"POLL" How Many Still Use Live 7? How Many Using Live 8?

[davepermen]

Seven is heaven.
Eight can wait.

Poetry.

the only scary thing is.. what's with nine, then? nine is pain?... hm no.. nine is fine!!

[JBlongz]

7 was MUCH more stable than 8, but the feature set made it worth upgrading. I though about going back to 7, but 8 upgraged my library and is not backward compatible. I'm taking Ableton's word on their promise to stop adding features and fix the current problems instead.

[Hermanus]

you can easily separate both libraries, if you wanna use 7 + 8

[senator adam]

I'm wondering, out of all that moved on to 8, who is working completely stable with it? We see lots of complaints about bugs, but are there happy users as well? I especially want to know about 8.1+, because 8.0.5 worked fine for me until i upgraded further.

[JBlongz]

There are "times" I am very happy with Live in terms of my creativity workflow. But there are some sessions that just don't work for me as great. Its due mostly to the use of AU plugins. I used a plugin called EVE which worked fine until I tried to reload the session and it kept crashing before it finished loading. Upon deleting the plugin, it worked again. So I don't totally blame live for everything. It seems to work fine without using too many 3rd party plugins. Komplete 6 is working a lot better with it after NI updates. My one persistent problem is that when Live first starts, there is a lag before I can get started. Not sure why that is yet.

[oddstep]

8 is a little flaky at times sure - but I've never had a sequencer on a pc that wasn't, and I'm expecting a fairly budget laptop to do some serious realtime maths.
It's a bit lame that it's still getting fixed - but I think that there was a critical overreach in Ableton 2009 which we're still working through the fall out from.

7 was great - but I got sold on the 8 beta test and couldn't easily go back. Learnt a lesson there and deliberately stayed away from the max for live betas. Realistically, 8 has allowed me to make better music faster; crossfades, group tracks, the operator upgrade and various compressors have all influenced my sound in really positive ways... as has the looper. The end of global groove is a wind up tho'

[sidownes]

I always get sucked in upgrading through beta testing. I start a piece in the beta version that I convince myself that I have to upgrade to finish. With Live 8 I learn my lessons tho seeing as I've had it a year and it still crashes almost daily