Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): ABLETON LIVE 12 UPGRADE (pros/cons)

Today I finally took the reluctant leap & upgraded to Ableton 12. I was a beta tester for 12 but this took place dead in the middle of franticly relocating across the country. If you’re curious as to why someone so unbelievably in love with Ableton Live put off upgrading for so far I can honestly say fear. The issue with Ableton Live is not backwards compatible. A example of how this becomes an issue is having different versions of 11 installed on my PC and my Laptop. Anything I create on my laptop, I can open on my PC, but once I save a session on PC, I can no longer open that session on my laptop. (why not have the same version across both systems you may ask) The reason for this is just the unfortunate reality of live service updates, if it’s not broke don’t fix it. This isn’t a fear based in the unknown and rather life experience from making this mistake before, upgrading to a new version on my laptop that is a decade old and it introducing fatal errors that made exporting songs no longer possible. (Why not just move all sessions to your main pc?). Because years of unexported and unreleased music exists on my laptop which uses older versions of plugins that do not exist on my main pc. Either way, I just randomly saw Ableton 12 was 25% off until midnight and decided to take a chance being brave. Let’s hope this doesn’t backfire haha.