your 808 must be ghetto because mine makes some FINE coffee :p
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. -- Dennis DeSantis www.dennisdesantis.com
