KVR Audio

dayjob · Post by **dayjob** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:47 pm

i emailed ableton about their pricing a while ago and go this in response.. have to say.. it's not much clearer now.

The upgrade price you are seeing when logged in is a personalized offer tailored to you, depending on how many add-ons and packs you already own.

Standard upgrades from Live 8 Suite to Live 9 Suite cost 299 USD. You are therefore receiving a discount of 65 USD.

You could also upgrade to Live 9 Standard for 159 USD, and the instruments & add-ons you already have will be carried forward and updated in the upgrade.

i replied asking for clarification. my guess is the difference between live9 standard and live9 suite for people who already own suite and max4live will be not getting the included max4live instruments?? and not getting all the sample content.. but it's kind of unclear since it says in the reply i got that all my add ons will be upgraded. wtf is going on here ableton? i'm glad the software isn't ready yet because they're gonna need the beta time to figure out how they are going to sell it.

also, they've said more than once that there will be a further price drop for suite owners when Live9 is released.. so as far as pricing goes.. i have no idea what it's going to cost or what i'll get for the upgrade price.

good job ableton!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:12 pm

Just something on a positive note. I contacted them about the x64 beta and they know of the problem and have now provided me with a DL link

Pretty fast support so, nice!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:14 am

I think I asked this before and it got lost in the shuffle.

is there a timeline as to when the deals in your signed-in account expire? I do not see an expiration for the 25% off price, am I missing it?

ksandvik · Post by **ksandvik** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:25 am

hibidy wrote:I think I asked this before and it got lost in the shuffle.

is there a timeline as to when the deals in your signed-in account expire? I do not see an expiration for the 25% off price, am I missing it?

Ableton's online shopping site is like a roulette table. I would not trust those 25% discounts as there's no mentioning when they expire, for example. Plus with all the mistakes and errors they had at their shopping site end last week...

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:40 am

I hear ya. I just can't justify it w/o further testing. I don't know, but a firm "from this until........." would be really nice.

I guess I can email them. They were proper in getting back to me with the x64 beta

"

ksandvik · Post by **ksandvik** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:57 am

hibidy wrote:I hear ya. I just can't justify it w/o further testing. I don't know, but a firm "from this until........." would be really nice.

I guess I can email them. They were proper in getting back to me with the x64 beta "

I'm still waiting for a definite answer from them about the suite 8 upgrade hike/mistake but it does not hurt to email them.

macmurphy · Post by **macmurphy** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:35 am

ksandvik wrote: I would not trust those 25% discounts as there's no mentioning when they expire, for example.

'Offer is available at your local dealer and at ableton.com from now until the release of Live 9.'

it's in the terms and conditions on the shop page.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:40 am

really? I missed that. Thanks!

That will work for me

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:43 am

Ah, here we are:

Offer is available at your local dealer and at ableton.com from now until the release of Live 9.

Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 as well as upgrades to them include a free upgrade to the respective edition of Live 9 - to be issued as soon as it is released.

Live Intro includes a USD / EUR 50 upgrade coupon issued upon authorization - redeemable for upgrades to Live 9 Standard and Suite at ableton.com until March 31st, 2013.

25% discount also available for all other software in the Ableton webshop, except educational versions of Live.

Crossgrades to Max 6 are available to owners of Max for Live at a 25% discount at cycling74.com.

Ah, that seems to be fair, thanks again (not everyone knows to look there

)

Darknesslord · Post by **Darknesslord** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:26 pm

If somebody interested on Live 8 , I want to sell my licence. It's an download non-Suite Version. The standard version

phazedown · Post by **phazedown** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:04 pm

delete-me

sl1914 · Post by **sl1914** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:27 pm

Live9 beta started - but only few test users were chosen at this point.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:35 pm

........one beta tester already reported PDC not fixed

sl1914 · Post by **sl1914** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:11 pm

That's one tester doing good work: finding bugs.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:12 pm

SLiC wrote:........one beta tester already reported PDC not fixed

what!!

Ableton Live 9 announced