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I am surprised that no one has said this yet, but the type of compressor you require can often be influenced by the type of music you write. For example if you write really busy music with loads of different sounds, noises and synths playing at the same time, it can be very useful to have different ...

For glitch/creative plugins I suggest a lot of free ones are actually the best -

Livecut, scrubby and Buffer override (and DB Glitch if you are PC,) stand out in particular for glitch/messed up audio processors which are free.
Native instruments Reactor can be damn useful for this too, as can ...

I have been running Snow leopard 10.6.3 with 'Live 7.0.18' with no problems for the last month or so... I had no problems with any plugins when switching over either...

I have to say that I do find that when mixing in live (version 7) that sometimes certain things sound different in realtime compared to my master mix. Instruments or effects cut in louder or softer in the wav bounce down than in the realtime play back.

I always put this down to my own inexperience ...

Yup, the library monster managed eat up a huge chunk of my day!!!!!!!!!!

Yup, you got it right... That looks like thats what I did.... DOH!!!!

Got a reply from ableton support and I got the problem sorted now... took a bit of work but all is fine now... Basically had to delete the library and then rebuild it bit by bit.... Still, the music may now flow once again ...

A back up??? Not sure what you mean.... I didn't think it would be necessary since live 8 is past beta testing and on sale. I had no reason to think it would mess up live 7...

I downloaded 7.16 again from ableton's website and replaced the old version, but this did not fix anything....

I tried out a demo of live 8 but have decided to stick with 7 for the moment..

Now when I use 7.16 I can't use some midi effects like chords... Plus my internal instrument library is the live 8 version.
How do I get back full use of my midi effects and return my instrument library to it original ...