New GUI for Ableton Live... New Look...

[afone1977]

I agree with djsynchro. The gradients and 3D look don't give you more information, just consume more space. The conservative, simple (but still powerful), intuitive UI design is what made Live so good in the first place. I don't know Logic, but compared to Reason, FruityLoops or Cubase, it's much better.

totally agree, live is designed to make music not to seduce your girl,

actually the GUI works, it can be better, but prove it, nobody show us what live could be, no concrete idea, but many here want ableton to waste time on it (and make a GUI is a lot of work)

may be i'm wrong but do a survey :

-new GUI for live 8 or

-new GUI is a totally waste of time, i prefer ableton works on other more important tools and live's stability

and we will see what ppl think truly about it ...

bezier curve, crossfaded clip, group track, frequency analyser integrated to eq8, LFO / envellope generator plugins, matrix style step seq plugins, a truly integrated audio editor, ....

all of this are so much more important to me than a new busy optionnal GUI i certainly don't use

[jonnyfive]

Please Please Please...

LEAVE IT 2D.

We don't want or need shaders on every fader and knob or glare and reflection. I hate how this looks in other DAWs I use and wish they would go the 2D route like Live. I dont want my computer to look like a vintage mixer i want it to be as clean and uncluttered as possible, all the lighting effects just get in the way. I much prefer the interfaces of Live, Automat, and the new Max Juce based GUI to name a few.

[RobertX]

The Ableton UI is a great example of the genius of simplicity.

In fact, I like it so much that I wish Ableton could skin OSX.

IOW, don't fucking touch it. Ever.

[poshook]

for me 3D look provides a lot of information because it adds the next dimension to the GUI - the space. good 3D GUI can be more transparent than 2D. It is the same as with audio. You can differentiate sounds in the mix using different methods like colouration (EQ), dynamics (comp), place in panorama (2D) but definitely also by adding depth (delay, reverb, etc.).

all of us love big mixes with great depth with a lot of spacial information and for me these mixes give me much more information while stay very clean and transparent. I hate flat 2D mixes because they are muddy and less transparent...

The impact of static 3D GUI to todays computer performance is almost nothing

lol jesus.

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[shmaltz]

ableton is what it is because, among other things, of the way it looks. i vote leave it as is. personally i think ableton layout is way better than the "real" looking softwares out there.

[zebebop]

Visiblement les Misters "NO" sortent de leur trous avec toujours le même argument moisi : "j'en veux pas pour moi, donc pas pour les autres non plus, c'est comme ça, nananère". Deuxième service...

"He who can do more can do less !!"

[condra]

+1 for GUI improvements.

It would be possible to keep the style, but still make some nice subtle improvements.

[heavensdaw]

I think that they should leave it be.. And concentrate efforts in making Live as a program even more KILLA! C'mon Abes you can do it!

Hd

[DivineCo]

Why change a GUI that is probably by far the best GUI ever created and I mean that in comparison to other aplications as well, not just DAWs.
Color schemes can of course always be changed but when it comes to interaction and readability Live is brilliant.
Abelton is one of the rare and few companys that really understands that new features has to be integrated in a GUI context as well. Instead of just features being tucked upon a product that is already there. Resulting in a product that becomes more and more compromised.
To program and ad new features is easy but to really integrate these features in the product takes time, knowledge and a long time strategy.
Abelton is truly masters in this field. Combining a complex product with beuty and superior usability.
So please do not change to become just one of all those ugly aps with chrome, gold and 3D infected realism that DAW often are clutered with.

Keep up the good job!

Anders (Professional GUI designer)

[Raikard]

The gui is fine as it is now.
One thing that i miss is a grid division over the piano roll for midi clips.
A division every 4th, with alterned more and clear background, can be really helpful for fastest writing of notes.

[Johnny Beat]

The GUI is perfect as it is.

I'd rather the developers spend more time on automation

[yoki808]

visually the gui is perfect for my needs and i hope they wont put any time to change the visual appearance at all.. if it started to look like cubase i would get very depressed..

stuff like multiple midieditors and better support for dual screens sounds very nice though (like screensets) but thats about functionality rather than the skin of the application which i guess this thread was about..

[8O]

Just to add one more vote for keeping the GUI as it is please. The simplicity is a key selling point.

[julienb]

ableton, please, don't loose time with this kind of request

[Patch]

Change the GUI. But keep it the same. The same but different.



What the hell..?

The changes need are super suptle. Just crisp everything up a little. Tidy up the radiuses (I always thought the rads were a bit to big - almost cartoony), maybe a new, crisp font, etc...