A drop-down menu shared between the file browsers allowed user-defined directories, including the Live Library, to be examined and searched. As it was configured in Live 8, the Browser presented five mutually exclusive views: Live Devices, Plug-In Devices (VST and Audio Units plug-ins), and three identical file browsers for examining and loading files on disk, or tracks and clips within Live Sets. Some of these resources are actual files on disk, while others are component parts of libraries or of other Live Sets. Live's Browser is its window into all the resources available for use in a Live Project: Live Sets, tracks, clips, devices, presets, samples and so on. The transport controls have a few new buttons next to them, partly reflecting changes in the way automation is managed, and partly, as we'll see, the way the Push controller works. (To be fair, a brightness control makes a lot of sense when taking a set onto a darkened stage.)Īside from the reinvented Browser, the only other obvious change is in the Control Bar. New preference controls for brightness, colour intensity and tint provide plenty of scope for the displacement activity of getting the decor looking just so. The default colour theme, or 'skin', is a new minimal, designer grey, but the bundled alternatives include the Live 8 scheme for maximum familiarity. (My Ableton gig bag now looks so last season!) Once Live 9 is up and running, though, everything looks pretty familiar, with a Session View in the centre of Live's single-window display, device/clip details below and the Browser to the left. Ableton's web site is now all pastel colours and Futura font, and the Live application's logo and launch panel are a plain and cheerful pink, rather than the rather austere-looking black of Live 8. The release of Live 9 involves a bit of a visual make-over. Library and Live Pack management, however, is somewhat different. ![]() The way in which the files comprising a Live Set are handled on disk is unchanged, as long as the Project is self-contained. Live Sets and Projects are organised in pretty much the same way in Live 9 as in Live 8. MIDI editing is more powerful, and the automation machinery has been upgraded, allowing - at last - individual clips to carry their own automation data, which can be transferred between Session and Arrangement. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, editing and control have been improved. There's an audio-to-MIDI feature for analysing recordings and rendering them in note-sequence form. There's a lot of new content (instruments, sample sets), with more available directly from Ableton's web site. Some of Live's core audio effects have been enhanced, and there's a new analogue-style compressor. The changes here are significant and we'll look at them in some detail in a moment. (I said much the same about Live 8 versus Live 7 Ableton go very much for evolutionary development rather than revolutionary redesign.) The changes are, by and large, at the level of isolated alteration and refinement of specific features, although some of that alteration runs deep.įirst off, the Browser has been completely overhauled, and works differently. The core Live application looks, feels and works very much like Live 8, and at first glance there are no glaring changes that leap out. (In Live 8, Max for Live was always an additional, pay-to-use product, even for owners of Suite.) Finally, Live 9 now ships in 32- and 64-bit versions. ![]() Max for Live, the package that extends Live with Cycling '74's Max audio and video toolkit, has been updated to use Max version 6, and is now an integral part of Live Suite. Live 9 Intro is the cut-down, two-channel-only, entry-level version, while Live 9 Standard and Live 9 Suite are the full application, differing only in terms of the instruments, effects and content packs included. Like earlier Live versions, Live 9 ships in multiple editions, depending on your requirements and budget. ![]() ![]() Many of these now feature directly on Ableton's web site, alongside Ableton's own sound packs, as either free or paid downloadable products Ableton are taking on something of a curatorial role in presenting this material. Live 9 also marks a gradual shift by Ableton towards embracing libraries developed by third-party sound designers.
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