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I know rewriting an audio engine from scratch is not fun, but if Live is to fulfill its claims of being a DAW in addition to being a loops-based instrument, it must remain competitive even with lower-end audio sequencers (Metro, Logic Audio, Cubase SL etc.). I heartily applaud this statement of commitment from Ableton - here's to seeing Live 4 sometime before the end of 2004

I think 80% of the functionality is there already. From forum comments, it seems like it's now just down to adding a good built-in waveform editor and retooling for platform-specific enhancements (on OS X for instance, making code more re-entrant, multithreaded, MP-aware, using Altivec for DSP).

I like the addition in Live 3 of the option to play back from RAM; it would be nice if you could set this as a global option (i.e. all, selected, or none from RAM).

How's about this in the meantime - adding more to the ReWire 2 implementation, in order to use Live as a slave application with Reason, so we can channel audio outputs through Reason's effects?

I'd also like to see a "Freeze" button like in Cubase / Nuendo - to dynamically 'prerender' FX and other settings to a 'virtual' track to lessen the CPU load: it can either be 'unfrozen' or rendered permanently to audio.

Oh yeah - and AU support would be lovely...but I'd expect that to be automatic with a core engine upgrade!

If Ableton needs investors to make this happen faster, where do I sign up? Can we "pre-buy" our copies of Live 4 if it'll help pay the overtime?

Very well said ajkandy!!!!!

ajkandy wrote:How's about this in the meantime - adding more to the ReWire 2 implementation, in order to use Live as a slave application with Reason, so we can channel audio outputs through Reason's effects?

Reason does not accept audio input.

yes, lack of audio input in reason is my main wish for ANY software.....reason 2.5 fits in sooo nicely with LIVe in osX.
thanks ableton for having such cool software. +()Dd

Thank you Ableton.

[quote]Reason does not accept audio input. [/quote]

That's by design, not for any technical reason. Reason has that "ReBirth Input Machine", so the Props could certainly implement a "Live Input Machine" - after all, didn't Propellerheads and Ableton do a "Reason+Live" promotional tour recently? Each complements each other so nicely - clean, simple, easy to use, very similar philosophy.

If Props disabled that for some reason - to prevent Reason from basically becoming a big stack of VSTs or whatnot - well, couldn't they make an exception in this case - if we all ask nicely?