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Cabinet Emulates the sound and character of five classic guitar cabinets. Color Limiter Another flavor of limiting inspired by the gritty sounds achievable with hardware limiters. The Saturation and Color parameters are the key to its characterful sound. Convolution Reverb Capture the characteristic reverb of real physical spaces with advanced sound shaping. Corpus Updated for Live 11 Simulates the acoustic characteristics of seven types of resonant objects.

CV Envelope Follower Use the envelope of any audio material to control device parameters. CV Shaper A flexible and envelope modulation device for creating custom modulation shapes. CV Utility Merge multiple modulation signals to generate new shapes. Echo The sound of classic analog and digital hardware delays in a single device.

Gated Delay A delay with a gate sequencer that sends the incoming signal to a delay line on activated steps. Much like a send effect that is turned on and off in a defined rhythm.

Hybrid Reverb New in Live 11 Combines convolution and algorithmic reverbs. Place your sounds in any space, from accurate real-life environments to those that defy physical reality. Pedal Brings the analog character of overdrive, distortion and fuzz stompbox effects. Pitch Hack A single delay line with transposition control, as well as the ability to reverse audio, randomize the transposition interval and fold the delayed signal back into itself. PitchLoop89 New in Live 11 Create jittery glitch effects, delayed digital shimmers and outlandish vibrato with this Max for Live pitch shifting device created in collaboration with Robert Henke.

Re-Enveloper A multiband envelope processor that divides the signal into three adjustable frequency bands. Attack and Release knobs control the responsiveness of the effect.

Spectral Blur Creates sounds and textures best described as reverb-like. A user-defined frequency range of a signal is blurred to create a dense, cloud of sound. Spectral Resonator New in Live 11 A sound mangling device that can make anything passing through it sound completely unlike the source material. Use the MIDI sidechain input to process material in key with its surrounding musical elements — like playing an effect as if it were an instrument.

Spectral Time New in Live 11 Re-synthesize your sounds and feed them into a network of filters, dynamics, reverb and delay, to add metallic echoes, pitch shifting and space to any sound source. Freeze the sound to capture and hold a slice of the audio and alter its characteristics in real time. Surround Panner Multichannel Panning device for surround mixing with multi-channel speaker setups.

Arpeggiator Takes individual notes from a held chord and plays them as a rhythmical pattern. Rotating Rhythm Generator Create organic rhythms and experiment with modular style beat generation.

Melodic Steps A fast and intuitive MIDI sequencer for evolving melodies with an interface designed to encourage experimentation and new discoveries through play. Unique Session View for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation. Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo. Powerful MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments.

Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching. Group tracks Use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily. Comping New in Live 11 Record multiple takes of a performance, then combine the best ones. Linked-track editing New in Live 11 Link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously. Multiple automation lanes.

MIDI Polyphonic Expression New in Live 11 Add bends, slides and pressure for each individual note in a chord, add subtle expression variations, morph between chords and create evolving sonic textures more easily. Tempo Following New in Live 11 Live listens to and adjusts its tempo based on incoming audio in real time, making it a dynamic part of the band instead of the tempo source that everyone has to follow.

Note Chance New in Live 11 Set the probability that a note or drum hit will occur and let Live generate surprising variations to your patterns that change over time. Mac OS X Play video: Session View. Session View. Play video: Arrangement View. Arrangement View. Max for Live Max 7 Pitch and Time Machines by Cycling ’74 Max 7 Pitch and Time Machines is a free collection of devices that make use of new real-time intonation, pitch and time correction capabilities of Max 7.

Vocoding Mono Vocoder — A dual-mono vocoder. Retuning Autotuna — A scale-based microtonal auto-tuner that can use Scala files. You may also like:. EUR Available as bundle. Microsoft Office YTD Video Downloader. Adobe Photoshop CC. VirtualDJ Avast Free Security. WhatsApp Messenger. Talking Tom Cat. Clash of Clans. Subway Surfers. TubeMate 3. Google Play. Windows Windows. Analog is a fairly standard semi-modular design, with two multi-shape oscillators plus noise, and two multi-mode filters.

Signal routing is flexible, with both oscillators featuring a balance control for sending varying amounts to filters 1 and 2. Similarly, filter routing caters for both serial and parallel operation, or something in between.

The global parameter page features a useful set of Quick Routing diagrams, which can be clicked to set the controls for common routing schemes. Rather unusually, Analog has two separate Amp modules, which by default are fed individually by the filters.

Each has a separate envelope, so you can easily create sounds that evolve from one tone to another. The most important controls are on the modules, and clicking a module brings up further parameters relating to it. This is a nice solution, as it keeps the most relevant controls visible in the limited space available. Most controls in the central display area have only numeric displays, which, again, saves space, but is problematic.

This makes it difficult to see where parameters are in their ranges. I once held up Live as an example of superior design in an article where I questioned the sense in recreating hardware-style controls in software.

However, I did say that pots and faders can be a good thing, letting you see at a glance what is happening in a patch. A more analogue interface would also give Analog a bit more personality and make it more fun to program. Personally, I found it took a little time and patience to make good sounds, as opposed to being the kind of synth that sounds good most of the time.

Auditioning through the presets shows that it is possible to make warm, creamy sounds with some patience. This is made possible by the fact that Electric is not sample-based; all the sounds are synthesized in real time using physical-modelling techniques. You may find sampled instruments that sound a touch closer to the real thing, but they are hard pushed to match this level of responsiveness and tweakability. Tension is the most intriguing of the new Ableton Suite instruments, being a physical-modelling string synthesizer based on the AAS String Studio.

The Abletons seem to have a penchant for the experimental, and I can see them being drawn to the approach taken by AAS.

Tension lets you experiment with just about any way you could imagine to get sound out of a stretched string. All components of an instrument and playing technique can be selected and fine-tuned. For example, you can excite the string with a plectrum, bow, hammer, or bounced hammer. If you choose bow, you can set friction, playing strength, position on the string, and so on. You can then model how the fingers fret the strings, how the strings are damped, and what the body of the instrument is like.

Tension models real instruments with varying degrees of success. You can make a pretty decent violin, and guitars are very convincing. Like Electric, the power of this synthesis method over sampling is the responsiveness of the instrument to playing style.

Each step of the modelling will react differently to velocity in complex ways, and you can control and modulate parameters in real time, which will interact with other areas of the sound.

 
 

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The hyperactive developers at Ableton have been at it again. Ableton live 7 review free download 7 gains an ingenious new way of working with drums, and an optional library packed with new instruments. Software develops at such a pace nowadays that buying a music package can feel like making a down-payment on an annual subscription.

The last major Live upgrade still feels warm from the oven, and another one is here. In our generally enthusiastic review abletton Live 6, we suggested that the most significant weak spot was its paucity of instruments and drum kits. Enter Live 7, with a whole new framework for working with drums, and the new Ableton Suite, featuring a host of new synths, plus electronic and acoustic drums. This is an admirable move, as the temptation is always to prioritise shiny, new, marketing-friendly features.

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Each sound has a separate chain signal pathbut all the chains are mixed back together at the output of the instrument. A mixer track containing a Drum Rack has an expand button to the right of its name. Clicking this slides open a new nested mixer view, showing all the chains in the Rack as separate mixer channels. From here you can quickly set levels and pans, and drop audio effects on individual sounds.

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Drum Rack pads are laid out in four columns, with 16 shown at a time. A small overview shows all the pads, with a square indicating which ones are visible. The coolest bit is that when you move the focus square around, your controller will always play the 16 pads that are currently in view.

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Smart Priming prioritises available memory to samples that are actually being used. For example, Live rwview at which samples are used by MIDI clips on tracks that are not record-armed or in input mode, to see which samples are needed. If you arm these tracks again, you can see Live briefly re-buffering the samples in case they are played.

Fgee worked great on my iMac with 3GB memory and fast ableton live 7 review free download, but I had the feeling that on my laptop, with its 1GB RAM and nearly full drive, it actually had a slightly detrimental effect, because even simple patches struggled as Live shuffled samples around. Live now downpoad REX files. The resulting clip behaves much like a standard audio clip, except that yellow lines appear in the clip view indicating slice points, and warping is disabled. Loops can be beat-sliced and automatically placed into a Drum Rack; MIDI clips are automatically generated for playing back a sliced loop.

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The latter choice means that you need to go in and set the slice points manually by placing the markers. The External Instrument device lets you play and monitor Rewire or hardware instruments from a single track. One of my favourite new features is the External Instrument device. Although MIDI tracks in Live can host virtual instruments, and therefore handle movie maker app for free windows as well as MIDI, they have never been able to receive audio from an external source.

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The new External Audio Effect device lets you fdee a physical insert point. If you Freeze a track containing one of these devices, Live performs a real-time bounce to capture the audio. This doubles as a really simple way to print all your outboard effects if you move a project to a different location. Time signature changes and multiple automation lanes in the Arrangement. Time signature changes are added to Session rveiew by simply including revview in their names.

In the same way that tempo changes are handled, you just need to ableton live 7 review free download the name of a scene fres the Master track to include the time signature. Live automatically recognises this, and makes the change when you launch the clip.

If you have the Arrangement in record when you launch such a clip, a signature-change marker is 77 into the time ruler — a simple and elegant solution. Another useful new feature is the ability to display and work with multiple lanes of automation from a single track. Each extra graph that you choose to view is stacked above the previous one. The lanes can ableton live 7 review free download re-ordered and individually resized.

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You can call up either of the original models, or a brand new feedback model. The new algorithm mimics the kind of expensive vintage compressors that we all hanker after. I absolutely loved it. If you want to ableton live 7 review free download a creamy-smooth, warm boost to drums, without adding punch, this is perfect.

Very short release times produce a nice harmonic saturation. On synths and vocals it can smooth out levels, or completely flat-line them without distorting or pumping. As well as EQ side-chaining, you can now side-chain Compressor from an external signal. Side-chaining has also been added to the Gate device, and to the envelope follower in Auto Filter, both of which open up new creative possibilities. If you use Live for composition, especially if you program your own drums, the Drum Rack alone will make the upgrade too tempting to pass up.

Personally, as someone who uses Fere for dodnload more than performance, the External Instrument device with ablteon Freeze support is particularly pleasing, especially for Rewiring cownload Reason instruments. The instruments and drum libraries make Live a more rounded fre. Live continues to mature as an all-round platform for composition and production, as well as a performance tool. There are still things that other packages do better, such as MIDI manipulation and fully fledged automation, but I, for one, am glad that Ableton focus their development on ableton live 7 review free download elegant and intuitive alternatives to working methods that http://replace.me/21676.txt of the other DAWs do in the same way as each other.

Analog is, as you have probably guessed, an analogue modelling synth. Like all the new instruments, it is based on a synth created by Applied Acoustic Systems, in this case, Ultra Analog. Ablrton downloaded the demo of Ultra Analog and was able to compare like-for-like, because the majority of presets supplied with Analog are ports of the default bank from Ultra Analog. The same patches sound virtually identical on both plug-ins.

Analog is a fairly standard semi-modular design, with two multi-shape oscillators plus noise, and two multi-mode filters. Signal routing is downloaad, with both oscillators abletom a balance control for sending varying amounts to filters 1 and 2. Similarly, filter routing caters for both serial and parallel operation, or something in between.

The global parameter page features a useful set of Quick Routing diagrams, which can be clicked to set the controls for common routing schemes. Rather unusually, Analog has two separate Amp modules, which by default are fed individually by the filters.

 

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Shifter Updated for Live Spectrum Realtime analysis and visualization of incoming audio. Vinyl Distortion Emulates the noise and distortion of vinyl records. Amp Emulates the sound and character of seven classic guitar amplifiers. Cabinet Emulates the sound and character of five classic guitar cabinets. Color Limiter Another flavor of limiting inspired by the gritty sounds achievable with hardware limiters.

The Saturation and Color parameters are the key to its characterful sound. Convolution Reverb Capture the characteristic reverb of real physical spaces with advanced sound shaping.

Corpus Updated for Live 11 Simulates the acoustic characteristics of seven types of resonant objects. CV Envelope Follower Use the envelope of any audio material to control device parameters.

CV Shaper A flexible and envelope modulation device for creating custom modulation shapes. CV Utility Merge multiple modulation signals to generate new shapes. Echo The sound of classic analog and digital hardware delays in a single device. Gated Delay A delay with a gate sequencer that sends the incoming signal to a delay line on activated steps.

Much like a send effect that is turned on and off in a defined rhythm. Hybrid Reverb New in Live 11 Combines convolution and algorithmic reverbs. Place your sounds in any space, from accurate real-life environments to those that defy physical reality. Pedal Brings the analog character of overdrive, distortion and fuzz stompbox effects. Pitch Hack A single delay line with transposition control, as well as the ability to reverse audio, randomize the transposition interval and fold the delayed signal back into itself.

PitchLoop89 New in Live 11 Create jittery glitch effects, delayed digital shimmers and outlandish vibrato with this Max for Live pitch shifting device created in collaboration with Robert Henke. Re-Enveloper A multiband envelope processor that divides the signal into three adjustable frequency bands. Attack and Release knobs control the responsiveness of the effect. Spectral Blur Creates sounds and textures best described as reverb-like. A user-defined frequency range of a signal is blurred to create a dense, cloud of sound.

Spectral Resonator New in Live 11 A sound mangling device that can make anything passing through it sound completely unlike the source material. Use the MIDI sidechain input to process material in key with its surrounding musical elements — like playing an effect as if it were an instrument. Spectral Time New in Live 11 Re-synthesize your sounds and feed them into a network of filters, dynamics, reverb and delay, to add metallic echoes, pitch shifting and space to any sound source.

Freeze the sound to capture and hold a slice of the audio and alter its characteristics in real time. Surround Panner Multichannel Panning device for surround mixing with multi-channel speaker setups. Arpeggiator Takes individual notes from a held chord and plays them as a rhythmical pattern. Rotating Rhythm Generator Create organic rhythms and experiment with modular style beat generation.

Melodic Steps A fast and intuitive MIDI sequencer for evolving melodies with an interface designed to encourage experimentation and new discoveries through play. Unique Session View for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation. Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo. Powerful MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments. Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching. Group tracks Use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.

Comping New in Live 11 Record multiple takes of a performance, then combine the best ones. Linked-track editing New in Live 11 Link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously. Multiple automation lanes. MIDI Polyphonic Expression New in Live 11 Add bends, slides and pressure for each individual note in a chord, add subtle expression variations, morph between chords and create evolving sonic textures more easily.

Tempo Following New in Live 11 Live listens to and adjusts its tempo based on incoming audio in real time, making it a dynamic part of the band instead of the tempo source that everyone has to follow. Note Chance New in Live 11 Set the probability that a note or drum hit will occur and let Live generate surprising variations to your patterns that change over time.

Velocity Chance New in Live 11 Define ranges for velocity probability for subtle, humanized variations in the dynamics of your patterns. Automatic plug-in delay compensation. MIDI remote control instant mapping. MIDI output to hardware synths. Ableton Link A technology that keeps instances of Live and a growing collection of iOS apps in time over a wireless network. Instrument Racks Updated for Live 11 Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device, allowing for split and layered sounds with customized Macro controls.

Scenes Updated for Live Audio inputs Mono audio input channels. Audio outputs Mono audio output channels. Complex warp modes Advanced algorithms for stretching audio, ideal for working with mixed audio or full tracks.

Audio-slicing Slice audio to a Drum Rack or Sampler instance. Max for Live Powers a range of instruments and devices in Live Suite, and lets you customize or build your own devices, change the way Live works, and connect Live with the world around it. POW-r dithering Mastering quality dithering modes for downsampling audio.

Play Analog Emulates the unique character of vintage analog synthesizers. Play Collision Updated for Live 11 Physical modeling instrument for authentic mallet percussion sounds and creative percussion. Play Electric Updated for Live 11 The sounds of classic electric pianos. Play Operator A versatile synthesizer combining frequency modulation and subtractive synthesis.

Play Tension Updated for Live 11 Physical modeling string synthesizer. Play Chop and Swing Updated for Live 11 A homage to the style that made sampling an art form and put a new kind of groove on the musical map. Play Drum Essentials Drum Essentials is a collection of handpicked sounds selected to cover a wide range of styles. Play Grand Piano Updated for Live 11 Multiple articulations, sampled from a carefully prepared and programmed piano to capture the virtuosity of the classical grand piano sounds.

The simplest is to put your drum machine or sampler plug-in on a track, then record MIDI clips on that track. When it comes to mixing, you might prefer each sound to come up on a different audio track, so you can treat each one separately. So you route the sounds to different tracks if the plug-in supports this.

The Drum Rack gives you a single plug-in environment with trigger pads, each of which can control a single drum sound. Each sound has a separate chain signal path , but all the chains are mixed back together at the output of the instrument.

A mixer track containing a Drum Rack has an expand button to the right of its name. Clicking this slides open a new nested mixer view, showing all the chains in the Rack as separate mixer channels. From here you can quickly set levels and pans, and drop audio effects on individual sounds. Clicking the name of a nested track displays that chain on its own in the device view, so you can quickly see or edit what devices are in the chain.

Drum Rack pads are laid out in four columns, with 16 shown at a time. A small overview shows all the pads, with a square indicating which ones are visible.

The coolest bit is that when you move the focus square around, your controller will always play the 16 pads that are currently in view. A MIDI keyboard will play all of the available pads.

In the chain list, as well as setting which note pad triggers the chain, you can set which note is sent to the instrument. Drop an effect on a pad and it gets placed after any sample or instrument already there. From the expanded mixer view, you can drag any of the pad channels into an empty space in the mixer. The chain gets pulled out of the Drum Rack, becoming a self—contained MIDI track with the chain devices inserted on it. This is fine if you prefer to make your own kits, but otherwise you need to look at getting the Drum Machines or Session Drums packages.

This is as good a reason as any to opt for the full Ableton Suite. The two included kits are basically teasers for the two new drum libraries. The Drum Machine package is available as a download, and does what it says on the tin.

Hopefully there will be more sounds on the way. This more expensive and much larger library 28GB and available only as a two—DVD box set is dedicated to studio drums.

A large range of kits is provided, with different environments, played with a mixture of sticks, brushes and mallets. Recording quality and velocity mapping are excellent throughout. The other half are multi-mic kits of epic proportions that are only made possible with the Drum Rack. You can control the overall levels of the overhead and room mics and bottom snare mic , although from the chain returns, not the mixer.

However, to change the balance on a drum that has more than one mic, as the kick and snare do, you have to go in and do it for every different articulation of which snares can have quite a few, such as straight hits, sidesticks, rolls, rimshots and so on.

Apart from that, the Session Drums sound fantastic, and, as far as I can see, should have you covered for just about any kind of music that needs an acoustic drum kit. Smart Priming prioritises available memory to samples that are actually being used. For example, Live looks at which samples are used by MIDI clips on tracks that are not record-armed or in input mode, to see which samples are needed.

If you arm these tracks again, you can see Live briefly re-buffering the samples in case they are played. This worked great on my iMac with 3GB memory and fast drive, but I had the feeling that on my laptop, with its 1GB RAM and nearly full drive, it actually had a slightly detrimental effect, because even simple patches struggled as Live shuffled samples around.

Live now supports REX files. The resulting clip behaves much like a standard audio clip, except that yellow lines appear in the clip view indicating slice points, and warping is disabled.

Loops can be beat-sliced and automatically placed into a Drum Rack; MIDI clips are automatically generated for playing back a sliced loop. To do anything more than play a loop back, you need to switch to the traditional way of handling REX files: treating them as a series of samples. This creates a new track with a Drum Rack, and loads the slices onto individual pads.

A MIDI clip is also generated with a sequence of ascending notes that will be familiar to beat-slicing aficionados. When played back, this reproduces the original clip. However, you can now go in and mess with the MIDI clip to change the way the loop plays back.

For example, you can quantise the clip, or rearrange the notes to change the drum pattern. You can also play the slices back manually from your MIDI keyboard or pads. A dialogue box gives you the choice to create slices at regular intervals, such as 16th notes, or slice at Warp Markers. The latter choice means that you need to go in and set the slice points manually by placing the markers. The External Instrument device lets you play and monitor Rewire or hardware instruments from a single track.

One of my favourite new features is the External Instrument device.