Ableton Live 11

They actually just charge you one dollar until the release date.

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It seems like a lot of people are a bit underwhelmed, but personally Iā€™m really excited. Comping is massive for me as I do a fair bit of recording instruments. And MPE support is awesome. Or, as I see it, per note midi editing, since I donā€™t own any MPE controllers.

Bought live 10 too recently to be happy about having to hand over more money to them, but I surely will.

Edit: That follow button could actually be the real killer feature if it works well and Iā€™ve understood it correctly. If it can create a tempo mapping from rubato guitar playing for instance, that would be swell.

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I wonder if the follow feature can keep up with the Toraiz squid tempo trick. It would be crazy to just feed it an analog clock out tick and see what happens.

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after seeing videos iā€™m stoked for 11. templates, tempo follow, new devices, new feel/look possible, comping etc. itā€™s a welcome bunch of features imo. it does seem like some of this couldā€™ve come in a 10.5 update though. but whatevaā€¦ iā€™m not complaining. will pay for 11 and be happy about it.

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Finally got a chance to watch and listen with headphones. Iā€™m blown away.

All that with only two tracks.

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Only partly about new features but still very nice workflow video for making tracks in live

Oh, I just saw they only charge you $1 now for the preorder and then the full price on release. Iā€™m in :grin:

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This pushed me to finally cop a license for Live 10 :slight_smile:

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me tooā€¦ groups in groups at last!

yeah this is what iā€™ve been doing. i hope there will be some way to do custom scales, i believe you can modify the scripts for push to have additional ones so maybe that will follow with the software.

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Nice ideaā€¦ wonder if I could feed Ableton the sync cv out from keystep :thinking:

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Does this mean you can use Ableton 10 in the meantime? Or is it just a preorder and you have to wait for 11 release to use the software

Edit: I canā€™t do the preorder as I already own a live intro licenceā€¦

I think youā€™ll have to upgrade to live suite, and then you get live 11 when itā€™s released

Iā€™m imagining some funky tempo fluctuations in a good way.

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Live 11 will support Push 1.

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Do u have the right licence selected in your account? Thereā€™s a little drop down box. Sorry, do you own 10 Suite already?

I already own 10 Suite so the option is there to preorder 11 at 20% off with a $1 card hold for download and payment on release day.

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Does it also mean that you can use it as a sort of reverse USAMO/multiclock etc.?
For example if you sequenced synths from an external sequencer and sent a pulse from eg. the RYTM into live, would you get sample accurate midi clock??

I canā€™t imagine that this will be more accurate than regular midiā€¦ but would be nice if Iā€™m wrong!

Sure, sounds implausible, but currently:
If you use ableton clock as master, send an audio signal either though USAMO or multiclock via a USB audio interface and then clock over midi Din to external sequencers you get solid timing.

My (admittedly limited) understanding of why this works is because midi clock over USB sucks, but using the USB for audio bypasses the limitations of clock over USB. Wouldnā€™t this be similar theoretically?
I donā€™t really have a proper understanding though of why clock is so crap over USB though when you can send so much detailed audio data at high sample rates.

A digital audio signal necessarily has strict timing between any events. It doesnā€™t matter if the DAW manages to send a buffer over to the DAC a little earlier or later than usual (as long as itā€™s not too late), a pulse generated X audio samples after the last pulse will be played out by the DAC exactly X samples later.

With MIDI data there is no explicit timing between events. The DAW can send a clock byte when it needs to be sent, but if it sends it a little early or late the device will receive it a little earlier or later than it was supposed to. Add in a full multitasking OS and other traffic on the USB controller and there are more reasons for random fluctuations in timing, AKA jitter.

Measured over a longer period of time youā€™ll get the correct number of ticks but itā€™s the jitter that can cause problems. Any half decent MIDI implementation would average out the timing to stay in sync properly so it shouldnā€™t be too bad unless youā€™ve got serious problems on the sending side.

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