I was stuck living in a hotel for MUCH longer than anticipated as I moved from my old place into this new one.
With more than half my gear in storage, I’ve been working with just the OT, some A4, my MI Ambika and Ableton with the MPC Element Controller.
In a week and half I jammed out and recorded 8 little improvised tracks (and did a half-assed mixing and mastering job, but still!). Some are 7-8 minutes long with some difficult transitions and mistakes, but I have rough drafts of songs (or, at least, parts of songs) that I can dig out of even the messiest ones. Years ago (with my “band”) we would spend days and days on each track and we were all total perfectionists. I learned to let go of that and just throw stuff up just for the sake of progression. I honestly don’t know if it would have happened without being forced to use less gear in a hotel room!
Which brings me back to the topic of this thread: Ableton is a total failure when it comes to external sync. I’ve looked into those SyncLock boxes, but they’re simply too expensive for something my $800 DAW should be able to do on its own! What a joke! I waste so much time re-recording and micro editing audio tracks.