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Hey Everyone,

I bought some M-Audio hardware that came with Live Delta. Can I still get the 50% discount with Live 4? Or should I buy Live 3.04 and then get the $49 download upgrade?

Isn't Live 4 going to be released this month?

Please reply ASAP. Still deciding on what I should or could do.

Thanks,
Ryan

normaly the 28th

rmoat wrote:Hey Everyone,

I bought some M-Audio hardware that came with Live Delta. Can I still get the 50% discount with Live 4? Or should I buy Live 3.04 and then get the $49 download upgrade?

The $49 upgrade to 4 also applies if you purchased the DELTA > 3.04 upgrade. Lucky eh?

Hi, rmoat. Live 4 has just been released. :-)

Before buying Live 3 I asked the same question you did. The price to upgrade from Delta to 3 (as I did) is $200, then $50 to upgrade from 3 to 4. To go straight from Delta to 4 is $250. Fair deal either way around. (Prices above are for the downloadable version; for $30 more you can also get the manual and CD with some samples and loops.)

Meffy

But remember... the manual PDF and sample loops are downloadable too.

EnjoyRC wrote:But remember... the manual PDF and sample loops are downloadable too.

PDF manual, yes -- but my understanding is that the full CD's worth of loops is available only with the physical fulfillment, not the d/l. If you buy the CD-paper manual package, you get your serial number right away so you can snag the downloadable to use until the package arrives. That's convenient. But I seem to recall someone at ableton saying the big batch o' samples wasn't in the d/l.

Can anyone confirm or disprove this? It'll make a difference to me. :-) I'd pay $30 more for book plus loops, but not just for the book.

Meffy

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Ah, found info. From the feature list page:
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- Hundreds of one-shot drum samples for use in Impulse
- Selection of royalty-free loops and samples from Big Fish Audio*
- Built-in program tutorials and starter sets
- Printed reference manual*
- Multilingual program help and PDF manual in English, Japanese, German, French and Spanish

* Available in Live 4 boxed version only.
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Looks like with the downloadable version you get drum samples, maybe some loops for tutorials, but not the Big Fish loops. Righty, I'll probably shell out an extra $30 for that. It'll be that much longer before there's a decent pair of nearfields in this place, but hey... :-D

Meffy