[theSuda]

I am one of those newbies and I spent way too much of my morning going through all of these. :D

I love Ableton though. You can google any random thing about it and get an answer somewhere because it's so widely used. Dunno what OP has against it. It's not hard to come by Ableton Live Lite license for free. I think just buying their iphone app gives you access to Lite license.

[nyeah]

That stuff is kind of cool, but it's definitely not a shortcut to making an ordinary song!

I haven't used Ableton for 5 years or so. I got addicted to GB and then Logic (an easy step from GB). But I should try it again. I mean Ableton is what Grimes uses. She's my (musical) like role model. (Only musical tho.)