Topic: Ableton Live 9 Out by Christmastime

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  • October 21, 2012 at 08:15 #2832
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    Or that’s what they’re saying about it — a release by or during the end of year holidays.

    I’ve had Ableton now for about 3 months, and I like it a lot but being more old-school and trained decades ago on track setup this clip-based approach makes this DAW more of a glorified toy in my use. Still, some significant improvements have been made in the newest version, and I will certainly be upgrading to it sometime next year.

    And I’ll be the last person to knock this DAW; I like it far more than so much of the other rubbish that’s currently available to us. One of my sons completely swears by Ableton and is using it exclusively to record and mix for a double-Grammy winning client of his up nearby NYC right now and through Autumn.

    This recent video sets out and talks about many of the excellent improvements over Live 8:

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

    October 21, 2012 at 12:15 #22377
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    Interesting background story:

    http://bandesnaci.com/ableton-live-9-leaked/

    November 7, 2012 at 08:57 #22435
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    UPDATE:

    Suddenly now Ableton is saying Live 9 will be available first quarter of next year, not by the holiday season, along with a controller/instrument/pads thing called Push. I found the demos for both sort of interesting.

    There is still that notorious latency issue with Live. Apparently, and although details are still sketchy, of all the improvements Ableton has made to their DAW, they haven’t figured a way to improve their latency problem. Obviously, though, these other improvements are timed perfectly to give the new Bitwig DAW a run for the money as Bitwig moves to its final beta testing to make ready for its release.

    December 1, 2012 at 03:58 #22537
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    You think Podium has its shortcomings? Have a gander: Here is the ongoing massive problem in Ableton Live 8 (which will not receive a hotfix) and the forthcoming Live 9, now in beta and the problem will still likely not be fixed. Why? Because it is a core issue and cannot be written over the top. To attempt a fix could cause all manner of other horrors.

    From the last thread page at the Ableton Forum:

    “Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

    cliff notes for those that can’t read 40+ pages:

    PDC [editor’s note: the nasty problem — Ableton devs unable to fix the Plugin Delay Compensation mess] in Live has never compensated automation or the internal clock for tempo based effects and still does not in the current beta for Live 9. Some people are really mad and feel they need to put pictures of developmentally disabled kids in their signature or just act like complete twat-waffles.”

    Oh, did I neglect to mention? We are talking about a DAW that retails for $599.00USD here.

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