You're more than welcome Jerry. You are my elder here since I learnt about Steemit via your FB ad running 4 weeks or so ago. Love your candid approach and value the time you put into this.
Yeah, Ableton is a lovely tool to use, clean interface, VSTi's work well and the modules available are decent, to begin with. Plus working in arrangement view vs live view can give you two totally different approaches to making music and experimenting. Add a moog VSTi and a few others and you are away. Or add Komplete by Native Instruments to the workflow.