Probability driven approaches can be pretty fun for generating sounds and ideas. There's loads of really interesting/insane stuff possible. TBF the new updates for this in Cubase do look really great and at least on par with Ableton, I just haven't experimented moving everything over yet. Great when resampling and "performing" automation. MIDI mapping controllers to say Rack macros etc is really quick.You can't really do that in Cubase quickly/nicely (I mean, technically you can with multiple busses, multiple insert chains and re-routing everything but it's wayy more friction). Want to layer up 2 or 3 of your go-to Racks quickly? No probs, just drag them in. Racks make organising things so much nicer.The previously mentioned resampling workflows are a little nicer.You can't automate some paramters of the built in MIDI plugins in Cubase either for some weird reason. The standard sampler with all the different time-stretch modes allows you to automate all those parameters like grain size. You can automate absolutely everything.There's a few things in Ableton that make sound design really great/fun. Then I'll have an idea of what I want the overall sound of the track to be, so I'll go and do a sound design session in Ableton to deal with the sonic side of things. The MIDI tools in Cubase are much better for this than Ableton. Then I'll do some general arranging (splitting out the sketch into different instruments/parts etc). So with that in mind, I do actually use Cubase for sketching as it means I have the basic MIDI in place: the "music" side of things. Many producers start with sounds first, and build things up that way. I start with "piano" sketches, then all the sound design comes later. I think there's broadly 2 types of producer these days: "music first" or "sound first".Įveryone is a blend, but most people seem to have one or the other as their natural core. I use Ableton for sound design and performing live. The Cubase Arranger track is super useful, but no substitute. The Session view being really nice for creating basically a track quickly on the fly like a lot of live looping musicians do Cubase doesn't really have an equivalent. That's a pretty accurate impression I'd say! Not that you can't work quickly in Cubase, but Ableton is really great for "realtime creation".
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