12/8/2023 0 Comments Ableton live 9 reviews![]() Live‘s programmers chose the metaphor of the analog mixer as the program’s GUI, and if there’s one thing Live‘s users really appreciate, it’s the simplicity of this interface and thus its straightforward ease of use. Live users could also control when the loops started, how much they could be affected, and their tempos, just to name a few things, via computer keyboard and MIDI controller mapping. ![]() Using some smart algorithms that allowed any computer audio file to slave to any tempo, Live made possible (and easy and fun) the act of triggering various loops in real-time and affecting them using a mixer-like interface and plug-in architecture familiar to most electronic musicians. Was there a way to combine the two, where an artist could create thumping tracks in real-time for an audience? Enter Live. One person was the producer, one the performer. Meanwhile there seemed to be a growing disconnect between “bedroom studio musicians,” who were creating the tunes we all know and love, and DJs spinning vinyl versions of those same tunes. In the latter, learning and becoming adept with something as nebulous as Max/MSP made for a very daunting task, and even then the software seemed more appropriate for experimental work creating patches for precise, beat synced music (say electro, drum-n-bass, techno, etc) in real-time wasn’t easy. In the former, lugging your gear everywhere seemed a pain, and even if that gear was a lightweight laptop, triggering a pre-made sequence wasn’t much different than pressing play on a CD. Prior to applications like Live, electronic musicians had a couple options: drag all your hardware (synths, samplers, computers, etc) on stage, set them up, and trigger (for the most part) pre-made sequences, or create custom software environments, using tools like Max/MSP. Live is an audio sequencing application intended to make the experience of performing electronic music, from techno to ambient to anything that can be loop based, intuitive, easy and very fun. As a side note I tested Live 3 on a Ti G4 800 MhZ running Mac OS 10.3. ![]() Otherwise, a brief intro to what makes this software such a great tool is in order. For those of you familiar with how Live works, you can skip to the New in Live 3 bit below. When Live was released it set the laptop glitch, electro, IDM whatever-you-want-to-call-it world on fire, and for the most part this third iteration pulls no punches. (April 2004): So it’s been a couple of years since Robert Henke’s (aka Monolake) software company Ableton released LIVE, their (killer?) audio sequencing application.
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