I don't know alot about ableton, but it looks well interesting, definately someting I'll be looking into soon. But I like being able to have two tracks going through two channels on a mixer so that you can EQ them properly, or drop bits out, or whatever else you might do when mixing records. Maybe abelton does this, I dont know. I would be chuffed if it did though. In the meantime, I love my PCDJ red, its so simple, yet so effective.