Live LITE to Live 5! anyone gonna miss the March 6 deadline?

womoma · Post by **womoma** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:06 am

Hey.

According to the site:

As a registered owner of a Live Lite version that came bundled with your hardware product, you are now eligible to purchase a full version of Live 5 for EUR/USD 199, compared to EUR/USD 499 (MSRP).

So if I dont get the cash together by March 6, will it really cost me 300 euro more to upgrade????

I only heard about the offer like 2 days ago.

I wish Ableton would extend this offer a couple of weeks.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:40 am

I first got into Live from one of those "lite" versions too. I think it was 2.0... came bundled with my X-session. My advice is... just do it! You won't regret it and it's a steal at that price.

Lase · Post by **Lase** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:47 am

To be honest i'm a bit upset that i bought version 4 a matter of months ago but there isn't an offer like this for me...i think being able to buy version 5 for say £75 would be a reasonable thing to do.

eskatonia · Post by **eskatonia** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:06 am

I only just realised I have TWO copies of live lite that came with my XSessions controllers...

but I never used them cause they are pc versions and I have a mac....

does anyone know are the serial numbers cross compatible?

eg can I use my live xsession pc serial to upgrade to live 5 mac version for 200 euros?

if so then I am buying it immediately...

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:12 am

eskatonia wrote:I only just realised I have TWO copies of live lite that came with my XSessions controllers...

but I never used them cause they are pc versions and I have a mac....

does anyone know are the serial numbers cross compatible?

eg can I use my live xsession pc serial to upgrade to live 5 mac version for 200 euros?

if so then I am buying it immediately...

yupyupyup

i still got an old lite here too...

KX · Post by KX » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:19 am

Yeah, the extension of this offer would be very nice as I also knew about it a few days ago.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:31 am

How much is the upgrade from 4 - 5? D'you think the upgrade price will remain the same for upgrading from 5 - 6?

Live 6 - already round the corner... My how time flies...

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:53 am

eskatonia wrote:I only just realised I have TWO copies of live lite that came with my XSessions controllers...

but I never used them cause they are pc versions and I have a mac....

does anyone know are the serial numbers cross compatible?

eg can I use my live xsession pc serial to upgrade to live 5 mac version for 200 euros?

if so then I am buying it immediately...

It should be, as the program disks are dual platform, its just a matter of licencing, all they will give you is your very own serial.

eskatonia · Post by **eskatonia** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:14 pm

this rocks... now I gotta find where I shoved the cd and serial for live xsession version

subdef · Post by **subdef** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:45 pm

uhm, exactly where is it stated that this offer only lasts till march 6th? i have a live lite version and i find the deadline neither on the piece of paper with the serial norton http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=u ... te-version ....

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:46 pm

subdef wrote:uhm, exactly where is it stated that this offer only lasts till march 6th? i have a live lite version and i find the deadline neither on the piece of paper with the serial norton http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=u ... te-version ....

http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=n ... rade-offer

subdef · Post by **subdef** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:52 pm

ah ok

but its a bit idiotic that they do not mention this on the info which came with the lite-app itself or the page they refer to there :/

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:58 pm

subdef wrote:ah ok

but its a bit idiotic that they do not mention this on the info which came with the lite-app itself or the page they refer to there :/

thats because it's a temp offer. The lite-version you have, probably got packaged before they decided to give this offer.
It's the first thing you'll notice on www.ableton.com (third picture, first row)

subdef · Post by **subdef** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:59 pm

oh well, you are of course right. my fault then, cause i bookmarked the forum and almost never step on the first sitepage ;/

tomperson · Post by **tomperson** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:51 pm

Reading the link. It says that the offer to get live for usd200 expires march 6, but what after that? Will it return to the old upgrade price (usd250)? Will the live lite copy upgrade path no longer available?