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^ it must be hard for you. :(

good luck with your new DAW; may it bring you all the happiness that you never received from this one.

Thanks H2Only. Just wanted to say that I understood and appreciated your earlier comment re the "elasticity" of Live. I agree on this point and it's kept me in ...

RE: scutheotaku's post...

Actually there are several reasons for this. First and foremost I remain very busy and spend very, very little time on the net. Overall, I've enjoyed this product and the basic tools and stability it offers. After countless hours spent with it, I consider myself a power ...

H20nly wrote: i agree that Live should get more of those aspects of sound sculpture translated over... (and yeah, to Arrange view), but i refuse to demand that they rush it.

no problem...their not...

...days later...

I've come to accept my error and the futility of my desire for Ableton to live up to it's own hype. Live was never meant to be (and never will be) an actual DAW. My mistake was in believing it could be. Live is a tool for DJs and for the quick development of basic musical ideas ...

Ableton Live is a fine program for what it does. But sadly it's a lame duck for all the things it cannot do (though it's tried to convince us otherwise, as have many of it's finest proponents). I speak (for the last time) mainly of it's severely limited "Arrangement View", but of course, they're ...

Updates are one thing. Usability another. If, after using this product faithfully for several years, it was NOT found to be weak/lacking in SO many areas by SO many people, then this particular forum would only have posts congratulating Ableton on the completeness and desirability of Live. Instead ...

:cry: If Ableton is trying to hold onto it's user base or trying to interest new users via it's "Up and Coming" "New and Improved version 9", "Thanks to all for your suggestions in our New Release", it's done a desperately poor job of it. I've never seen such a lackadaisical sense of communication ...

8O Grandz22, like you I've memorized the shortcuts and have pushed projects through without ever touching the session view. But that is exactly the point - many, many users and potential users would LOVE to be able to use arrangement view for entire projects but end up feeling that it really is more ...

:( Ableton, you have a great product with an even greater Lame Duck feature - the arrangement view . Workflow in this window lags so far behind the competition it's actually embarrassing. And it takes enough of the fun out of the rest of the program to keep many many professionals from committing to ...

The arrangement view needs some truly serious work including:
1. Imported MIDI files should automatically be visually clipped only to those areas where data actually exists. The ONE SIZE FITS all routine is especially useless and is probably the main reason I have yet to adopt LIVE as my main ...