I have been making weird little tunes on various things since the early iphones using beatmaker and garageband and before that acidpro. In the last couple of years I have been doing it a bit more and splashing out on some DAW namely, Ableton. I am super amateur,amatuer… I was initially attracted by the groovy style and design of all ableton output, a fancy and irresistable midi controller (launchkey mini mk 3) and the fact that people like Etherwood and Jon Hopkins use it. However I have been thinking recently having watched a documentary on Billie Eilish and a youtube interview with Maynard from Tool I have been thinking Logic might been the way. I have always found Garageband super intuitive to use and I just want to turn _something_ out you know? Also those fat sounds that people get on Logic? Damn!
Ableton Pros:
- Cool!
- Ableton Move and note
- Easy to add effects by piling them on
- The loop workflow is super quick and fun
- Freedom of OS (linux notwithstanding)
Ableton Cons:
- The loops is easy to start but how to finish
- Chopping up samples is so unintuitive to me
- the timeline type workflow is a pain for me
- I HATE the new AI style tag menu thing, nested lists are best if you ask me
Logic Pro Pros (ahahaha)
- affordable £200 for the whole thing
- Great built in samples, loops and instuments
- used by bands I love
- Cool sounds
- Very intuitive
- Like garageband
Logic cons
- Locked in to apple eco system
- I have buy another DAW (sunk cost fallancy much?)
- not as cool
- doesn’t make the lights be pretty on the launchkey 🙁
- no move, note or push
In a super scientific move I thought I would try and make a tune as quick as possible in both programmes. I am not sure it helped much but here they are
Logic
Ableton
(I had trouble getting a longer export when rushed)
