etc.ĭP Deals with SysEx quite nicely, Live doesn't do SysEx at all. So if you're writing verse, chorus, break type songs, and want to mess around with the arrangement of that it's dead easy to do.ĭP destroys Live in terms of mixing, in every single way, there are far too may advantages to list, but it allows multiple mixes of the same song in the same open instance, it allows multiple versions of the song in the same Project, it allows multiple choices of automation styles etc. Looping in Live is far easier and transparent. Live takes IMO very little time to wrap your head around, it's mostly set up like an advanced Sampler that also records tracks etc. Pitch conversion not so much, DP has better tricks for that.
Live's time stretching is vastly superior to DP's, it's the one area it completely dominates DP in. Live has crap linear automation, but amazing clip automation, basically for automating FX plug ins doing interesting things it's really very good, for doing surgical work on the final mix, it's not so great.
They are completely different, the only similarity is that they both have a timeline, host plug ins and record audio.