It’s been a while since Live was updated to version 7 but I still think it deserves a review. Most of you are probably familiar with Live Lite which has come bundled with Pro Tools systems for a long time now. While I think the Lite version can be helpful as a rewired tool into Pro Tools or any other DAW, the full version is a whole other animal. Let’s see what it brings to the table.
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Serator and Ableton have announced a partnership, which will “pave the way for the future of Digital DJing”. While I’m perhaps not the most knowledgable person when it comes to DJing, I’m sure this will be an interesting team up. Serato has their Scratch, while Ableton is of course known for their application Live.

Ableton CEO Gerhard Behles, from the Ableton press release:

Ableton and Serato take different approaches to modern musical performance. But both companies live by the philosophy that software should be straightforward, easy to use, and most importantly, reliable and stable onstage and in the studio.

And what do you know! So do I. Gerhard continues:

Ableton has never had an answer for the DJ who wants vinyl control, and rather than try to emulate what Serato do so well, we simply make sure that our products work well together.

Serato Audio Research CEO Steve West:

After years of talking together, we’re thrilled to be working with Ableton. It’s exciting to think about what we can offer to DJs and producers: the ability to go beyond just spinning records and add a personal stamp to the music they play.

So in other words: a partnership is revealed, future plans are not.

Serato

Ableton

Ableton will be running a sales campaign in the fall of 2008 to let new Live users get their hands on Operator. Customers who buy Ableton Live during the course of the campaign get Operator, Ableton’s acclaimed FM synthesizer, for free. The offer applies to sales of Ableton Live 7, Live 7 LE and upgrades from Live Lite to the full version between September 1st and October 31st, 2008.
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Most Pro Tools users probably have Live Lite since it’s been shipping with Pro Tools systems for quite some time now. Personally I’ve been a Live user of both the full version and the Lite version since version 2. It’s been a while since I fired up Live but a while back I decided to give it another go, and since Lite was the only version I had access to, that’s what I used.
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For the last two or three weeks I’ve started using Ableton Live extensively again. I’ve always been a fan of it, but the amount of use it gets from me has always varied, depending on mood, what work I currently do and what kind of spiritual being currently resides in me.

I’ll post about my work with Live Lite later, and a review of the full Live 7 a little further on down the road. I know it’s been out for a while, but I figured it could still be of interest. I thought it could also be interesting to compare it (or at least parts of it) to Transfuser now that the full non-beta of it has been released.

I’ll be back with all this later. In the meantime, you might find the following news concerning Ableton Live interesting:

You can now download a free 14-day trial version of Ableton Live in case you don’t think Live Lite gives you enough to try, or you just happen to be one of the very few people who don’t actually have it.

Live has been updated to version 7.0.9 which includes many bugfixes as well as updated manuals, texts and lessons.

Puremagnetik has released Vector for Live which emulates Korg Wavestation.

Percussa has released AudioCubes DnB sound pack for Ableton Live 7, a free sound pack containing 30 DnB style sounds in .wav format, from Loopmaster’s Artist Series of sound libraries, and a premapped Ableton Live 7 set for AudioCubes.

Ableton Live Lite 7 has arrived and as usual it’s free for eligible Live Lite users. Ableton Live Lite 7 sports a combination of up to eight audio or MIDI tracks, more effect instances, an enhanced audio engine, 64-bit mix summing, multiple time signatures, new and improved devices, side-chaining, refined MIDI timing, and more.

Live (the full version) was also recently updated to 7.0.7.

Ableton

Live 7 has been announced. More information on it, the new bundle known as Ableton Suite and the upcoming public beta can be found at Ableton. Or if you want the new features summed up in a longer post with a couple of personal opinions, check out my post at Slapdelay.

When I first looked at the comparison chart it looked like a really sweet deal. I mean, more tracks than Pro Tools LE (what hasn’t?) and so on at a really low price. But only 2 VST/AU instruments and effects? No Rewire? Even Live Lite has that.

Ah well, it comes at a very reasonable price at least: €129/$149 for the download and €169/$199 for the boxed version.

Ableton

I honestly thought this had been available the entire time, but what the hey…

Ableton is pleased to announce that Live Lite to Full, the upgrade from all Lite versions to the full version of Live 6, is now available at musical instrument dealers worldwide.

All users of Live Lite (as bundled with products from M-Audio, Digidesign, Korg, Line 6, E-MU, Focusrite, Novation, Tascam, Allen & Heath, Behringer and TC Electronic) can now purchase an upgrade to the full version of Live 6 at a discounted price.

Upgrade to the full version of Live 6 now and discover its power:

* Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, scenes, sends and returns
* Unlimited instances of audio and MIDI effects, VST and AU plug-ins
* Unlimited number of Clip Envelopes
* High-definition multitrack recording (32-bit, 192kHz)
* Full ReWire (slave and master), ASIO and Core Audio support
* Support for multiple audio formats (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC)
* The Essential Instruments Collection, a multi-GB sample library

…and much more.

The Live Lite to Full version is now available for EUR 379/USD 419 from dealers worldwide and from the Ableton webshop.

Ableton

As a special offer for Ableton Live 6 users, Puremagnetik has just released Test Run, a free Micropack of over 100MB from past Puremagnetik releases. Test Run includes some of Puremagnetik’s most cutting-edge sounds for music producers, live performers and DJs.

Visit the Test Run page here

Puremagnetik is an innovative new subscription service for Ableton Live 6 users. Developed by Ableton sound designer Micah Frank, Puremagnetik delivers high-quality, Live-ready “Micropacks” to its subscribers on a monthly basis.

Learn more at www.puremagnetik.com