SubFunk wrote:
6 was a dream under osx.
...yep...4/5/6 were a dream on the XP as well...
today...
I seriously can't remember Live without the Anxiety/Frustration element anymore...
"when will it crash?"...and then it does ... and then you're bummed...
now open a project you made with v6...
makes for a refreshing reminder of how sluggish and buggy v8 is..
Live6 is lightning fast ! and stable !
and although I'm loving M4L.. it adds to the unpredictability of the whole thing..
and feels at times like it's patched to live with gaffer tape...
all and all it makes perfect sense Live is struggling..
it has become a very very complicated program..
and it became so "all of a sudden"..
(Live7 was a very mellow release feature-wise)
Live8 was a huge leap forward conceptually imo..
supported grid-control surfaces..redesigned 'warp' methods...Grooves...MAX..Serato..
...new instruments/fx..and numerous smaller tweaks
I was overwhelmed by the premise of it.
still.. we shouldn't be sold a software more than a year before it's ready.
I would be willing to beta test it for a year..for free..and know that it's not supposed to be stable..
but an officially released product is something else..
I've stopped installing the beta versions...
it has become simply ludicrous to be beta testing for so long..
about OS issues.. my os runs perfectly with every software installed...
none have crashed my system..(none except for "Live Suite")
(been also working a bit with Reaper and Vegas lately..)
soooo..
I'm pretty sure Ableton will make things right again.. (hope it's not too long now..)
and I'm pretty sure they've learned from their mistakes .
Here's hoping for a stable Live8(+m4l)...soon...