Illegal Programs and Paying back

On 2011-07-24 07:03, mudpeople wrote:
Another thing that I justified using "demo" fullware for, is to learn the program in question above and beyond any demo. Im specifically thinking of Ableton which, if im not mistaken, doesnt even offer free demos? Idk i tried to find a Lite on the site and all I found was Intro, for a Benjamin US. If I was going to spend a bil on a program, it wouldn't be a halfling Ableton.

Im still learning the subtleties of Live, 4 ish years after really seriously getting into it. Plus, I rarely use any of Live's native plugins, or synths. Do racks count as plugins? If I was oging to spend 800 US + for teh Suite, I would realllly like to put Analog, Operator, Sampler, Impulse and the rest to use; as it is, I don't use them, don't HAVE a use for them that isn't filled by vsts, and anyway 97% of my producing is done in Renoise. Which is 50 euro, for 10 .x versions. (Mine began at 1.5.1, so its now two .x outdated, so I need another license, dammit wouldn;t you know; they trucked out a shitton of great new features JUST AS MY LCIENSE EXPIRED, the jerks. I blame dblue, Renoise's figurehead. Isnt that the best use for a figurehead? He's a limey he ought to know about such things).

Ive also been really intrigued by Audiomulch; its a bit different of an interface, and takes a bit mroe setting up than Live, but it does most of what I use Live for; dj and live sets. Another program that has real potential is BloXpander, its a general VST host and a different approach to live performance than Ableton; any looping has to be done by VSTs, but thats fine cuz Ive cut away most of the loops from my live set.

Audiomulch is I think 150 US, and BloXpander is around that, maybe 200 US.

All you need to do to be entranced by Audiomulch is demo it and play some of the demo songs that don't actually have any sound generation devices, instead use 100% feedback, looped.

I think Im going to see about porting my live setup to Mulch, now taht ive got it in mind