Just to add my 2 cents...
I don't think Ableton was really every conceived of as a DJ tool in any
sort of conventional sense. Sure, you CAN use it that way. But as has
been discussed, it's a little too safe.
When Robert Henke first built the Live prototype as a Max patch, it was
for him to do his own live shows, using his own loops, but with the
freedom to combine and collage (not a verb, I know) on the fly.
This is primarily how I use it today - basically as an MPC on steroids.
I just want to make sure, before we all write it off as a dead, that we
realize that what we're really writing off is its use for a purpose for
which it was never really intended.
It's a little like finding out that your 808 can make drip coffee, then
finding out that it's really bad coffee, then selling your 808 because
it sucks.
Or something.
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Dennis DeSantis
www.dennisdesantis.com
