nuperspective wrote:ableton need to ask themselves who they are and who they want to be in the marketplace. ultimately, who their customers are.
Very true and I felt this emerging with the whole "middle of the beat" (beast?) issue, Ableton on one side thinking this would be most logical for the users, and on the other side users who thought the extreme opposite. It's almost an existencial question. What is Live and what is going to be?
Fact is, Live 5 is, more than ever, an instrument in itself and this board is becoming an instrument in the hands of who develop the main instrument. Live 6 and the followers will be, i think and hope, what the users want it to be, with the features requested by djs and the ones requested by producers, united maybe in a modular install. It will be a very contemporary app, so don't expect to fully employ live 6.x features in a machine that has more than a year today.
But the scalable installation, perhaps eve separate layers of the product activations like operator is now might be the way.
I personally trust Ableton and their vision, Live is as revolutionary in music making as Wordperfect was on text developing years ago. More often than not, melting great visions with great realizations is an enormous task within the task.
