Ableton is used for live performance 

Ability to introduce and remove certain musical aspects at any time 

Stays in time 

Session view consists of scenes and clips 

Arrange view works most similarly to logic and other types of DAWs 

Push controllers very suited for ableton because they're built specifically for it 

Easy to learn and well labelled 

Could use them for live performances  

Stays in time and you don't have to go through a laptop or scroll through a load of different tabs to find a certain instrument or loop that you had prepared 

Recording and playing is far simpler and everything remains in time 

Standalone means you don't need a laptop fullstop 

Midi is information 

• Music Instrument Digital Interface 

Can create your own midi loops which is good because it allows for more creative freedom than if I were to use a pre-existing loop 

More similarities to logic where you can draw in notes but it is also very uniform but with an option to humanise 

Can randomise velocity also for a less robotic and rigid feel to the notes 

More suited to my personal workflow because I often play a midi keyboard straight into a DAW track to create chord sequences and melodies and it is quite similar to doing that except I just have to draw in the notes 

Not so helpful without a midi keyboard if you don’t have a basic knowledge of where which notes on a piano are and what the different scales are  

Could use this to create my own loops more easily than in logic or another DAW 

HOWEVER 

• I don't tend to create loop-based music so Logic is significantly more suited to my own personal practice which is more linear 

Note mode is difficult if you are unaware of how the notes are laid out 

It is easier to play drums on the push pad than it is to draw the notes into the clip 

Continuously loops for recording and automatically quantises notes you play 

Easy to switch between drum and note mode and select a different column 

Do not fully understand how the notes are laid out in note mode but it automatically puts notes into a scale so you can't play any "wrong" notes 

Being able to play the drums straight into the recording and be able to have it loop back to make sure the drums are where you want them was helpful because it meant that I didn't have to keep pressing record and deleting notes over and over again like in logic or other DAWs 

Would like to have a better understanding of note mode and just use different types of instruments 

Could use this to more easily come up with drum beats for my music as drums are what I find most difficult in the creative process even though I find playing them quite simple.