Includes five new devices and major advancements in the areas of comping and MPE.
Just two years after Live 10 hit the software market, German brand Ableton has just announced the release of its newest version, Live 11. This new installment integrates major additions into the system workflow, including comping (piecing together the best moments of multiple performances).
Particularly, this new tool also allows for faster and more precise splicing and sampling, allowing on-the-fly experimentation in the arrangement session view. Other major developments include the integration of MPE. MIDI Polyphonic Expression allows for touch sensitivity and other subtle, acoustic-instrument style expressions, such as ‘bends, slides, and pressure for each individual note in a chord’. Popular Ableton devices like Wavetable, Sampler, and Arpeggiator will now have native MPE support.
New devices include a Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Resonator, Spectral Time, the PitchLoop89, and the new ‘Inspired By Nature’ suite of six instruments that use natural and physical processes (like the root structure of plants or the movement of particles) as their inspiration.
While Live 11 will be available in early 2021, the Beta version is currently available for all owners of Ableton Live 10 Standard and Suite. The various versions of Live 10 are selling for 20% off. Those who purchased a copy of Live 10 will have the possibility of a free upgrade to Live 11.
You can check all of Ableton Live 11’s new features, here. Watch a video showcasing Live 11 below.
