Ableton Forum

I have the money, I have the latest of LIVE 7... is it worth upgrading to 8 right now or should I wait, because of all these complaints I am hearing about live 8??????

Think it depends on how deep you go into programming your music.... I do basic stuff, I record music, use the devices with minor tweaks when needed... I use both session and arrange view, I use follow actions, I use Rewire, I have a bunch of controllers (some using midi translators)... I know my way around Live, been using it for years, and I haven't found any major problems with Live 8 suite (except that Simpler and Sampler still don't timestretch).

I think most of the people I see having problems are people with certain Mac OS's, and doing special tricks.

I've been doing sessions with my artist with no crash and 100% satisfaction (except that they still haven't put timestretch in Simpler or Sampler).

naturally the forum for a software product will be filled with people complaining about a new release and some fanboys saying it works fine on their machine.


I'm in the fanboy camp, I've had a few crashes but it's about as stable as Live 7.

try the demo, nobody can predict ahead of time how stable it will be for you.

Wow peeps thanks for the advice!!!


~Phazey