Ableton announced Live 8.2.5:
Live 8.2.5 now officially supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion – please make sure to check that all of your third-party plug-ins and audio/MIDI hardware are Lion-compatible before upgrading your OS.
Live 8.2.5 introduces significant improvements to MIDI sync, in addition to other feature changes and bugfixes. For the full list of what’s new in Live 8.2.5, please see the latest release notes.
See the Ableton site for details.
I gave up trying to update Live 8 back when 8.2.2 was introduced.
I attempted to record audio playing my Chapman Stick and the quality playback of the audio presented too many artifacts. I swtiched from my Mac to my Windows 7 tower to see if it would help. The Windows 7 pc ran better on the Mac with Live 8 but still the audio was poor.
I can’ decide if I want to switch over to FL Studio or Studio One.
Interesting, my issues with Live all stem from VST crashes/hangs. I've had streaks where Live crashed literally 300+ consecutive sessions. Unfortunately FL Studio is getting the same way, specifically if you need to invoke their ILbridge for 64bit VST hosting. It's even worse if you have jBridge installed too.
If your doing mostly audio recording, Studio One might be a good choice, although Reaper is much cheaper. What sample rates are recording at when you find Live's audio lacking? And what audio interface are you using?
You have a Mac why don't you just get Logic Studio. It's going to be a lot better for recording audio than FL Studio.
Not hating on FL Studio, it's fine if you use just VSTs and like the "pattern based" style but for recording audio and using external gear Logic is really on another level.
I'm glad to see they are working out some of the midi sync issues, if they can just find a way to overcome the master midi clock issues, it will finally be possible to ditch all of this third party software/network switch business. I love running ableton on multiple computers simply to ease the transition between instruments into a more natural synth jam feel.. but having to stop playing to go into midi ox to start/stop/change tempo really drives me up the wall. I know that midi syncing was never a very functional thing, but.. with the speed of the signals that are sent, I've always been confused why sending their own patterns solely for the purpose of syncing two instances of live wouldn't be a possibility..
Right now I have percussion being handled by one machine while my main workhorse is handling vsts, synced via midi ox with both slaved. My current issue is finding a way to also send a midi signal over another channel to handle side-chaining (for nice oomphy sounding kicks) between the two. Anyone figured out a way how to do such a thing?
I don't think side chaining is a MIDI process. at least not the ableton plugin. it only works with audio, so you would probably have to send the audio from your kick to your other comp via a patch cable or the like.
If you're using hardware then I know people who swear by the synclock line: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20Prod…
If you only use software, and only in a 2 PC home studio, that's still an easy fix but probably overkill. You could throw everything into a rack in every set and carefully configure it. You could make a reaktor or pd patch that uses osc; that way, you can expand it and eventually you'll have a superpatch that does everything you need. If effort scares you off, just slap on more hardware MIDI I/O. It's cheap–if a bit wasteful.
If you're using hardware then I know people who swear by the synclock line: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20Prod…
If you only use software, and only in a 2 PC home studio, that's still an easy fix but probably overkill. You could throw everything into a rack in every set and carefully configure it. You could make a reaktor or pd patch that uses osc; that way, you can expand it and eventually you'll have a superpatch that does everything you need. If effort scares you off, just slap on more hardware MIDI I/O. It's cheap–if a bit wasteful.
If you're using hardware then I know people who swear by the synclock line: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20Prod…
If you only use software, and only in a 2 PC home studio, that's still an easy fix but probably overkill. You could throw everything into a rack in every set and carefully configure it. You could make a reaktor or pd patch that uses osc; that way, you can expand it and eventually you'll have a superpatch that does everything you need. If effort scares you off, just slap on more hardware MIDI I/O. It's cheap–if a bit wasteful.
If you're using hardware then I know people who swear by the synclock line: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20Prod…
If you only use software, and only in a 2 PC home studio, that's still an easy fix but probably overkill. You could throw everything into a rack in every set and carefully configure it. You could make a reaktor or pd patch that uses osc; that way, you can expand it and eventually you'll have a superpatch that does everything you need. If effort scares you off, just slap on more hardware MIDI I/O. It's cheap–if a bit wasteful.
If you're using hardware then I know people who swear by the synclock line: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20Prod…
If you only use software, and only in a 2 PC home studio, that's still an easy fix but probably overkill. You could throw everything into a rack in every set and carefully configure it. You could make a reaktor or pd patch that uses osc; that way, you can expand it and eventually you'll have a superpatch that does everything you need. If effort scares you off, just slap on more hardware MIDI I/O. It's cheap–if a bit wasteful.
If you're using hardware then I know people who swear by the synclock line: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20Prod…
If you only use software, and only in a 2 PC home studio, that's still an easy fix but probably overkill. You could throw everything into a rack in every set and carefully configure it. You could make a reaktor or pd patch that uses osc; that way, you can expand it and eventually you'll have a superpatch that does everything you need. If effort scares you off, just slap on more hardware MIDI I/O. It's cheap–if a bit wasteful.