I have access to it thru a studio I do audio work in, but I
usually just use protools over there to record tracks and stuff,
and then edit them later on wavelab on my pc. To me, Ableton
Live is not as good for "numbers watching" like Cubase SX, but
besides that, it's great to drop loops and stuff in and the simpler
and operator that come with are good enough to f' with your own sounds
or lay down some simple bass patches or leads. Plus it kinda
forces you NOT to work with rex files, since it doesn't support rex
files, but you really don't need it, with it's own warping technology
on any loops of any length you have. That way, you don't get
"gaps" if you happen to be taking a original sample and DECREASING
it's tempo, i.e. halftiming / dividing in half the tempo of some
breaks for the double up effect. Sonar / Cakewalk was alright,
I don't know, it was cubase like enough I suppose, when I evaluated
it, although it did'nt have any native synths I wanted to f with.
Fruity Loops PLAYBACK is just too unstable for me, even on a alright
system of 2.4 GHz 1 GB ram. Reason, well it doesn't host VST's
so like I said, I only F with that if I really need to f with
some intricate release automation in the nn-xt sampler, or if there
is a refill with some sounds I want to gaffle, although I was
able to get some spooky sounding bass/low end synth sounds from
the Malstrom synth. Man, I used to be just a cut and paste
head back in the day, when I started doing crap on the computer,
using just an audio editor (don't remember what it was)
back in 94, and then progressing to cool edit later, so all
this sequencer stuff is so conveneint and crap now.

I'm basically using my mac as a dvd burner and file server
for back ups of some servers (shrugs).

Peace.