What’s your top Ableton Live production tip? “Editing audio and MIDI in the clip view and recording on-the-fly sessions.” What’s your favourite tool or feature in Ableton Live? Today, after 18 years, I am so used to it that I don't really even have to think a lot about my actions. “In the beginning it was the playfulness of it, and that it followed a completely different path than the other common DAWs. What makes you choose Ableton Live over other DAWs? Still loving the ‘live’ attitude and that I can sketch on the fly an arrangement that I can edit afterwards.” “I just can combine everything I want, and also use it to record all my gear. How does Ableton Live fit into your creative process? Today, after 18 years, I am so used to it that I don't really even have to think a lot about my actions I even worked with Ableton at Sonar 2006 to demonstrate in a workshop how I use it in context with analog gear in the live show of the techno project I was working on back then.” In those days I shared a studio complex with other producers and musicians and made the decision then to buy and install Live 2.0 on my Power Mac. “I think that was somewhere in 2003 - back then it had been hyped for a year or so.
When did you first discover Ableton Live, and why did you start using it?