QVprod wrote: ↑16 Aug 2017
keeverw wrote: ↑15 Aug 2017
I had no issues when I first installed Kontakt and loaded it into Reason.
Then I bought a Scarlett 6i6 and it came with Ableton Live Lite and everyone says it's better for live use, but I have never tried it.
So I installed Ableton, and loaded up Kontakt in there, with no issues. But after a week or two using Ableton, I decided I like Reason much better, even for live use. Maybe it's just because I know it better, or maybe just because it's better in general.
But when I went back to Reason, it started doing the note-chopping.
Not sure what the issue is. Maybe a setting in Kontakt got changed?
I would bet if I upgraded Kontakt back to the latest version it would work fine. But I'm playing this as a keyboard-rig at church this sunday so I'll leave it alone until after sunday. lol
edit:
oh, and I'm on Mac - Sierra.
Yeah that's really odd. Perhaps there's an issue with either Kontakt or Reason in Sierra. Runs just fine on my machine with Yosemite. Or if you happened to download some new plugins recently.
Side note: As a fellow church guy, Ableton Live isn't better than Reason for live keyboard playing (especially not the lite version). It does have some flexible midi routing though. On the Gospel side of things most people use Live mainly for running multitracks or click tracks for setlists. That's where it excels, being able to loop and jump to song sections on the fly.
That's pretty much the conclusion I came to as well. We use the Multitracks iPad app to do tracks as of right now. Our soundguy asked me to look into Ableton to see if it would be an improvement, and to use as a keyrig and loop launcher.
I think it falls short as a keyrig. And I didn't find it to be very intuitive at all either.
I have a combinator in Reason with my Giant piano, and a couple of pads (one thor and one malstrom), and a rhodes (nnxt), and I send them all to seperate SSL channels. But I lock my lower keyboard to that combinator.
Then I have an upper keyboard that plays lead stuff, and I use next track or prev track to select whatever track that keyboard triggers, as it's the master keyboard in my setup.
This has worked really well for me for about 8 years of playing in church, all the way back to Reason 3.0 and even though there are a few things I wish Props would add, I am pretty happy with it overall.
And I love that no matter what crazy sound my worship leader asks me to play, I know I can find a way to create it in the Reason rack.
I've even done it at practice before, and our bass player was like "uh oh, he is flipping the rack around, it's about to get serious." lol
#reasonforlife
I just couldn't find any way to come close to that functionality in Ableton. I even was using the Suite trial, so there were no limitations.
I tried using instrument groups with the channel selector, and all of that. It's just overly complicated for my taste. And at the very best scenario I would probably be using Reason rewired in for all of my sounds I've created anyway. So if I'm rewired into Ableton I have to ask what is Ableton really doing for me. And the only thing I can come up with is setting global tempo for each song. Reason still can't do that, though I'd love to see an RE that can hold tempo presets and be controlled by my keyboard to step through tempo presets. lol
It's not worth the hassle of setting everything up in ableton just for that.
Sorry, that was long-winded.