THIS FORUM’S FUTURE: what do you want to see? 🔥

[Machinesworking]

The library is a neat idea and would be great, even better if we could access it from the browser itself. Kind of like the new Splice thing.

Yeah that would be perfect, if you could upload presets and free M4L devices straight from the browser that would beat all the other DAWs in terms of UI. IMO in general UI is something I think Ableton needs to go back to and reevaluate. Things are getting weird. Especially for Push 3 Standalone, too many awkward searches online to find basic functions that should be intuitive.

[[jur]]

Things are getting weird. Especially for Push 3 Standalone, too many awkward searches online to find basic functions that should be intuitive.

I'd love to know what type of features you're thinking of here (in a dedicated Push topic, indeed )

[Machinesworking]

Things are getting weird. Especially for Push 3 Standalone, too many awkward searches online to find basic functions that should be intuitive.

I'd love to know what type of features you're thinking of here (in a dedicated Push topic, indeed )

We need a thumbs up for posts. No need for thumbs down, that got weird at KVR a while ago, but them and VI-Control both have a thumbs up, so I could thumbs up your post etc. Even a thumbs up emoji would be better than nothing.

Don't get me wrong I love the Push 3, but I often think the initial run did not take into account the monumental task of putting Live on a standalone Push. I'll be messing around with it extensively this weekend and give my thoughts in the Push forum, thanks for paying attention to your users!

[Machinesworking]

From the other thread. A solid reason to have pictures hosted by the forum is that I do not know of a single music forum that doesn't have hundreds if not thousands of little "?" checks on big empty spaces where a picture once was. So in the case of say the Tips and Tricks thread, it makes certain posts from years ago useless.

[[jur]]

From the other thread. A solid reason to have pictures hosted by the forum is that I do not know of a single music forum that doesn't have hundreds if not thousands of little "?" checks on big empty spaces where a picture once was. So in the case of say the Tips and Tricks thread, it makes certain posts from years ago useless.

Yep, that's definitely annoying.

[H20nly]

After waiting for Live 12 to drop, with hopes shattered that it would help with CPU performance when it did (and the manual debacle), I switched back to Cubase.

The Steinberg forum is great. It’s easier to pick up where you left off… even if you’re in the middle of a 500 post thread and close your browser (multiple times) or clear your cookies. There’s bookmarks (on the Live forum I typed/posted *bookmark* into a thread to accomplish this), notifications for replies you can view without leaving the page, and even drop downs so that replies (by anyone) to specific posts (by anyone) in the thread can be seen/read in order/context. If you need help with a menu, submenu, icon, etc. posting a pic of your monitor off your phone is easy and even formatted automatically when posted so the image isn’t unruly. It’s infinitely easier to manage in my experience (I have plenty on this forum). I would recommend taking a look at it as an example of a smooth and manageable resource.

I’m not sure what to suggest as far as participation is concerned. Someone mentioned the Answers section earlier in this thread. I thought Answers was a great idea, but it eventually just turned into a ghost town. The main forum eventually did too. It seemed to become the same handful of questions asked over and over again and/or some level of controller tweaking rinse/repeat and throw in a sprinkle of other stuff between version releases - when it would roar to life to bemoan pricing, and missing features, among other things that all DAW forums suffer from. It stopped feeling like a community, to me, ages ago. Opinions seemed to be discouraged while only sterile answers seemed acceptable (and they better be correct). I think little things like linking to the forum (instead of hiding it) could potentially help, but once someone arrives watching two (or more) know-it-all types bicker about some obscure feature or plugin code or OS… etc. etc. doesn’t exactly scream ‘come back’ to the new (or old) user who’s trying to learn. When I first joined this forum we could have conversations and there was friendly banter and joking. It felt like a community for years… unless someone was just a complete asshole. Now I wonder if writing the word ‘asshole’ is ok.

Just my .02
I like to come look every now and then, but when general music related questions (not necessarily about Live) go unanswered, what’s the difference between writing them here and on YouTube comments? The answer is that on YouTube, even though the question likely goes unanswered, you at least got to watch a video on the topic first. Better than crickets
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the bright side, the forum is white… I remember when it was hot dog colored. White is better.

Above was the end of my post. But it wouldn’t submit. I have enough old mental scars to know… better copy what I just typed or it’s gone. I was logged out while typing it. Maybe that’s where all the user interaction went - people can’t be bothered to lose their posts and retype them

Above was the second end to my post. It did it again, logged me out in less than 5 minutes
But that reminds me, I love the emotes here

[[jur]]

The Steinberg forum is great.

I'll check it, thx for the hint

[lapieuvre]

THIS !

Plus integration of AI to directly answer the question

Dark Mode
An actual link to it on the Ableton site so we get some fresh blood here.
The ability to upvote helpful posts
The ability to hide annoying users
Image hosting
A modern frame work that works better on mobile devices.
Some actual interaction from Ableton employees.

To be honest I haven’t spent much time thinking about what could be improved on the forums, this is just off the top of my head.

[agustinvolpe]

Hi everyone,

We’re currently brainstorming on the future of this lovely 20+ years old forum.
We have plans, ideas and are aware of what’s been requested over time, but we’d love to have a fresh perspective on your wishes.

• - What do you like in other forums that you're missing here and why?
  - What do you dislike or even hate on this forum?
  - What (and when) makes you go and ask/discuss on socials or other forums, Discord & co rather than in here?
  - How do you browse the forum? By sub-forum? By using the "Active Topics" or any other quick link? etc...
  - How do you think this place should work and offer for the next 20 years?
  - How to make this forum THE place to be, share, talk, collaborate etc about music? What feature would make everyone leave socials and join us here?

Let’s ignore the upcoming technical challenges, let’s just get crazy and share your most fancy ideas.

Thx folks!

Hey everyone!
Great to see Ableton looking into the future of this forum — it really deserves an upgrade after so many years.

What’s missing here that other forums do well?
A modern UX: drag-and-drop screenshots, proper embeds (videos, images, links), rich text tools, and real notifications for mentions/replies.
The forum software used by AbleSet is a perfect example of how smooth and easy things could be.
What’s not great right now?
Outdated formatting, limited media sharing, clunky tagging, and how bumping works. It slows conversations and makes threads harder to follow.
Why people move to socials/Discord instead?
They’re simply more modern — instant uploads, embeds, better navigation, and real-time interaction.
How I browse the forum today?
Mostly Active Topics and Feature Requests. Sub-forums feel old-school; better navigation/filtering would help a lot.

For the next chapter?
A clean, modern, mobile-friendly platform with reactions, embeds, code blocks, and solid notifications — something Discourse-style (or like AbleSet’s forum) would future-proof the community.

If the forum becomes smooth and enjoyable to use, people will naturally choose it over socials.

Thanks for opening the discussion — excited to see what’s next!

Agus

[Tarekith]

Personally I just wish [jur] would feed the hamster that powers this site, it’s been taking ages to load the last few months.

[Machinesworking]

Yeah I do not know why sometimes the site hangs on load for minutes and sometimes loads in seconds, but it's literally had me looking elsewhere for some obscure Live issue or knowledge I was looking for. Honestly mostly I use a search engine to figure it out, but it should be something I come here for.

Either fire that hamster and get a new one, or get them a partner to split the load.

[slow.robot]

would be sweet if this forum was as good as the Cubase forums. that site is really nice to work with.

[[jur]]

Yeah, there's still sudden slowdowns, sorry. To make it short: bots.
Another good reason to move to a more modern platform.

[Mutzu]

I really like the functionality of Obsidian's forum:

https://forum.obsidian.md

The main thing I'm missing here is to just drag an image into the text.

I'm also interested in the life cycle and state of feature requests. Perhaps the forum could be a place to refine or vote for features. Mozilla's approach is quite nice:

https://connect.mozilla.org/

I think it would be cool if people could attach device presets or device chains to a post. Then you could just drag it on a track in Ableton Live.

The crazest idea I have now is a feature in Ableton Live to screen capture a problem (with audio ) and directly create a forum post with it to get some assistance from the community.

[InLight-Tone]

A dark theme, this is the only page I visit where a blast of white burns my eyes.

PLEASE, for the love of "god"!