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Akai Professional is now shipping the MPD32 pad controller.
MPD32 is Akai Professional’s flagship pad controller for musicians and DJs. Using a USB cable to connect to a Mac or PC, MPD32 is designed for hardware control of apps like Reason, Ableton Live and GarageBand.
MPD32 also features transport controls for interfacing with DAW/sequencing applications like Sonar, [...]

Puremagnetik has released Metalsphere, a sound design toolbox of intense soundscapes, suspenseful textures and horrific environments.
Description:
Metalsphere contains a huge array of sonic possiilities. With up to four individual distorted and layered sound sources, users can easily tailor their individual textures and signal levels. Sound designers, film composers and producers alike can each find something in [...]

2008 Summer NAMM Show: Alesis has announced that it is including Ableton Live Lite 7 with its USB and FireWire mixers and audio interfaces:
Alesis is now bundling Ableton Live Lite 7 with the following mixers and interfaces:
iO|2, iO|26, iMultiMix 8 USB, iMultiMix 16 USB, MultiMix 8 USB, MultiMix 8 USB 2.0, MultiMix 8 FireWire, MultiMix [...]

This video, from Ableton, is an intro to the new Orchestral Instrument Collection for Live.
It’s a little cheesy - but it’s also cool to see it working within Live.

Ableton has released of Live 7 LE, a cheaper “lite” version of Ableton Live 7. Live LE is limited to two simultaneous stereo audio inputs and outputs, twelve built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.
Live 7 LE Features:

Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited [...]

Littlescale demos syncing Nanoloop, a real-time Gameboy sequencer/synth, to Ableton Live:
Part 1

Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronised to the drums playing in Ableton (track 1). This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.
Part 2

i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app,  developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu.
And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live!
i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you to configure [...]

Telekenisis is a tool for remote control of Mac application using your iPhone.

The iPhone seems to becoming the new “because it was there” controller for Ableton Live.

Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronized to the drums playing in Ableton Live (track 1).
Says littlescale - “This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.”