version 5, lite, that came with protools.
bought the full version because it's much more convenient than protools in many ways.
VSTs, no dongle...
making music with ableton is like playing with a toy.
What got you tipped to Ableton Live?
Re: What got you tipped to Ableton Live?
• What version did you start with?
Version 1.5 - March of 2003
• What was it then that made you a user?
I'd been Djing for about three years at the time and decided I wanted to try my hand at making my own stuff so I bought Reason. A few months later someone linked to this site from the propellerheads forum so I checked it out. There was a big thing on the front page with Richie Hawtin pumping it up so I bought it. (Go ahead laugh) Seriously though, I've always been into Richie Hawtin, but in the add or whatever he was going on about how wonderful this software was as a live perforance tool, and live electronic performance was appealling to me... so after doing a little more research I jumped on.
• Why didn't you before then? (Didn't need it, owned Cubase/Fruity Loops/Reason, thought it looked ugly...)
I was then, still am now, and most likely always will be a hobbyist at this. I've had a lot of fun but a slow and painful learning curve - but whatever. So, the reason I didn't have it yet was because I was pretty new and pretty clueless as to what was out there. To tell the truth I was hooked by the idea of a tool geared toward live performance and I bought it almost immediately after I discovered it. Sold reason about two years ago and my entire computer music experience has been centered around Ableton. Reason got me started, and I have tried some other things, but it's been mostly Ableton for me since I started doing this.
• How many folks did you turn on to Live?
Hard to say, when I first got it I used to tell people about it, but nobody took it serious for some reason. Atleast one person for sure I have turned onto Ableton though.
Version 1.5 - March of 2003
• What was it then that made you a user?
I'd been Djing for about three years at the time and decided I wanted to try my hand at making my own stuff so I bought Reason. A few months later someone linked to this site from the propellerheads forum so I checked it out. There was a big thing on the front page with Richie Hawtin pumping it up so I bought it. (Go ahead laugh) Seriously though, I've always been into Richie Hawtin, but in the add or whatever he was going on about how wonderful this software was as a live perforance tool, and live electronic performance was appealling to me... so after doing a little more research I jumped on.
• Why didn't you before then? (Didn't need it, owned Cubase/Fruity Loops/Reason, thought it looked ugly...)
I was then, still am now, and most likely always will be a hobbyist at this. I've had a lot of fun but a slow and painful learning curve - but whatever. So, the reason I didn't have it yet was because I was pretty new and pretty clueless as to what was out there. To tell the truth I was hooked by the idea of a tool geared toward live performance and I bought it almost immediately after I discovered it. Sold reason about two years ago and my entire computer music experience has been centered around Ableton. Reason got me started, and I have tried some other things, but it's been mostly Ableton for me since I started doing this.
• How many folks did you turn on to Live?
Hard to say, when I first got it I used to tell people about it, but nobody took it serious for some reason. Atleast one person for sure I have turned onto Ableton though.
Re: What got you tipped to Ableton Live?
1.0, got it on eBay for 80 Euros. I upgraded it to 3.0 when it came out (skipped 2) and am now looking into a yummy option to get 6.0 for cheap.kabuki wrote:• What version did you start with?
When I saw the first screen shot of Live, I thought "finally! Someone came up with a clean UI and not this let's-look-like-real-audio-hardware crap". Eventually I got hooked on the demo version.• What was it then that made you a user? (New feature, review, friend's recommendation...)
Couldn't afford a full new version.• Why didn't you before then? (Didn't need it, owned Cubase/Fruity Loops/Reason, thought it looked ugly...)
I think one. She received Live Lite with her audio interface and I showed her how to use it - now she's an addict.• How many folks did you turn on to Live?
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Machinesworking
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Re: What got you tipped to Ableton Live?
What version did you start with?
Version 3 Light, free from a BT remix contest, though I never did mix that BT song. Can't stand the guys music personally.
What was it then that made you a user?
The realization that no matter how much you tweaked the other DAWs, in the end of the day you're simply pushing play, and using a single instrument to play over your finished tracks. With live you can dynamically remix your music on stage. Live breaks the major barrier between bass, drums, guitar, rock and electronic music, that of spontaneous change.
live is the ultimate remix DAW, and performance tool for electronic musicians.
Why didn't you before then? (Didn't need it, owned Cubase/Fruity Loops/Reason, thought it looked ugly...) Lack of VSTi support, and funds on my part.
I couldn't justify it, but Komplete 2 from NI offered up at least six decent soft synths that I could open up and play alongside Live 3. Live 4 was announced less than two weeks after I purchased!
How many folks did you turn on to Live?
Any regular bass, drum, guitar, vocal, or DJ style musician who talks to me about wanting to do electronic music, but is wary of the learning curve. Any musician who talks about wanting to perform the music live.
Version 3 Light, free from a BT remix contest, though I never did mix that BT song. Can't stand the guys music personally.
What was it then that made you a user?
The realization that no matter how much you tweaked the other DAWs, in the end of the day you're simply pushing play, and using a single instrument to play over your finished tracks. With live you can dynamically remix your music on stage. Live breaks the major barrier between bass, drums, guitar, rock and electronic music, that of spontaneous change.
live is the ultimate remix DAW, and performance tool for electronic musicians.
Why didn't you before then? (Didn't need it, owned Cubase/Fruity Loops/Reason, thought it looked ugly...) Lack of VSTi support, and funds on my part.
I couldn't justify it, but Komplete 2 from NI offered up at least six decent soft synths that I could open up and play alongside Live 3. Live 4 was announced less than two weeks after I purchased!
How many folks did you turn on to Live?
Any regular bass, drum, guitar, vocal, or DJ style musician who talks to me about wanting to do electronic music, but is wary of the learning curve. Any musician who talks about wanting to perform the music live.
• What version did you start with? v2. Crack, but bought v3 as soon as it came out.
• What was it then that made you a user? I had been messing around in Reason for a year or so, and had been making a few bad hardware purchases, looking for a way to perform and compose electronic music. Nothing really fit right until I found myself on acid on the side of a mountain in Colorado with Adam Ohana showing me this new program he's using called Live. It looked promising, so I found a copy when I got back home and soon found that Live was exactly what I had been looking for. The warp marker system and session view were the two things that completely sold me on Live. I had been working on completely improvised guitar/bass/drums music for awhile, and the spontaneity Live allows was a dream come true. I could take the files I had created in Reason, and Live, and "play" them in real time using Live...perfect!! I soon got into time-alignment and warp-mangling, and with v3 I instantly fell in love with envelopes and bought Live.
• Why didn't you before then? I didn't know it existed.
• How many folks did you turn on to Live? I tell everyone that's interested in audio production about Live. I have turned on several DJ's and producers to the magic!
• What was it then that made you a user? I had been messing around in Reason for a year or so, and had been making a few bad hardware purchases, looking for a way to perform and compose electronic music. Nothing really fit right until I found myself on acid on the side of a mountain in Colorado with Adam Ohana showing me this new program he's using called Live. It looked promising, so I found a copy when I got back home and soon found that Live was exactly what I had been looking for. The warp marker system and session view were the two things that completely sold me on Live. I had been working on completely improvised guitar/bass/drums music for awhile, and the spontaneity Live allows was a dream come true. I could take the files I had created in Reason, and Live, and "play" them in real time using Live...perfect!! I soon got into time-alignment and warp-mangling, and with v3 I instantly fell in love with envelopes and bought Live.
• Why didn't you before then? I didn't know it existed.
• How many folks did you turn on to Live? I tell everyone that's interested in audio production about Live. I have turned on several DJ's and producers to the magic!
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noisetonepause
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Started on v1.5, though I did not get to use it much till v3.0 as I didn't have a computer to run it on for six months after getting it (legal battle with Apple, wooh).
I read about it in Computer Music and instantly thought that it was much cooler, so I went and traded my recently bought copy of Logic Gold (v4!) for it. Twas all downhill from there.
I lingered on v3 for a good while though, as it was damn near perfect... and parts of me still disagree about VST/AU instrument support... but that's a different discussion!
I read about it in Computer Music and instantly thought that it was much cooler, so I went and traded my recently bought copy of Logic Gold (v4!) for it. Twas all downhill from there.
I lingered on v3 for a good while though, as it was damn near perfect... and parts of me still disagree about VST/AU instrument support... but that's a different discussion!
Suit #1: I mean, have you got any insight as to why a bright boy like this would jeopardize the lives of millions?
Suit #2: No, sir, he says he does this sort of thing for fun.
Suit #2: No, sir, he says he does this sort of thing for fun.
Logic diehard user since about 7-8 years.
i DJ next to producing my own material and working pretty much fulltime for productions / recordings / etc. of all sorts in my own and hirestudios.
after about 13years behind the decks, i got tired of DJ-ing and touring. took a break of about 1 1/2 years worked during that break a few times as a stagemanager at electronic music festivals and came intensively across ableton live users, thought to myself that this is an interesting way to go, playing own stuff (not DJ-ing with it!) live and remix work on the fly rather then Spinning. got version 5 and use it only for Live performances (rarely i have to admit, just starting getting really into 'Live' Live performances, slowly) and sometimes for sketching quick ideas. for production and mixdowns, especially for clients i still use Logic exclusively.
but i do like it very much, i just personally miss a few dozen of possibilities for extensive studio work (me not only doing electronica) however i did turned easiely a dozen people onto it. i believe it's a great tool.
i do recommend it all the time, even i am not the most intense user myself.
i DJ next to producing my own material and working pretty much fulltime for productions / recordings / etc. of all sorts in my own and hirestudios.
after about 13years behind the decks, i got tired of DJ-ing and touring. took a break of about 1 1/2 years worked during that break a few times as a stagemanager at electronic music festivals and came intensively across ableton live users, thought to myself that this is an interesting way to go, playing own stuff (not DJ-ing with it!) live and remix work on the fly rather then Spinning. got version 5 and use it only for Live performances (rarely i have to admit, just starting getting really into 'Live' Live performances, slowly) and sometimes for sketching quick ideas. for production and mixdowns, especially for clients i still use Logic exclusively.
but i do like it very much, i just personally miss a few dozen of possibilities for extensive studio work (me not only doing electronica) however i did turned easiely a dozen people onto it. i believe it's a great tool.
i do recommend it all the time, even i am not the most intense user myself.
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