RE: (313) Ableton Live mixes

[J. T.]

i strongly dislike ableton. it's a good tool for studio style mixing, a 
great advance and added flexibility etc, but i still see it as studio style 
mixing. it makes mixing a very cerebral process; it's way geeky. and it's 
too safe. to me it is at odds with the pleasure of playing and listening to 
music, the alive-ness of music, and of mixing...simplicity... sure it sounds 
alive in the end when you can screw around with 500 loops it took you a week 
to cut up, but...i dunno. it's halfway between traditional mixing and 
production, but not as open-ended and versatile and hands-on as either...it 
just seems half-canned to me, music from concentrate just add ableton and 
stir. the complexities arent worth the result, or vice-versa. not that i 
dont enjoy some ableton mixes, but no more than i do traditional mixes -- 
usually not as much. people tend to go overboard with the layering of loops 
and frantic pace, which is fun at first, and good for booty music where you 
dont care to hear 3 minutes of the same track, but it takes too much energy 
and attention to listen to...i just wanna relax and hear some music not a 
vigorous exercise in sound editing...and when mixing, i wanna wander around 
crates throwing on whatever grabs me...the inclination to digitize and 
computerize (and perfect and control) everything can end up draining some of 
the joy out imo...its a cold cold world..i know there are loads of people 
older than myself on the list, but seeing people get excited about this 
stuff makes me feel like a dinosaur...

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