I recommend you figure on buying both eventually and with that in mind probably DP first, because it's a bigger challenge. Realistically they are about as far away from each other in terms of DAWs as you can get, Live is a "modern" DAW and DP is a "traditional" DAW, and IMO they are the best of those categories.
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#Motu digital performer 6 review pro#
in general DP is the king of doing film score type work, and give Pro Tools a run for it's money in terms of mixing and editing audio etc, DP integrates with OSX Core MIDI better than Live, DP plays better with video as well.Įditing wise it's just such a different approach between the two that it's hard to say 100%, DP can conform to an uneven tempo, so you can force the sequence to follow a sloppy piano players recording for instance, Live is slightly easier to use for rigid quantizing, although DP has quantizing preview which is a feature the other DAWs should have stolen if they had any clue. etc.ĭP Deals with SysEx quite nicely, Live doesn't do SysEx at all. So if you're writing verse, chorus, break type songs, and want to mess around with the arrangement of that it's dead easy to do.ĭP destroys Live in terms of mixing, in every single way, there are far too may advantages to list, but it allows multiple mixes of the same song in the same open instance, it allows multiple versions of the song in the same Project, it allows multiple choices of automation styles etc. Looping in Live is far easier and transparent. Live takes IMO very little time to wrap your head around, it's mostly set up like an advanced Sampler that also records tracks etc. Pitch conversion not so much, DP has better tricks for that. Live's time stretching is vastly superior to DP's, it's the one area it completely dominates DP in.
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Live has crap linear automation, but amazing clip automation, basically for automating FX plug ins doing interesting things it's really very good, for doing surgical work on the final mix, it's not so great. They are completely different, the only similarity is that they both have a timeline, host plug ins and record audio.