New to Ableton

[leedsquietman]

Sorry for anything facetious , I too am a guitar player (although I have been playing keys for years too), so I understand what you're saying. Recording some basic guitar audio tracks in cubase is a fairly straightforward thing, once you have all the audio options set up. But trust me, in Arrangement mode in Live it's pretty much just the same thing.

The Session view is what is different and it's all good too, it's a great place for auditioning clips on the fly and recording into it can set your playing into handy 1,2,4,8 bar loops (if you want this) etc. Acid doesn't have a session view, although it has abunch of preset clips like Live, you have to manipulate them on a standard timeline like in CUbase or Arrangement view in Live.

For everyday guitar tracking, Live may not be your best tool, although it could be if you want to cut up samples, add all manner of weird effects on the fly and remixing stuff. And for it's MIDI features, racks (in Live 6 only), Impulse drum machine etc. But you can sync it to Cubase using rewire anyway.

[roobear]

It's okay - everyone caught it yesterday. My new M-Audio controller packed up after just two days use, and combined with my lack of understanding of Ableton I wasn't happy.

I see the benefit of Ableton with the really easy mixing etc and I'm sure I'll have a play around with it. I was the same when I moved from my original computer music software of Cakewalk Pro Audio probably about 7 years ago something like that to Cubase, but now I really like Cubase and combined with some notation software I'm really happy. Clearly not the most technical but hey - who cares.

Actually it was someone called Difference who I was aiming my annoyance at &%$£%&