I came from CUBASE and it took me a couple attempts to get used to ableton Frankly thinking of it as a sequencer is a limiting mental model. Think of it as a

I came from CUBASE and it took me a couple attempts to get used to ableton Frankly thinking of it as a sequencer is a limiting mental model. Think of it as a instrument to jam with. When I used cubase I spend about 20% of the time with jamming together a basic idea and then 80% with arranging. Ableton flipped that for me...now I spend 80% of the time jamming (and loving it) and only all the way at the end I quickly create the arrangement once I am already super familiar with all the parts I created during jamming. It’s had a really super positive on my creative quality!