[NickC25]

I've toyed around with it a few times. I like it! It's definitely a cool product, and I think with its focus on modularity it blurs the line between a traditional DAW focused on production/composition and a more experimental DAW focused on sound design, as opposed to Live's focus on blurring the line between a DAW focused on live performance and a DAW focused on composition/production.

I'm not one who is focused on a DAW's particular weaknesses, rather, what makes each one unique from a functionality point of view.

I love Live, but that doesn't mean I hate FL Studio, Reason, Logic, Bitwig, VCV Rack, etc... In fact, as someone who spends more time in the DAW doing crazy and experimental sound design versus actual song production (blame my ADHD for that!), I enjoy some of the unique features of all the major DAWs.

[uxcolumbo]

Thanks for clarifying ;)

Do you have a bandcamp or similar where you post your sound design experiments?

[NickC25]

I wish I had enough complete projects to actually put up on SC or Bandcamp or whatever.

I have close to a thousand uncompleted Live projects sitting on my current laptop and old laptop, some are just little melodic loops, some are fully built out EDM/house/techno/electronic loops, some are just whatever happened when opening Ableton after a night of substance abuse (read: completely unorganized, unmixed, heavily distorted sonic chaos).

I can't arrange for shit, even though it's easy and straightforward. This is the one part of Live I don't like - you can just noodle around in clip view if you'd like, and unlike FL, Logic, Pro Tools, you aren't arranging from the start.

What I really enjoy doing is just being unfamiliar with a new plugin or piece of equipment and just noodling around with it creating happy accidents. Presets are cool if you want to just make music and not learn the plugin.

I would love if it there was a HN thread for DAW geeks with regular meetups or Zoom chats so we could all show off what little nuggets of production we've learned. There are so many things in Live that I don't use or even know exists (or how to use) that I wish someone could just show me, or vice versa.