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Definitely a great point. I think for a lot of people, the beauty in modular is in the letting go of the idea of a preset, and creating sound that lives today,

Definitely a great point. I think for a lot of people, the beauty in modular is in the letting go of the idea of a preset, and creating sound that lives today, but is gone tomorrow. For a long time, most of the music I made was very loop driven (also very quantized and static) — modular fixed that by rewiring my brain to work differently. I don't think I'll ever go hardware only. The flexibility of software is just too good. But modular in general flexes different muscles for me, and I like that a lot. (great username, btw. Been a Live user since version 1)

abletonlive 5y ago
Yeah for sure. That's the reason why I got into modular in the first place. Different workflow. It's just that the workflow ended up not working for me personally, but it definitely works for some people. There's also something about for me about being more musical if I have physical knobs to play with that are mapped to every parameter available. This is largely an unsolved problem in virtual instruments. Nobody has really made a digital controller that maps nicely to virtual instruments, and I suspect the reason is it's because the plugin makers refuse to follow a standard to map out their parameters in a consistent way. There's work being done around some of this w/ Omnisphere and its ability to take advantage of your pre-existing hardware to map to all the virtual knobs, but I'd like to have a controller in front of me that consistently controls all of my virtual instruments in a way that makes sense and it mostly can't or doesn't exist.