All user reviews for the Ableton Live 8

Installation on Macbook ultra simple. We insert the CD, it installs and it works!
Config is absent or almost all installs automatically.
The manual is a real bible, quite complex but clear and really comprehensive. If something goes wrong, it contains the solution, being harder to find among the hundreds of pages.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

RAS in Macbook Pro 2011/2012.

OVERALL OPINION

I lutilise for almost 1 year. This is my second sequencer after quite tripotté Fruityloops.

The +:
- His real strength: the ergonomics and ease of use. I had Fruityloops (and not a pro level, far from it), and I have hardly struggled under Live. After a few hours, we arrive at the dip of the soft mode and have fun directly. The movie mode is great, it allows to compose freely as the ideas come from, in order (first chorus, then intro riff and a verse, etc.). Rather than having to write the chainson A to Z chronologically. Clip mode becomes a small mosaic of sounds which must then assemble in Session mode: really nice, and very intuitive.

- The interface is very clear, very readable, except one or two windows a little stashed one is never lost. It is a small feat given the many info on the screen at the same time.

- The sounds are very typical electro, in the classic version (not "Suite") are not without many millions. But given the substantial effect bank, they are bidouillables the almost infinite, which gives a depth of quite enormous possibilities.
- The effects are really successful.

The -:
- Sound bank may be a bit much right level, and again.

The price / quality ratio is good, after that is expensive to buy but we do not regret it saw the immense possibilities of the beast.

I would do this choice without hesitation.

Ableton is one of the most popular daw’s right now, it’s being used by many famous artists and producers.
Ableton is a software designed to create melodies, music, grooves, basslines, to record , midi editing, midi warping, etc, some dj’s are using it for mixing even live.
Ableton has some really unique features like resampling, a completely new groove engine, a warping technique that is extremely handy on remixex and resampling.

Basically Ableton is a huge resampler with many possibilities, it has a pretty design too.
It’s pretty complex regarding the instruments that are build-in, but at the same time It’s very comfortable to work either on session view or arrangement view.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The program has two main views, the arrangement view and sessions view, the sessions view is primarily used in remixex because it’s easier to handle and much faster for some people.

Skrillex is one of the persons that uses ableton in creating his beats and music, Airbase is also a fan of ableton, and many other great music producers.
Ableton Live is one of the daw’s that I found really handy, easy to use, and also a pleasure to work with, the great design, the unique features , they really make producing music to seem much more fun and endless regarding the possibilities of creating an unique sound, some great drums or just composing something completely original.

The requirements for this software are:
2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended on Windows Vista and Windows 7)

2 GHz Pentium 4 or Celeron compatible CPU or faster

Sound Card


OVERALL OPINION

You can also put your own Vst's and combine the build-in features with your own vst’s to make the next hit single.
So without a doubt, you should give it a try and compose something with the brand new live 8 which is absolutely on a different levels from another daw’s that are even more expensive than live is but don't be fooled it's one of the greatest daw's right now and the value of price/quality is superb and I would make the same choice over and over again, check their web-site for the product

The installation is done it without problem?
Mac, no worries. Downloaded from Ableton. Instant. I took advantage of a discount point of -33% from Intro Live at Live 8.

Have you encountered any incompatibilities?
No!
The general configuration is easy?
Software "easy" in appearance but very comprehensive and powerful
The manual is clear and sufficient? ..

Downloaded from the website and in French. Complete, clear and very well translated. But it is a "manual" which explains each feature. Follow the tutorials is essential.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer?
Mac Book Pro Dual Core + basic sound card Edirol UA-25
The software runs he correctly on this configuration?
Yep! For my use it's perfect = not dreaming of your armor pieces of virtual instruments on my config. But despite all that is rotating and the limits are broad, though. It depends on your needs.

OVERALL OPINION

How long you use it?
2 years + 1 day. I made my weapons on Live Intro (light version) before I decided to upgrade to the full version. I am not disappointed. The differences between the two versions are really interesting ... and I slowly discovered the subtleties.
What is so special that you love the most, least?
More on:
- Interface: While a single screen (it may disturb some). There is not a thousand windows. The sleek look and simple device that mimics no "physical" can easily take over any tool. Ultra efficient.
- The "philosophy" nonlinear mode "Clip" which allows you to run loops in the environment ... I love and it fits well with my way of composing music.
- The entire test, free for 30 days. It's starting to come, but Ableton allows everyone the opportunity to test 30 days any software before buying it (you can just not save or export) ... It costs nothing and it is not important to test if the software quietly for you, if your hardware holds up ... I would have loved to try Pro Tools (the leader) and I never found a demo ... Too bad for them ...
- The "control surfaces". I bought an Akai MPD24 Launchpad and taking their full dimension here Live to drive. The "pre-mapping" in Live can really plug and play and work intuitively.

The least:
- Enough "typed" ... sound effects are very marked by defects "electro" and it is difficult at first to make a mix "simple" with conventional tools. Intro version is also very limited in setting tools ...
- Automation is not the easiest solution that exists ... but it works.
- File management: Wow! It's complicated (such as competition, for that matter) Live operates on a certain file organization ... It's not ultra-convenient ... but must get used to.

Did you tried many other models before buying it? Several, yes ... and I flashed on Live Intro (smaller but still effective) before buying the full version. How would you rate the quality / price? Almost perfect. It's certainly not the cheapest software on the market ... but it is stable, well-designed, original and powerful. The many instruments / samples provided can touch full of musical styles without breaking the bank too. The "Shop" Ableton can add sounds, instruments to map what I find a good policy ... With experience, you do again this choice? I will not change from soft, so it sticks to my way of working. on the other hand, as with all others for that matter, you really take the time to learn his favorite software ... These are powerful tools and complete that one can understand a few clicks. The time invested in learning will be a plus for the future.

Easy installation,
no problem recognizing the card and then turning,
manual (paper) more than enough,
The only incompatibility for now (I hope set!): UVI Workstation to run ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Excellent stability (if I except the only problem with UVI). I can run multiple plugs Native Komplete same time without latency, no problem. (If I open them on the fly during a game live, although there 1 or 2 seconds of hesitation, but Live it first opens the set with all the plugs, then everything is going well )

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a few months: I am very happy!
Before, I struggled to plant: it was a year I struggled with programming problems, and that I did not play very little music factory ...

There, with Live, I have a working base rich enough (although far less than what may propose a customized workspace on Factory) available now! This is what I wanted and that plant does not offer me (even loading patches ready-made)

Now, regarding the limits of Live, bin ... I load plant as a plug, and I ask him to do what Ableton Live can not do, and it bathes.

What I really appreciate with Live is that it is not dedicated ELECTRO ... One can easily create a complex pattern in the window arrangement (with unusual time signatures and tempo changes audacious, when the electro runs in 4/4 turns and loops and loops on the same tempo before operating the change).

The special feature I like most is the ease and speed to compose a set of work and to play something fun (and I speak instrumentalist: it can also make beautiful "mosaics" techno with electro-made loops).

The feature that I like least: few options missing like the ability to create a shortcut to place a loop between two markers. Another option I would like, but there may be: the ability to write notes related to a scene or a track (like Cubase allows for example).

Quality / price ratio: being a teacher, I took advantage of the tariff Education, so I can not complain!

With experience, I will buy this software before purchasing plant. But having bought my first plant was discovered modular programming, a community of gold, and a soft cheaper and more comprehensive than Max for Live .

Ableton Live 8 really didn’t seem to much different to me than 7 did. I mean I runs great and did crash or anything just like 7 did, it ran great too. Just didn’t seem like Ableton made many changes with 8. Mainly the interface, I have always had issues with the interface and workflow of Ableton. Its not that its hard to understand just more out of sync to me. Just doesn’t make much since coming from all the other DAW programs on the market. They are all different you can pretty much still find your way around in them. But Abelton has presented some other issues for me.


SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The program is very stable though, there hasn’t been any issues with Ableton ever for me and I remember using Ableton years ago on my Toshiba laptop and it still worked like a charm.I remember pushing it too the limit and mixing a tone of songs an using just about every effect Ableton has to offer. Still had no issues with it and it is very cpu light (meaning it wont get choppy and glitch on you). I wouldn’t recommend using to many other programs rewired in it. But I love to use Ableton rewired in fl studio now. Its starting to be my bread and butter because some of the instruments and presets that I have in Ableton will always be used in my music.


OVERALL OPINION

Overall, very solid program. You can get some good music made in Ableton Live 8 I just don’t really feel the need to use it anymore because my other programs can do so much more than this one can. But I will always hold on to it. I recommend this to a lot of beginners in music programs and mixing and mastering. Or maybe even the “Lite” version of it. Which is almost the same thing just a Little more watered down.

Installation is no problem.
Everything is quick and clear .. the manual is provided.
No compatibility issues for me.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

My PC: i7 2600 K
16 GB of ram
RME card babyface

Live runs very well, however it puts a lot of time to open a project.
I n addition UNEA machine equipped with a 2.4 ghz cpu when intel with 2 gb of ram .. and well it is an interminable time to open a project that is not necessarily very heavy.

Live = gas plant

OVERALL OPINION

I used Cubase before and after finding one studio I was dropped with great pleasure!
I turned my fesait live on a measurement loop 3 times and I must say that when I am forced to use live ca .. have been the REVELATION!
How can we not have used it before?!
Everything is pretty intuitive and the purchase of APC40 was almost mandatory, but wow! What up!

What I like most is that for a loop-based sequencer it is really great! Like other ..
Base effects are really pretty

For the less I would say that the interface would benefit from a can ... I know .. modernized, and the synths are a core may sad.
The audio edition I find it terrible.


As a rule live coupled with the PCA 40 is the bomb!
For those who swear by the loop is essential.
It is expensive but certainly it is worth the price.
It turns the mix super easy
That difficult to hang at the beginning, for my part I have tested the demo quite a few times and each time I said "blah blah ..." .. But since the APC is the 40 foot! !

I have been using ableton for a while now, so using 8 was a must upgrade. There are some difference between 8 and previous version of this software . But the set up and upgrade were easy and the manual was very clear. Even though I hate manuals this one wasn’t bad.


SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Ableton 8 defies almost everything about what I assumed about this program. Unlike 6, 8 is about 30% more effective on the CPU than 6, while being able to handle so much more. This in of itself is hugely impressive because on a good day the batteries on my mac would only last 30mn using 6, with 8 while using more effects, my mac would last 45 to 1 hour operation time. Hard to believe but it's true. Ableton 8 has much more to offer than ever before, and it works more smoothly than 6, occasional glitches here and there, but in all manner of ways it is a huge upgrade from 6. It sounds better, has a very good limiter, a better compressor (that combines compressor 1 and 2 from the earlier versions), an easier tool like Slice To Midi that allows many users to finally do IDM/EDM music in the way it's meant to be done without having to do all the cut and paste that had to be done in 6 just to come close to doing decent to good IDM music. I definitely am eager to see how it works from video aspect. There are some improvements but I haven't yet gotten my hands wet in that dept.


OVERALL OPINION

Overall, the improvements that were made from previous versions to ableton 8 are a huge difference. A difference with stability and overall performance. They fixed a few bugs that the program had from version 6 that went into 7. But with Ableton 8 they stopped. Ableton 8 will surprise you!

easy installation and trouble-free
easy configuration for a software pro ...
not encounter a conflict, the opposite is true (plug, machines, controllers ...)
in addition to the manual there are lessons and also a detailed help is visible from the application ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I have a macbook pro i7 2.6GHz + 8GB RAM, but I used it on a macbook core 2duo 2Ghz + 2GB of ram ... no problems!
it is the only soft music (pro) for the treatment really live then the coup it is much more stable and smooth than others ... especially for small config. In addition I use it along with my software from scratch.

there were some bugs at first but since version 8.2.2 it is much better, it is in the 8.2.6 ...
max live for, the bridge and all the add-on works well
no crashes at home.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 5 years, I have used protools, cubase and logic test, but I sold my machines to use only live. Able to compose, play live and mix with a single soft it is convenient ...

What I like most is:
use an infinite number of plug directly calculated
deal of intuitive
can use any controller
dedicated controllers (APC40, launchpad ...)
noon and mix audio like
bridge: since I use serato live scrtatch
to me one day to max msp simplified version ...
trigger video and sync to the post ...
easily edit automations
use any sound card ...

what I like least:
live is not running in 64 bit on mac
the video mode that is readable arrangement
details of the display, dedicated controllers ...

Any incompatibility or concern any of plugins is so far .... it's rare!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

It TOOOOOp! Finally, for a lil player like me.

OVERALL OPINION

Foreword: Ableton Live directly related stuff: mixing desk / firewire audio interface M-Audio NRV 10 / M-Audio midi interface Yamaha S80 + ... the rest of the backline classic.

FYI, just to judge the relevance of my remarks: I am not the Eng. Simple zikos (has over 20 years I do the music conservatory, prod concert rgy live another time, live alone, in groups, classical, jazz, rock, piano, guitar and vocals, etc. .... have a history of ide of my ear and my habits in search of ergonomics).

So I privilgie often itch level of cost you, my little level, ease of use.

Notice the hot demo:
is the ball! Users of loop: even more ergonomic! If you have adapted the gear you can configure in the loop or Multitrack Single Manir of sync, not "block" the main recording function.

I manage to configure, thanks to the looper Intgr CONTRL Live 8 with MIDI and a translator of Midi Manir get an arsenal even more effective than RC-50.

Problem over timing of tempo: hold everything automatically ... magically .... c llu ha-it-ing .... APRS src is not a budget pedals mm Loop .... License + Ableton + PDAL Midi interface cables and twelve o'clock noon license + translator + plus a Firewire (or USB) audio which takes a minimum the road, and the computer ...

It comes easily to see double to triple the price of an RC-50 .... but at least you

More What's tip-top recording with timing loop and effects ergo ergo home!

- Between DP (very complicated and unstable, but what quality and what precision), Logic (very stable, ergonomic trs, but sometimes drives to work a little hard so it philosophy: good and fast ... my opinion is that user "amateur", but I'm a real fan of this app)
and Live ... the latter is the winner on the economy / resource management software used by CPU. Even in the live setting, compared Mainstage, software Ableton is less greedy.

+ So having a tool to live mortal (because the top of ergonomics and quality .... users Perf Digital and Logic Studio for ... and Live recently)

I await my final buy, history vrifier stability of my system. But I pourlche dj chops. Ing his N'tant not pro, just a zikos who need tools sharp enough to compose and master what I have to deliver some projects pro, I can spend my life understand how a soft, to worry about overloading the hardware to run the software ....

APRS DP, Logic and Ableton Live .... My favorite is on Ableton. Even if I continue work on Logic, habit, ds I need to work more Manir prcise on the recording (up to day on all-inclusive I Live. .. or DP ... )

Trouble free installation on Mac or PC.
The packs are a little long to load especially when not in use.
Configuration and handling very simple, it's Live.
It has never done anything easy.
No incompatibility!
The manual is super clear. You can see search the index without all that can each button instantly.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Mac mini core 2 duo 2010. Snow Leopard 10.6
Presonus FireStudio Mobile
Toshiba Core 2 Duo too. WXP sp3
ESI quatafire 610
Everything is stable

OVERALL OPINION

2 years.
All tried and all Sony Steinberg.
Live has completely changed my way of composing and editing.
It's really much more than a loop-based sequencer.
I love the effects of live, the quality of stretching, which allows direct mapping
really control everything (live and any VST instrument or effect).
And all this for an unbeatable price.
It changes everything for something direct and simple and about 300 euros,
what more.

easy installation .. but my Synthogy Piano VST plug planting live when the scan. While Nuendo supports trs well.
I tried everything synchrosoft day, vst days ... good live plant at the same time is not the plug that I use live but we had to remove it to install live: P

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

good is the same opinion as I live 7 did not think there really a performance gain, just need a good computer.


OVERALL OPINION

Well that's great and everything is not ok ... soft equivalent I have not used a lot but I dj disappointment that everybody talks about: (no sysex for example to toy with a plug goes, but for those with synths same limit is when unsoft "pro".)

Another thing, I just opened a small set with absynth (day) ... crash ... So I imagine a good live a quiet area.
may be I will go back the notes if I insure my config but for now I have a small edge on these small dception crashes.

Installation was done without any problems!
It should on the other hand, if you have nothing to do there, disconnect from the internet because it eats a lot of CPU power and it can paddle on small capacity Pross!

The manual is very comprehensive! But for my part I look closely at the tutorials on youtube and I bought the DVD of Elephorm which is a good resource for advice!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I'm PC 2Ghz CPU HP dv7 dual core 2 duo.
Ableton Live 8 runs perfectly with this config!
The config is stable if I disconnect the internet that eats a lot of CPU capacity.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for one month!

I had already used FL studio but am not invested more than that in the composition at the time!

It is a comprehensive software, the effects are very well made, the composition of the clips very easy (at the same time I do nothing complex, I started) but otherwise I am very satisfied with my purchase!
See you on the dancefloor !!!!!

The installation is done it without problems? yes
The general configuration is easy? yes
Have you experienced any incompatibilities? yes
The manual is clear and sufficient? yes

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer? D960, 2GB, HD500Go, ESI ESP1010E
The software works he correctly on this configuration? yes and no
This software + hardware is stable? yes

OVERALL OPINION

How long have you use it? 4 years
Have you tried many other models before buying it? tracker, Fruityloops, Ableton Live.
What is so special that you like most and least?
Plus: Session Mode
The least: the internal mix bus.

Personally, I would say it was a good start, but not really listening to the needs of users put together, it starts to become a bit cumbersome and outdated, inflexible on certain points, especially the estuaries ergonomic (127 parameters Simultaneous per instance of plug ins. no multi screen, real-latency not available, some intuitive mapping twelve o'clock and not editable envelopes twelve o'clock management very basic, no sysex, no remapping DC, has long load when many of these effects are used . no changes to preset effects, can become a gas plant, etc ...)

How would you rate the quality / price? not great.
With experience, you do again this choice? yes