Since switching my production from Reason 4.0 over to Ableton Live 8.0 a couple of months ago, I’ve been asked by quite a few people to explain the biggest differences are between the two programs.  As one would expect, there are a lot of technical differences between the two programs–most of which would be too nerdy/technical to write about here–but I would like to speak about the differences between the two programs at a really high level.  My concern is that getting too technical will turn it into something that only few people can understand, so this post will just speak about the pros and cons of each program.

I would also like to preface this by saying that I am not a master at either program. I’ve been using Reason for seven or eight years, but there were a lot of things I never learned or used in the program.  I’ve only been using Ableton Live for two months, and clearly that is not enough time to master the program either.

That said, here we go.