Ableton Forum

funken wrote:Actually I just wrote to Ableton asking when 9 was coming out. I'll let you know what they say.

donmich wrote:
All I'm saying is none of this weirdness is likely to be as it seems.

funken wrote:cheers Tone!

andydes wrote:

donmich wrote:
All I'm saying is none of this weirdness is likely to be as it seems.

d) They thought they were ready and found one or more issues in alpha testing which they need to fix. They don't want to risk starting off with a flakey piece of software and get a bad reputation.

It's not weird, it's what happens if you work in any kind of development

Tone Deft wrote:

funken wrote:Actually I just wrote to Ableton asking when 9 was coming out. I'll let you know what they say.

simmerdown wrote:too early to say fuck bitwig

too early to say yay! bitwig

too early to say shit about it because it doesn't even exist yet...maybe it never will

The first round of beta testing will be starting in the next few weeks. We expect the middle of next month. Sorry again for the delays.

Ub373NNN wrote:i thinking on sony will drop acid pro 8 in the 64 bit before the bitwig and the abelton all go out for sales.

donmich wrote:I dont know about myth. But BW's snaffoo has ableton written all over it. Same pr skills too.
Although I emailed them once and they replied rather quickly (as does ableton). They just arent big on making ongoing public announcements I guess.
Their model doesnt make sense from a business standpoint. At least not what we know about it. So if we were betting folks or potential investors, having to make some guesses, deductions and assumptions a few things seem to come to mind, at least for me

a) they are ableton and merely test marketing or guaging public response on the feature set. Everything we say here about it is being watched closely.

b) BW could be a sister "step-down" company which will have leaner, trendier, say- "EDM production oriented" code and be updated more regularly while Live remains a flagship version of itself with less pressure to frequently update

c) there could be some mergers/aquistions/ leveraged buyout action going on and either "b" could be part of the roadmap or they found a legal way to break off and protect their invention/key people from being subsumed and compromised from some menacing future inevitability - like having to work and conform with Logic's engineers (as only a possible example).

All I'm saying is none of this weirdness is likely to be as it seems.

Machinesworking wrote: Like I've said though, unless they really improve on Live's live performance aspects and somehow make a 1.0 release stable I'm only partially interested.