Reaktor 6.1 has just been released with Ableton Link support. So I got out my Surface Pro 4 running Ableton Live and “Ableton Linked” it directly to the Surface Book running Reaktor 6.1 EASY! No cables, no messing around – instant tempo sync. Awesome!
How well does Ableton Live run on the Surface Book? Let’s find out! I build a big project on the i7 Surface Book and keep adding stuff until it crackles. I then compare it to the i5 Surface Pro 4 and see how they differ. Specs: Surface Book i7 6600U 2.6GHz 16GB with Nvidia Surface […]
This is the first in a series of off-the-cuff videos highlighting whatever I’m currently working on with the Surface Pro 4. When I make videos I like to spend a lot of time on it – getting the script right, testing the subject, the gear, making sure it’s all making sense. So doing something a […]
I ran some tests before and after the Windows 10 anniversary update dropped to see if anything had changed. Here’s the results from my Surface Pro 4 and my desktop running Cubase, Pro Tools, Reason, FL Studio, Bitwig and Ableton Live.
Welcome to Surface Sessions number 8 and what must be the most requested session to date – Ableton Live. It’s one of the most obvious pairings but it’s taken me a bit of time to get here because there were a few other key bits of software to sort out and I wanted to have […]
One of the key reasons behind my purchase of the Surface Pro 3 was to use it for live performance – and now that time has come. I’m performing both music and visuals at a series of events at Norwich Cathedral over the coming year. The first one was on the 23rd November 2014 and […]