#Ableton live 11 release date full#
#Ableton live 11 release date software#

Messing around with gravitational pull and the bouncing balls’ speed and mass is entertaining and highly inspiring. Bouncy Notes has you literally bouncing balls up and down a piano roll. They all use elements of nature and physics as their inspiration, such as gravity with ‘Bouncy Notes’. Other new cast members are ‘Inspired by Nature’, which is an entertaining and playful set of instruments and effects made in collaboration with the brilliant Dillon Bastan.

I was impressed with just how versatile Hybrid Reverb is. Hybrid Reverb can achieve everything from a subtle shimmer reverb underneath a nice hall, to out-of-this-world, unnatural, and highly inspiring sounds.

#Ableton live 11 release date full#

Ableton combined its convolution reverb (a sample-based reverb with impulse responses from real-world spaces and hardware) with an algorithmic reverb, with full blend control between the two re verb types. Hybrid Reverb is something I didn’t realize I wanted and needed until I experimented with it. Not all of them were ready in time for this review, but I got to spend time with a few. There are some innovative new devices in Live 11. I’ve utilized Ableton Live on national tours doing live performances for the past decade, and I can’t overemphasize how exciting this feature is! You assign an audio source for Live to follow I found the snare drum mic to be an excellent place to start, and the session will follow you instead of the other way around, making your loops and backing tracks a dynamic, breathing part of the band. It can intelligently adjust project BPM to the performer, instead of the performer having to follow a click as the tempo source. Live Tempo Following is a new feature that I’ve never seen before, and I think it’s a game changer. None of these were available yet in my advance copy so expect a deep dive in the future. Voice Box, Mood Reel, and Drone Lab are some other newcomers that I very much look forward to exploring.

#Ableton live 11 release date software#

Spitfire has an impeccable reputation for stunning and lifelike playable software instruments. I’m excited about the Upright Piano, String Quartet, and Brass Quartet, developed in collaboration with Spitfire Audio. Live 11 includes a ton of new stock sounds. I temporarily linked all my tracks together, split them all, deleted the unneeded audio and was done-a beneficial and powerful addition. I had one instance where I wanted to shorten the bridge of a song by 4 bars. I have also found Linked-Track editing useful for quickly making arrangement edits to an entire session. Also, being able to arm all the linked tracks simultaneously for recording without having to select them all and hold shift was something I found very helpful. The ability to split, copy and paste, and adjust fades on all my drum tracks at the same time has sped up my workflow. Much of what I do in Ableton Live is editing and mixing drum sessions that I’ve tracked, and I love this new workflow. The possibilities are endless.Īnother new feature is Linked-Track editing. Instantly, I had this changing and morphing drum pattern that was something I would never have come up with on my own. Beyond your average comping and editing abilities, there is a pandora’s box of creative potential, such as when I lined up multiple drum loops in Take Lanes all in the same BPM and randomly selected bits from each. This works with both audio and MIDI, and with the new linked-track editing in Live 11, you can even comp things like a multitrack drum session so it will select the same take on every drum microphone at the same time. The top audio track automatically populates with your selections, and you’re left with a perfectly edited final take in little to no time at all. You go through each of your take lanes and highlight each favorite segment with the Draw tool. From there, you can audition each take, choose your favorite bits, and integrate them to arrive at a master take containing all the best moments. Once finished, all takes are indexed below your audio track in a convenient dropdown menu of sorts for you to store and organize. Dubbed ‘Take Lanes’, Ableton worked hard in developing this popular and often-requested feature, and it shows, in its simplicity and ease of use.įor those unfamiliar with comping, an example is to loop a segment of your song, let’s say the verse, and record multiple consecutive takes. First and foremost, comping is now built into Live 11. There are many new top-line features added to Live this time around.

I played around with an advance copy of Live 11 for a few months, and here are some of my favorite new features and first impressions. Ableton Live 11 is scheduled for an early 2021 release.

N ew editions of Ableton Live are always eagerly anticipated.