When did you finally get it?

Apocrypha · Post by **Apocrypha** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:13 pm

For me is was Live 4. that's when I was like...."Oh I get it now! This is incredible!" It took me awhile to get my head around the outside the box thinking but I finally got it with Live 4. And It will probably start all over again with L6.

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:36 pm

Live 2.

I put my hardware up for sale and started making loops. It's amazing what a step forward each release has been; Ableton seems to be driven by a vision for the software that is very much in harmony with what I want to do with audio. To me it is easily the most revolutionary audio software since Cubase came out (well, Max/MSP/Jitter is pretty freakin cool too, but Live still holds the crown in my book ):)

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:48 pm

I get it more and more every day. There are so many ways to mangle sounds in Live they could stop at Live 5 and we'd still be finding new tricks.

PS If they did stop at Live 5 I'm taking the first flight to Germany with a baseball bat in hand.

ILTK · Post by **ILTK** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:49 pm

Live 5.0

Took me a few tries playing with the demo since I was so used to Cubase back then and it felt a bit wierd with Lives flat window interface.

Then all of a sudden I was just having fun trying stuff out and playing with the plugins, everything just worked the way my mind works, had songs done in no time and I wasn't fighting with the interface and multiple windows and 500 crashes every day, it just started being fun to make music again.

Never looked back.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:53 pm

I still don't get racks... but I can't wait!!!

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:00 pm

Yesterday - about 3:15 in the afternoon

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:18 pm

Live 2

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:43 pm

Live3... I was at a friend's house, and he let me play around with an arrangement that he already had made. I had really struggled with the program before I had built a big loop/sample library of my own, and things seemed rather unintuitive... once I saw what was possible with the proper tools, it was truly enlightening.

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:50 pm

I had started messing with ACID a little. One day I was on a forum and someone was making a comparison between ACID and this new Abelton app. I got a demo of 1 I think. I opened it up and was like what are these crazy germans thinking this makes no sense at all. It took me a half hour to finally get something out of it. 15 minutes later I was doing things intuitively and realized how the workflow was set up. I just stared at it awestruck realizing that an app now existed that worked like I think. It has a longer attention span than me though.

Then midi was implemented and I pretty much stopped using my other apps/

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:58 pm

I found out about Ableton on the www.mpc-tutor.com/forum

cats where using Ableton to stretch their loops and then import into the MPC

After investigation I came up on Version 3 I believe <-- the version right before Midi

I got straight away - I was recording records into the clip slots and trying to make beats with just audio loops

then 4 then 5 - didn't get my first proper release until 5 though - hopefully 6 will get me booked on a world tour - who know's

Peace out

Adonis!

RePeter · Post by **RePeter** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:58 pm

Version 1.

*strokes long wise-man's beard*

started djing with it in 2001, almost the second I saw what it could do, and have hardly written a half hearted, luke warm, middle of the road tune since!

5dots · Post by **5dots** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:29 pm

I had to check my user account - I couldn't remember if it was 2 or 3.

Turns out it was 1.5... I guess I've been at this a while.

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:55 pm

when i was about 15 i think, maybe a wee bit younger..But what a night

youri · Post by **youri** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:04 pm

live 3

..but already played with the demo before...

ekko · Post by **ekko** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:13 pm

Live 1 - I remember seeing them at NAMM in 2001 (?) and the prevelance of alll that green. They had great chachkis...I still have my Ableton keychain and Ableton satchel from that show. I picked up the demo, but spent my money on Reason when it came out.

Live 2 - My first purchase of Live. Only had it about a month before...

Live 3 - This is where I really started to see the power, but I still used Cubase as my main DAW. I would do all my drums in Live, then export them to Cubase.

Live 4 - Here's where I "got it." The midi made sense. The layout made sense. It just clicked here, and this is where I really stopped using Cubase. Live became my main DAW at 4.

Live 5 - Feels very natural and easy to use. A natural extension of 4, but still thought it should have been a 4.5 release, rather than a full-blown upgrade. But I use it every day.