Side by side
Ableton Live vs Pigments
Ableton Live
20 positive (87%) · 3 mixed (13%) · 0 negative (0%)
Trust + time weighted: +85%
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Ableton Live is highly regarded as a premier DAW for electronic music production, particularly for its Session View clip-triggering workflow which excels in live performance and jamming. Users frequently praise its ease of integration with external hardware, powerful MIDI capabilities, and intuitive mapping features that simplify the recording of external synths.
Pros
- Session View is ideal for live performance and non-linear jamming
- Excellent support for external hardware and MIDI controllers
- Intuitive mapping of software parameters and easy recording of external synths
- Strong built-in tools like the envelope follower and standard instrument sounds
Cons
- The clip-based workflow may require a shift in mindset for those used to traditional linear DAWs
Top excerpts
For the heck of it, I ran a standard mic into Ableton's envelope follower and sent the output into Dexed's breath controller input. Worked surprisingly well for zero cost beyond equipment most of us already have.
Ableton is great for jamming and live performance thanks to its clip launcher Session View
download the trial versions of the major DAWs (abelton and fl studio come to mind as the most popular).
I am a musician who does recording and producing at home in Ableton and Logic Pro.
I'm sequencing it from the midi inside Ableton.
Pigments
10 positive (91%) · 1 mixed (9%) · 0 negative (0%)
Trust + time weighted: +90%
Top excerpts
Again personally, I would pick up Pigments out of these three as I just love working with it so much over any other software synth atm.
Pigments is great. I got it for like $69 recently and it’s well worth it. If you can get it on sale for like half off it’s absolutely worth buying. It’s super versatile and has a ton of cool engines.
tons of capability with Bitwig and Pigments.
I am also of the opinion it’s the best soft synth.
I bought it on sale for $100 a year ago, but barely touch it, but not because it’s bad, just because the workflow didn’t personally click with me. I’ve decided I’m not the biggest fan of the “do everything” software synths. I just get too overwhelmed with the parameters and possibilities.