What Live 6 Needs to Compete as a True DAW

[serotoninsteve]

And please get rid of the piano roll zooming, it´s a pain in the ass.
Just give use 2 or 3 fixed zoom, levels wich make sense in terms of size of the notes and useability.

Greetings

What happens when you want to use it without the grid?

With grid you mean the vertical one I suppose, means the snap notes to grid.
What i meant is the pianoroll zooming (resizing).
It would be handier if there would be the fold mode and a few other fixed zoomlevels instead of the infinite possibilities like now.
As ex. fold, 1 oct, 2oct, 3oct up to full, but always with a resizing of the clip view wich makes sense, to see a full pianoroll in a clip view height of about 2,5cm is not practical and could be improved.

Greetings

[7XL]

Support for more control surfaces.

Support for multiple VST plugin folders.

Direct X plugin support.

Actual transport controls.

I think the previous posters hit all the other important points. (although the cup holder is a little extreme.....)

[ethios4]

I'd really like to see Ableton bring the focus of Live back to live performance. I'm going to be switching to Logic by the end of the year because it is pretty much guaranteed to be a better studio tool than Live for a long time. Logic and Live will both continue to get better, but for major studio work Logic is a dedicated DAW, whereas Live is now split between DAW and live performance beast.

There's only so many development hours available, and I would rather Ableton spend that time almost exclusively on live performance tools, not riding the fence with DAW/Live tools. True, there doesn't have to be such a separation of live/studio, but there are many things that are pretty exlcusive to one or the other.

For instance, I would like to see full-on session view automation tracks, for automatiing other tracks, but that's not gonna be too useful in arrange view.

Keep Live live, and let the established DAWs handle that stuff - that's what I say, anyway!

[Vitek]

Hello!, I am new here.
I´d love to see in Live 6;
1- More powerful composing and programing MIDI tools.
2- Dual core/procesor capability.
3- A proffesional scoring tool.

[Pasha]

I'd really like to see Ableton bring the focus of Live back to live performance. I'm going to be switching to Logic by the end of the year because it is pretty much guaranteed to be a better studio tool than Live for a long time. Logic and Live will both continue to get better, but for major studio work Logic is a dedicated DAW, whereas Live is now split between DAW and live performance beast.

There's only so many development hours available, and I would rather Ableton spend that time almost exclusively on live performance tools, not riding the fence with DAW/Live tools. True, there doesn't have to be such a separation of live/studio, but there are many things that are pretty exlcusive to one or the other.

For instance, I would like to see full-on session view automation tracks, for automatiing other tracks, but that's not gonna be too useful in arrange view.

Keep Live live, and let the established DAWs handle that stuff - that's what I say, anyway!

I do not completely agree.
I think many Live users, like I am, are not using Live for Live Performances but for its revolutionary approach. As a DAW (too much a generic umbrella term) Live is good even today. I switch back and forth from Session and Arrangement view, my creation time is faster and the possibilities more than ever.
Session view is a scratch pad, to test your ideas, then you refine them using clips/scene capabilities and then you can consolidate all in the arragenment view. Is this that makes Live what it is. I would not leave other DAW do the DAW and Live play Live.
Live needs enhancements :

1. MIDI
2. Audio e VST plugin compatibility
3. Arrangement view

My 2 cents

- Regards
- Pasha

[longjohns]

you can resize the midi editor/piano roll to almost full screen

it really seems to need a cursor in there, for cutting and pasting