songs for dynamic playing during actual live sets.