Ableton Vs. FL Studio: The Ridiculously Comprehensive Guide 

The most important lesson to learn is regardless if you use FL Studio or Ableton underground rappers are still going to ask for free beats.

you use fruity loops and your girlfriend reviews cereal seems suspicious

Benn, this was a very fun video to watch. I cut my teeth on music software with both Opcode Vision and Fruity Loops in 1998, but for the last 17 years I've been a hardcore Ableton Live user.... starting the world's first Ableton Live User Group in 2005, working the 2006 Ableton booth at NAMM, and working as the technical editor for the book "Live 4 Power!" Your warnings for "Ableton users and fans" made me laugh and put me a little on guard, but still, it was a joy to watch you figure out Live and come to your own conclusions. I especially liked seeing the various unique interface features and quirks through your fresh perspective. Stuff that's beyond second nature to me now was once a thing I also had to figure out, and so watching you figure it out took me back. This was unexpected. Thanks for taking the time to make and share this. Your remarks about modulation and the piano roll made me realize that the clip envelope pane is something I just go to all the time without even thinking about, and because of it, doesn't even feel like it is separate from the piano roll, but a layer on top of it that I use for parameter locking. Your perspective definitely made me think about a lot of things I do in Live without thinking about.

I know you can't read all these comments, but I was so impressed by your musicianship, and prowess as a composer. You are really schooled, and good. I'm glad you let the DAW speak for itself.

I feel like the simplistic plugin interfaces and relative simplicity of their function is largely due to Ableton Live being designed around live performance. That insanely fast audio quantization you came across, you can set up Live to automatically quantize loops during a live performance, so even if its a little off during recording when it loops back it will magically be in time. Also while probably not suited for your writing style session view is one of the best features of Live due to its ability to prototype arrangements (and perform) - you can basically sketch up a bunch of song segments, test out a bunch of song structure and layering and then record from session view into arrangement view and then fine tune your track in there. The thing that really pulled me to Live 3 years ago in the first place was Push 2, because the integration between Push and Live is insanely seamless - i've never came across any piece of hardware that integrates so nicely with a DAW. You can make entire tracks without even looking at the computer, but you have all the power of Ableton Live in the hardware. Prior to Live I used Logic for around 10 years and while I still use Logic for some stuff, Live is where I write 99% of my stuff now. Awesome video dude!

honestly i pirated fruity loops back in the day when it was new. i liked it, and when i had money to spend on these things i bought it. and i wasnt disappointed. its my main daw.

I used to have a Cubase setup but my mom got terminally ill and I had to take care of her 24/7 for almost 6 years which cost me almost all of my savings and belongings. Now I want to get back into music production and I have been torn between FL and Ableton. I have been searching for answers for quite a while and I did not get much wiser....untill now. I thank you for "making the skies clearer"....and taking away a lot of "the clouds". Thank you for the information, and I wish everybody a healthy, happy, and wonderful life 🙏

Been using FLS for 3 years. Tried Ableton 2 days ago... As a house producer I can't describe you the relief I felt about arranging the track, and much more.... Ableton is awesome!!!!

FL's Piano Roll is perhaps its strongest feature (a thing of beauty) but the overall workflow is maddening along with Midi routing (Mulab is the easiest I've seen in that dept).

This is really interesting for me as an ableton user, I never considered FL studio, but as a pianist my work has always been piano roll based rather than sampling based (which is where Ableton really excels). So, thanks

7:37 Hey! FL-Chan was NOT a bad idea!

2021 and my university shamed us FL Studio users into buying Ableton :^) I like both, but the stigma is really outdated and unnecessary in a timeline where GarageBand might be many people's first introduction to digitally making music

I am an ableton and pro tools user but the new FL21 is insanely dope. I'm going to use it way more now.

dude i've been using ableton for ages and it's crazy how much you learn watching someone go through the basics of the daw. you forget all the important stuff after a while trying to learn all the neat/novel features of the daw. this was insanely informative, thanks for the vid

no link to the cereal channel in the description.

FL Studio is great, Ableton is great. Both are great. It doesn't matter at all which one you're using. Every single genre has producers who use either one of those. I've just both and I felt that I could be more creative with the Session view in Ableton (which is totally undiscussed when he talked about Ableton's ''lineair workflow"'). But I liked FL studio too

I love how this thing started just as I felt confortable on ableton. I used FL for 5 years but now I'm using maschine and ableton and man, it was a trip. Now I can sit back, enjoy your suffering and scream shortcuts at the screen lol

that problem you were having with the non 4/4 bars was weird. I track and mix my prog band in Ableton and it's always fine with odd meters

EVERYONE SHOULD CHECK OUT THE DARK THEME IN THE PREFERENCES IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS READING THE INTERFACE.

This is one of the best vids I've ever watched. I went form FLS (7 years) to Ableton this summer and went through all these frustrations, with a LOT of headaches and a lot of Google used. It's so funny being on the other side of this mad learning curve...

1:03:15 yes it does, you need to right click the pan parameters and click "Select Split Stereo Pan Mode"

This was insanely painful to watch but still interesting. One of Ableton's biggest strengths and indeed what set it apart from every other music production tool from the beginning is its Session view, so it was pretty tough to watch someone completely ignore that almost immediately while simultaneously zeroing in on its weakest points (linear arrangement). Session view allows an asynchronous approach to production and there are other features that build on that like modulation panes - everything you can see on any device has its own modulation pane per clip, and these can be in any meter - separate from the clip. This style of working is more like a modular synth than a DAW and was designed for **Live** (hehe) performance of electronic music where you want to bring parts in and out on a whim, but is also a more efficient way of recording an arrangement. A scene of clips is equivalent to a "pattern" in your FL workflow, I think? Anyway. This video has inspired me to look more into FL, as I've heard great things about its MIDI editing before and also perhaps the built in synths are stronger... (not a fan of needing VSTs and don't love Albeton's synths).

Well done for engaging in an authentic way and giving an honest appraisal. Props 👏👏

Great video, thank you for taking the time to make this. Recently picked up Ableton to mess around with making electronic music, appreciate reviews like this.

Definitely subscribing to this channel. I used to produce in FL Studio and stopped about a decade ago. Not with FL but producing ... life happened. And now i'm kinda getting back into it on a therapurtic/hobbyist level I think the last FL I used was maybe 11? But it was probably before that even, so i'm learning it all over again because 20 is so different. I was also considering learning another DAW like Abelton or Studio One. I've really enjoyed playing with Maschine as that was the tool the made me kinda curious again. That ramble is all to say that the phase i'm in with music this was VERY entertaining and inciteful to watch. I look forward to exploring more of your content and learning quite a bit. Thanks for doing this it made Abelton way less intimidating. I still dont know it's for me especially at the pricepoint (FL Gang is definitely spoiled on free updates hahaha) but I find myself with way less hangups about it after watching this ... for what it's worth.

Both programs are god tier. It's like comparing a Green Beret to a Navy SEAL. One excels in a specific field than the other. Ableton was made to perform electronic music live on a laptop and produce music at the same time. Because back in the day, it was so expensive to perform electronic music, and you had so many limitations. FL studio's brilliance was in the fact that you can have a work flow that works for you instead of something restrictive and also how easy it was to make music because of it's sequencing abilities. So both are as Ben said "anti DAWs." Same thing with Reason as well, the rack and the graphics made the change from hardware to digital easier because the software looked more like a studio rather than a DAW. But the real question is: what DAW should I use? What are you trying to do in your career? If you are a wedding DJ that hates the same boring shit day after day, Abeleton is god. If you want to perform a actual song using synths without breaking the bank, Ableton is your pal. If you are broke asf and you want a daw you can jump right into, FL studio is your homie. Both DAWs allow you to go as deep as the universe will allow. I've heard some people actually have gotten their Phd in music using Ableton, it goes that deep apparently. But yeah. Don't get stuff if it hinders your dream. Like, if going DAWless stops you from achieving your vision, you need to compromise or find a good work around. These are tools, they are made to help you get to point A to point B as fast as possible. Anyways, that's my point of view.

Ngl, I am straight up vibeing with this channel rn fr fr. Thank you for your hardwork on these videos. They're great. Thanks

So glad to have a professional talking, it’s hard getting into the music industry with out a lick of knowledge and watching a RU-vidr who only has 6 months of knowledge. Thanks for the video!

It's impressive that you picked it up so quickly. No one should be expected to ever jump into an unfamiliar DAW without some sort of guide.

Cons of FL from an FL user: 1. You can't do anything in Playlist/Arrangement without getting channel rack in between. Record anything in Playlist and it gets stored in Channel Rack. This adds too much clutter in your project. Imagine recording 70 vocal takes, all getting stored by a random name. And when you delete it from the playlist, it doesn't get deleted from the Channel Rack and then you have a very good time clearing up your project. It just kills the fun process of recording and makes me concern about the clutter. 2. Audio recording and editing is the most weak part of FL studio. There is no option to fade in fade out in playlist. Getting recording in your desired track number is tedious. When you edit your sound in Newtime or Newtone, you can't make a permanent changes to the original file, you need to drag a copy of the edited file. It also adds more and more clutter in Channel Rack. 3. Every FL Stock plugins looks beautiful but the UX sucks. Harmor is the coolest looking synth I've ever seen but when it comes to learning that, it takes hours and it is not easy on the eyes. Tons of buttons are all over the place. Whereas learning Serum is way more easier, why? because the UX is very carefully designed. 4. There is few clicks here and there in every task. When you make a good piece of music, you need to route it to the mixer then open the mixer and navigate to the track and only then you can add FX. Whereas in Ableton, you just press Ctrl F and find the effect and straight up drag and drop. 5. The shortcuts of FL are weird and not much usable. i.e. F9 is mixer, it is out of my left hand reach unless I lift it.

As a Ableton Live user for 10 years, I 100% agree with your pros and cons about the DAW!

Great content on this channel. Glad to find it. Thanks man! Subbed

Ableton does have true stereo panning, you just have to right click the “pan” pot and select “split stereo panning.” It’s not well known that Ableton uses “balance” as the default, and it’s even less well known that it actually does have a genuine panning parameter! Lots of confusion around this.

also excited to see you delve into wavetable. by far the most complex Ableton synth

One of the best in depth explorations i´ve seen on his subject. Subscrining, and trying fruity loops right now.

I love your humor throughout this!

I've been an Ableton user for about 8 years. I want to get back into FL, and seeing how you at times struggled with Live is almost as instructive as Mr. Bill's point of view. Understanding what you miss is inspiring, in a way. I wholeheartedly agree with one of your points: the DAW influence how you sound - it's an instrument, and learning other DAWs help you evolve as a producer. My first real DAW after trackers was Cakewalk, and I've been using Cubase extensively, as well as Acid and FruityLoops/FL Studio quite a bit as well. I think I carry something with me from all of them.

For years I've used FL, time to time tried Ableton, but after my SSD died last year, I've chose to get something different, and ended up with Reason. The DAW has it's strict limitations, but I think it's what makes it helps you to focus on the project. It's especially fun tool if you're into hardware synthesizers, but cannot afford none. Entire UI is basically 2d simulation of 90s synth hardware studio, where you can even manually change the audio and CV routing.

Another cool and needed one!

loved this man, I really appreciated your trying ableton

Please make "Advanced FL Studio techniques for IDM production" video or even a whole series if people like it. I would really like to see how an "FL Studio power user" (no offence :) ) makes an IDM/Drill & Bass/Breakcore type of track with it. I've been using FL Studio for 4 years and most of idm production techniques i learned from others were imported from Ableton tutorials, because FL Studio community really lacks comprehensive tutorials for it.

Useful tip: Automation has recently become very powerful in edit mode. Not pencil mode! So if you want constant values, curves and ramps, even perfect sinewaves and a simple ADSR shape, all with precise timing, press B, drop the pencil and have a look at the 10.1 release notes. You can even attenuate, ramp in and out, and time-scale whole sections of automation pretty easily, so the lack of fancy curve types doesn't matter when you can edit thousands of automation points at once. Honestly, as an ex-FL user, I miss the whole "automation as clips" concept, being able to move any parameter freely and attenuating automation clips with other automation clips was a big plus for complex evolving sounds. I've been thinking of recreating that type of timeline in Max, probably just for automation, it would be a great addition to Ableton.

This was a great breakdown and I appreciate this!! Thank You...

Benn, I just love your vids, as an long time LIVE user- you rock...really...made my day, thank you!

Used Live for years, and it was my first ~real~ DAW - I've made maybe 6-8 dozen full tracks in it, recorded, mixed, mastered etc, and I gave it up after a long time because I found myself getting increasingly stymied by some limits it has. The panning is one of them, as is the sandboxing, but overall i felt that the basic audio recording and editing workflow didn't have enough to offer me when trying to track myself or my band, and the 12 return track limit become stifling in larger projects. Ultimately, while I still own Live and do love it for actually playing live, I moved to a combination of Bitwig and Studio One, which meet my needs for both extensive experimental environments and traditional audio-based workflows in a better way than Live was ever able to.

Personally, I really enjoy using a myriad of DAWs. I feel as though it helps me maintain a fresh approach to music production, in addition to being able to leverage the different strengths of each DAW. FL, Ableton, Bitwig, and Reaper are my favorites. You can also use Rewire to route the audio of one DAW into another! I do this often in Ableton when I need the sound design flexibility that FL studio has over Ableton (automation). I tend to favor the arrangement workflow in Ableton over FL, so it works well.

I just want to say, props to you for sticking it out. I would like to add that the time I have spent learing ableton in and out like the back of my hand has shown me that I can now open any DAW and go straight to it but my first time before ableton using FL I found it cluttered, navigating through the oddly shapped tabs seemed like I was using a childs toy. Now, don't get me wrong, FL is fantastic and I always recomend to friends to try three or four different interfaces before deciding which is best for them personally. Coming from a musical background I just never felt FL stood out as an interface that looked and felt the way I personally needed it to. People get frustrated when starting any DAW but the point is to be and if you are dedicated and love making music then you put the time in to learn all the ins and outs. This proves to an artist wether or not they have what it takes. It should never be simple and not frustrating at times, you will never learn from easy. With that being said thanks for a video that's not wah wah wah this is better than that bullshit. Everything that's different will present challenges. My advice (as mentioned earlier), get all the free trials for all the different DAW's and find which flows best for your brain. Remember it's your brain and creative mind that drives the DAW not the other way around.

This was ridiculously comprehensive. And I'm glad you did it.

I never understood the hate for FL Studio. I remember getting a cracked copy of it back around 2007 and loving it. Sure the work flow was different than traditional linear DAWs back then but once you got your head around it it was really well designed and encouraged a lot of experimentation and creativity.

fl studio is mad crowded for a single monitor imho.

How did I just find your channel now? Hell yesssssss

I love this so much. I just discovered you and I love what you're all about after watching a few of your videos. As an Ableton user who still struggles after years of use I love this. It still feels like yesterday that I was having the exact same frustrations. Ableton was my first DAW and the only one that I've stuck with but it was a massive headache for absolutely years mainly because I couldn't figure out the different views and then recording with clips but not knowing about the yellow button on the top right for god only knows how long and being so mad that I couldn't hear my recordings without the clips playing at the same time 😆

Coming from FL Studio almost every Piano Roll is going to seem completely useless

I think some of the things in Ableton you considered cons, like the compact nature of the UI for different patches and effects, are pros for me. I very highly value information density and my screen space, and I like for everything I'm working with to be on the same screen as much as possible. I don't like working in a window that covers up a large chunk of my screen any time I am editing a parameter of an effect or instrument. I think the biggest consideration for use of any modern DAW software is speed of workflow for YOU. Whether it's because of the UI, or routing, or workflow, or maybe simply because you learned one software first, it really doesn't matter. Like "if it sounds good, it IS good" but for DAWs. Whatever works best for you... is best for you. Kind of solipsistic, and that's fine. Imagine trying to determine "what is the best guitar" in any objective manner. I think it's the same here. I will say I like the functionality of fades and crossfades and automation thereof in Ableton. It's a small thing, but it "makes sense" to me and I can get things the way I want them to sound intuitively and quickly.

The song came out dope bro. I Iiked the glitch pattern you made, thats some really crazy work there the reverbs and delays sounded really good with it.

Fan of yours and Ableton user here. I watched the first two streams and this one, really liked all of it. I think I still don't want to buy another DAW, even though your enthusiasm for FL studio is really intriguing. This would be insane for my hobbyist approach :-D When it comes to panning in your next Ableton track, you should consider right clicking the panning knob and split the stereo channels, maybe this is what you are looking for? Anyway I learned things about you, your music and even some Ableton stuff from it. thanks for that, I enjoyed it! :-)

I think you should make an updated video consider Live 11 was released. They made MASSIVE improvements to the piano roll, plus I think Ableton's piano roll has much more of a learning curve than FL's. The "focus" function, the pencil tool, and automation envelopes are all baked into the piano roll in addition to the new humanization functionality.

I've never used Ableton, but as a long time Reaper user, when I started using FL Studio, I definitely experienced a bit of the 'too much power' or, in other words, choice paralysis.

Fantastic review thank you!

Great video! Watched the whole thing.

19:17 your reaction to quantize is priceless. Half quantize is also cool to keep a bit of the vibe. I wish i could play the bass..... and that ableton had pitch correction! I use vocalsynth 2 for pitch correction.

As an ableton user for ~10 years I feel like you really hit all my main gripes with the software. I too like to use a lot of LFOs and envelopes on the synths because I usually want more control than ableton offers. But I've had a bit of a deal-breaker with using the M4L devices; every now and then, with no warning or way to undo it, all of the parameters on the M4L devices jump back to zero or default positions. This pretty much ruins tracks and has caused really big issues when performing live, to the point that now I pretty much only use native (non MAX) devices or samples because the reliability isn't there. My other big gripe is that they really haven't pushed any kind of documentation or tutorials on how to make M4L devices. I have so many ideas for things I'd like to do, but I don't know how to do them. I think if they're going to keep relying on M4L to fill in the gaps they need to make MAX more accessible via tutorials or documentation. Great video!

Great review, I’ve been an Ableton user for a long time. Really appreciate your criticisms. You make a good point about the Max crutch.

ok - so you got me with "this shits hard". Nice to hear that from someone with skills. I can really appreciate how easy people can make creating music in a DAW look.

I tried the trial for Ableton and FL Studio but ended up finding Ableton more intuitive. I have no musical background, i just thought it would be fun to try mess around and make sounds, but i found it really comforting during your first stream that a pro like yourself ran into many of the same issues I did. Great video and review overall! From my experience so far all your criticisms ring true. I especially appreciate that you didn't make this into a polarising 10minute video but actually dove really deep into every knook and cranny and shared your honest opinion.

Very fair! The piano roll is the reason why bitwig split from ableton. I remember when everyone tried to get into the bitwig beta.... It was nearly impossible. Hence why very few people know of bitwig

fantastic video! I make plunderphonics music so Ableton is pretty much a big sampler for me. Inspirational how you get so deep into detailed programming of variations and velocities.

this is what i call a review ...benny boy u the man keep on making these content..it smooth to watch and good energy..;)

Okay, I must know: does the whiskey go good with the cereal ?

This was painfully scary for me to watch lol. I bought fl studio a month ago and still learning. But just like you I tried Ableton live last year and I was just lost. Fl studio feels more natural although I’m still learning. But I’ve just purchased Ableton suite as I now have an Ableton push and I have to learn Ableton now. So this was both like painfully scary and yet encouraging at the same time. Thanks for sharing this!

amazing recourse !!! + agree on the overall conclusion

God, you're such a theorist. Seriously one of the most incredible musicians imo.

I found out about Fruity Loops when i had the chance to visit the home studio of Rick James in 2002. That was the primary software he was using to create tracks before he died.

I'm a 'medium'-time lover of FL Studio. I still use it for sound design and sound design-related music, but I started using Cubase for film composing. Here comes my unsollicited rant : FL has awesome features, it's a must-have DAW for sound design, quick producing and experimentation. But in a big ambitious project (media composing etc), to me it cannot be trusted to be more than an auxiliary tool in complement to Cubase. That's sad because it could actually be a serious competitor. I'm so mad at Image-Line. They don't care about making a "professional" DAW. Instead they went full casual, reveling themselves in what they had be wrongly accused of in the past. Their latest updates consist mostly in shiny, flashy gimmicks to appeal to beginners and casual users. But they show no intention of improving the most fundamental elements. They fixed some stuff and added some interesting details here and there. But they seem afraid of dealing with the hard stuff. Who cares about a new video editor ? I haven't seen anybody actually using ZGameEditor Visualizer, ever. If I want to make videos I'll rent After Effects. An in-DAW video maker just smells like gear acquisition syndrome, how is that an actual selling point ? Why are they so obsessed with it ? VFX Enveloppe ? Why not, but meh. I'll be impressed with Patcher the day they improve its UI, or go full modular by allowing feedback loops and conversion between audio and parameters. Flex ? Not very sound design-friendly. Mostly a cash-grab that doesn't offer much more than the insane amount of third party sample librairies already available. It's mostly marketed toward beatmakers, and lazy/beginner/in a hurry producers. FL Studio Mobile is a toy. Meanwhile, essential points still need to be redone : -Audio Clips are the worst. Having to clone the channel each time you want a specific clip to have different timestrech/effect parameters is annoying. Having to create an automation clip for every audio fade is painful. Advanced processing (time-warping, pitch correction etc) has to be done in an offline plugin and exported back as a static sample, when most daws allow for much more flexibility. - Realtime-only tempo automation is a mess, it doesn't anticipate the tempo curve and makes it very tedious to work with audio clips. Also no TimeCode ruler. - Patterns have some benefits, but tend to encourage repetition. I wish you could bypass it and make it work like in more traditionnal DAWs, by being able to split, clone (independently), and combine pieces of midi without having to click in sub-menus or cluttering your project with dozens of temporary patterns. Also you can't edit multiple patterns at once, or even different instruments at once in the piano roll. Working on orchestral music or any non repetitive genre with many tracks is so tedious because of that. - Midi events are weird. I don't know why, editing them feels so wrong compared to Cubase. - Automation is flawed. You can't select, move, copy and paste muliple points. It's way too hard to use FL's automation in the traditionnal "one-lane" way, and I don't like having to slice my automation, losing track of what cut is from where in the original automation, and risking to unknowingly mess everything up every time I move a point in "slide" mode. It would be helpful to be able to merge automations like you can merge patterns, to copy parts while making them independant in a non cluttering way. - Midi CC (as traditionnaly used by VSTs) has to be linked manually and is not supported by default if you don't have a "supported" keyboard. I think it can be solved with the new midi scripting but I'm not sure, and it's a terrible way to adress the issue. All of this can be a real workflow killer, and Image-Line completely ignores it. But I can't ditch Fl Studio because I love so much about it : - the step sequencer is the most efficient way to write drum patterns. - the piano roll is excellent, on par with Cubase. Both would greatly benefit from borrowing a bit to the other though. A fusion between the two would make the perfect piano roll. - the mixer is great, and the routing is so easy and fast (and for once requires less menuing than in other daws) - some of the native plugins are so creative and unique (but some other essential effects don't sound very good and have not been updated in ages) - automation and parameter routing are really powerful. The many differents types of ramps, and the decimate/smoothing/etc functions are very welcome. - the browser is compelling (very similar to Ableton, but better than Cubase). I just wish they reworked the research function. I might be forgetting some points, but I don't think FL Studio is the most powerful DAW. It sure has the potential though. All of the others DAWs are pretty much settled and only need minor improvements to achieve more conventionnal goals. But FL has something more, a spark of madness that is tragically held back by Image-Line's laziness and lack of confidence. The most ridiculous thing in the last update is that they "changed the default template to 'Basic 808 with limiter' " FL users will get my point : why are they ashamed of the classic "basic" samples ? Everyone has used these crappy but iconic drums at least once when discovering FL Studio. They were practically part of the DAW's identity. What is the point of switching to the 808 kit right now, it if not to confirm that they just see FL Studio as "the kid-friendly beatmaking DAW", with a few weird toys in it ? They're having an oddly specific marketing target and I don't like where it's going . I'm not hating on beatmakers, but they usually don't need to dig as deep in DAWs than producers of other genres. Most of the time they only need the most superficial features and work on quick and simple projects, and I feel like Image Line is capitalizing on that. But at the same time they spend time and money on gadgets that only advanced sound designer will use, but they don't fix the workflow problems that would make these gadgets more easily usable in a complex songmaking context... They're really pushing the "see what sticks" strategy to a whole new level. I get it, the updates are free, but I'd rather pay for updates that fix major flaws instead of trying to divert attention with minor stuff no one asked for. Mostly I'm mad because I love both Cubase and FL Studio, but they both have a lot of nonsensical issues and I wish I could use both as a massive superDAW, but reWire doesn't work. And although I don't use Ableton Live, I know how it works and I know it won't solve my problems but add more...

For you to pick this up and so quickly make THAT is amazing to me, and I've been using various music softwares since Acid 2.0 Excellent discipline.

This guy is the lovechild of David Cross and Vanilla Ice and I couldn't be more happy about that. Subscribed.

man... I know the difficulties! Taetro made a video that shows how to use Ableton and it's about the same age as your demo of Ableton. Taetro really explains everything and a lot of the issues you are experiencing are fully explained. I moved from Audacity for recording vocals into a DAW and I choose Ableton. I haven't recorded with it yet, and I've owned it for about 2 weeks now... lol it's a hobby of mine and this weekend I am hoping to record. I know vocally... Ableton is 100 times better than Audacity lol I'm old... I'm analog and reel-to-reel old... lol

Oh man! I so felt how he feels. First rule of Ableton editing: Consolidate before you hate!

This video is fantastic!!!!

I will say, that song you made was an experience in itself, it felt like some insane melodic IDM/Breakcore! Really tripped me out once the drums started going nuts!

My opinion, when producer 9th wonder produced for Jay Z on the "Black Album", He solidified Fl Studio in the hip hop community.

Thanks, that was a very interesting watch. I've never been able to wrap my head around Ableton. It's UI just doesn't gel for me. When I first used FL Studio, back when it was Fruity Loops, it was immediately exactly what I was looking for. I've been a Linux user for the last 10 years, and have switched to Bitwig, which is also a great DAW. Maybe not FL Studio great, but it's powerful, quick and easy to use and has a decent piano roll. I do miss being able to ghost another track behind the one I'm editing, but I get by. I also love that Bitwig has support for working with outboard modular gear.

I love this video so much! I am an Live user and I can see now how far I came! Thank you!

God man I love those drums! Beautiful all around.

Around 1:03:30 mark you mentioned ableton uses circular panning. You can right click the panning knob and "Select Split Stereo Pan Mode" to adjust left/right input channels position in stereo field separately.

Coincidentally I found this on August 22nd, just thought I would note this.

Great vid. Trying this ableton trial and totally agree! I use the fl studio piano roll so much especially when traveling so it has been a major con for me. I hear some telefon Tele Aviv influences in there, keep it up man!

I just did a remote collaboration with an FL Studio user (and me on Ableton). Both seem to have their strengths and weaknesses!

40:15 If with ‘ghost notes’ you mean seeing the notes of two (or more) clips overlayed you can do so by CTRL-clicking additional clips.

Honestly, the audio world needs a development model where creative individuals are flown in for a collective project, where the developers are in-house working alongside them, listening for feedback on how to improve UX or even full feature requests. Something similar to the Blender Institute, where they are able to operate on donations, merchandise, software-training, where the software is open source and available for everyone.

I absolutely adore his bass progressions. My God it’s so fucking beautiful. Gonna binge all of his music now

Didn't realise I was watching a one hour video until I was 23 minutes in, but it's so worth it ❤️

The reason why I love FL studio (10 years in) is bc there are virtually no rules....it's a mf video game.

I wanted to learn a new DAW and I was between FL Studio and Live. I am soooo glad I went with FL Studio. I had already tried both and hated them, but after seeing this I am sure I would have suffered more with Live this time around. FL is weird but I'm getting used to it.

I’m subscribing cuz of the loving ways you’ve mentioned your wife in the beginning of the video; I hit like cuz of the knowledge you dropped in the video. This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and I’m already a fan 🙌🏽

Those drums are uniquely awesome!

I'm just trying to get really good at using LMMS

Lil too late but here's my take. I got into prod with FL and it was a really really fun and easy time. However, as soon as I got my very first MIDI controller, it blew open the competition for Ableton. That being said, I still use FL for arrangement cuz Ableton arrangement sucks ass and the piano roll is abysmal. But if I want to go real crazy and deep into just playing music with lots of controllers, I can spend hours with Ableton. Short answer, Ableton is good when I want to have fun, be inspired, or just do something crazy, but when it's time to man up and finish a song, FL is my go to

No way! I first watched the spot "Evolution" on the early RU-vid when I was a teenager, after all these years I find out you made the music on that, what a trippy circle!

Entertaining video as always! And I enjoyed that track a lot! I know you said you don‘t like loops but I think the unique thing about ableton is the session view. Since you love doing generative stuff I recommend looking into follow actions. As its name suggests it‘s also great for live performances with a computer. Grid controller + dummy clips, effect racks and all that stuff, make it really special... And of course as you mentioned, the way it handles audio and the max for live integration. Using it as „usual DAW“ in arrangement mode shows its shortcomings the most I guess.