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And you get free upgrades for years, at least until Apple comes out with version 11.

#ABLETON LIVE VS LOGIC PRO PRO#

At $199, Logic Pro gives you everything you need, from plugins to drummers to instruments to tuning vocals. You could make an argument that GarageBand is good competition for Logic Pro, but not if youвЂ™re fairly serious.

Still, I do find myself drawn to itвЂ¦ but what does Logic NOT do that I want? Nothing. But youвЂ™d have to spend a lot of money on plugins and instruments to make it as good as Logic. Reaper is like Linux вЂ“ if youвЂ™re a super nerd, youвЂ™ll love it. No other DAW comes close when it comes to hacking. Reaper is great, though, if you want to customize the hell out of your DAW. If youвЂ™re on a budget of $200 and you want the best stuff, Reaper isnвЂ™t for you. The вЂњfreeвЂќ instrument VST plugins you can get are inferior to what comes with Logic Pro. Reaper doesnвЂ™t come with any instruments and thereвЂ™s no virtual drummer. When it comes to home recording on a Mac, just stop looking at everything else.ДonвЂ™t talk to me about Reaper. ThatвЂ™s fine for EDM but not so fine for more traditional rock, like I do.

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ThereвЂ™s no virtual drummer, like in Logic Pro, so youвЂ™d need to buy software to do drums or program them yourself. TheyвЂ™re very CPU and memory friendly, but theyвЂ™re not as good as the MainStage instruments. And although this will be controversial, the instruments in it arenвЂ™t that good. To record a traditional album on it (meaning not EDM) would be painful. Live was designed for, well, live performance.

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If I had enough musicians, I wouldnвЂ™t need the backing tracks at all, but we would still play to a click so that we had programmed lights and guitar and keyboard patch changes. Then weвЂ™d all play to a click and IвЂ™d mute the tracks for whatever live musicians I have with me.

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If I ever decide to add band members, I could upgrade to the full version of Live, and instead of stereo backing tracks IвЂ™d use multitrack backing tracks. Technically I could use the instruments built into it, but I have MainStage 3, and thatвЂ™s what I use for all of my keyboard patches. Quite simply, Live (or in my case Live Intro) was the best and only option. And I wanted something that could do all of that without choking or killing my CPU. I wanted something that could play back stereo backing tracks while also sending MIDI patch changes to my HX Stomp and also send patch changes to my keyboard and ALSO send commands to my DMXIS box, which controls my DMX lights. I do my own original music, or covers, or both. However, if youвЂ™re me, Live Intro is the steal of the century. But if you want to dive deep into EDM, youвЂ™ll want the full version of Live, not Intro. You could DJ with Live, you can do live electronic music concerts, blah blah blah.

If you want to make loop-based electronic music, Live seems to be the standard for good reason вЂ“ itвЂ™s got the best tools for it. And it comes with only 4 software instruments. YouвЂ™re limited to 8 вЂњscenes,вЂќ which wonвЂ™t make sense to you unless you understand the unique way that Live works. YouвЂ™re limited to 16 tracks, which can be audio or midi. Intro is a track and instrument limited version of Live. To match Logic or Live, youвЂ™d need to spend a ton of cash on instruments and drums and plugins. Pro Tools might be what the big studios use, but out of the box itвЂ™s designed for recording 32 tracks with mics in a pro studio.

Eventually IвЂ™ll probably upgrade, but Intro is perfect for my needs right now (and budget.) So is Logic вЂ“ at $199, itвЂ™s the smartest DAW purchase on the Mac. Actually, IвЂ™m running Ableton Live 10 Intro, because I donвЂ™t need the full version yet. I apparently seem to have THE stereotypical YouTuber home studio these days вЂ“ a 2016 MacBook Pro, Logic Pro X, and Ableton Live.

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While it certainly wouldnвЂ™t be accurate to say this latest update is a direct response to Logic 10.5, one of its core additions вЂ“ recording take lanes вЂ“ does see Live playing catchup to Logic (amongst others), by adding a key feature beloved by more traditional studio musicians.There are a lot of opinions on the web about which DAW is the best. Now, as 2021 rears its head, weвЂ™re greeted with the imminent arrival of Live 11. Clearly, the free 10.5 update was aimed at winning over electronic producers who might previously have leant more towards the nontraditional, loop-based workflows of Live or Bitwig Studio. While the key features werenвЂ™t lifted from Live wholesale, it doesnвЂ™t take a DAW connoisseur to see similarities between LogicвЂ™s Live Loops and LiveвЂ™s Session View, or between AppleвЂ™s new Sampler and Quick Sampler combo and the Sampler/Simpler counterparts in Live. With the arrival of version 10.5 (now updated to 10.6), Apple made serious moves into Ableton LiveвЂ™s turf.

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