![]() Their own modular system instead of a third party. I think in some ways BWS is going in the right direction: Second hand BWS licences go pretty cheap over at KVR.160-180 bucks.īoth have good demos, BWS is full for 30 days. To me MAX is the only killer feature of live over BWS Sean_Clarke wrote:I use both, but to be honest now use BWS a lot more than Live due the the in clip editing, better audio editing and linier features and the fun modulation possibilities.but I expect Live to come back strong with 10. The only way to really tell the difference is to try both demos and see which one YOU like the best. Max4Live might seem more for the technically minded user but most devices people create from them are available for free and can be used by anyone with Max4Live pretty much just like a regular Ableton device. It gives Ableton a huge number of devices that does various things from synths, effects, step sequencers, and utility stuff that even manipulates the GUI and helps with customizing 3rd party controllers. Not sure if Bitwig has this type of stuff. Also the Simpler plug-in was modified to have Warping built- inside of it. They also have things like the Glue (which emulates an SSL mix bus compressor), and 9.5 revamped the filters in alot of the Samplers and other devices to make them sound more "Analog" and give the users more variety. Over the years Ableton continuously make refinements to their stock plug-ins namely the EQ and Compressor. I'd imagine Ableton (especially the Suite version) having a more mature effects/plug-in line-up as well. This would also lead to more controller support and such.īitwig being a version 1 app is probably still wet behind the ears on some features (like Rewire) but from what I read they have made great strides this version to get up to par with more mature DAWS. I would imagine one benefit of Ableton would be a wider user base which should make it easier for tutorials, user groups, downloads of patches templates and such. I do know that it does stuff Ableton can't do and that Ableton can do things that Bitwig can't. I'd guess that Bitwig has a similar workflow and I'd probably like creating songs on that as well compared to other DAWs.īut these are just my opinions and I haven't researched Bitwig enough to know the details. I use Live for most of my songwriting and I like it the best over Maschine, Reaper, Studio One, Logic, Reason. Have never even tried the Bitwig demo but I use alot of other DAWS. Not sure what the reason is for that, but with Live it takes ages for bugs to fix and user-requests are almost ignored all the time. One can only imagine what will happen further down the RoadĮDIT: Bitwig is much faster with fixing things than Ableton. So, you're better off starting with bitwig as It has already promised to be a innovative and very forward-thinking Program, and all this in V1. In Live you have to use the annoying max for live and that is why i never modulate any parameters because I hate M4L like hell. Also the native paramter modulation is great. The new Browser and custom key-commads is great if you want to have a nice workflow. So, if you wanna use the more modern DAW go with Bitwig definetely.It's much snappier than live and feels much more modern and future-oriented. Not sure if it is a good idea to ask on the Live-Forum if Live or Bitwig is better.Īlthough Bitwig is much newer than live and has a few things to catch up, there are a lot of points where it is just ahead of Live. It will happen, but they're a relatively new company and Ableton have been developing Live for about 15 years now. There are numerous small features that Bitwig haven't implemented yet, some are pretty basic stuff. Live IMO has a slightly better GUI, why Bitwig thinks that you need to see the color palette all the time I'll never figure out. Third party support in general is better for Live, plenty of companies have built in support AKAI, Mackie, Slate, Novation, Arturia etc.īitwig is a bit more processor hungry than Live, probably due to the sandboxed plug ins etc. <- The support Bitwig does have is good, but the whole making the user community add that support via javascript is pretty much my least favorite way a company can go about that. Sometimes I use other DAWs and Bitwig does not slave to other DAWs, Live does.Ĭontroller support is still significantly better in Live. ![]() I'm finding I'm leaning towards Bitwig, but before I do, I wanted to come ask the experts, what makes Ableton a better choice in your mind? I have the demos of both, but it'll take a long time to go deep into both. I'm looking to purchase either Ableton Live or Bitwig, but am a bit stuck on which one. ![]()
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