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DESCRIPTION
Ableton Live is about making music; for composition, songwriting, recording, production, remixing and live performance. Live's nonlinear, intuitive flow, alongside powerful real-time editing and flexible performance options, make it a unique studio tool and a favorite with live performers. If you'd rather be "making music" than just "using music software," Ableton Live is for you. Live 8, the latest version, includes a wealth of new techniques and improvements with a new groove engine, revamped warping, live looping, new effects, crossfades in the Arrangement View and a reworked MIDI editor.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 8.0.4:
Improvements:
- Updated manual
- Improved handling of the library database
- Better GUI performance when recording many automation parameters
- The APC40 script remembers the last set bank for each device and restores that setting when the corresponding device is selecting again.
- On Mac OS X, if the custom dialog of a plug-in would not process incoming keys Live will handle them. Depending on the plug-in, this should provide a similar work flow as in Live 7
- Several improvements for the Share functionality
Bugfixes:
- Unquantized scrubbing would not work properly in MIDI clips
- On Mac OS X, the DUY Tape AU plug-in would crash on instantiation [5429]
- When the Looper is set to a fixed length recording and the song is running, the recording length of the Looper might be miscalculated
- Under certain conditions, moving a MIDI clip in arrangement could crash Live [5543]
- Protocol recording of audio clips in ReWire slave mode would lead to silent arranger clips [5541]
- Dragging a multi selection of audio files into Live would not work properly, when the multi selection would contain .asd files too [5485]
- The 'Select All' context menu command would be available by accident for an entry in the device browser [5496]
- On Windows, moving Library could transform .AbletonPresetInfo files into _AbletonPresetInfo files [5506]
- Quantized scrubbing would not work properly in the Arranger [5490]
- Setting a tempo via scene launch would not work properly if there's a loop in the Arranger [5535]
- Exporting or consolidating audio would create a fade in in the resulting audio file [5540]
- After Grouping, ungrouping or re-grouping of tracks, the APC40 would not work properly anymore
- Doing undo via keyboard shortcut while a modal dialog is opened could crash Live [5561]
- With the APC40, stopping clips via the clip-stop buttons would not work properly
- Switching device banks would not work properly when using the 'microKontrol' as Control Surface [5568]
- On Mac OS X, having a plug-in opening a modal dialog and switching then to another application would crash Live [5583]
- MIDI loop recording in Arranger would not work properly after the first loop iteration [5203]
- Using follow actions on clips in Legato mode could crash Live [5580]
- On Windows, editing the info text for an arrangement locator would not work properly [5574]
- On Mac OS X, slow mouse wheel changes would not work properly [5552]
- On Mac OS X, drag'n drop operation with certain key modifiers could lead to an 'unstoppable' drag'n drop operation [5564]
- Restoring from the undo history after a crash could lead to another crash
- In several surface controller scripts, the arm buttons would not select tracks anymore [5594]
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, 1.25GHz G4/G5/Intel or faster (Intel recommended), 1GB RAM (2GB recommended).
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| Ableton Live User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 17 2009 |
THREEDEE912 The Photoshop of audio. Not much else to say. Lots of great features, but you have to know what you are doing to get the most out of it.
(Version 8.0.4) | |
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 | Apr 3 2009 |
KILLER KLOWN KAR Been waiting awhile for this. Bought the Suite 8 yesterday, will install and config this weekend. All I can say is very rarely does something come along that changes a paradigm, Live has done that. On the Mac the "competition" is Logic of course. But to me Live sounds better (Logic always sounds "squashed" to me) and has a much more fluid way of creation. Incredibly good and worth every penny.
(Version 8.0.1) | |
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| Oct 1 2006 |
JPINNIX Powerful and easy to use. I own Logic and Reason too, but Live is the one I use the most.
(Version 6.0.1) | |
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| Feb 27 2005 |
AJ What can't be said about Live? its perhaps the most versatile application for producing, performing, remixing, and even DJing music in the last 5 years. and its only going to get better. 4.1 includes the new "Operator" FM Synth. to describe Operator in a word: Powerful.
(Version 4.1) | |
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| Jan 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Able Live 4.1 Release Notes: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15812
(Version 4.1) | |
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| Nov 24 2004 |
STANLEE use audio any way you want:
(Version 4.0.4) | |
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| Oct 13 2004 |
ANONYMOUS what's with ableton not providing release notes... even if they don't get into too much detail, it's always nice to have at least a general idea of what's been fixed/updated/changed/etc.
(Version 4.0.4) | |
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| Jan 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Release notes for Live are always provided on the Ableton forums.
(Version 4.1) | |
| Jul 24 2004 |
SUBFACE Such a GREAT upgrade! now with the soft synth support Live does everything i need - no more need for a purely linear sequencer like Cubase or Logic. Totally brilliant. Thanks Ableton!
(Version 4.0.1) | |
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| Apr 5 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This is one incredibly brilliant audio application. Please consider adding AU support. It's so annoying that the release notes are never published though. It seems that v3.04 sound quality is improved after what appears to be a regression in v3.03
(Version 3.0.4) | |
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| Jan 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This software is, as we say in the industry, "The Cat's A**". I have used many types of creative programs of this type on Macs and PC's and this one goes to the top of the list!
(Version 3.0.2) | |
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