Exactly, I find this a very humbling experience.
But maybe that’s a good sign. if it’s such a hassle to install content that you don’t have to expect ableton’s main focus to be on distributing content paks. 
I know that i can do that in live. I was hoping for a way in standalone.
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Turned on my Push 3 today, loaded a set I was working on, pushed play, and was met with a wall of full volume distorted noise.
Push didn’t respond to the transport controls – i.e. wouldn’t stop.
Pulled audio outputs out of the back of the unit and shut down. Audio seems to be OK after a reboot, but this is a reminder that the software in these units seems to be still quite a bit in the beta quality stage.
I wouldn’t recommend playing live with the Push 3 until many of the initial teething problems are resolved.
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Are you sure that wasn’t the auto Noisecore remix feature?
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As has been noted before I find the headphone output to be quite noisy. Going to try with a different pair of cans this evening but hmm pretty odd. It’s just a static noise that doesn’t change with volume changes
Can anybody else confirm?
Ableton USB C cable has been powering Push 3 in Control mode for hours with no issue.
But my transitions from Control to Standalone have not been going smoothly. Push 3 often just hangs (maybe 2 or 3 out of 5 times) and doesn’t finish booting over to Standalone.
Yikes. Some of these problems are wild for a $2,000 piece of hardware. I understand that thousands of users will quickly find more bugs than any dedicated QA team, but this is still unfortunate.
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I am not sure price is a threshold anymore. Any MI running complicated/sophisticated software seems to suffer from issues out of the gate, these days.
EDIT: How Ableton follows up will be the most important thing, and where they can distinguish themselves from other companies.
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Indeed.
I’m loving the playability of the Push 3 (it’s already ruined the feel of the Akai Force pads for me) and the relatively low friction of the workflow, but the possibility of returning it within the 30 day period is still very much within my consideration.
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Be interesting to see how many are returned - that said Push Standalone now also out of stock in the UK and on 8+ weeks (the controller went after a few hours) so obviously selling like hot cakes…I ordered mine on Friday and still haven’t heard anything…
I don’t blame you. If some of these bigger bugs aren’t taken care of in the next few weeks I will probably cancel my pre-order and wait for things to stabilize. I don’t have enough disposable income to justify a potential $2k paperweight, especially since I’m looking at this as much for live use as anything.
Seems like most users here bought the standalone – can anyone who bought the controller version talk about how it’s working out? Is anyone not having the USB power issue that @G0n35y describes?
Hmm… this might be my fault as at least one of the Projects I was using to go from Live to Push Standalone had Max devices in it. [sheepish grin]
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Argh I was hoping to get a stand-alone ahead of some time off this month. Pre-order is in… will wait and see.
I just got my delivery notification/tracking from Parcelforce (I ordered Friday) so its on its way…who knows maybe even tomorrow (doesn’t say if its 24 or 48)!
I expect all those pesky bugs and problems to be resolved by Ableton before mine arrives please 
Not here. One of the few things working well at the moment for me. I also experienced a random wall of sound though today like @pmags. Seems like there is consistency on some of the issues being reported here.
I think most of them are software thankfully, but otherwise I agree. It’s not like Ableton won’t fix them eventually, but yeah, not a smooth launch by any means. Probably could have waited, but at the same time I prefer to have one now. Even with the issues it’s hogging most of my attention at the moment.
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In theory this means they should be easier to identify, if not necessarily to fix, right?
I’m on controller only. Reading the comments here it seems like it is having more issues than standalone. Even though some of them are the same (Dead USB cable, no USB power, Ableton crashing, MPE tracks freezing)
I’m leaning on the USB cables being a bad batch. I wonder if they will just ship everyone replacements. Yeah it’s just a USB cable, but I’m not going to spend more money to get something I should already have.
IMO yes. I would imagine we aren’t the only ones reporting these issues. If they see repeat offenders, they will narrow down a faster response. We will see what “fast” is for Ableton. In my opinion, version 11.3.2 is not stable. People were also reporting that upon upgrade they lost their favorites/tags.
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Got a response from support RE: dead USB cable
Looks like an autogenerated response (I linked the video showing all the troubleshooting steps and issue) 
@G0n35y did you get one as well?
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Yeah I got some auto generated suggestions for various links that may fix the problem (they didn’t!). It mentions somewhere that they’ll look to get back to you if you click “no” in the email where it asks if this helps. I followed up my email with some more details too. Hoping to hear in the next couple of days
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