Ableton has announced Live 11, a new upgrade that contains several exciting new features and enhancements for recording, playing and adding more human feel to your tracks.
Two notable additions are comping and Linked-track editing. Live organizes multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance into individual takes, allowing you to pick the best moments of each performance and then assemble them to create the perfect take. Linked-track editing, both audio and MIDI, provides the ability to link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously. This makes editing multi-tracked instruments or performances with multiple musicians easy and fast whilst keeping everything in time across tracks.
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Ableton Live 11
Ableton Live 11 Features & Enhancements:
➤ Comping
» Comping – Live organizes multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance into individual takes. The best parts of these takes can be stitched together for the final result.
» Linked-track editing – Link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.
➤ MPE compatibility
» MPE support – Add bends, slides and pressure for each individual note in a chord, add subtle expression variations, morph between chords and create evolving sonic textures more easily.
» Expression View – Edit the pitch, slide and pressure envelopes of each note to refine the expression in your music.
» MPE-capable native devices – Wavetable, Sampler and Arpeggiator are updated to support MPE.
➤ Expression View
Add and edit pitch, timbre and pressure variations of individual notes directly in a new tab in the Clip Detail View.
➤ New Devices
» Hybrid Reverb – Combines convolution and algorithmic reverbs, making it possible to create any space, from accurate real-life environments to those that defy physical reality.
» Spectral Resonator – Breaks the spectrum of an incoming audio signal into partials, then stretches, shifts and blurs the result by a frequency or a note in subtle or radical ways.
» Spectral Time – Transforms sound into partials and feeds them into a frequency based delay, resulting in metallic echoes, frequency-shifted and reverb-like effects.
» Inspired by Nature – Six playful instruments and effects that use nature and physics as their inspiration. Made in collaboration with Dillon Bastan.
» PitchLoop89 – Creates jittery glitch effects, delayed digital shimmers and outlandish vibrato. Made in collaboration with Robert Henke.
➤ Features For The Stage
» Live Tempo Following – Live listens to and adjusts its tempo based on incoming audio in real time.
» Macro Snapshots – Store the state of Macros for later recall.
» Rack improvements – Racks can be configured to have between one and sixteen Macros, Macro states can be randomized with the push of a button.
➤ Tools To Add Chance
» Note chance – Sets the probability that a note or drum hit will occur.
» Velocity chance – Defines ranges for velocity probability for subtle, humanized variations in dynamics.
» Improved Follow Actions – Follow Actions can now be linked to the clip length, be set to jump to specific clips and be enabled and disabled globally. Scene Follow Actions make evolving arrangements possible.
➤ New Sounds
» Voice Box, Mood Reel and Drone Lab are Ableton-designed Packs that each explore the spectrum of a specific sound palette.
» Upright Piano, Brass Quartet and String Quartet are three Packs created in collaboration with Spitfire Audio that capture popular orchestral instrument combinations in intimate detail.
➤ New In Max For Live
» MIDI Channel Routings – It is now possible to route MIDI to and from Max for Live audio effects and instruments.
» New API additions – A redesigned, MPE-compatible note API gives Max for Live access to many of Live 11’s features, including note probability, velocity deviation, and release velocity, as well as slices of a sample in Simpler, a clip or sample’s warp markers, and much more.
» Performance improvements – A complete overhaul of Max for Live’s user interface integration means a smoother experience when working with Max for Live.
» Improvements for Device creators – A new live.scope object adds an oscilloscope to the object library, developers can more clearly indicate which systems their devices can be used on and much more.
90 Day Free Trial:
To commemorate the launch of Live 11, Ableton is offering a fully-functional and free 90-day trial.
