Which option? Live 9 Standard+Komplete vs Live 9 Suite.

[vublue24]

Out of the box Komplete content is better, also the 7synths included are quite good.

The problem is that it may overwhelm you, too much choice.

IMHO a smaller set up is also a good option, specially if you are starting.

So in your position I would get Standard plus a good third party synth: u-he diva, alchemy, even reaktor ( usually on sale on Black Friday). And then I will just put all the time into learning and having fun.

Also, if you have the money for standard and Komplete and you don't have any midi controller I would get push first a soft synth and a good sample pack of electronic drums (if you wanna make edm).

Well, I have a few months of experience on Ableton for EDM, I know my way around it, but I guess you could still say I'm starting out. I've never tried a Push before and the music store near me doesn't have one for me too test. Is it worth the investment instead of getting Komplete? I was debating whether or not to not get Komplete and get a synth like sylenth1/zebra/reaktor/ (not sure which one) +monitors instead.

But I can understand you may want to make music as fast as possible, I am 100% sure you will have much more fun with push that with komplete, you will be dedicating more time to make music this way. If you can only pick on product for around 600 I would get push which includes live intro and use some free synth as Tyrell by u-he to learn synthesis. You may add a subscription to online tutorials as Groove3.com for 15 a month (probably you will watch all relevant materials in two months).

A good synth drums sample pack is also very usefull so get good sounding stuff fast, I recommend stuff by wave alchemy, the Synth drums pack is very very good.

Syntorial will also be a great idea to learn synthesis and it comes with a vst synth.

After you are having fun and really getting into making music you for sure will want to get monitors and audio iterface before getting something like Komplete.

Yeah, Push seems great. Only thing is I played piano/guitar for about 8 years so the feel of a midi keyboard would probably be more familar with me than making music on Push, but I definitely see the value of Push. That being said, I've done my fair or research and demo's so I've decided on the Ableton Standard (edu)+ midi keyboard+ one good synth (really enjoyed the sylenth1 demo). I don't have monitors or decent headphones so when I get the oppurtunity that is next on the list.

[david.barker]

As an add on to my previous posting

There is a free downloadable Komplete 8,on Native Instruments website,with a few synths to check out with Live

This might help you get a feel for Komplete,before making a big purchase

Also ,I use Macprovideos,for my Live course work,and also for my Reason course work

very good,not cheap,but you can buy bundles,or one at at a time