Is Ableton really that good?

[djones]

It's been some years now, since I'm trying to produce music
Well, that producing part I have not really mastered yet, but I have to say I know quite well how to get around in Cubase SX 3.

But for a while now, you hear everyone raving about Ableton.
I know Ableton is especially praised for it's live capabilities.
May I assume that this is true?

If so, is Ableton besides the live part also groundbreaking and easy to use?

What I seek is a sequencer which really supports the workflow but has no limitations really, which I might need for music production.

So if you can maybe comment on the above said, that be nice.

Any help is welcome!

Thanks in advance.

[sorgenkind]

every sequencer has its limitation, the art is to learn to live with them.

I wouldn't even think to gig live without ableton, that being said I would never rely on ableton entirely for gigging and producing.
Live alone doesn't quite make it for me but that's another story and it has to do with the fact that I started electronic music witout computer.
Ableton Live is a nice tool easy to use, intuitive and with very less stupid workflows (there are sitll many, like you can't consolidate in session, no CC recording automation in session, midi editor still need major improvement to be serious) and if you do not have any professional expectations like prisitine audio quality classical music multri track recording or 30 automated parameters per track you can do everything you want to do with ableton, if not you can always rewire it with cubase and take advantage of both SWs.
Try it out and see if it fits for you.

[New Guy]

i use live for recording the ideas, basicaly, writing the track.
After that i use cubase to edit,automate stuff,construct a whole track out of an idea,arrange,mix.

this works for me, i like ableton because it is very intuitive.

[4am]

http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php ... ht=ableton

[sorgenkind]

the post you linked says quite all doesn't it

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