Just ordered Akai APC40,should i wait to order Live 8 suite?

[Lennox]

Hi there,

I'm new to the forum and have a question i could not find the answer in the 1000 hits the search function gave me, so excuse my lazyness

After many years of sequencing with Cubase i felt there was something missing. I recently started recording live and like the way it gives a human touch. I use a lot of hardware espacially analog synths and sometimes use softsynths as well, best of both worlds i gues

I started to look what all the fuzz was about with a program called Ableton Live. My eyes popped out of my head when i saw the videodemo's of Live 8 with the Akai APC40. I drewled all over the ableton site for a few weeks considering should i buy or not, leaving years of cubase sequencing behind. Well i decided to buy Live 8 suite with the APC40 and know for sure that it will inspire me like never before.

So as a future Ableton user i first ordered the APC40 and read that it comes with a lite version of Live 8 with the possibility to upgrade to full versions.

Now here is my question, i want Live suite 8, should i wait till i get the APC to see if i can save money with the upgrade or doesn't it matter if i buy the suite version now?

I'll have to wait at least a month from now till the APC arrives

[contakt321]

Or at the very least download the free demo and do the lessons, work along with youtube videos and get your head around it. Coming from hardware it took me a few weeks, but once I got it I was like "wow, it can't be this easy - oh wait, it is" over and over and over.

[Lennox]

Or at the very least download the free demo and do the lessons, work along with youtube videos and get your head around it. Coming from hardware it took me a few weeks, but once I got it I was like "wow, it can't be this easy - oh wait, it is" over and over and over.

very good point, i started to learn the education video's already and learning more by reading this forum.

[Budbertzerofluff]

You can save money with the upgrade. I did when I bought my Live 8 Suite.

[drewbixcube]

There might be an upgrade discount that you can only use after you register the lite license. In fact, that's how I first upgraded to v5. I got a lite version of 4 when I bought Protools, then upgraded to 5 shortly after. It's funny how I don't use Protools anymore...

[Lennox]

You can save money with the upgrade. I did when I bought my Live 8 Suite.

OK don't want to miss that, i think i better wait when the APC arrives and then upgrade to suite. I never been so excited about software before.

[dinaiz]

You still can use the demo in between. Maybe you can try and negotiate with customer support too ? They are pretty nice .

[djsynchro]

Get it now there's a loooooot of stuff in there and you want to get going. I came from Logic, made the switch after 1 hour of testing Live 4, if that would have been Live 8 it would have taken me 10 seconds to make up my mind.
Welcome to the church of Live

[ekwipt]

I'd wait till the APC arrives, download the trial and go throught the lessons.

When the APC arrives, buy live 8, reinstall os and keep your setup fresh and to a minumum. learn the APC and Live 8 and slowly introduce 3rd party synths 6 months down the track (unless your loaded of course)