Offnominal

It’s been a morning of anticipation in the computer music world, as Ableton was scheduled to unveil version 6 of everyone’s favorite performance DAW at 10:30 AM at the NAMM Summer Session show in Austin (alas, no longer here in the BNA for me to scam my way in). Around the time of the scheduled announcement, the official Ableton forum was crowded with fanboys waiting for the first sign of an announcement (yes, I count myself in that crowd as well). Then, the website stopped responding to requests - a sign that could mean only one thing…

Except it didn’t. As of now, the only information comes from a basic feature list on the M-Audio site, while Ableton has yet to publish any fancy deep-dish infos. I’d love to start commenting on the new feature list, but for some reason, I feel compelled to wait for Ableton themselves to bring the noise, while the discourse flows free over at the official forum.

I will say this - as the owner (albeit not current possessor) of an Intel Macbook, I’m REALLY looking forward to dual-core support, a feature we’ve known was going to be included for a while now. Also being able to work to picture? Expect video to finally start flowing out of the Offnominal Compound….

high quality multichannel audio exchange between them and the t-u-b-e venue.

tubePlug runs as a VST/AudioUnit plug on MACOSX 10.3.9 or higher (universal Intel/PowerPC) and as a VST plug on Win9x, WinME, WinXP. You can use your favorite audio host (e.g. Cubase, Logic, Plogue Bidule, MAX/MSP, PD, etc.).

OnStage from fluqe.com looks to be a sweet little accessory application for using Logic Pro in a live performance environment. You can load up to 20 project files and open them with MIDI Program Change… I’ll have to sign up for the beta and check it out.