Ableton Live Pros and Cons

Extraordinary and very powerful music production software! Abelton stock plugins are next level! The new hybrid reverb and morphing feature is out of this world! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Uses a massive amount of CPU to run VSTs, Ableton crash sometimes due to its weight on CPU, only if it efficiently used CPU it would have been a lot better, and less amount of crashes would be a lifesaver . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have loved getting to know the application better in order to try and record my own music. It has a lot fo great built in sounds and the interface is great for mixing my songs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very hard to understand at first and there are many things that can go wrong. I once recorded a song using the wrong rate for sounds waves and I had to rerecord the entire thing after 2 hours of work already :/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ableton is great for music composition. I love the performance view that sets everything up based on loops. It's a great function to create music and I couldn't live without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a little different than other audio workstations, so it takes some getting used to. I also don't like how you can't operate across multiple versions of Ableton (if you're using version 9.0 you can't open or send versions to 10.0). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ableton Live has got many plugins that you can implement, it has a drag and drop interface for installing plugins. It can be well synced with instruments to make electronic music. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a learning curve and some people may dislike it for that but I don't, because the features can not be simplified more. It is still easy to use compared to other alternatives out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like just how well the software works in terms of workflow, the audio devices, and even using Operator can yield some beautiful productions! A must-have! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it is easy/practical to use, some of the bugs in it have never been fixed. From the infamous pitch bend bug to just randomly crashing, it needs work! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ableton Live is an awesome music production and live performance DAW software with helpful integrated tools like pitch, tempo, and audio-time manipulation.

It also comes with free samples, virtual instruments, and many FX's to start being creative right away! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ableton Live can be a little expensive and you also need a computer with good specs to run everything smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the visual indicators that are displayed while monitoring the microphone. I primarily use the app to sweeten my mic for online streaming and video conferencing. My primary uses include a noise gate, denoiser, EQ, and compressor. The visual indicators displayed for all effects are easily the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was a simpler mechanism to output audio from Ableton without using a third-party solution. My implementation has an audio interface as the input, and I need to output to a virtual device. It would be much better if the virtual device could be built into Ableton. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how easy it is to set up my drum loops for a small worship group. It’s easy to make great sounding tracks for anything we need from a Facebook video sound track, ambient music for events or to supplement our worship band. I love how I can purchase tracks for almost any song and have a great worship set ready that’s sounds professional and helps a group worship without distractions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The change between session and arrangement view was hard to understand. However the tutorial and manual helped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The workflow of Ableton Live is just out of this world. The user interface of DAW is so compact and straightforward that you have all the tools available on a single screen; you don't need to navigate here and there.The browser is at a glance, has inbuilt search functionality just type in and you will be able to find all the samples, vsts, racsk etc. No other daw provides such impeccable flexibility, the audio manipulation and warping in Ableton is a breeze, the power of making custom effect racks, the comping feature introduced in live 11 is bang on the deal. The Ableton audio effects are so fast and fluid, glue compressor is one of the best stock VST. It has some cool midi effects also like groove pool, arp, randomization, etc. The power of chains and groups in ableton is also on another level. Another best feature of Ableton is its session view, which is very useful for live performances. There are a ton of cools things about Ableton. The creativity reaches a uniqueness when you're in the Ableton work environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MIDI editing is a hectic task in Ableton. It lacks some features like panning of notes, slicing, shortening of Notes, etc.

Another thing I dislike the most is that you have to double click to add a note every time, which somehow affects the workflow and creativity.

Stock synth plugins are not that great.

32-bit vsts are not supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the connectability of Ableton to plugins and equipment more than anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not dislike anything, it has a great workflow and simplified tools that translate to many other daws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.