Even though you can use Ableton to 'perform live' this is rather raw. When I say 'as an instrument' I mean as the conduit to creativity. The primary creatives i

Even though you can use Ableton to 'perform live' this is rather raw. When I say 'as an instrument' I mean as the conduit to creativity. The primary creatives in music would have been songwriter/composer, lyricist, performer. Now it's moved into production and the mechanism is not a guitar or piano, it's a variety of digital tools upon which creativity/composition is performed.