Comments on: Live 6 Features Revealed in Screenshots

By: Bonz Xylophone

Bonz Xylophone — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:05:14 +0000

Wow I’m really impressed with this feature set. The “racks” looks like it’s really going to simplify instrument layering, and the other control macros is something I’ve been searching for. Supposedly midi ox could work, but having this built into ableton’s easy midi assignment system is nice!

By: Santiago Leon

Santiago Leon — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:25:38 +0000

Yes i agree in a sense that ableton is a respected DAW and does is very smart, but, I was wondering if 6 will have a nudge feature like logics or cubases and will the copying of drawn automation still consist the audio files behind the automation lines. Logic and cubase keep theirs seperate, i feel with this done ableton will be complete.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:05:27 +0000

After spending a year looking for a new DAW, I would very much have *liked* to go with Live. But hard as it was, I decided to turn elsewhere for a sequencer because editing just seemed too … claustrophobic.

Finding editing features was just too hard. Too … fiddly. No doubt that, in part, that’s of a decade of sequencing with more conventional software. Once I was unable to convince myself that it had flexible MIDI capabilities, I gave up on it.

By: Metro:Sonus

Metro:Sonus — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:08:26 +0000

Also, a note to Ade, if possible..

Are you aware of ASIO4all?

http://www.asio4all.com

It’s a universal ASIO driver that allows people to use their stock sound card or non ASIO sound card with ASIO capabilities. Check it out if you haven’t. That would bode quite well with your “budget setups” that you keep pushing!

I use it on my laptop. When I’m not at home with my kit, I bring along a set of studio monitor headphones, and switch over to the ASIO4All driver. Works great..:)

By: Metro:Sonus

Metro:Sonus — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:05:32 +0000

I compared Live to Fl Studio .. You may say there’s no comparison, and while I think the audio quality of Live is above and beyond FL / Orion, I felt quite frustrated that I would only be using about 10% of the capability of Live @ 2.5 times the price I paid for Fl and the features in that regard are quite comparable.

Arrh!!! I should just buy it! It’s sneaking it past the Mrs. that’s the issue…

By: DATWOP

DATWOP — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:57:15 +0000

I don’t know if this has been addressed, but the one feature that would really make Live 6 even better for DJ use would be the ability to read in or sync with iTunes playlists. Final Scratch and Serato have this ability and is of their best features for organizing tracks. If this is going to be (or already is) implemented and I haven’t heard about it then I’m sorry for wasting y’allz time. If it hasn’t been brought up before, well, c’mon then!

By: simonsound

simonsound — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:41:27 +0000

I’m hoping that we will also get a counter that measures in seconds and minutes rather than just beats/bars. Also the ability to be able to measure a selection by highlighting it, as in Pro Tools.

In my opinion this is pretty important for Ableton to be a real contender.

Aside from this I find Live to be the most creative inspiring software I have used, especially for music and sound design. It is just missing a few things that are pretty important in a professional production tool.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:04:52 +0000

Nice stuff, but I wish they’d add a decent recording take and comping system. It’s really annoying to do any serious recording inside of Live.

By: kokorozashi

kokorozashi — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:18:10 +0000

When I asked about meters exceeding 0 dBFS, I was (stupidly) thinking only of driver input and the definition of dBFS. But of course Live is free to do its internal processing however it likes, and there are plenty of ways to get a signal hotter than any driver input. So my mistake was in assuming the meters show dBFS when in fact by definition they cannot be doing that. It would be interesting to know what these meters are in fact showing, how that correlates to dBFS, and what happens when the signal is pushed back down to a driver. It’s not like I suspect Ableton of having botched this; I’m just curious.

By: Digiballoon

Digiballoon — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:42:27 +0000

Look at the last screenshot! It looks like the first track has multiple movie files. Combine this with the fact that the movies can be displayed on second (full) screen, and voila, i dont have to lug two laptops around for my live shows!!! Live feeds both audio and video, directly in one app, totally synced, no more loading or rewire or midi or whatever!!

oh please please please they have done something to make tempo and master track/changes more convenient!! thats horrible to do in 5

maybe you can put movie files in a clip (scene) in session view? *i faint dramatically*