New user who bought Ableton Live 8 Suite with free upgrade
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:57 pm
Hi everyone!
For the 6 months I've been making music with Ableton 8 Suite on my friends computer, I decided to take the plunge and buy Ableton 8 suite with free upgrade to 9 suite. I just received it today and have installed the program data and preset library, but i'm not sure of a few things as tbh I find it a bit complicated.
1. The boxed version comes with 8.2.1, if I click check for updates in the help menu, it brings me to the update to live 9 page. I do want to update to live 9 and keep 8 on my computer, but if I go to archives I can download 8.4 which is what i want! But it's a 1.6GB download! Is this the correct way to update it to 8.4??
2. I haven't installed the rest of the suite 8 contents that comes on the disks, I do plan on using Live 9 soon, but if I install the disk content with live 8, and Live 9 suite comes with the same content, will I have duplicates in both the Live 8 and Live 9 library??
3. Regarding packs, the packs page on Abletons website is now only showing me only Live 9 packs. If I download these without live 9 installed can I still use them with live 8? Is there a common place that packs are stored that Live 8 or 9 can access?
4. Where the hell do I find the link for Ableton Forums on their website without having to type it into Google????
Thanks for your help
For the 6 months I've been making music with Ableton 8 Suite on my friends computer, I decided to take the plunge and buy Ableton 8 suite with free upgrade to 9 suite. I just received it today and have installed the program data and preset library, but i'm not sure of a few things as tbh I find it a bit complicated.
1. The boxed version comes with 8.2.1, if I click check for updates in the help menu, it brings me to the update to live 9 page. I do want to update to live 9 and keep 8 on my computer, but if I go to archives I can download 8.4 which is what i want! But it's a 1.6GB download! Is this the correct way to update it to 8.4??
2. I haven't installed the rest of the suite 8 contents that comes on the disks, I do plan on using Live 9 soon, but if I install the disk content with live 8, and Live 9 suite comes with the same content, will I have duplicates in both the Live 8 and Live 9 library??
3. Regarding packs, the packs page on Abletons website is now only showing me only Live 9 packs. If I download these without live 9 installed can I still use them with live 8? Is there a common place that packs are stored that Live 8 or 9 can access?
4. Where the hell do I find the link for Ableton Forums on their website without having to type it into Google????
Thanks for your help