#native-instruments

I don’t think romplers are simply faster because they have no load time, I think that’s only half the story.

The other part is that a rompler has so few sounds comparatively that its easier to learn all of the sounds and figure out which ones you like faster.

Most romplers come with 512-1300 sounds, but your typical rompler user may only find 100 (at best) of those sounds actually useful to their production. Being able to quickly go to the sounds that you know will work, is what makes for a good workflow. That being said, the same care needs to be taken with the software workstations.

You must really get to know your sounds and favorite them so that you can get to those instruments you like more quickly. Waiting 30 seconds for a sound that you know will work is not a workflow killer.

I always use shortcuts, favorites etc ... with my sounds. And you're right, knowing what sounds are where is a major part of the workflow.

Bus Advertising Design Zeeman & I did for Native Instruments, CMI & Musos Corner.

Well - not really.  :)  More like just making it do what I want it to do using the features it comes with that I don't know about.    I've got a couple of gigs coming up for Ottawa Fashion Week at the end of September and I'm planning to rock them both with Ableton Live as the backbone of the show.   I can't recall Ableton ever really crashing on me, so it gets the job!   Right now I'm currently trying to structure my set of original jams into a few big projects in Ableton that I can basically run scenes for.  I've been ripping my hair out trying to understand why I couldn't map a rotary controller to the tempo box, but I just nailed that.  Turned out I needed to enable the Remote setting on the midi controller in Ableton.  Strangely though, unlike when you select, say, a fader in MIDI map mode, and its related blue area is "cross-hatched" with little black corner markers to let you know you've selected it, the tempo box does no such thing.  So I thought at first it couldn't be assigned....   but alas... it can.  :)))

In the meantime I'm cranking out jams and grooves, heavily into using Reaktor, Absynth, Massive, Alchemy and a variety of beat tools like Sonic Charge's uTonic, AD's Tattoo and SC's awesome library of breaks and beats (Tremors, Abstrakt 1&2).   Dusting said tracks with some home made mouth sounds, bass guitar and general noisemaking stuff.... fun fun fun.   I figure to have all my songs turned into audio tracks so I can keep the processing live to a bare minimum (crash avoidance 101).   After I get a few hours of jams worked out to audio, I'm going to rip my AxiomPro61, monome64, KaossPad and possibly my Kore 2 rig all out of the studio and see what I can do with all of this off the laptop.  Big question marks on the Kore 2 stability...we'll see.  I've never set it up on the laptop....   hmm.....

But I'll also run the iPad2 with some audio coming from a few apps in there, plus my iphone library, so I should be able to mix and match and handle any weird glitches with another source of audio while I get things rolling again.  Right?   rrrrrrright...... :)))

Performance by Justin Aswell Mr. Invisible on the Native-Instruments' Maschine