How long have you been addicted?

bluskreen · Post by **bluskreen** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:20 am

v2!!!

Cyberstar · Post by **Cyberstar** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:15 am

A mate of mine showed me v.4 when it had just came out, i took one look at it and said wtf are all these little boxes for???..shut it down and didn't bother with it again for 4 months. Started it up one day played around with it for a few hours and then the light bulb went on in my head, and it has never gone out

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:37 am

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Got version 3 lite with some hardware. Upgraded when 4 came out. Sweet deal. Midi was a deal breaker for me. When Live first came out I was totally uninterested and not impressed. Stretching loops? That was NOT what I was about.

-M

Same exact experience here. 3 was alot fun to play with but 4 was such a quantum leap that I've never looked back since.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:44 am

Tarekith wrote:Started around version 3, about 3 months before 4 dropped.

same here, I guess.

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:02 am

Version 3, in time for a $50 upgrade to v4. Definitly 4 sold me on the idea of making music in Live, instead of just using it for experimenting.

mike holiday wrote:this computer doesn't cut it any more.. but it did get a cpu update a couple years ago
went from a 800 G4 to a dual 1.8 G4

That is great to me though, in many way I'm jealous of your situation there. In the last five years I've gone through quite a few, powerbook 667mz, to 800mhz model, (literally almost twice as fast, CPU speed isn't everything) to a used powerbook 1.5ghz, to a used Macbook Pro 2.16, to a new in box off craiglist macbook pro 2.4....... >

Blah, I hope I can hold off on updating soon, though the last couple have been relatively cheap as the resale value on laptops is pretty good.

eclipxe · Post by **eclipxe** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:45 am

Cyberstar wrote:A mate of mine showed me v.4 when it had just came out, i took one look at it and said wtf are all these little boxes for???..shut it down and didn't bother with it again for 4 months. Started it up one day played around with it for a few hours and then the light bulb went on in my head, and it has never gone out

Same! I used it around v4 or 5 and had NO clue what I was doing. "Where are all the samples/synth?" (I was a heavy Reason user)

Fast forward to early 2007 I went looking for an OS X DAW with Rewire, VST and AU support...hmm let's give this Live thing a try. After one Youtube video I was hooked!

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:51 am

Got started with Live on version 1.

I would make a track in cubase 5 VST 32, using hardware and reason and VSTs. Then, I would perform by looping sections in Cubase and muting / unmuting group channels.

A guy working at a music store saw one of my shows, and told me that this Ableton thing was what I needed. So, I took his advice and bought it.

I then spent about three months exporting audio loops of my songs, recording loops from my hardware, etc. The pisser was that I exported 24 bit 44.1 KHz, but Live didn't accept 24 bit until v 1.5. So, I had to go and dither down all those samples, and about a month after I finished, they released v 1.5!!!

poop.

Regardless, it was absolutely the best tech / music purchase of my life.

groovebox · Post by **groovebox** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:11 am

I started with Remix - when Steinberg done it - still have the original CD! Loved it then and was impressed when Live came out!

Go the Live!

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:37 am

Version 4 Lite

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:57 am

I used v4 in demo mode for like a year, and then finally got crunkin' at v5

lvehon · Post by **lvehon** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:45 pm

L3, immediately addicted

4ace · Post by **4ace** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:00 pm

Cyberstar wrote:A mate of mine showed me v.4 when it had just came out, i took one look at it and said wtf are all these little boxes for???..shut it down and didn't bother with it again for 4 months. Started it up one day played around with it for a few hours and then the light bulb went on in my head, and it has never gone out

Same thing here,I demoed L4 for a month then bought it been a "subscriber"
ever since.

It quickly killed off PT and every other DAW i've tried since.

chrysalis33rpm · Post by **chrysalis33rpm** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:24 pm

Bought it at v2 with my m-audio FW410 (which just cashed in its chips), nabbed the upgrade to v3 immediately. Had very little idea what to do with it until v5, and lot of user manual midi induced confusion later.

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:32 pm

v 1

ah, the happy days

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:37 pm

Since version 2.