[Khazul]

The only issues I hit with the TI are when its hitched upto a computer via USB and VC is being used. As a standalone midi synth it seems perfectly OK.

Lets face it - you aint going to be using VC in a live situation - at least not if you intend to play it rather than just sequence it - thats down the the key playing latency you can get - particualrly with ableton live - which is way too high for my taste even when using analog outs on the TI.

So a functioning setup could be Live 6 + a TI, but connected via midi to kep the setup as simple and reliable as possible. Also you would probably want to be using multi mode rather then seq mode...


As for choice of Live 6 vs Cubase 4 - that depends entirely on how you want to work. There another recent thread about various DAWs on here somewhere - worth a read.

Cubase is a very powerful DAW for a more conventional approach to tracking, mixing, post production etc. Live 6 is much weaker on DAW/production features, however its session mode makes a way more inspriational tool for creating music in (rather than just editing/mixing).

Live 6 is a wicked tool for doing remixes or otherwise messing with audio phrases/loops. It weaker than Cubase on the midi front, also weaker than cubase if you have a hell of alot of hardware (synths, fx) from a workflow perspective, but in some ways because of its fairly easy to setup midi and audio routing its actually very flexible if you have alot of external gear.