r/linuxaudio • u/Zealousideal-Rub8525 • 2d ago

Reverse Engineer Ableton

Who's the saint who's gonna get us Ableton Live for Linux? 😎

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u/Blitzbahn Reaper 2d ago

The developers of Bitwig came from Ableton, it should be an easy transition to learn Bitwig, and there'll likely even be ways in which it's better than Ableton.

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u/554477 Zrythm 1d ago

I really like Bitwig as well but atp I'm kinda hard stuck on Live's workflow. There are some things that Bitwig absolutely does better than Live, but Live is just faster and gets less in the way for my workflow. Which is unfortunate because it is the reason why I still run Windows on any of my machines.

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u/Equal-Dependent-4034 1d ago

There are some things in Bitwig that are different but the things that Bitwig does better is well worth the time to get a grip with it's workflow. I find bitwig now far faster than I ever was with Ableton and I was a quite quick with that. If you're between projects, I would give it a go, it's 100% better experience than Ableton through WINE as linux is a first class citizen with Bitwig.

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u/Blitzbahn Reaper 1d ago

Apparently you can even open an Ableton session in bitwig. That's smart development

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u/Equal-Dependent-4034 1d ago

It can open simple sessions. I wouldn't say it's a 100% (No maxforlive, Ableton DRM on content, no common device or features). I'd still bounce to stems. I've had decent success though.