Bitwig announces Ableton Live competitor

[padi_04]

It's like ableton with a Traktor color theme lol (except the yellow VU meters )

[Xonetacular]

I'm pretty sure they will have checked legal issues beforehand, I mean apparently they have been working on this a couple years - everything else would be way too stupid

I'm not so sure. I mean look at apple suing samsung right now over similar things, and these are ex-employees I'm sure there are grounds for a lawsuit stealing IP if they were doing similar stuff at ableton then went ahead and made their own product based off similar work.

I mean I hope not but ableton has every reason to sue them.

[3heads]

Yeah, but Samsung and Apple are big companies, the are not substantially threatened by a potentially negative outcome of a lawsuit. A small start-up on the other hand could be crushed by something like that and the founders must have invested some money (I mean, 8 people working on this project for 3 years or so - that is no negligible amount of cash), risking a lawsuit over plagiarism issues, I can't imagine anyone being this stupid.

[Garygary1]

can't help but notice that its going to be made for linux... this could get interesting

[Xonetacular]

I can't imagine anyone being this stupid.

It would be bad enough if just any company released this but the fact that they are ex ableton employees makes it so much worse. It is definite lawsuit material.

[Citizen_Insane]

This looks seriously awesome, gonna have to keep my eyes on it

[mostapha]

can't help but notice that its going to be made for linux... this could get interesting

Agreed.

Now that I know my computer seems to run it just fine, it'd take a lot to move me off of Pro Tools for production/recording. But it really does look like it might be a lot of fun for live work. Between window sets and LAN jamming…I could see some really interesting Live PA stuff happening.

[padi_04]

Let's hope for the best so these guys can get going with it, bringing something to stand on par with ableton, pushing development on both sides.

[JuanSOLO]

Agreed. I think this can only be good for both companies. I imagine in the future the 2 daws will become increasingly different, offing more solutions to everyone.

However, as it stands, it did kind of feel weird when I first watched the video. I had been excited about it, but it rubbed me as they were a we bit spiteful.

But who knows what happened between these guys and Ableton. Kind of seems like maybe they were behind all the latest cool shit from Live, like Racks and nesting, and maybe they were pushing for all these particular features and feeling like they were hitting a ceiling over there. I'm not saying it's right OR wrong, but I kind of agree that they must feel secure about it's legality.

[Afterhour Ali]

I'm very interested in this and will call them tomorrow asking about their motives. Do you have any other questions?