LIVE HAS A SLICER. Drum Racks have to be seen to be believed. Fortunately, you can watch the preview movie at Ableton and see that this is a huge update to the creative flow – take a sound and warp it as you normally would – drop it into a Drum Rack for Rex-style midi sequencing – apply effects to individual slices as you break out each slice into it’s own integrated track… One of those things that you have to see to really understand.
The audio and MIDI engines are getting complete overhauls. With POW-R dithering and 64-bit summing througout, will I no longer want to move to Logic for mixing?
The EQ8 and Compressor devices have been updated, and Sidechaining has been implemented in Compressor, Gate and Auto-Filter (yay!). A RTA device called Spectrum, anti-aliasing in Operator, Dynamic Tube and Saturator, multiple automation lanes in the arrange (can we move automation between the arrange and clips yet?), tempo nudge, Rex Support and who knows how many other small improvements here and there.
They’re adding three new instruments – Electric, Tension and Analog, all of which are based on technology licensed from Applied Acoustics and are esentially integrated versions of Lounge Lizard, String Studio and Ultra Analogue. Where is the Cycling74 collaboration going to come into play? Or has it already somewhere?
Anyway, it’s obvious that the next month or so is going to be fun…
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