Right, here it goes. I've been working in Logic for 10+ years, but recently demoed Live and immediately fell in love with it's workflow. It so easy and intuitive to get ideas down and try different variations of clips in the session view. I had my mind made up, I would get Live, especially with the current sale (and I still have a 30 euro coupon), this was the time.
Only thing that left me scratching my head was whether to go for the Standard or Suite edition. In the end, you get an awful lot for that extra 150 euros, so Suite it would be.
But…. In the time deciding whether to go Suite or not, I tested Live some more, compared it to Logic and… I'm in serious doubt. Yes, the workflow of getting ideas in the system is vastly better, but is it just me or is the workflow of the mixer so much worse that it almost nullifies the benefits?
Sure, Live's routing is much more versatile, but it's just quicker in Logic. Example, in Live, I have to select a channel to see what instruments and inserts are there. There's no way to have an overview as in Logic. Therefor, any instrument or effect in Logic is only one click away, in Live it's at least two. Then there's the representation of VST/AU's, it's a big fat XY pad that I never ever intend to use and just takes up much needed screen estate. Worse, to actually open a plugin, there's this minuscule button, as if the action will only rarely be executed.
Other example, an instrument with multiple outputs. In Logic, select instrument in track, track gets a + symbol, click it to get an extra channel which represents another output of that instrument. Live on the other hand, create channel with instrument, create other audio track, select the instrument from the dropdown, then select audio channel from that instrument.
It's almost as if, in their venture to do away with the old, Ableton decided than everything had to be different in Live, for better or worse. For earlier versions, that would be understandable and applaudable, but we're almost at 9 now, you'd think they would have ironed this out by now.
Please understand, I do think that Live is a great product, and this is in no way intended to have a stab at Live. It's just that it made me seriously reconsider my intention to move over to Live. Any advice (maybe I'm just not that familiar with Live yet) would be appreciated. Although I see that these decisions may vary from person to person. But I'm just so torn right now that maybe, maybe, someone could shed a different light to this matter.
Live's supernice clip workflow, or Logic's nicer (to me) audio workflow?
FWIW, most of what I do is producing electronic/loopbased stuff without live recording (or live performing for that matter
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, but yes, you're right, it will take time to get used to the Live workflow. Hmmm, I will sleep another night over it before I pull my credit card. 
