Live 2.01 Impressions, or "ableton listens, users rejoice" Options

[filarion]

Paid my 80 Euros to upgrade to Live 2.0 a couple of days ago. Awesome new features like different timestretch engines (acoustic guitar tracks actually can be used in Live now), ability to turn those engines off for individual samples, better automatization, etc.

Performance looks to be the same like 1.5 - which means that it still isn't Altivec optimized, and faster on PCs, but the Ableton guys are Mac users themselves and are promising to add this (requiring a bunch of rewrites) for the next upgrade. Anyways, especially with software like Live the performance is nowhere near as important as creativity.

[charlieb]

of course, I still don't even know what kind of music you want to make - reason + live will work great for minimal techno for instance, good luck scoring a movie or tracking vocals though.

as for the Big Box Bundle, you'll be busy for a while. The EXS24 is a very musical sampler.

Hi filarion,
Thanks for keeping up with me in more than one thread.

My main work is leading workshops in which I help people to enter into what I sometimes call "everyday trance states" in order to facilitate learning, and a sense of health and well-being. I help people to tune into their experience, and then with the help of some circular space cowboy music, I help them to feel into the movements in their body that they are not usually aware of. Sometimes I suggest "Let the music play you."
I have been using a lot of CD's by artists such as David Parsons, Steve Roach, Steve Roach, Steve Roach <g>, etc.
Lately people have been asking me to record my workshops so that they can buy the CD's of the workshop to listen to and continue to learn from. This creates the problem of creating a legal, ethical, and workable copyright situation.

Sooo, I thought that I would like to try creating some simple "heartbeat rhythms" for people to listen to and move with. Something ambient and circular in nature.
If I was able to accomplish this first step with some reasonable success, then my next thought would be to overlay my voice on to the music tracks, giving suggestions concerning relaxing and becoming more aware.
I was thinking of Live, with Reason, and perhaps an Edirol PCR-50 or a Radium.
Then I got to thinking about whether or not Logic was a better long term buy, even though I got scared off by people saying it was pretty hard to learn.
So, I am in no particular hurry, and wanting to make a good decision.

Any and all input is welcome, and I have been talking to some of you nice folks some in the Just Gettin Started Forum.
I am happy hear any and all opinions.

Regards,
charlie