Ableton has released version 8 of their Live music sequencing and audio recording software. Ableton Lives inovative music production software is used by many of the top top live performing artists in the music industry and has single-handidly changed the way we produce and create music. The exteremely intuitive user interface allows for a fluid creative workflow, with its on-the-fly capabilities of altering and changing sound dynamics that has made it a hit with live perfomers and DJs around the world.
Live 8 expands these capabilities with many of the most sought after features and improvements requested by the music production community.
Heres some of the features listed in the Live 8 release announcement.
New in Ableton Live 8:
- New groove engine: new groove library, extract grooves from audio or MIDI, real-time groove quantize. Includes grooves from the legendary Akai MPC and E-mu SP-1200 machines
- New warping engine: warp audio events by adjusting the events on the timeline, updated Beats Warp Mode, new Complex Warp Mode, slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients
- Looper: classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer. “First loop sync,” simple loop management
- New effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter
- Workflow enhancements: including real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, multiple track selection, a screen magnifier and more
New in Ableton Suite 8:
- World-class sound library: completely new sound library with real-world “Sound Objects”, presets, grooves, templates and, above all, over 1,600 beautiful sounds
- Collision and Corpus: a unique physical-modeling instrument for authentic mallet sounds and creative percussion. Includes Corpus, a separate effect that reproduces Collision’s resonator section*
- Latin Percussion: a collection of acoustic percussion instruments from the worlds of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and African music, plus a wide selection of clips and grooves for authentic usage
- Operator, Ableton’s renowned do-it-all synthesizer, has been given a major overhaul. New filter types, more modulation routing options and additive wavetable synthesis with drawable partials make Operator more powerful and flexible than ever.
Plus these existing Ableton instruments: Sampler, Electric, Tension, Analog, Drum Machines, Session Drums** and the Essential Instrument Collection 2**.
*Collision and Latin Percussion are also available separately.
**Boxed version only.
Quite an impressive list and well, you should all know by now that we love Ableton Live so a completely unbiased review of Live 8 will have to come from elsewhere. But you can get a fully funtioning demo of Live 8 (14 day trial) and a lot more information on this powerful new version by visiting Abletons website.
Tags: Ableton, DAW, Live 8, music production, Music Software, sequencer
