Why bother to pay for upgrades?
The reason I'm asking is that it appears to me that Ableton Live is in permanent BETA and therefore accessible to everyone...
Why would anyone buy, instead of just downloading the latest beta instead, knowing that the next BETA is just around the corner?!
Why bother to pay for upgrades?
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atlatnesiti
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Why bother to pay for upgrades?
iMac i7 Quad Core 2.8GHz 32GB RAM • OS X.10 • Apogee Duet • NI Kontrol S49 • Maschine Mikro MKII • Cubase 8.5 • Live 9.6 Suite • Logic Pro X • Reason 9 • WaveLab Elements 9 • Various VST's, AU's and hardware synths, etc;
Re: Why bother to pay for upgrades?
Well, I question what you are asking. For example, I "bought" live 8 suite and got live 9 suite for "free"
I get to try all the betas of 9. Yeah, 9 isn't quite mature yet but it's getting there. Having a hard time with what you mean.
I get to try all the betas of 9. Yeah, 9 isn't quite mature yet but it's getting there. Having a hard time with what you mean.
Re: Why bother to pay for upgrades?
Software is not perfect in nature and hardware now has firmware which is based on software... A conundrum that cannot be solved. You are right you want 'perfect' software out of the box. However this is not possible.
Albeit Software nature often disappoints owners, it is worth a lot of work from developers and the company behind them, hence they need to be paid. For me Live works as intended but I am not a pro user so take my comments with a grain of salt. Live 9 has a good new structure that sure will improve over time. When I updated earlier this year from L8 suite to L9 suite I got Max4Live included. I am no programmer but the amount of devices and the new convolution reverb deserve the money spent alone. Add Glue, and other stuff to the game and I think it's not that bad, actually is great. I am no fan boy so I can say that some of the implementation could have been done better like the L8 vs L9 library stuff.. the browser could be faster... but I guess they are doing something about that, at least Ableton has always been a company that listens.
Best Regards
Pasha
Albeit Software nature often disappoints owners, it is worth a lot of work from developers and the company behind them, hence they need to be paid. For me Live works as intended but I am not a pro user so take my comments with a grain of salt. Live 9 has a good new structure that sure will improve over time. When I updated earlier this year from L8 suite to L9 suite I got Max4Live included. I am no programmer but the amount of devices and the new convolution reverb deserve the money spent alone. Add Glue, and other stuff to the game and I think it's not that bad, actually is great. I am no fan boy so I can say that some of the implementation could have been done better like the L8 vs L9 library stuff.. the browser could be faster... but I guess they are doing something about that, at least Ableton has always been a company that listens.
Best Regards
Pasha
Mac Studio M1
Live 12 Suite,Zebra ,Valhalla Plugins, MIDI Guitar (2+3),Guitar, Bass, VG99, GP10, JV1010 and some controllers
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Music : http://alonetone.com/pasha
Live 12 Suite,Zebra ,Valhalla Plugins, MIDI Guitar (2+3),Guitar, Bass, VG99, GP10, JV1010 and some controllers
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Music : http://alonetone.com/pasha
Re: Why bother to pay for upgrades?
I've been under the impression that you need a Live 9 license in order to be able to use the Live 9 betas. Am I missing something?
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Jack McOck
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Re: Why bother to pay for upgrades?
I wasn't going to buy Live 9, but then they offered to give it to me for free, and after a bit of back and forth, I finally accepted. Now everybody is happy.
Listening to some Steven Seagal blues right now, ftw, ffs.
Listening to some Steven Seagal blues right now, ftw, ffs.
