![]() ![]() No need to be actively recording just dabble, find inspiration, and know that Live has got your back. Stumble accidentally upon a melody or phrase you like? One click, and there’s the MIDI clip in a track, ready for manipulation. This is Live’s new capability where it’s always listening when you’re playing, for instance, your MIDI keyboard. In working with Live 10 over the past several weeks, perhaps the most immediately useful addition I’ve personally experienced is MIDI Capture. On balance, however, the changes are positive, useful, occasionally surprising, and sometimes frustrating that we didn’t get a feature long before now. Even reading the complete list of changes leaves you unprepared for all the things that will snag you - sometimes pleasantly, other times not as much. Try to drag a clip, and you have to click it in just the right spot before it works. Click around and adjust things, and suddenly you realize that things are snapping differently than before. The appearance of clips is also strangely different ah yes, that’s because fades are now visible and editable by default. Let’s take automation, for example the usual methods to show and hide automation have changed, resulting in a certain amount of fumbling to figure things out. But as you work your way through typical workflows, things start to feel quite different. That reaction begins from the moment you open the software Ableton has given some spit and polish to the user interface that makes it feel fresh and modern, and yet totally recognizable. Hoping to discover them on my own, when I got access to the beta version late last year, I decided to just dive in, both by opening existing Live 9 projects, and by creating new projects and just trying to find my way.įirst Impressions: What I discovered in my testing is that Live 10 is both familiar - and different. It also serves to mask the bulk of the enhancements that have been made to Live 10. ![]() One of the things about Ableton Live is that its capabilities are not always readily apparent its streamlined interface belies its capability and depth. Indeed, the release of Live 10 comes with certain expectations, and it would appear that Ableton has risen to the occasion by rolling out some dramatic improvements to its popular DAW. And while, like most DAW makers, Ableton has offered incremental releases with significant new functionality in the intervening years, incrementing the version number on the left side of the decimal (with Ableton stretching out its hand for payment in-kind) has become a bit of a big deal to the Live faithful. In fact, it was over five years ago (by the time you read this in print) that the Berlin-based company shipped Live 9. It’s just not every day that we see a major new release of Ableton’s flagship product, Live. ![]()
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