If using an offline machine, you can save the authorization file to your portable storage device and bring it back to the computer where Live is installed. Oh, and the Browser now gives full access to Groups and their contents, too. Most music productions programs house their arrange windows on the left side of the screen, but Ableton displays it on the right side. The new Melodic Sequencer + 32 Notes mode for Push 1 and 2, however, is the big story, opening up real-time sequencing and real-time play at the same time. Without being Split into a new Clip segment first, time selections can be de-activated directly using the zero key or reversed by simply hitting R. These are the little things that save you literally hours of your life. Like other iterations, the newly released Live 10 Standard is not cheap by any means — so does it pay to invest? Record hardware synths, software plugins, drum machines, guitars or any audio from the real world.
Mix your music and compose entire tracks, all without thinking about your computer. This helps you memorize the icons and quickly learn to use the workspace. Massive collection of sample music is added to the built-in-library with supported new Add-on and Plug-in. The deal is sealed for me by the Unison modes — that Shimmer is lovely — which thicken up the sound of each note by using multiple oscillators. This application has modest technology for compatibility to live performance appliances. If you own a Push 2, the new update gives you even more control and visual feedback than ever before. Click through for the full version.
Echo is a triumph of creative effect design. From the jump, one of the biggest new additions to Live 10 is a wavetable software synthesizer aptly named Wavetable. That dotted rectangle icon on the right is significant. Ableton Live 10 gave us revamped visuals and new Devices in the form of Wavetable synthesizer , Drum Buss, Echo, and Pedal audio effects. It might take a bit of homework at first, but curating all your favorite tools for easy access in a convenient location accelerates core studio processes more than you might imagine.
To speed up the process, assets can be assigned to a Collection with a corresponding number key when selected in the Browser. But if you are an original Push hardware customer, you do get a lot, too. It comes with effects, instruments, sounds and all kinds of creative features—everything you need to make any kind of music. The folders are just coloured tags, so nothing is actually moved; objects can be assigned to multiple Collections, and coloured dots next to their names indicate their membership. Anything that helps us get around the screen faster is a good thing. Live 10 makes a winning first impression, thanks to the implementation of a tasteful graphical makeover.
Wavetable Wavetable Named in typically no-nonsense Ableton style, Wavetable is an all-new wavetable synth, designed in house. If you're like me and prefer the latter, you'll find there's still plenty to be excited about here, although it's certainly not for everyone. Get your ideas into Live Whatever shape inspiration takes, Live gives you the means to seize it. Surreal Machines have some especially brilliant models. One nice plus with Live: You can fit everything you need on screen at once. Echo The most exciting new effect device is surely Echo, another very understated name for a powerful processor. I use it for music production, audio editing and live sets with no complaints.
However, several new features make it an essential consideration for the modern music creator. Standard is a better entry point for those wanting to get into music production as the 16-track count limit is lifted. There's no pitch correction included; Logic Pro X, Studio One, Cubase, and Digital Performer all have this covered now to varying degrees. Gate and Ducking gate the wet signal with up to 3s of Release time and duck it when the dry input is present, while Noise and Wobble emulate the background noise and hum, and timing fluctuations of old analogue delay units. Pedal may not look like, well, anything — but it sounds amazing. The Lowdown Ableton Live 10 is the latest incarnation of the popular digital audio workstation and it brings a host of design and performance tweaks, workflow enhancements and new devices including the Wavetable synth, Drum Buss compressor and Pedal guitar-style effects.
Do I really need this? Recording and Editing In Live, you can write automation directly to clips, instead of on a track-by-track basis. It also seems the time is approaching soon when Live will want to be more agnostic about multichannel outputs and less stereo-centric. Under its skin, Drum Buss clearly packs a lot of clever processing power, with compression, transient shaping and saturation all combined to very good effect. Oh yeah, and put Echo and Drum Buss and Pedal together… even with Wavetable? You can export more easily. The only way of finding out how far Ableton can go is by trying it.
A beta may be available to you before that, too. Surprisingly, I also found that Drum Buss could do quite interesting things to some monophonic synth parts, particularly basslines and anything with a prominent attack transient. New toys Every software generation brings with it new toys to tinker around with, and Live 10 is no different. First launch provides us with the familiar right-hand sidebar that points out some of the new features in Live 10. You can use it for basic sounds much faster than Serum without my computer wanting to kill me. At the top of that particular pile is the amazing Capture function. Shape, stretch and morph sounds using wavetables derived from analog synths, and a range of other instruments and sounds.