Ableton Live 12: Intro vs Standard vs Suite - Which Should You Buy?

As a DJ i will only use it for putting tracks together and warping bpm for tracks. Is intro enough or can i get standard?

2 months later and Intro is USD 99, Standard is USD 439, and the Suite is USD 749... what is going on with Ableton!?!? I use Cuebase and it does everything I need. I don't understand why Ableton is getting so expensive. Cuebase was similar in price... now they are the same or cheaper... 99, 329, $579.99. I got a USB interface and it came with for free. It doesn't side chain compress which is a bummer, but if you are learning OR good enough, you can manually do it.

Everyone says that Suite licence is expensive. Is it monthly or yearly licence? Because if this is one time purchase than Suite is one of the cheapest tools i ever use

I don’t know how to use Ableton at all then should give it a try with intro first and upgrade it to standard??

is live 12 edu exactly same as live 12 or there are any differences like sampler given in edu version etc.

Another affordable way is getting abelton live 11. But where can you buy 11 when everyone seems to be selling 12 now?

I want the amp for guitar, but not sure what version that comes with.. if someone could answer I’d appreciate it. Thanks

how in the heck is it Ableton 269 pounds when for me in the US its $750...?

How to put drum one shots in the piano roll?

I wish they would do a monthly payment plan like Bitwig does. You can start and stop payments whenever and pick back up to finish paying it off.

My biggest disspointment was lack of ROAR in standard version...

I cant find the costs of upgrading 12 strd to 12 suite anywhere, does anybody know? Or some kind of estimate..

yeee icmp

You don't "import" any 3rd party plugins.
You can run them in Live, but not "import".

(yeah, I'm being needlessly picky :D )

I lean towards Ableton Live Pirate!!!!

I started with a free version bundled with some controller I bought, upgraded to standard and kept using it for a few years. I only upgraded last year to Suite, because by then I already knew the software quite well and knew that Live would remain my DAW of choice. A plus was the fact that the total cost was spread over a few years.

My path: Ableton lite bundled with hardware, then upgrade to Standard during Black Friday (179€)

It's simple. Ableton is way too expensive for what it does compared to the competition. So you pirate the heck out of it until you actually make money. These are the basic rules of music production: You pirate and then you pay back.

I bought Standard for what I want to do it’s perfect. I’m doing DJ mixes within Abelton. I do plan to create some small beats and my own samples and such but as of right now I’m still learning it.