Ableton Live 13

vectordust

As a daily user of Ableton, I'm pretty excited about this. Especially the Capture Automation/Step Sequencer/Multiband rack types. I'm not a fan boy of any companies or tools, but Live has continued to impress me with each release.

ilumanty

The style of marketing page does not live up to the software's quality.

NSUserDefaults

Not new to 13 but I love Ableton's clean UI. Similar to Blender, it's how all creative apps (and systems!) should do it.

TobiasJacob

I'm almost a little bit disappointed agentic editing didn't find it's way into Ableton yet.

lukaszkorecki

So much good stuff there, hard to pick a favorite. Also cool to see that the device list in channel strips is finally stable (it’s been an options.txt thing for years)

Jtarii

extremely badly made website

jawns

If I were considering this as a Christmas gift for a 16-year-old who likes making things in Garage Band, would the Lite edition still be a step up, or should I more seriously consider the next level up?

semtud

New to music production but really want to give it a try. Can somebody please recommend resources/courses for beginners and which Abelton edition to buy: lite, intro, standard, suite? Also I was wondering if it is worth to buy akai mpk mini (play) to start with?

faangguyindia

I remember these were the software programs that had no good alternative back in the day. SketchUp, after Google offloaded it, became paid software. All these FL Studio, Ableton, etc. SketchUp has already been cloned as Ketchup. I wonder if FL Studio and Ableton will soon be cloned? pretty sure someone is already doing egui rust clone.

bfmalky

I don't know what Ableton have done to that webpage but 3/3 attempts to open it in Chrome on Android have caused a crash when I try to scroll down. Oh well, I guess I'll need to find out what's new in Ableton 13 somewhere else.

alfyboy

Wish they would add Linux support. What is the best option for Linux?

bryceneal

I'm excited about the Transient shaper. Hopefully I can finally ditch my beefy SPL transient designer.

marceldegraaf

Still no built-in way to collaborate with other musicians, it seems. While I understand the technical difficulties, it's also very frustrating to work remotely with other musicians on an Ableton project. I don't need real-time Google Docs like editing, but it would be nice to have something better than "freeze the project, dump it in Dropbox, and don't touch anything until they've made their edits". Any Ableton Live users here that can chime in on how they solve that?

ign0rant

That website crashed my entire Android phone pretty badly

AaronAPU

Finally ARA-2 support! I’m working on two ARA-2 plugins so this is a small bit of good news.

yboris

I'm forever puzzled why the effects ribbon at the bottom is UI-locked to be so tiny - it could easily span double its height to allow you to see all your filters without needing to scroll horizontally.

iainctduncan

People here might be interested to know that you can run Scheme (lisp) code directly in Ableton through my Scheme for Max project in Max for Live. S4M is an open source extension to Max that allows you to run the s7 Scheme interpreter in a Max object, similar to the JS object in Max. Advantages over JS are that in can run in the high priority scheduler thread, enabling accurate timing, it has direct access to the file system from Scheme code, and allows you to make Scheme s-expressions directly in Max messages. It is also a very nice way to control the Live API, as the live API works on lists of symbols. https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max https://www.youtube.com/c/musicwithlisp I'm planning another major release in the next few months as part of my PhD work.

IAmGraydon

Instant buy for me as I’ve been an Ableton user for something like 20 years and can’t imagine a better environment for making music.

elliotdickison

website crashed my iphone - took two reboots to recover

Fervicus

Ableton Live might be great, but that's a terrible webpage.