Live 5 beta

[headquest]

Not sure, but on Ableton's present form we'll have to decide within the next few weeks

[hello1234]

I liked the green one myself.

me too........I'll miss that

[christianmusicmaker]

Whats all this about Headquest? Starting a thread that ends up with almost 300 responses and close to 10,000 hits!

Reading through this thread you really do appear to have become somewhat of an expert regarding Ableton Live usage.

So the big question.

Is Live 5 THE application for you now? Live 5 appears to have addressed all your needs and more. What happens to Reason and Adobe Audition, you have both if I am not mistaken.

Just interested in your current workflow.

Also you spoke of your students using Tracktion some time ago, will you migrate them to Live 5?

[tkay77]

...does anybody know the upgrade price from live 1.5/2 to 5?

torkay

[headquest]

Whats all this about Headquest? Starting a thread that ends up with almost 300 responses and close to 10,000 hits!

Is Live 5 THE application for you now?

Yes, it really is now. More important than the functionality of v5 (great though that is ) I find the Live environment really inspiring to work in. As you know I've tried about everything in the search for the software that works for me, and Ableton Live is it, so far as having a "main host" goes...

Live 5 appears to have addressed all your needs and more. What happens to Reason and Adobe Audition, you have both if I am not mistaken.

Yes, and they continue to play a role still:
Audition is a fantastic tool box for all things audio. Live 5 still lacks detailed sample editing of the sort that Audition offers. I also chose Audition as a mastering environment. The effects are really great, and I like the fact that it provides a one-stop-shop for all this.

Reason I basically use as an instrument within Live, and have done for some time. I very occasionally use it standalone, but not often, and have not even upgraded to version 3 yet.

I also have Sibelius, which fills the final hole by giving me top-notch notation.

Also you spoke of your students using Tracktion some time ago, will you migrate them to Live 5?

Sadly there were problems upgrading to T2 so far as teaching goes - it was promised in the last tax year but didnt materialise, which caused me a certain amount of professional embarassment. I did upgrade my personal copy online, though.

How about you, christianmusicmaker - are you still using Tracktion/Sonar/Live/etc?

[snareSpanker]

From Ableton forum: Announcement: Live 5.0b16! Release Candidate 1! Beta is opened for all!

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23242


Edit: Just too bad I can't try it out myself until tomorrow..

[headquest]

Also, the official release for Live 5 appears to be on 24th July - just 9 days time!

[christianmusicmaker]

How about you, christianmusicmaker - are you still using Tracktion/Sonar/Live/etc?

Tracktion for collaboration with other musicians.

Sonar/P5v2 for my own stuff. It's taken ages to get stuff finished because of a full time job.I have very little time on weekends. Starting to finish projects now.

Live3 mainly for realtime audio warping, and time stretching, this is the one area that for me where P5v.2 cannot compete with live IMHO. Now that good old PDC and freeze have arrived I may look at it again. Rewire means I can always add it to Sonar4 or even P5v.2 (some combination) but it duplicates alot of Project5v.2's features.

My son (8yrs old)) uses an old version of Live (version 2 I think) so I may upgrade it to Live5 for him anyway. Of course there is always a possibility that I will install it on my audio PC as well as his.

Sonar is the main package for me now as I dabble in surround work and video as well.But P5v.2 is a lovely place to work in. I use it for initial ideas.

I am keeping an eye on Adobe as the next version of their video collection should be out soon with a likely update of Adobe audition which I think may include VSTi support with full midi editing.Just guessing but I think it is likely.

Not a cheap collection around $3,000 but I will likely need Adobe Premiere, after effects and so forth which if bought individually could cost close to $3k anyway. I am working on a small movie project but it will very likely progress to other video projects from there.

[Beardedone]

Why don't the Live devices show their presets?

[headquest]

Why don't the Live devices show their presets?

They now appear in the browser when you click on the top right Icon.

[pinkwasp]

Why don't the Live devices show their presets?

They do, If you click on the little grey circle icon on the top richt of the effect, it'll turn orange, and open the main browser (if it's not already open) where it automatically finds all the fx presets. They're now in the browser.

it's quite nice once you're used to it.

[pinkwasp]

Headquest, you beat me to it!

but then it is your thread (it's massive)

[Beardedone]

Beardedone wrote:
Why don't the Live devices show their presets?


They do, If you click on the little grey circle icon on the top richt of the effect, it'll turn orange, and open the main browser (if it's not already open) where it automatically finds all the fx presets. They're now in the browser.

it's quite nice once you're used to it.

Thanks guys!

I got this far but there really are no presets shown in the browser.

[headquest]

Headquest, you beat me to it!

But you explained it better than I did

but then it is your thread (it's massive)

Yeah, weird

[headquest]

I got this far but there really are no presets shown in the browser.

We mean thebrowser window on the left hand side of the screen...

Which devices have you tried?

If there are really no presets showing there for some/any of the devices, post your full details (system, OS, etc) on the beta forum here:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewforum. ... cef622f1af

I have not experienced this problem/cannot confirm.