Ableton Live 10 - New Features Overview by Sweetwater

Ben Casey from Ableton shows some new features in Live 10.

Ableton Live 10 introduces a bunch of great new features. If you've used previous versions of Ableton Live, then you're definitely going to want to check these out.

Ableton Live 10 NEW Functions:
• Max for Live (updated) — 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.
• Groups in Groups — Use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.
• Capture — Recall your best ideas after you've played them – Capture can turn what you played into MIDI clips, without having to think about recording.
• Browser Collections — Designed to help you better manage your Live 10 data, you can create Browser Collections that combine elements such as projects, audio files, device presets, and so on. It should make it much faster and easier to keep track of all files associated with a project, for example.
• Note Chasing — Another often-requested feature, MIDI notes will be triggered even if playback starts in the middle of a note. Especially if you’re working on ambient music with lots of long, sustained pads, you’ll definitely appreciate this one.
• I/O Renaming — Live 10 now allows producers to label Live’s inputs and outputs to match your studio setup. Especially if you work with a large audio interface and lots of outboard gear, this is a huge help.
• Improved Mixing Tools — Improved gain range and a Bass Mono feature that makes it easy to manage low frequencies. The EQ Eight device now offers an extended low-frequency range, down to 10Hz for better bass management. And Split Stereo Pan gives you independent pan control over split-stereo audio files.

From the beginning, Ableton Live 10 has been as much a creative tool as a DAW. That largely has to do with the way Ableton Live 10 lets you construct tracks and play with audio in real time. There are two main parts to Ableton Live 10: the Session View, and the Arrangement View. The Arrangement View in Ableton Live 10 is more or less a standard linear DAW, with time on the X axis and tracks on the Y axis.

Where Ableton Live 10 differs from other DAWs is its Session View, which puts individual tracks on the X axis and scenes on the Y axis. Each scene contains a slot on each channel for a clip. Clips are usually short pieces of audio or MIDI a few measures long or shorter, which loop to create grooves in Ableton Live 10. Launched individually, these loops let you experiment with your arrangements, trying out various combinations of grooves and riffs in Ableton Live 10.

Since everything from modern electronic music to classic rock and blues is heavily based on repeating sections, the Ableton Live 10 Session View makes it an ideal creative tool for all kinds of songwriters. In fact, the songwriting tools don't stop there. In addition to launching individual clips in Ableton Live 10, you can launch entire scenes, complete with automatic advancement to subsequent scenes, scene repeat instructions, and other logic options.

Using scenes makes it easy to arrange entire songs in parts (verse, chorus, etc). And when you record your progression to the linear Arrangement View, you add the possibility to record lead lines and other performances that fall outside the rest of the song structure. What's more, all of the loop-/riff-based arrangement options in Ableton Live 10 are still available on the timeline, so you can continue to edit and build on your song, even after you record it to the session view of Ableton Live 10.

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[marike]

Awesome Ableton update, Live Capture, Collections, the new Wavetable synth, et al. Very cool.

[bitriplex]

6:46 OMG you finaly decrease the volume of that bass

[timicanclem]

Leave the poor fella alone. He's done a fine job!

[allancerf]

despite the naysayers really enjoyed the demo. you did a great job. live 10 is an expensive but worthy upgrade.

[amphitheatre]

excited for able10! is there any difference in ordering from you guys vs ordering directly from ableton? does buying from sweetwater mean my copy is only good on the computer i first d/l it to?

[definitelymiami]

cpu hovering 20-30% with just two tracks? my older mac won't handle this upgrade so i guess i'm out.

[forseengreatness]

The camera man should've known to have that guy change his shirt. :/

[karltraunmuller]

Ableton again wins ugliest UI in class! Also, lame demo. Check out Native Instruments’ new demos, they really make you want their products.