I want to like Bitwig but they made a bit of an arse of the whole launch thing with an outrageous distant announcement then chucking out software that, for many, is highly buggy and missing in features. I’ll give it a few months before trying out myself.
It looks good, a little nicer than Live, but at the asking price I wont be considering a switch until they offer some sort of sale and/or let us know what the upgrade pricing model will be. Live’s steep upgrade pricing is always one of the things that pisses me off the most about it!
It’s good to have competition and now Live’s “unique” selling point is under threat. Time for them to step it up with v10 so I think Live users would be mad to jump ship until the see what Ableton offer in response however long that may take.