Ableton Live 8 info

[admin]

Just came across this now in fact, the new groove quantize will be much appreciated..

If you own 7 the upgrade price is only 149 euro, so not too bad. Looking forward
to seeing more of these features in detail.


Berlin, Germany (January 15, 2009) - Ableton is excited to announce
the agenda for 2009: Ableton Live 8, Ableton Suite 8, new instruments
and three completely new product initiatives.



Live 8 and Suite 8 enhance the Ableton vision of creative, real-time
digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted
workflow improvements. These include a new groove engine, revamped
warping techniques, live looping, five new effects (including the
Ableton Vocoder), crossfades in the Arrangement View, group tracks
and a reworked MIDI editor. Ableton Suite 8 includes all that plus
a massive, inspired sound library and all the instruments a musician
could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a sampler, electric
and acoustic drums (new: Latin percussion), mallets (new: Collision),
numerous sampled instruments and a new, even-mightier Operator.


New in Ableton Live 8:

• New groove engine: new groove library, extract grooves from
audio or MIDI, real time groove quantize
• 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 1600 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*.
*Boxed version only.


GREAT EXPECTATIONS: NEW INITIATIVES FOR 2009

Share: effortless remote collaboration
Share Live Sets with others via the Web using this special feature
in Live 8. Ableton’s simple and intelligent solution for online musical
collaboration streamlines the sharing process with easy sharing and
loading, a simple system of setting access permission, speedy transfers
and no issues with external plug-ins and instruments.

Extend: Max for Live
Max for Live is a new product, co-developed by Ableton and Cycling ‘74.
Quite simply, it puts the power and potential of Max/MSP inside Live.
With Max for Live, it’s possible to create completely new instruments,
effects and extensions that go beyond the common and predictable and
transcend the limits that conventional tools impose. The possibilities
are virtually endless, from completely unique synths and effects,
algorithmic composition tools or radical, new music machines fusing
Live and controller hardware. Max for Live is a chance to join a
society of makers and share ingenuity.

Touch: dedicated controllers for Ableton Live
Ableton and Akai Professional are proud to announce the APC40, a
new hardware controller specially designed for Ableton Live. The
APC40 features high quality controls for real-time mixing, remixing
and production. 109 buttons, 16 endless encoders with LED rings,
nine 45mm faders and a replaceable crossfader give musicians and
producers complete control of Live’s Session View, effect devices
and virtual instruments. For anyone in the studio or on stage, DJing,
making beats, running backing tracks, firing MIDI loops or triggering
sound effects, it’s time to kiss the mouse goodbye.

These three initiatives combine in interesting ways:
Live 8 + Max for Live: Swap extensions, effects and instruments
created with Max for Live using the sharing technology in Live 8.
So Max for Live owners also get access to any number of additional
instruments, effects and extensions created by the Max for Live
community.

Live 8 + Max for Live + APC40: with Max for Live, it’s possible to
customize the APC40, turning its Clip Launch Matrix into a step
sequencer, for instance. Live 8’s sharing features allow users to
share APC40 mods with other APC40 users. And because communication
is two-way, this also means access to all the other shared APC40
goodies that the Ableton community has to offer.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Ableton Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8 should be available in the second
quarter of 2009, following extensive testing and bugfixing. A public
beta version of these products will be available soon.

Prices for Ableton Suite 8 start at EUR 549/USD 699 (download version).
Prices for Ableton Live 8 start at EUR 349/USD 449 (download version).

Upgrades to Live 8/Suite 8 vary in price, depending on the Ableton
products you already own. More details at:
http://www.ableton.com/live-8-upgrades

Collision and Latin Percussion will be available individually or
as part of Ableton Suite 8. Both instruments will be available with
the Live 8 release. Collision will cost EUR 129/USD 159,
Latin Percussion EUR 79/USD 99.

Max for Live will be available later this year. Max for Live is a
separate product: it is not part of Ableton Live 8 or Ableton Suite 8.
No price available yet.

The feature “Share Live Set” is initially included in Ableton Live 8.
As the technology develops, Ableton may introduce new models for
handling this feature.
For more information on pricing and availability of the APC40, visit:
http://www.akaipro.com/apc40

[Rambunkcious]

no mention of a release date

[admin]

Hope its soon, will be upgrading on day one.

EDIT: I couldnt be bothered to read the lot of text above late last nite
but did just check out the videos here:

http://www.ableton.com/nl199


Anyways the new update looks really good now. They've added groups for mixing as
well as being able to link multiple tracks for simultaneous changes. You can zoom the whole
interface in and out which will be handy. The 128 parameter limit on automating plugins is
gone thank god.. Midi editor looks improved and there's also a proper limiter now for people who
dont own a limiter plug. Seems like they've pretty much added all the major things missing.

[admin]

Almost forgot, the sample preview player now gives you a waveform preview and scrubbing function, very nice to have finally.

[Rambunkcious]

estimated to ship in the 2nd qtr of 2009

[NuEra]

In this video, Ableton Live showcase the made-for-Live new Akai APC40 controller which is the controller Ableton’s users have been dreaming of for years.

As you can see, the APC40 gives very intuitive hands-on control of Ableton, which has always been one of the big problems for performers who want to use Ableton Live on stage.

[admin]

Looks pretty cool for playing live, in the studio though thing I'd just stick with the microKontrol.

[NuEra]

Sharing with Live 8

[sven hauck]

Damn, that's cool.

Whatever happened with Steinberg's online collab service?

[admin]

Probably a good way to cut down a bit on piracy as well since you'll have to be legit to login.

What would be great is if they could sync the two so when I hit play then it would start up the other instance online. And then if you could make edits and have them both show up would be nice.