Tag: Ableton Live 8

\"ableton-live-8\"Here\’s a guide to Ableton Live 8, including Live 8 tips, tricks and tutorials.

Here’s what’s 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

We\’ve got Ableton Live 8 specs and pricing, an Ableton Live 8 preview, Ableton Live video tutorials and more in the posts listed below.

Modulate This! Turns 4 And Is Experiencing “Non-Linear” Growth

Mark Mosher put up a post today celebrating the 4th birthday of his electronic music blog, Modulate This! According to Mosher, in the last year “the blog experienced non-linear growth in page views and subscribers.” Non-linear growth is good. And, while I’d like to think the growth is because of “the Synthtopia effect” (server-killing waves… Read More Modulate This! Turns 4 And Is Experiencing “Non-Linear” Growth

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New Novation LaunchPad – The $199 Ableton Live Controller

Jointly designed by Ableton and Novation, the Novation Launchpad is a new $199 controller designed to “put Ableton Live at your fingertips.” The Launchpad is purpose built for triggering and manipulating clips in Ableton Live, with a multi-colour 64-button grid and dedicated scene launch buttons. Launchpad’s buttons can be used to sketch out beats with… Read More New Novation LaunchPad – The $199 Ableton Live Controller

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