The visualisations of delay time and feedback in the ‘Echo Tunnel’ graphic also translate beautifully to the Push display. There’s more to devices than instruments, though – and while there’s no news regarding MIDI effects, there are a trio of new audio effects to talk about.Įcho is a new delay effect, and while Live already has two delays, this one offers far more options in sound-design terms, extending from clean digital sounds to much more characterful and analogue/tape type processing, including controls that let you dial in noise and tape wobble, as well as a filter, compressor, reverb, and gate. No, it hasn’t – tap the Capture button at the top of the screen and Live will load the last phrase you played into a new MIDI clip, complete with tempo detection it does a pretty good job of identifying the start and end of what you’ve played.Ībleton’s designers have definitely been making the most of that colourful display integration and visual feedback with Push is clearly a bit of a theme with this release. Imagine the scenario – you’re noodling around with your drum pads, Push, or MIDI keyboard, then you realise you just played something perfect and amazing, but the moment’s gone. You can hardly tell it’s in there from glancing at the interface, but Capture, like Link before it, is a small thing that will change everything. You could get going with just the default settings, then automate waveform selection using the LFO and the built-in modulation matrix, and it gets groovy straight away. Wavetable’s interface is as approachable as a wavetable synth can get, and it’ll pop open into a gorgeous-looking full-screen mode (which looks fantastic on the Push 2 display). Wavetable is included in the Suite alongside Live’s existing synths, Operator and Analog, between them giving Live a really comprehensive array of ‘factory’ synth tools. Tending towards more digital tones, it’s incredibly flexible and capable of producing a wide range of sounds, as evidenced by the factory presets, which include pads, leads, guitars and percussion. There’s a new synthesiser instrument called Wavetable (yeah, it’s a wavetable synth). Moving beyond the cosmetics, though, are the new and updated devices. Buttons highlight when your pointer lingers over them, giving a little extra orientation assist. Live’s ‘Skins’ are renamed as ‘Themes’ – there are only five to choose from, and they’re more focused around the subdued end of the spectrum – which makes sense, because Live 9’s Disco skin is popular it looks cool and works well on a practical level.Ībleton has had its own typeface designed as well, so text looks a little different. The interface, already the cleanest DAW workspace around, has been polished further, with improved clarity in all the right places. I’ve been running the beta since late August, so I’ve had time to get familiar with it (keeping it quiet has been absolute torture), and I guess what you want to know is, is it worth the wait and worth the upgrade?Īs soon as Live 10 opens, you know you’re not in Live 9 any more and you’re never going back. Live 10 will be available in three versions, as before – Intro, Standard, and Suite. It’s not available as a final release as I’m writing this, so bear in mind that anything described here can change, and we’ll be doing a full final review when the official release happens, probably after a long-ish public beta phase –but there’s no way we’re going to wait until then before taking a look! But sooner or later, the big updates have to come, and Live 10 is on the way. So no, it’s not like they’ve been twiddling their thumbs in Berlin. You could also factor Push 2 into that timeline… oh yes, and Ableton Link, too. Of course, that’s not the whole story – since then, we’ve enjoyed a stream of ongoing free updates and new features Live 9.7 is quite a different beast from Live 9.0. It’s over five years since Ableton released Live 9, which is a long time in DAW-land. Here’s that review again, in case you missed it the first time, and stay tuned for a long-term test review following up very shortly. I’ve been on the Live 10 beta since August, and wrote our review of the public beta release a little while back. If you haven’t got on board yet, you can download the time-limited demo and take Live 10 for a test drive, I think you’ll be impressed. If you haven’t already heard from Ableton, you can log into your account and start the download process, making sure you grab all the extra content packs as well. Update (6/2/17) – Ableton Live 10 is now available. 5GB to 76GB disk space for additional sound content depending on version installed.3GB disk space for the basic installation (8GB recommended) Intel Core i5 processor or faster recommended.PC: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor.Mac: OS X 10.11.6, Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
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