FIRST TIME TESTING ABLETON LIVE & PUSH 2 — time for me to switch DAW?!

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[substance]

“Whenever you think you’re clever with cabling, it always comes back to haunt you”. Amen

[kantortibor]

BoBeats: Ableton' own Push 2 tutorials are really good, covering most of the stuff this machine is capable of.

[BecomingProductions]

I've worked in Pro Tool, Logic and Cubase and they're all fine DAW's. Ableton never felt like just a DAW though, it feels like an instrument. Its personal preference but I find the workflow far more creatively inspiring than any other DAW that I've tried.

[GarrettMusic]

The push has many capabilities that are great for Ableton which allows easy flow for any music producer. Ableton is life changing when you delve into it. It's so easier to drag and drop effects and to sound design in it. Keep up the amazing work! I hope you keep using Ableton!

[perrypelican]

I think Ableton is incredible. It's not just a random choice by a lot of music makers. The company is focused and never stop improving. On another note, I made holes all over my desk for cables. It's so much better now. Ok the surface of the desk looks strange but the cables are totally out of the way. I am going to build a new desktop with holes everywhere that actually look good. The way we work we don't care about holes everywhere unless we need to write in paper but who does that anymore. I use an old iPad for note taking and memos. Great video, as usual.

[rjbush]

With Push, once you get the memory muscle you will miss it when you use Live separately. Amazing and robust piece of kit. Its got a real satisfying weight to it, and the workflow is good.

[paulheartsongs]

Mainly using Ableton and Cubase. Have had both Push 1 and 2 but sold them both. As a singer and guitarist I like Ableton because I work live and it seems to lend itself more easily to live gigs. For basic on/off and song selection I use the Softstep 2. Ableton plays some recorded backing tracks as well as soft instruments. If I’m not playing guitar I’ll run external instruments via MIDI as well. It’s all good!
Thanks for your great channel!!

[davemakesnoises]

So regarding playing back scenes in session mode on push, when you switch your controller to session view you may notice that the note repeat subdivision buttons to the right of your pads illuminate green. Those are now play buttons correspond to each scene, displayed as a horizontal line on the grid. Hope that helps

[maxxrosen]

I've been trying to like Live for about a year and there are so many things to like about it (including the Push 2). But in the end I've gone back to Reaper because 1) MPE and PolyAT is not easily supported in Live and it works seamlessly in Reaper and 2) customization: Reaper is so flexible it can be daunting, but you can make it conform to you rather than the other way around. One thing I started leveraging heavily in Live is the Instrument Rack and I'm not yet sure how to pull that off in Reaper.

[G_Akira]

I love push 2. The best part is converting the parts you play to a sampler instrument and replaying to get different variations

[BrapAllgood]

I've had my Push 2 since Spring 2016 and one of the things that made it come alive for me was adjusting the pads to be more sensitive. Try 8 - 6 - 7 for the values. I spent months arriving there, so figured I'd share.

I switched from Cubase to Ableton in 2006 or so, never looked back once. Now that I have the Push as well? Pssh! I love having such a simple setup that can do so much. Have fun, Bo. :)

[GhostOfLorelei]

Aw man, this sooo reminds me of when I was new. Don't worry, you'll figure it out. It just takes a little time.

I got used to my push 2 very quickly, it's actually not that difficult. Maybe 30-60min of just playing around without any tutorials or manuals, and I'm no pro in Ableton Live either. Just clicking stuff that's on the screen. Very soon I started changing individual drums as well. I think you'll master it very quickly. The only thing that let me down (besides the screen brightness off-power, which cannot be compared to NI products) is the touch-strip, which sometimes works well and sometimes not so much. It may depend on the finger position horizontally, but I haven't figured that out.

[PaulMabley]

For someone like me, with severe arthritis in the hands, the Push II is a godsend! It's such a pity Live looks like Excel! (only joking)

[insomniamachine]

To stop a clip: just press a white pad on the same row (same track).
To adjust the parameters of a single drum sound: press the second (or third, which depends on whether you turn on the 'show device' button of the drum rack) button above the screen, which display the drum sample's name.

[TheAudioDabbler]

I enjoyed seeing someone not familiar with Ableton fumble around. Makes me want to get a push even more.

[JohnBillington]

So glad you made this video - Thank You! I’m a long time Ableton user but never invested in push because I prefer keyboard interfaces and it always seemed like a tool for producers who want to make beats and not for musicians. I learned a lot about the workflow advantages of Push vs the screen UX and would love to hear from other Push users whether it provides some creative flow enhancements or is it mostly about speed and efficiency gains? Perhaps those two are related...
Regarding the video - the Ableton Product mangers will get a long list of UX challenges from it. As an Ableton user there were a bunch of times I wanted to explain how It worked to you even though I’ve never touched a Push. It clearly helps to understand the Ableton workflow and data model (egTrack vs Device vs Scene vs Clip). For new users to the platform all of that has a steep learning curve.

[marx]

Ableton is so straight forward that once you start figuring things out you'll feel like an idiot. I loved the video!

[HH-Thorsten]

Ableton Suite because i also use Push2 beneath a lot of other external Gear. Btw the Wavetable synth in Ableton 10 is absolutely awesome.

[Drrolfski]

Ableton Live + Push 2 is an amazing hybrid workflow as long as you understand that Push 2 was not designed to control Ableton fully stand alone.