Rechtzeitig zur Frankfurter Musikmesse kündigt Ableton den
Releasetermin von Live 8 für Ende März an.
Damit hat das Warten auf eines der interessantesten Produkt-Updates
diesen Jahres ein Ende. Die neuen Versionen Live 8 und Suite 8 bieten
viele neue Features. Wie zum Beispiel die neue Groove-Engine, die den
Groove eines jeden Audio-Clips analysiert und dann auf jeden anderen
Audio–oder Midi-Clip überträgt. Eines der
vielen neuen Features die zeigen warum Ableton zu den innovativsten
Firmen in unserer Branche zählt. Ableton Live 8 und Ableton
Suite 8 bringen eine Vielzahl neuer Funktionen und Effekte sowie
Workflow-Optimierungen für die Echtzeitbearbeitung digitaler
Musik. Neben der neue Groove-Engine,
gehören dazu verbesserte Warping-Techniken, Live-Looping,
fünf neue Effekte (inkl. Ableton Vocoder),Crossfades in der
Arrangement-Ansicht, Gruppen-Spuren und ein überarbeiteter
MIDI-Editor.
Live 8 – Die Tools:
- Neue Groove-Engine: neue Groove-Library, Grooves
aus Audio oder MIDI extrahieren, Groove-Quantisierung in
Echtzeit
- Neue Warp-Engine: Warpen von Audiomaterial durch
Verschieben
des Materials
auf dem
Zeitlineal, überarbeiteter Beats-Warp-Modus, neuer
Complex- Warp-Modus, Audio-Dateien basierend auf Transienten
slicen und in MIDI-Spuren umwandeln
- Looper: klassisches „Sound auf
Sound”-Looping, ohne
Einschränkungen
entsprechender
Hardware-Geräte, Aufnahme, Overdub, Undo und weitere
Funktionen freihändig, ohne Spielunterbrechung,
“First-Loop-Sync”, einfache Loop-Verwaltung
- Neue Effekte: Vocoder, Multiband-Dynamics, Overdrive,
Limiter und Frequency-Shifter
- besserer Workflow: u.a. Echtzeit-Crossfades in der
Arrangement-Ansicht, verbesserte MIDI-Bearbeitung,
Gruppen-Spuren, Mehrfach-Auswahl von Spuren, eine neue Zoom-Funktion
der Programmoberfläche und viele weitere Funktionen
ABLETON ANNOUNCES LIVE 8, SUITE 8 AND NEW INITIATIVES
Berlin, Germany (January 15, 2009) - Ableton is excited to
announce
the agenda for 2009: Ableton Live 8, Ableton Suite 8,
new instruments
and three completely new product initiatives.
Live 8 and Suite 8 enhance the Ableton
vision of creative, real-time
digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted
workflow improvements. These include a new groove engine, revamped
warping techniques, live looping, five new effects (including the
Ableton Vocoder), crossfades in the Arrangement View, group tracks and
a reworked MIDI editor. Ableton Suite 8 includes all that plus
a
massive, inspired sound library and all the instruments a musician
could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a sampler, electric
and acoustic drums (new: Latin percussion), mallets (new: Collision),
numerous sampled instruments and a new, even-mightier Operator.
New in Ableton Live 8:
- New groove engine: new groove library, extract grooves from
audio or MIDI, real time groove quantize
- 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
New in Ableton Suite 8:
- World-class sound library: completely new sound library
with
real-world "Sound Objects," presets, grooves, templates and, above all,
over 1600 beautiful sounds
- Collision and Corpus: a unique physical-modeling instrument
for
authentic mallet sounds and creative percussion. Includes Corpus, a
separate effect that reproduces Collision's resonator section
- Latin Percussion: a collection of acoustic percussion
instruments
from the worlds of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and African music plus a wide
selection of clips and grooves for authentic usage
- Operator, Ableton's renowned do-it-all synthesizer, has
been given
a major overhaul. New filter types, more modulation routing options and
additive wavetable synthesis with drawable partials make Operator more
powerful and flexible than ever.
Plus these existing Ableton instruments: Sampler, Electric,
Tension,
Analog, Drum Machines, Session Drums* and the Essential Instrument
Collection 2*.
*Boxed version only.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: NEW INITIATIVES FOR 2009
Share: effortless remote collaboration
Share Live Sets with others via the Web using this special
feature
in Live 8. Ableton's simple and intelligent solution for
online musical
collaboration streamlines the sharing process with easy sharing and
loading, a simple system of setting access permission, speedy transfers
and no issues with external plug-ins and instruments.
Extend: Max for Live
Max for Live is a new product, co-developed by Ableton and
Cycling
'74. Quite simply, it puts the power and potential of Max/MSP inside
Live. With Max for Live, it's possible to create completely new
instruments, effects and extensions that go beyond the common and
predictable and transcend the limits that conventional tools impose.
The possibilities are virtually endless, from completely unique synths
and effects, algorithmic composition tools or radical, new music
machines fusing Live and controller hardware. Max for Live is a chance
to join a society of makers and share ingenuity.
Touch: dedicated controllers for Ableton Live
Ableton and Akai Professional are proud to announce the APC40,
a new
hardware controller specially designed for Ableton Live. The APC40
features high quality controls for real-time mixing, remixing and
production. 109 buttons, 16 endless encoders with LED rings, nine 45mm
faders and a replaceable crossfader give musicians and producers
complete control of Live's Session View, effect devices and virtual
instruments. For anyone in the studio or on stage, DJing, making beats,
running backing tracks, firing MIDI loops or triggering sound effects,
it's time to kiss the mouse goodbye.
These three initiatives combine in interesting ways:
Live 8 + Max for Live:
Swap extensions, effects and
instruments created with Max for Live using the sharing technology in
Live 8. So Max for Live owners also get access to any number
of
additional instruments, effects and extensions created by the Max for
Live community.
Live 8 + Max for Live + APC40:
with Max for Live,
it's possible to customize the APC40, turning its Clip Launch Matrix
into a step sequencer, for instance. Live 8's sharing features
allow
users to share APC40 mods with other APC40 users. And because
communication is two-way, this also means access to all the other
shared APC40 goodies that the Ableton community has to offer.
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