Musikmesse 2009: Ableton has announced the release of Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8.
Excited yet?
Here’s what’s new:
New in Ableton Live 8:
- New groove engine: new groove library, extract grooves from audio or MIDI, real-time groove quantize. Includes grooves from the legendary Akai MPC and E-mu SP-1200 machines
- 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 1,600 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**.
*Collision and Latin Percussion are also available separately.
**Boxed version only.
Also see: Ableton Live 8 Enhancements, Ableton Live 8 Warping, What’s New In Ableton Live 8 & our previous Ableton Live coverage.
Pricing:
Ableton Suite 8
Boxed version: EUR 699/USD 849
(includes Ableton Live 8, sound library, 10 Ableton instruments including Session Drums and Essential Instrument Collection 2, printed manual)
Download version: EUR 549/USD 699
(includes Ableton Live 8, sound library, 8 Ableton instruments)
Ableton Live 8
Boxed version: EUR 449/USD 549
(includes the Essential Instrument Collection 2, printed manual)
Download version: EUR 349/USD 449
Upgrades to Suite 8/Live 8 vary in price, depending on the Ableton products you already own.
This looks pretty deadly!
Anybody have a chance to try out the vocoder yet?
HOLY SHIT WANT.
Yes Ableton is the way to go and this looks like the motherload of Live goodness
This looks like a neat upgrade, hope its worth the price.
😛
The looper looks hot. I’m wondering if this upgrade will blow out my laptop, though. Any word on disk space requirements?
Haha, ” I WANT IT ” “HOLY SHIT”
haha.
i have it 😀
it’s pretty sick
would give out free copies of the full program, but .. i don’t like rapidshare
so sorry guys
New theme is mega aswell, and :O they made it more simply but add more features – so insaine!
The upgrade is sweet, though it seems like there’s a few glitches in it; sometimes midi instrument samples will just stop playing even though you can still see the track level responding to pressing keys/pads. All the other tracks won’t be effected and when you switch to a different track that instrument will work, but the one that stopped still doesn’t work when you switch back to it. To fix it, I’ve found all you have to do is reload the instrument, but it was sure confusing trying to figure that out!
Also, regarding the vocoder – it sucks!!! I’ve tried every type of modulation to it that I can think of (although I only got Ableton ~2 months ago and I’m still a novice at using it) and the vocoder sounds absolutely *nothing* like any real vocoder I’ve heard!!!!
I’m hoping that it sounds bad because I just don’t know how to use it and I’m looking around to try and find out the right way, but based on my results right now… I wouldn’t even call it a vocoder because I’ll I’ve got it to do is make the voice sound distorted or a little deeper, or munchkin like.
Overall though, Ableton is the dopest production tool I’ve worked with, and my experience includes a DR-202 (from Roland), GarageBand, Triton Studio 76-key and an MPC2000. I’m interfacing through the Triton and the MPC for production, but its amazing to be able to visualize the time layout of a song, and rearrange things on the fly as you’re playing/recording something.
I’ll publish some of the beats I’ve made with version 8 on my website sometime soon if you’re curious to hear what it can do.
Peace,
DJ Delphi
The upgrade is sweet, though it seems like there’s a few glitches in it; sometimes midi instrument samples will just stop playing even though you can still see the track level responding to pressing keys/pads. All the other tracks won’t be effected and when you switch to a different track that instrument will work, but the one that stopped still doesn’t work when you switch back to it. To fix it, I’ve found all you have to do is reload the instrument, but it was sure confusing trying to figure that out!
I’ll publish some of the beats I’ve made with version 8 on my website sometime soon if you’re curious to hear what it can do.
Peace,
DJ Delphi