Almost don't want to continue if it's getting so heated, but will do, carefully lol

I do agree with what massplanck is saying to some an extent - it's funny, I've not been about for a few months and it does suddenly seem like the universe has gone software crazy, and there's this overwhelming sense of "if you don't use Ableton you don't make good tunes"...

which doesn't really help people who want to do their own thing.

What happened to making a nice sound and having fun with what you like using. This upsets me sometimes, I enjoy may hardware, and would rather spend money on that than the same piece of software everyone else uses. It's almost like if you can't afford this that and the other (or don't want to) you can't be in this elite club. Techno was always like punk for me, underground and inclusive and about people using what resources they had to put on a show, now it seems to have gone like big business and if you can't make a perfect production product whatever other good things in your tunes don't matter.

And to be fair, if the sequencer on something is "shit" but someone can turn out a good end product with it, then that shows they have talent and skill in my mind... If they choose to do it the fiddly way, good on them!