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 between a company and it's customers. I've been trying to hold off on moving my projects to a different platform in hopes that many (even a few) of the fine suggestions made in this forum would find their way into a version worthy of my own personal patience. But Ableton's apparent apathy has worn incredibly thin on my nerves.
I have no more suggestions to make that have not already been wonderfully illustrated a dozen times over in these threads. 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 continue to be many other flaws vis-a-vis workflow.
I commend all who are loyal to Ableton for your patience and perseverance. When Ableton 9 finally comes out in 2022 I hope you will have found it was worth the wait...
