I can't understand why people are so quick to regard Ableton as unstable due to one recorded fuck up and a handful of other fuck ups that they're aware of. Consider the amount of times records have skipped, vinyls damaged yet accidentally played out, cds scratched, cdjs skipped, someone accidentally hits the eject button on a cdj, the list can go on indefinitely.

No particular medium will be perfect, and to demand as much is ludicrous. I've been to a few Ableton shows and I've never heard it shit out, and I'm willing to take my chances. I'd also take my chances if I knew how to work Ableton to use it in a live environment as I see it as no more or less ineffectual as vinyl or cds.