But if you prefer to write your MIDI in by hand, FL’s easier to use.

If you plan on using a MIDI controller to write with, Ableton will be better. FL Studio, think about how you write your MIDI parts. Helps to view these things as a chance to learn something new. You can choose to recall the MIDI from the last 2, 5, 10, 20, or 30 minutes. Unless you're purely mixing, why not work together on creating a song in Live (chance for him to learn, and Live's more inspirational), and then try mixing it in both hosts, just to get an idea. Although he might find some of the features he's used to missing, and find that a little frustrating.

As such, if you are wanting the host to be quick and easy (as it should be - a tool), you'd probably find it less frustrating for you both to work in Live. I reckon he would find Live much easier to learn than you will find Cubase, because where Live is generally intuitive and clear, Cubase is over-complicated and occasionally frustrating. Whether you are writing music for television or video games, Cubase comes with many great features that makes it an excellent choice for MIDI composition. But it sounds like there will have to be compromise somewhere. Cubase is arguably the most powerful DAW when it comes to MIDI, and it is no surprise that it is the DAW of choice for legendary film composers such as Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL. bearing in mind I don't know how you work).Ĭertainly, working in a program you are comfortable with is a no-brainer. Personally I would say Cubase's automation and audio are more capable than Live's, and for mixing you might find those fairly useful (. I think that most people involved in the creative side of music would have a hard time giving up session view after become familiar with it. I have wished for a few tools I became fond of from Sonar, but wouldn't trade anything for the creative power that session view provides. My preference to live is in the simplicity of the interface, and the merging of a 'whiteboard' interface (the session view) added to the timeline interface that everybody is familiar with (arrangement view). Thinking back, it seemed to be very powerful.I barely scratched the surface and really didn't have proper hardware to even form a fair opinion on it but I have always heard good things about cubase from people that have used it.īased on my understanding of the interface, it is more along the lines of the traditional timeline based daw, like pretty much everything out there. I haven't used cubase for years, probably 1999 or so.I really didn't use it much, it was my first experience trying to record music.

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