adamdegraff wrote:Hey,
I'm currently a 8 suite user. I'll be upgrading to 9 suite when it's out. Just recently I was thinking of getting Max for Live. I see there is a discount right now. But I'm all for saving a buck or two. So... if I buy M4L right now, will it lower my price on Live 9 which comes with M4L?
Thanks.
It's pretty hard to follow Ableton's pricing strategies as they change all the time but just now AFAIR the answer is NO. There was a good deal on the Live 8 to Live 8 Suite upgrade, $194, where you got MFL as part of the free suite 9 release. However, Ableton said it was a technical mistake and yanked up the price $100 two days later. So some lucky ones got this deal and others not. Hence one reason there are 30 pages on this thread now about Ableton pricing....
Now, personally, I have very little need of the other suite components, FM synth plug-ins are plentiful, doubt Analog is as fun as U-He's Diva and who needs another 20Gb of orchestral samples, especially for Live use which is more in tune with modern dance music. As such a good upgrade step from Live 8 to Live 9 with MFL would have been really nice and most likely a very effective marketing vehicle from Ableton. However Ableton blew it.