Ableton team up with Soundcloud

matthews · Post by **matthews** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:42 pm

Ableton has long been the number one choice for musicians, whether for songwriting, making beats, remixing or live performances. At SoundCloud, we know that many of you depend upon it, indeed many of our team members use it on a regular basis privately (and it’s even been used in a masterclass or two!). It’s therefore with great pleasure to announce that SoundCloud and Ableton, two great Berlin audio companies, have teamed up to give our communities something unprecedented and very, very awesome.

The news? Ableton now comes with SoundCloud sharing baked in – yes, upload straight to SoundCloud. To celebrate, SoundCloud is offering Ableton users 5 months of SoundCloud Pro, for free. You can find the details here. So what does the SoundCloud community get? Ableton has been generous enough to offer the entire SoundCloud community a free copy of Live Lite 8 so that everyone can get started making their own sounds.

If you’re registered for our newsletter, you’ll get an email in the next 2 weeks with your own personal download code for Ableton Live Lite 8. If you haven’t yet registered for our newsletter, you can do so on your email settings page.

FULL STORY HERE

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:49 pm

Wow. This is just awesome for everyone concerned.

This is going to mean a lot of new Ableton users (there are literally millions of Soundcloud users who could presumably all claim Live Lite free!).

And a bunch of new Soundcloud Pro users

ttilberg · Post by **ttilberg** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:05 pm

Holy Bezus:

If you’re registered for our newsletter, you’ll get an email in the next 2 weeks with your own personal download code for Ableton Live Lite 8.

Not that there isn't an abundant supply of hardware you can buy and get Live Lite 8 with -- but wow -- lots of people who don't already have Live 8, just received big discount coupons!

To those not in the know, Live's upgrade pricing is the bees.

This is in addition to my original Holy Bezus, where I had heard random ridiculous rumors about integration with Soundcloud, but instantly discarded it as Live 9 speculation.

willdahbe · Post by **willdahbe** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:54 pm

This is the tits for sure! Of course, there are already people bitching about it on the post that Ableton made on their facebook earlier. Seriously?!?! What a bunch of pooheads...

condra · Post by **condra** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:10 pm

I now have Soundcloud Pro until August.
Pretty cool.

Cheers!

2be · Post by **2be** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:19 pm

Awesome. I love Soundcloud!

1.A.M. · Post by **1.A.M.** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:38 pm

Two buggy companies teamed together...what a nice marketing move...i bet something won't work and we will still render and upload in the "old" way...

Muzik 4 Machines · Post by **Muzik 4 Machines** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:12 pm

so does that mean live can finally export mp3, or will it upload 24 bit wav and totally bust my cap?

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:25 pm

1.A.M. wrote:Two buggy companies teamed together...what a nice marketing move...i bet something won't work and we will still render and upload in the "old" way...

And yet, your signature contains a link to Soundcloud on the Ableton forum.

[tow] · Post by **[tow]** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:44 pm

Muzik 4 Machines wrote:so does that mean live can finally export mp3, or will it upload 24 bit wav and totally bust my cap?

Something from our knowledge base: http://www.ableton.com/articles/export-mp3

Cheers,

Torsten

ttilberg · Post by **ttilberg** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:54 pm

so does that mean live can finally export mp3, or will it upload 24 bit wav and totally bust my cap?

To answer without clicking having to click that link, Soundcloud doesn't limit your account by file size, but instead play time. So you can upload .wavs all day long and it won't hurt your account more than 92 kbps MP3s. Which is one of my favorite features of Soundcloud actually.

Muzik 4 Machines · Post by **Muzik 4 Machines** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:57 pm

i meant my ISP bandwidth cap, a 4 minutes mo3 is 5 MB, a 4 minutes 24 waw is 60MB

xzusa8ky · Post by **xzusa8ky** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:28 pm

1.A.M. wrote:Two buggy companies teamed together...what a nice marketing move...i bet something won't work and we will still render and upload in the "old" way...

You are right! Totally crap features that Ableton implent to the software! Software update??? Soundcloud??? But non of the features that everybody wants for years gets implented!? It seems to me that this company aint give a damn about its users!

Gaetano CAPUANO · Post by **Gaetano CAPUANO** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:06 pm

One step closer to taking over zee worrld muhahahah

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:17 pm

xzusa8ky wrote:It seems to me that this company aint give a damn about its users!

Cool thing is it shows that at least ONE person is working on it.

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