Ableton Forum

Gerhard, you and the amazing Ableton crew are to be commended for hearing our needs ! Thank you for putting 'Live' in long pants. I am sure I speak for many who say we eagerly await a beta and then full realease of this awesome upgrade ! Finally we can work with cohesion in one application. Cheers t...

No wonder they want Live 4 they are bereft of any possibility of creative thought. This is worse than yahoo. Hey Ableton its quite simple - anarchy is inappropriate. YOU are loosing my respect. I don't care when you upgrade. If you don't do it on MY timeline of needs I'll go somewhere else. But this...

I agree completely ! I am so sick of opening preferences I'm loosing my mind. Have a default to (in my case CoreAudio) so if it doesn't see my firewire it launches without having to open the preferences. One would wish that the developer would think like a user instead of like an engineer (as a deve...

Some of us also work in surround. Polychannel would allow us to manipulate a 4 or 5 or 8 channel stream as one clip ( which is how we see/think of such a file).

I happen to work in surround. So 4 sends are not enough to begin sending to specific 'pairs' of outputs plus some fx busses. 8 sends would about do it.

This was posted to another forum but belongs in this discussion... What is missing in this discussion is the fact that the paradigm shift is not merely 'elastic audio' but the Sessions view. For me the break away from a linear 'piano-roll' formatted tool is the key to Ableton Live which I truly love...