Collect as Cubase LE 4 / Essential 5 or Reaper 4 much tidier and self-explanatory, though Cubase is designed professional a lot and certainly not the customer master necessarily respond who wants quickly have a result, but rather for the "tinkerers" thought is, but Ableton wants too much at once for my impression, at least, so I think holding the Menu / layout quite confusing.
VSTs are not necessarily my thing and I'm working prefer music with "real" devices via MIDI and Audio.
Unfortunately, just when external MIDI devices Ableton Live 9 Intro also a very large latency weakness / delay (What with Cubase Essential 5, Cubase LE 4 and Reaper 4, with the same equipment and the same drivers poses no problems), thus Ableton with me unfortunately failed and I'm testing at the moment just Reaper 4, which is much cheaper (43 for the full version) and a lot of professional acting.