Ableton has released CV Tools – a new Pack for Live Suite or Live 10 Standard and Max for Live that lets you interface your modular or other CV-based gear with Ableton Live 10.
Using Live 10 and a compatible, dc-coupled audio interface, you can now use Live as the tempo leader or set it to follow your modular system clock.
And if you don’t use CV-based equipment, the Rotating Rhythm Generator and CV Utility devices can add modular-style workflow inside Live or to your hardware setup with MIDI.
Here’s what’s included:
- CV Instrument – Control your modular with MIDI. Features flexible modulation and voicing options, as well as cent-accurate tuning of your oscillators.
- CV Triggers – Sequence your modular drum modules from inside Live.
- CV Utility – Control your modular with automation curves from Live. Add, multiply and shift control signals together and process control voltages like audio.
- CV Clock In – Control Live’s tempo from your Eurorack system.
- CV Clock Out – Send CV clock out to your modular and sync it to Live.
- CV In – Use your modular to modulate parameters in Live.
- CV Shaper – Create flexible CV shapes in Live then send them to your modular rig.
- CV Envelope Follower – Control your modular with audio signals from inside Live.
- CV LFO – Instantly add more LFOs to your modular system.
- Rotating Rhythm Generator – Create organic rhythms and experiment with modular-style beat and polyrhythm generation. This device also sends MIDI so you can use it with Drum Racks or other external equipment with a MIDI input.
CV Tools is available to registered users now via the Ableton site.
Bitwig 3 absolutely kills Live for integrated CV control and being able to make Eurorack style CV utilities and sequencers in the Grid. if Live is now going to have to plat catch up to Bitwig’s features maybe it should look at MPE, but personally I would rather see them develop in different directions.
These are all built with Max for Live, so I’m not sure where you’re getting your information that Bitwig is “killing” anyone. Are you trying to justify your upgrade? These could literally be popped open in Max and rebuilt to do any number of other CV things, or otherwise, on top of the existing base, which they definitely will. But not by Ableton. The many, many Max users will create those. Don’t forget that Bitwig’s modular grid is an imitation of Max for Live, a much more mature technology that’s been available as Max for 30 years.
I have live suite (been with it since 4) Max 7 standalone and Bitwig 3…so no real horse in this race other than I don’t want Live and Bitwig to copy each other, I want them both to develop to there strengths. Bitwig is currently far better for CV (due mainly to the unified modulation system) and Max and the Grid are very different animals (the Grid is more akin to Reaktor blocks)
This kind of thinking bitwig would never be around in the first place starting up it was just copy other daws. This is a happy upgrade for me