It popped for me as google news suggestion couple weeks back, first thing came to my mind, was that mate asking for an ancient version on Sistren.

 

I was quite happily plodding along with my Cubase SX and Reason 3 Rewire combo, then a few of the techno bods I respect were raving about Live, saying that I should check it out, haven't looked back since then. Getting the APC40Mk2 Has locked me into Live for the forseeable future, it's great for being able to do live remix/DJ sets, well.... it was before all this covid crap put a stop to partying like it's 1999!

Anyway, long live live!

 

I was a little underwhelmed when I saw that video the other day. I felt like the general take away was- "its almost exactly the same, so no need to delve in". He says he's making a documentary in the comments based off knowledge from friends at Ableton. I'm a little weary, his music skills are definitely better than his editing skills. Documentaries are hard.

 

What for?

 

Because they can! There's roughly 7 billion individuals all doing different, at times seemingly pointless tasks every single day, best not to get to hung up on it!

 

I like almost everything about Live, but for mixing and mastering because I like the conventional workflow for that (Mix & master), and already get used to it.

It HELPS ME A LOT while composing in Live because I know this will be moved to other DAW (Reaper mostly, but liking the S1 now) for next stage so I minimize the time tweaking the sound, only basic EQ and comp and move on doing new track. It also makes me commit a lot to the ideas for CPU management so I can load more heavy synth. I tried to compose in S1 but I ended up tweaking the sound more than I'm recording/MIDI, I think maybe the view of GUI makes me do that. The stock EQ alone will make me spend too much time finessing. In Live though it doesn't feel like super serious stuff, LPF, HPF, remove mud, move on although the stock plugins aren't bad at all!

Even when I received projects from client, I'll always open it in Live 1st, for adding stuff (producing) until everyone happy then I'll move it to mixing DAW.

So working on songs only happens with Live GUI (browser) because of the packs always give me new ideas so my focus is more making as much tracks as possible rather than fine tuning the sound. watching the docu I noticed that they havent change the GUI since the beginning, maybe it works for people like me and they decided to keep it that way.

 

That's it. The GUI just works the way people like you (and me) want it to, why change?