What got you into using Ableton Live?

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:02 pm

A friend at work ordered one copy too many through an accomodation deal, I was blown away. That was Live 3.

Prior to that I was into Acid, Cakewalk, Sonar and hardware sequencing.

C.S. · Post by **C.S.** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:19 pm

Live 2 was bundled with my Pro Tools Mbox. As of version 4 I've seen really no reason to use anything else.

glu · Post by **glu** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:28 pm

ACTUALLY- reading threads on this forum is what got me to LIVE. I was fascinated by the Live user community, aside from the product itself. I had live lite4 , I hated it. I didn't like it until I downloaded Live 5 demo, made some beats, couldn't save them... hahah.. THen I wanted it!!!!!!!!

I didn't even really mess with Live lite, which came with my mbox a few years earlier. I just used Pro Tools, my triton, etc. Live opened up making music with the computer... not just recording music... but the whole creative process.. I don't use the triton's sequencer at all anymore... or pro tools.

jamesp · Post by **jamesp** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:32 pm

I wanted to use my computer to record backing tracks. Mostly accoustic guitar and mandolin stuff, but for some reason my brother recommended Maudio's Black Box as an interface. Maybe he thought I'd ditch it his way?

Anyway, I read the quick start guide, watched a few tutorials on the Ableton site and within a couple hours I was double tracking. A year later and I do all my recording with midi instruments. Occationally I'll latch on an audio track at the end. But only sometimes.

My Bro's still using Cubase...
I've tried to convert him, but he's stubborn that way.

LJ Martin · Post by **LJ Martin** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:18 pm

My buddy showed me one day... blew me away... used a crack of live 4 for two weeks and then bought it.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:22 pm

The Internet!

DAMN YOU INTERNET <--- $5 bucks to the guy or girl who can tell me who coined this phrase

you have 1/2 hour go!

fdmusic · Post by **fdmusic** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:26 pm

I got a version with my fw410... tried the updated version that was released about a month ago or so. Fell in love.. That's my story.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:32 pm

It's the only program that I know of that lets me choreograph, sequence, control and play live surround audio, lighting, video, remote pan/tilt/zoom cameras, live percussion, and trigger loops (audio, video, and lighting) all at once single-handed, and that keeps me awake at night dreaming up new and different things to do!

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:34 pm

I loved playing with grooveboxes....
So when i heard some whispers of MIDI being included in Live 4, i got live 3 and started betatesting 4.

That pretty much got me hooked to Live and being part of software development.
Ever since i've been betatesting every single product i bought. In an effort to get everything working like some sort of groovebox...

I need more bloody program changes

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:51 pm

nebulae wrote:
Sales Dude McBoob wrote:I had every DAW under the sun and I ignored them all used Live obsessively!
At what point did the McBoob persona take over?

Well Nebby, it all goes back to my early days as a Live 3 user. I had been a band guy all my life, making music with guitars and drums and things. When I got into Live I started making electronic music. I tapped into a side of myself that I had never touched. I was trying to make silly house music.

At the same time I started reading the forum a lot at work, picking up tips. I found it interesting that the same folks showed up everyday and seemed to know one another. So I got on board with the log-in name DJ Precious. It was a fake name I came up with for my new jokey house music.

Before long I got a lot more into it, and soon I found myself making music I was really into and proud of. The joke of DJ Precious wore off and I wanted a name that would... uhh... be... uhh... I don't know. I just changed it to McBoob and never looked back.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:57 pm

djadonis206 wrote:The Internet!

DAMN YOU INTERNET <--- $5 bucks to the guy or girl who can tell me who coined this phrase

you have 1/2 hour go!

times up - aha! You're all not as smart as me and I knew it!!!

Steven Stotch aka Chris Stotch, Butter's dad - in the classic episode "Butter's very own episode"

The one where Butter's follows his dad around and discovers he's been frequenting gay bath houses and catches his dad jacking off in some room to gay porn

when his wife confronts him he explains it started out as a curiosity on the internet - he discovered other men where into as well and then he started going to those places - in a fit of rage and shame he screams to the sky DAMN YOU INTERNET!!!

and that's pretty much how I got into Ableton - it started out as s curiousity on the internet - DAMN YOU INTERNET!!!

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:03 pm

djadonis206 wrote:
djadonis206 wrote:The Internet!

DAMN YOU INTERNET <--- $5 bucks to the guy or girl who can tell me who coined this phrase

you have 1/2 hour go!
times up - aha! You're all not as smart as me and I knew it!!!

Steven Stotch aka Chris Stotch, Butter's dad - in the classic episode "Butter's very own episode"

The one where Butter's follows his dad around and discovers he's been frequenting gay bath houses and catches his dad jacking off in some room to gay porn

when his wife confronts him he explains it started out as a curiosity on the internet - he discovered other men where into as well and then he started going to those places - in a fit of rage and shame he screams to the sky DAMN YOU INTERNET!!!

and that's pretty much how I got into Ableton - it started out as s curiousity on the internet - DAMN YOU INTERNET!!!

"You sound like a broken mp3"

30 minutes..... go!!

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:31 pm

I had Steinburgs beast and had one frustrating day that topped most. I don't remember when it was but I think I went to KVR and someone was talking about Live. I downloaded a copy (1.5 I think) and stared at it for a half hour. I couldn't figure it out. I thought it was silly. Then I did something and I was able to get it going. Then everything clicked. I have been blown away ever since. There is seriously not a single session where I don't learn somethin new. It really fit my thinking and workflow style. I still have the 1.5 box. hee hee

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:37 am

Been playing live electronica since 1991, using the pattern-based MIDI sequencers in Ensoniq workstation synths, first an SQ-80, then a VFX-SD and finally a TS-12. After we started doing more flying gigs, and the difficulty of hiring a TS-12 or TS-10 in other countries it was time for a change! Also our Mothership weighed 44kg in it's roadcase.

Started running Live 3 for additional loops and parts, slaved to the TS's MIDI clock in 2003, then fully moved our rig over to Live in 2004 after the inclusion of MIDI sequencing in Live 4.

Now our live rig breaks down into five 31.5kg lumps that can all go down the baggage conveyor-belt at airports as baggage instead of messing around with freight companies and carnets etc.

joesapo · Post by **joesapo** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:06 am

For me it was when the Computer Music - Ableton Live special edition came out... I had heard a bunch of buddies of mine talk about how great it is, and I was completely fed-up with FL Studio.

Hand down, Live plays with my gear better than FL ever could.

hehe.. I said "plays with my gear"...