Ableton Forum

New Devices:

• Multi LFO/envelope-tool, syncable to tempo and groove, so that you can modulate anything you want. The envelope can also function as a sidechain compressor, but with unlimited possible shapes, or as a transient designer.
  A dynamic EQ with sidechain, with DeEsser presets.
  A good Convolution Reverb
  Multiband distortion
  Transient designer
  Good master metering, with correlation-meter, an spectrum analyzer with m/s, an signal analyser. RMS and peak metering etc.
  Melodyne-like function

Improved devices:

• Sidechain to MIDI option on at least the gate and the compressor.
  A spectrum analyzer ínside the EQ, with pre and post EQ option.
  Simpler sync to bpm (envelope + LFO)
  Envelope drawing in Simpler
  Unison mode in Simpler.
  Same timestretch modes in Simpler as in the clipview
  Drag and drop samples from clipview into Simpler with al the envelopes attached
  EQ + Autofilter should have selectable slopes for de HP and LP (12, 24, 36, 48dB/oct.).
  The EQ should also have an 'analog' button, so that it creates a EQ like an old analog EQ for artistic EQing.
  The GR meter on the compressor should have values, peak and RMS.
  Compressor with Autorelease.
  A good Bitcrusher, not like the one in Ableton.

Improved tools

• An import en export function for Audio- and MIDI-tracks, including synths, effects and automation. When you are working on a song and you now that you have another song with a great synthpart which you know will fit great, then it would be very cool if you can insert that synth-track.
  You should be able to converge multiple midifiles into one.
  Bend-option for bending automation lines.
  Draw tool for envelope drawing with options as: sinus, arc, parabole, etc. + snap to grid/point on curve function.
  Note chaising. So you don't have to start at the beginning of a long riser to hear something.
  It should be possible to apply a groove to an audio- or MIDI-track, instead of just to a part.
  Freeze + flatten should also work on grouptracks.
  If you use 'Export Audio' then there should be a function that imports the audiofile automaticaly in a new audiotrack. Like Cubase has.
  Stack recording: when you are recording in loopmode, every loop is recorded in a seperate sub-track.
  Editting should also be possible in the arrange view and not just in de clip view, or you should be able to show or stack multiple midi and audioclips in clipview so that you can edit one clip while you constantly compare it to the other clips.
  A function where you can solo or mute parts and where you can audition parts just by cliking on it with the mouse. So just that parts on a track and not the entire track.

Sounds good, i wanna load up a few things here

- In Simpler i want to select a part of the Audiofile and drag them to a new Audio Track. Atm its only possible if i go in Arrangement Window and select a part from the Audiofile itself.

- Select a Part in Simpler and click "Slice to Midi Clip". It only works for the whole File in Simpler, why not only the selected part?

DutchMusicMan wrote:New Devices:
Multi LFO/envelope-tool, syncable to tempo and groove, so that you can modulate anything you want.

Not sure if you use Max for Live, but this is possible now. These two patches are by no means perfect, but should give you some ideas.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30280761/adsr_controller.amxd

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30280761/LFO_multi02.amxd

To use, drop the patch in a midi track and simply click on a "Map" button and then click on any parameter within Live. Turn that destination on and play some notes on that midi track and it should work. The LFO should just work as soon as you choose any shape. I haven't dealt with the phasing yet, but it does work free or synced.

Note these are at audio rate, so downsampling has also been included to save on resource. Turn it up as high as you can without ruining how you want the automation to sound.

I know some people get annoyed when M4L is mentioned as a solution, so apologies if that is the case!

Thanx for your reply. I know about the LFO tool in Max for Live, but I think it should be standard in Ableton. And with the LFO tool in Max for Live you cannot make an envelope with it, for sophisticated sidechaining. I use the LFO tool from Xfer for that, or the Multiband Compressor form Vengeance Producer Suite. I believe that Cubase has a native LFO/envelope device.

I would also like a tuner, for tuning guitars and basses and ofcourse samples.

And I would like Ableton to import sample labraries from other software programs, such as Kontakt, Battery, Logic EXS, Sampletank and RMX files.

And a function: "Insert time".

An advanced mulitap delay, like the Delay Designer from Logic.

Multiple audio events per audioclip, like Cubase has....

Simultanius multitrack editting, not just MIDI, but also Audio. Like Protools has...

Using Cubase or Logic won't work for you?

pencilrocket wrote:Using Cubase or Logic won't work for you?

Nope. Ableton is the best en fastest program, but I sometimes work with other programs and they have some great features that I hope Ableton will add to their next version. So everytime I think of something, I add that to my wishlist. Why don;t you help me, instead of trying to be funny.

I recently started working with Xfer 'Nerve' and that program has some seriously cool sample edit tools. It would be cool if Ableton's sampler had the same funktions. Ableton should have at least the Normalize function...

Just a suggestion, I keep reading your misspelling of Ableton as "Analton 9", might want to do something about that.

Machinesworking wrote:Just a suggestion, I keep reading your misspelling of Ableton as "Analton 9", might want to do something about that.

That was 1 error, but I can't correct it. But you know what I mean...

I wish the FXpansion Guru groove templates where available for Ableton.