Back in the mid-2000s when Ableton began to add more composition-focused functionality into their originally solely live-focused DAW, the stripped-back looks and refreshingly fast-and-loose approach to creativity drew me in for a look.
Now, nearly 20 years later, Live has evolved into a DAW that easily competes with the traditional old guard whilst retaining the core of what made it different in the first place, and earning the dubious honour of being the DAW that I turn to first.
