Is Ableton Live Lite too Limited?

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[erfrid]

Ironically, this video made me consider upgrading to Standard, so I bought a used Intro license while already owning Lite. A little heads-up: The pricing for upgrading to Standard/Suite is the same whether you own a Lite or an Intro license. Just thought I'd share this here.

[TreeFarmerMusic]

This enlightened me to some more things about Ableton, that I've not figured out yet.

Thank you for this video.

[therealajnelson]

I got a license with my Minilab MKii have been using Lite since 9. Using 11 lite I've found that there isnt much I can't do aside from using M4L devices. Sometimes I have to combine samples (usually drum & bass or multiple guitars) when mixing to fit in the 8x8 track limits. The only reason I really would like to get the Standard license is to be able to use the M4L devices. Thanks for another fantastic video!

[khalylehagood]

Missed an opportunity to cover using racks as mini mixers for more tracks and bouncing down.

[guguigugu]

arp and chord functions in ableton are amazingly effective and simple to use. its a lot more finnicky in other DAWs ime.

[nhn]

this video is unbelievably helpful, appreciate your straightforward explanations and demos!

[Spladoinkal]

I can make tons of music on Lite, what held me back though is running backing tracks. When adding tons of automation tracks I just ran out of available tracks

[josipvulic]

brilliant method to record multiple takes of just the sound effects of the drift track, a nice was to be creative manipulating only the effects!

[wigmaster]

been on lite since live 9 after using GarageBand for a decade. this is the kind of video I want to see

[ItsWesSmithYo]

Always on, thanks for doing this for some fun tricks and also so I can send this to friends looking to get into Ableton 🤙🏽

[wes_the_scifi_guy]

I still have 10 standard I want comping and that new arp so I might be using both

[tomn.]

I uad lite, but couldn't follow most tutorials. I did upgrade to standard and im still enjoying it.(11 not 12). Thanks for your excellent videos.

[bhaswardutta]

This was an inspiring video good sir!! I just wanted to know is Live Lite good for acoustic recording stuff? Would 8 tracks be too limiting in this case, where we arent really relying on the electro glitchy effects a whole lot.

[jopmens]

I find something like operator shocking when i found out its not even included in standard. 😅 To do such rudimentary things

[robertpenway]

No, Live Lite is not too limited. It's about you, the user, what to do with this limitations. Use them to your advance.

I've spend too much money on first Live Intro and then Live Standard before realising that Live Lite was all what I REALLY needed. That I REALLY don't need more than eight tracks to make my music, that I'm more comfortable with Channel EQ than EQ Eight, and so on.

As someone said below: by bouncing tracks down to one, you make space for more tracks if you need more. I've seen too many people having twenty tracks of ear candy and at the same time every blip and blop and zipp and swoosh only appears one time in the whole track. Man, put that samples into a drum rack and your down to one track. Or bounce them down. We're not in the times of the Beatles anymore (which is sad on many other reasons) where bouncing down had the bad side effect of losing sound quality.

[thedhdnetwork]

How were you able to stream ableton live lite? I can't get Reastream to appear in the plugins folders.

[duckyspeaks]

The scale thing is cool, but in ableton 11 I would achieve this by just putting the scale device in the chain as well as the chord or arp

[mikemeyer]

It also sucks that ableton note only works on ioS 😢

[CodeBrotha]

What guitar is that in the background?

[simon_esse]

Unfortunately we still can't rewind and fast forward in Ableton version 12. With "*" and/or "/" or "4" and/or "5" keys like in other favorite DAWs, like Pro Tools, Logic, FL Studio, Reason and Cubase.