Live 7 announced!

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:33 pm

Dammit, I wish I could get the boxed edition without the EIC stuff.
I have v3 and v5 boxed, so v7 would keep the series.
Didn't they offer a boxed upgrade without EIC for v6 ?

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:01 pm

ethios4 wrote: Didn't they offer a boxed upgrade without EIC for v6 ?

Yes they did.

Alien Leg · Post by **Alien Leg** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:02 pm

Can you drag a VST Instrument to a drum rack pad or only Live Instruments?

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:05 pm

hoffman2k wrote:
ethios4 wrote: Didn't they offer a boxed upgrade without EIC for v6 ?
Yes they did.

Nice!

chrisedmo · Post by **chrisedmo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:05 pm

glu wrote:any new timestretching algos?

it says that the Hi Q sample rate conversion algo has been updated...

raapie · Post by **raapie** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:11 pm

wow, cool!

I already am using Lounge Lizard. Is it redundant now, or new and improved?

One thing which seems missing: crossfading clips. It would be great if you could select this when gluing two clips together, like in ProTools and other editors. Or can it still be added since it's a beta. A serious must have on my behalf. Most serious for serious audio editing. If included, Live can do it all!

But anyways: Live 7 looks like a great and complete tool. The new simulation synths must be great. Hopefully I can join the beta testing soon!

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:13 pm

yes, Electric is a mutated version of LoungeLizard3
the onboard effects are replaced by Lives effects - the presets are the same.

clip crossfading won't be added in this release, it's a big change under the hood.

deva · Post by **deva** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:14 pm

Alien Leg wrote:Can you drag a VST Instrument to a drum rack pad or only Live Instruments?

Any vst instrument!

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:15 pm

what upgrade path are you guys taking? are you buying tension and analog and electric and everything?

i'm thinking the bundle with studio drums and drum machines looks rather tasty, but i'm curious as to how analog sounds

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:17 pm

Alien Leg wrote:Can you drag a VST Instrument to a drum rack pad or only Live Instruments?

any instrument

about the new features: no big improvement in arrangement except for multi-lane automation.
one nice little device (actually there's 2 of them) allow you to plug external hardware easily (they're called External Instrument and External Audio Effect).
and what's cooler, is that you can use the Ext Inst device to route easily VST instruments with multiple midi/audio inputs/outputs (for insctance, you can have 1 instrument of kontakt appear as 1 audio channel), or you can use it to rewire with reason for instance (reason instruments will appear as audio channels while you still play midi notes) => you can freeze and flatten that and still keep your reason settings.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:17 pm

I'm a dork, I wanna see the new fact sheets.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:17 pm

Damn! missed the beta again.

I'm liking the fold out channels in the drum rack, can you do that with any channel in the mixer?

Any improvements/alterations to the way Live deals with groove and swing?

Some nice improvements in there, finally, sidechaining!!

yourmom · Post by **yourmom** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:18 pm

some really great and useful tools in this release.. could have done without some of the instruments and would've love to have seen more effects like a convolution reverb and a freely assignable LFO!!!!

Heinz Graaf · Post by **Heinz Graaf** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:18 pm

The update sounds great! Props to the abletonners for listening to us

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:19 pm

Tarekith wrote:I'm a dork, I wanna see the new fact sheets.

+1