Ableton Live Version 5 Announced!
Loop = repititous
music clips repeating seamlessly
Zoo = lot's of loops for
you at the zoo!
News! Ableton Live 6 has been released.
Upgrade available for registered owners.
ANNOUNCING LIVE 5
Ableton proudly presents Live 5, the team’s broadest-ever
development effort of their award-winning music software solution,
Live.
Live 5 presents a wealth of new features and enhancements that
cater to
the musician’s entire musical process – creation, production
and
performance.
Ableton Live 5 Clip Transport
Version 5 adds users’ most sought-after features along
with an
abundance of innovative new sound-shaping and organizational tools.
Most
importantly, Live 5 strengthens every aspect of Live while making
the
program more fun and easier to use.
Live 5 includes advanced and creative DAW features to satisfy
any audio
professional.
• Clip Freeze serves two purposes: freeing up CPU power and
easing the
transfer of projects between computers. Unique to Live 5, “frozen” clips
retain their real-time launch capabilities, allowing for improvisation,
performance or song arrangement. A project with frozen tracks can
also
be transferred from your main computer and run easily on one with
less-than-optimal CPU specs.
• Plug-In Delay Compensation automatically delays tracks
to compensate
for latencies caused by effects and plug-ins, including those on
the
return tracks. In addition, both audio and MIDI tracks have a manual
delay setting to compensate for human, acoustic, hardware and other
real-world delays.
• Launchable Arrangement Locators offer arrangement/song-position
markers with MIDI mapping and quantized recall. Using the mouse,
computer keys or MIDI messages, you can drop locators on the fly
during
playback or recording. Each locator can be named and assigned to
a
computer key or MIDI message. Jumping to a locator is subject to
real-time quantization, just like launching Session View clips
and
scenes. Previous/Next buttons allow you to jump from locator to
locator.
• Mackie Control Support enables full implementation of compatible
mixer
surfaces such as Tascam’s FW-1082/1884, Yamaha’s 01X
and Mackie Control,
allowing for mouse-free program operation. Easily navigate arrangements
and the Session View grid; launch clips, scenes and locators; and
access
instruments and effects.
Get ready to remix! Live 5 ships with a host of new remix-minded
features, assuring instant remix and mash-up gratification.
• MP3 support makes your entire music library available for
use in Live.
• Automatic Tempo-Matching tracks the tempo of imported songs
and sets
Warp Markers for you—instantly synchronizing your files to
the project
tempo.
• Complex Warp Mode is a frequency-domain warping method
specifically
designed to accommodate composite signals such as mixed-down music.
• New Clip Transport allows for performance-enhancing looping,
editing
and shuffling on the fly for any clip in Live. Click anywhere in
a
waveform to jump there—in sync and subject to real-time quantization.
Never lose ideas again! Live 5 features simple tools for saving,
previewing and accessing any idea on your hard drive.
• Live Clips. Clips can now be exported to disk for easy
retrieval and
reuse in any project. The exported Live Clip not only retains MIDI,
audio, envelopes, warping and other clip settings but also the
associated instrument, effects and plug-ins. In Live’s Browser,
Live
Clips are as easy to browse and preview as samples.
• Better Browsing. Live's built-in Browser now features a
search field
and standard file organization capabilities such as creating folders
and
dragging files into folders. In the Browser, Live Sets (.als files)
can
be “unfolded” to reveal their tracks and clips—which
can then be
selectively previewed and dragged in. It is also possible to drag
a Live
Set from the Browser into the currently open Set to merge the two.
• New Preset Management. Presets for Ableton instruments
and effects are
now managed through the Browser as well. You can organize presets
in
folders at will and search for presets across folders using the
search
field. A new “browse” button on every device temporarily
links the
Browser to the device, allowing for easy preset recall.
• Device Groups allow you to save powerful multi-effect creations,
effectively adding all the capabilities of Ableton’s MIDI
and audio
effects to Simpler, Impulse and Operator presets.
Live 5 introduces a selection of innovative new effects, bringing
even
more creative possibilities.
• Beat Repeat - An inspirational, expressive and addictive
audio effect
useful for subtle-to-extreme reorganization of beats and vocals.
Create
short loops on the fly and control their lengths either manually
or via
random functions for endless variations of grooves and stutter
effects.
• Phaser and Flanger – These are both modeled after
popular ‘70s guitar
effects and augmented with a beat-synced LFO (with variable waveforms)
and a unique envelope follower function. Results range from classic
phasing and flanging to drastic sound manipulation.
• Auto Pan - Offers LFO-driven manipulation of amplitude
and panning. It
can create everything from automatic panning with various curves
to
tremolo and amplitude modulation and beat-synchronized chopping
effects.
• Saturator – Add dirt, punch or warmth to your sound
with five
different shapes and a set of powerful tone controls for creating
subtle-to-drastic distortion effects.
• Arpeggiator – Offers all the classic arpeggiator
applications and
more—strum notes like a guitarist, morph velocities and create
scale-corrected pitch progressions.
Other new Live 5 features:
Count-in recording
Right-click context menus
Change settings in multiple clips at once
Resize tracks in Session View
VST MIDI effect support
New Live Clips sound library
New preset library for Live devices
New and improved Live 5 lessons
Simpler now includes independent envelopes for filter, pitch and
more.
Live 5 Pricing and Availability available
at the Ableton website: http://www.ableton.com/
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