Hi-
I’m a long-time Ableton Live user. I recently did a track that required a lot of clips, tracks, and audio to be recorded. When I stick with electro songs, this is usually not the case, and Live shines. But when I overload it with a lot of tracks, the UI starts to bog down, and so I started looking at other options. I looked at Reaper, but it felt unintuitive to me. I’m not going back to Cubase or Sonar. So here I am, but with a few noob questions:
1. Can you take the output of one track and patch it into another and record? In Live, this is so simple, and my workflow involves doing this all the time. I don’t mean bounce…I mean like a virtual patchbay.
2. Can you route midi from one track into another and record – same as in my first question?
3. Can you record the output of a midi VST or VSTi?
4. Can you assign an LFO from a midi plugin or vsti to another track’s parameters, such as pan or fader, or the parameter of an inserted effect in another track?
If these options are easy to do, and I an easily track about 100 tracks of 24bit audio on my current daw (Q6600, 4gb ram, 7200rpm sata drives, Win7x64), then I’m definitely willing to give it a shot.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
-Neb