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some serious shizzle right here

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Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.

Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 are expected to ship in the second quarter of 2009.
Collision and Latin Percussion will be available with the Live 8 release.

Ableton Suite 8 will be available for EUR 549/USD 699 (download). The boxed version will be priced at EUR 699/USD 849.
Ableton Live 8 will be USD 349/EUR 449 (download). The boxed version, including the Essential Instrument Collection 2, will sell at EUR 449/USD 549.

Upgrades to Live 8/Suite 8 vary in price, depending on the Ableton products you already own.

more info + details on new features:

http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_8/announcement/home


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Cycling ’74 and Ableton today announced Max for Live, the integration of Cycling '74's Max/MSP environment into Ableton Live. Available as an add-on product to Ableton's newly announced Live 8, Max for Live permits users to create devices that extend and customize Live by creating instruments, controllers, audio effects, and MIDI processors.

Devices developed with Max for Live utilize the same features as those created by Ableton engineers. This includes UI controls, MIDI mapping, multiple undo, tempo-based effects, sample-accurate automation, and comprehensive file and preset management. Devices created in Max can be shared with Ableton's new web collaboration features. An innovative “preview mode” feature permits editing in Max while devices continue to process audio and/or MIDI as if they were inside Live. When an edited device is saved, it updates in place inside Live's device view.

http://www.cycling74.com/?op=displaysto ... 112356/711

don't forget this too - akai apc 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydOFGR3ZIA

DROKKR wrote:don't forget this too - akai apc 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydOFGR3ZIA

fappin ell, highjacked on the first post

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take it back, just watched it

Max for Live is probably the one thing that figuratively speaking gives me a hard on. It goes without saying that it might spawn tons of problems for users with ADD, but for people with adequate goals it's a golden mine.

Also notable are the whole online collaboration and VOCODER (I hope autotune is next).

requiem.mf wrote:Max for Live is probably the one thing that figuratively speaking gives me a hard on. It goes without saying that it might spawn tons of problems for users with ADD, but for people with adequate goals it's a golden mine.

Also notable are the whole online collaboration and VOCODER (I hope autotune is next).

yea remote collabs lol, plus designing your own plug ins too

hubba hubba

DROKKR wrote:don't forget this too - akai apc 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydOFGR3ZIA

fuckin hell yeh

kidcazual wrote:

DROKKR wrote:don't forget this too - akai apc 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydOFGR3ZIA

fuckin hell yeh

DO WANT.

sapphic_beats wrote:

kidcazual wrote:

DROKKR wrote:don't forget this too - akai apc 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydOFGR3ZIA

fuckin hell yeh

DO WANT.

yea that looks pretty tasty

definitely the future of music production, especially with the APC!

and if you dont already listen to Monolake you definitely should, one of the members is one fo the original creators of ableton! they are amazing dark minimal techno

Ya it looks amazing ableton did a great job

Looking through the cycling74 max for live thread i found this
1) Think of Live as being 'the hardware' which sits behind "midiin", "midiout", "plugin~" and "plugout~". If you build a step sequencer instrument for Live (as we have), timing info comes in (via the ITM system -- the "transport" object is locked to the Live transport), MIDI comes in from Live via "notein" or whatever, and your Device responds as you have programmed it. If you define note sequences in the Device, you can use several methods -- Live presets are probably the best one -- to save and restore these. If you really wanted to create a new MIDI clip with the note content you've defined in your Device, this will also be possible using the Live API objects (live.path, live.object, live.observer), but that wouldn't be the simplest of solutions.

The ability to export midi data to a midi clip will make it possible to totally integrate homemade hardware/touchscreen sequencers

Yes!

Sounds good, I like the look of that Vocoder!