Just bought Live 8.0.8 after a harrowing previous evening failing to reinstall 7.0.3 after a vista reinstall.
The affair irritated me enough to buy a €350 program after sleeping on the fiasco; cracks save you cash but they're a ball-ache.
Bit weirded-out by it at the moment, a few of the basic functions have changed (no doubt for the better) and there's a whole bunch of new stuff to take on board: new warp engine where one can stretch the track over the time not just time over the track; new complex warping mode; and the mysterious new window known as "the groove pool" - gotta be good, gimme a year and I might even understand wtf that is,
harrrrrrrrrr!Best of all, Ableton allow you to install the program on a 2nd PC which meant I could give a genuine copy of live 8 to a friend, which is phenomenal, as I really need his help
Take back what I said about the Vestax - it's clearly a champion controller, though I handled an APC40 recently and was blown away by the build quality (but mostly the flashing lights).