Live

I love that it has both a session and arrangement views. When I can think in terms of short ideas instead of entire constructions it's easier to be more creative.

Everything is really great but I want there to be more than 7 collections to group sounds and instruments. That amount of groupings isn't nearly enough.

What I like the most about Ableton Live, is the ability to switch between the arrangement and session view. This allows a workflow that is fast and efficient. The software is fully expandable thanks to its 3rd party plugin integration and its rewire function.

I would like to see an improvement in the mixer section. A more "old school" or analog approach would allow different ways to mix down a project. Although this can be achieved in its current state, it would be nice to see some more routing, bus, and group options.

The management! Most especially with organizing instruments/Vsts/plug-ins is quiet easy to navigate through and even categorize. I like that it can detect new plug-ins as a posed to some other DAWs where it's a hassle to even detect something new. The audio quality and being able to stack many plug-ins is awesome and does fairly decent with my current CPU.

The piano roll is quiet a pain for beginners. Almost everyone I know gives up after trying so hard to navigate through the piano roll. Also a few good instrumental plug-ins would be nice. The price can be difficult sometimes especially from third world countries like mine. Accessibility to Ableton is almost impossible.

For most producing, arranging, mixing, and mastering tasks, Ableton Studio's stock plugins and software infrastructure make for an effective, efficient music creation environment. What makes this program invaluable, though, is its endless possibilities for sound design (especially with new randomization features built in to each track) and, perhaps obviously, its optimization for live performance. As a solo musician and producer, being able to create complex tracks on the spot is deeply liberating, and no other DAW (digital audio workstation) that I've used allows for this (although, I've read other DAWs are beginning to implement more live-looping and tempo syncing features).

It takes a little work to organize 3rd party plugins, but Ableton Live gives you multiple ways to approach this, which is more than some DAWs provide.