live 6 released.

[Robot Criminal]

digital audio workstation

imo DAW goes for the entire machine (hardware + software) not only for some specific soft

[Zoiberg]

Saturator 2 is great, thanks to the waveshaper thing.

The sound engne is just as good as the one on other DAWS.

I guess about this point there'll be a lot of different opinions.. have a look at the neverending threads in ableton forum....

There's a thread with a test executed on both Live and Sonar.
Result is: both resulting files are identical and cancel each other if one is inverted.

I'll try to locate the thread...

[Robot Criminal]

they should do the same with ableton - cubase

[Zoiberg]

I was wrong, they did the test between Ableton Live 6 and Cubase SX 3.

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... c&start=15

Ok, I modified the test. This time, I rendered all tracks in my loop as seperate audio files. That way I'd be working with the exact same files in both programs, and no plug ins would be involved. Then, I dragged these audio files into both a new Live Session, and new Cubase Project. All settings were equal and the defaults. Rendered in both apps into 24/44.2 mixdowns.

The mixdown were then compared in SX with one tracks polarity reversed again. This time the result was total silence. Nothign showing on inspector either, they cancelled completely. Tried my rewire experiment too, same results, total cancellation when compared to either the SX or Live render. I won't post the files unless someone really wants to hear them Smile No need as there's nothing to hear.

Ok, so any sound differences aren't down to the mix bus, so it must just be the fact you need to use warping in Live to work, or maybe Live's plug ins? Hmmm, interesting again....

[Robot Criminal]

interesting, thanks

[thom]

Indeed...