While I have used multiple other DAWs for recording, none of them were able to provide the flexibility to use in a live performance environment. This is where Ableton Live comes in. It has one of the most useful sets of built-in features and instruments that taking production to a whole new level. Not only does it take care of the audio side of things, but it also helps us automate/live-sync multiple other devices - in live video production, lighting, lyrics and cues. Overall, it replaces the need for multiple pieces of software which for our use case, is a BIG WIN!

Our biggest advantage is in terms of automation. Instead of having 6 different people-dependant processes, taking up manpower and adding points of failure, we now need only person to take care of the entire production. It's not just cutting down on wasted resources but also helps streamline the entire process of live media production.

The biggest con with Live is that it has a steep learning curve. After having used multiple DAWs over the last couple of decades, it still took a while to catch up and use Live to its full potential. There are however tons of resources online to help along the way.

Overall, when I do reach for Live it’s for compatibility with others’ projects and its sound design capabilities. For this it is excellent. Also it’s live show elements and integration with creatively-oriented controllers. Live is like a fun modular synth with a lot of quick patching and patterns on hand. The downside is that it is a fairly basic mixing, editing, and composition experience, but it’s hard to specialize in everything so that’s only a downside if those functions (think Pro Tools, Cubase, and Studio One) are important to you.

In Live, there is no shortage of features that have a creative and inspirational application. The control surface application is great (the caveat being that the feature set is geared towards performance, not mixing). The included plug-ins are wonderful and easy to deploy, as well as stable, and all of the features related to on-the-fly manipulation of patterns are very developed. The software has a great feel of cohesion about it. Horizontal inspectors (effects racks) aren’t totally my thing but you can’t deny that they have really streamlined the sound design / midi effects / pattern manipulation parts of the program (the “live show” element is included in that).

The program is fairly underdeveloped in the realm of mixing, audio editing, assisted music composition, and audio export. Also I’ve never really enjoyed their approach to the browser and especially searching in the browser.

It has lots of tutorials online and good for sound design

Confusing to look at and to understand compared to studio one

I love tracking in live I’ve been using it as an artist for over two years now. I’ve learned so much using live about mixing music

Personally I think live would be a big recommendation for EDM or hiphop music

This is an awesome electronic music lab for today's creators. This is a must for any involved in beatmaking, urban generes, and any other style that requires looping and virtual instruments programming. I have been using for years and last version is so powerful.

Works on Mac and PC. Plenty of resources such as loops, and patches for the included virtual instruments. Very CPU friendly.

Lacks of in deep and very precise digital audio editing tools

Pretty much the best that has happened to me, i use this DAW and I will still use it for quite a bit

The viriety of tutorials and videos that you can find in order to learn about this progrma is great, pretty much you can find a good start up with the comunity that this daw has.

Maybe the cost and the way that it may seem at the beggining with is pretty arcaic for my taste but with the time you get used to it and realize that it is indeed the best program that is out there.

Excellent.

Working with clips is a great way to create music.

I prefer the stock instruments in some other DAWs and the interface of plugins and instruments could be more user friendly at times.

Easy to manipulate audio, sketch ideas, compose and arrange

Not convenient for mixing and mastering, other DAW do it better

I have used a few music production programs before Ableton Live and now after 2+ years of using Ableton almost on a daily basis, I can confidently say that there is no other music software that I would use. Ableton meets all of my needs with ease of use with plugins and midi, live recording, and collaborating with other artists. Despite the minor bugs that are here and there, Ableton keeps improving and I'm looking forward to Ableton Live 11 when it releases.

Ableton Live's ease of use with a variety of genres and production processes is one of the most impactful features. Some DAWs such as FL Studio are great for techno/hip hop music, while others like Garage Band are great for singer/songwriters, but Ableton Live is the DAW for anything. Recording instruments and vocals can be seamless and the same goes for anything MIDI related. Ableton Live is very convenient in relation to collaborating with other artists and producers since it is an industry standard.

There are not many things I dislike about Ableton, but the biggest problem I have that I deal with on a regular basis is something very simple: my audio input and output glitch to the point where I have to save and exit out of the program to fix it. If I switch from my headphones to my studio monitors, Ableton will say it doesn't recognize my monitors. I exit the application, open it back up and it recognizes my monitors. It's a minor bug but extremely inconvenient if you're in the middle of some creative energy. The most negative aspect of Ableton Live would be the price. There are many free music production software that are half the price or free that offer many features that Ableton has, but still nothing comes close to Ableton. I understand the price difference but I hope in the future the company takes their extremely high prices into consideration, especially since it is the most popular production software and an industry standard.

Overall I find Live is the best option I've found for live tracks playback and manipulation on the fly. Its a steep learning curve but well worth the time and effort.

The flexibility and adaptability for live workflows is outstanding, the warp and transpose features, plus the auto trigger functions are something I can't do without!

The interface isn't great, and depending on your sample structures the requirements on disk and memory are a bit overblown.

Overall Ableton capabilities for live performance are outstanding and few DAWs can come close to it. However, as most of work goes into session’s preparation within the software, some tools are not as polished and can easily slow one down.

I have been using Ableton Live for about 5 years. I picked it up as a performance assistance for our Live performance mainly for triggering tracks using midi Mapped Akai APC. As a new user to Ableton, I found that the clip editing tools offer a high degree of control for multitrack recordings and making it possible to create professional-sounding results. These tools are user friendly and intuitive to use as they allow users to make precise and detailed edits to individual clips for adjusting timing of individual clips, slicing and rearranging clips to create new and interesting sounds. Additionally, it is possible to layer multiple clips together and create dynamic arrangements. I would also use the Warp and Time Stretching which allows me to adjust the timing and pitch of audio clips, making it easy to match the tempo of different tracks and even create some special effects embellishing our overall music performance.

I think some of the drawbacks, in my experience, of using the Warp Tool in Ableton Live is that in some cases it can result in artifacts or unwanted changes to the sound. Additionally, it is difficult to use it for certain types of audio. Case in point is if the audio in the clip contains complex rhythms or sudden changes in tempo. It can be difficult to adjust the timing of the clip mostly without affecting the overall sound of the audio. The warp tool can be time-consuming, especially if you are working with a large number of clips. It can easily slow down the workflow.

Ableton Live is one of the best relevant choice of music production workstation software. this software's interface is astonishing & allows you an easier & faster workflow. whether you are the using built in plugins or supported VST plugins, Recorded Wave files or Midi files, this workstation provides the best it can be. it is a professional mastering software that gives you all the tools of mixing & mastering your mixdown to perfection.

Ableton Live is a professional‏ music creation station & a professional mastering software. Ableton gives you all the tools and ability of making your music, editing, mixing & professionally master your music. whenever its electronic music or authentic recorded live music, Ableton gives you all the features of turning your workstation to a professional one. Ableton's interface is outstanding & cannot be compared with any other software, the interface and the way of working allows you to work as fast and accurate as it gets. time stretching ability is most essential, effective and convenient in Ableton. choosing of exporting Mp3 or Wave files makes is a great advantage in Ableton 10. ‏ ‏‏

The interface of Ableton is different from other interfaces & it takes time to get used to. once I gained little experience‏, things got much more faster & I have managed to finish projects more easily than ever before.

Compared to other DAWs, digital audio workstations, Ableton has a cleaner and simpler looking layout. This simplicity helps producers to navigate through the software with much more ease. Everything is integrated into one window, which really helps the workflow. It eliminates the need for cluttering multiple windows plus plugins, thus giving it a very clean and enjoyable experience. Furthermore, Ableton's session view is awesome. It presents clips in almost a grid-like format, almost like a spreadsheet, thus giving a sleek and easy to follow layout.

With Ableton, there is a learning curve. Compared to other DAWs, it is a bit harder to learn and understand the process of "making" music. You must put in the time to learn ALL the components in order to truly use the software to its full potential. The price of Ableton seems to be a bit high. Also, compared to other DAWs, like Logic, Ableton seems to lack in their production tools. Its EQ, compressor, effects, etc. seem to lack compared to others.

Ableton Live has completely changed my approach to recording and live performance. the possibilities are endless and the results are always exactly what you want them to be.

Ableton is the most versatile DAW I have ever used, whether it's only for tracks, or adding midi in/out cues anything I've ever wanted to do in a live worship environment has never been easier.

Their is a slight learning curve with Ableton due to how creative and custom you can be with inputs and outputs, but once the workflow is nailed down it becomes second natures. It can also sometimes be overwhelming with just how much you can do with Ableton.

I am not a pc experience user but i easily start using Live for my demo recording sessions and i love it!

I tend to write a lot of songs, and have to make demos of it, which sometimes we have to in our industry to remember what the melody or how did the song go. That's where Live comes into play for always, its flexible, musical software you can get for production, recording, mixing, mastering and live performance. A very straight forward, easy to use DAW you can get out there compared to the others i have seen my brother used in the past.

For now i can't really say anything I don't like about the software as I started out only using this so far, but with my experience of it, i surely love using it.

I started working with Live a few years ago while I was in college, and my overall experience with it has been great. In fact, I still use it today.

What I like most about this particular software is it's clip based live performance and compositional workflow. In addition to this, it so much easier to work with samples in Live than in any other Digital Audio Workstation.

There were no cons with this particular software, except that fact that the GUI could be a little better.

The best music software ever made.

Everything. The workflow is perfect. Everything is right in front of you and once you spend a little time with it, it will just keep showing you more and more. As far a production software goes, there is nothing better.

It has become pretty heavy on the CPU usage but I'm sure 90% of that is because of my computers.

As musicians we can get a very rich quality export from this software. I made much more songs ,advertisment audios ,outros from Live...very easy to use highly recommended !!!

Very helpful and easy to make music from this software and very user friendly.

If there is a inbuild dynamic equalizer its very helpfull

I have yet to utilize Live for live performance (ironically). I have seen several artists use to to great affect.

I moved from Reason to Live due to the time-stretching abilities & VST support of Ableton. Using Ableton reminds me of the ease of use I had back in the day when I started on Acid Pro (over 20 years ago). This software has the power to support recording in live and plays nice with all of my VSTs. Highly recommended, top tier DAW.

Nothing really. There is always a learning curve with DAW's. Ableton is no different. That said, you expect something of a learning curve when you're using such a powerful application.

Ableton Live is unique, I really like its user interface and its very original composition system, totally adapted with its tools, for live situations in concert, radio, showcase. its ergonomics satisfies me enormously.

The negative point that I noted is the mixer! its design, although innovative and original, can be improved because it does not facilitate mixing. the faders are very small and imprecise. if this is corrected in future versions it will satisfy me very much.

Great product.

It's detailed and easy to workspace. Mixing screen makes it easy to play live which is unique and fun.

Having bugs time to time. That crushes the DAW.

Super!!! Zupā!!!

In Live, it's easy to manipulate instruments. What's important to me as a musician... It's important to me to create a new, unprecedented sound.

Live doesn't have a lot of good synthesized instruments, but it's not that bad because I can synthesize myself.

The time I used it seemed good to me, I had no problems with it and it mainly served me to make songs with few instruments.

The layout panel was something that captivated me, without a doubt the minimalism of the interface is something that I like a lot from the way it is used, to uploading a story to Instagram. But among all the best was the ability to capture sound quickly, with almost no latency and with good quality and then be manipulated with the sampler and finally export it to either an MP3, WAV or AIFF form. even to my own soundcloud

The integration of plugins and samplers to be used in arrangements and tracks. It makes me somewhat complicated at the time of producing the power to add some sound

I have become a more confident music producer because of the workflow introduced by Ableton Live.

- Innovative Music creation method - Amazing UX and UI - MIDI control and mapping is quick and intuitive making for a very interactive and immersive music creations process - A huge plus that one can use the same for both studio as well as allowing for the live performance of the music with just a few setting changes. Truly awesome

- Definitely needs a powerful CPU - Expensive - A big learning curve for those who move away from other DAWs for music production.

I have used this product on several projects. I am able to create instrumentals, add vocals, and mix. Very powerful tool for music creation.

This software is fun to use. Great for music production, arranging, and performing. Great for beginners and experts as well.

Would love to have an expanded trial version that shows the full product. This software is great but can be expensive.