Ableton Live 11

[thecontrolcentre]

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[Reefius]

Yep, but that's v10, not v11

[thecontrolcentre]

Yep, but that's v10, not v11

Hello everybody,

as you have seen, Live 11 will officially be released on February 23 . As of this day, Live 11.0 can be purchased and will be available as download from your Ableton user accounts once you purchased it.

This day also marks the end of the pre-release public beta test of Live 11. In detail:

The current beta, Live 11.0b30 , will not auto-update to Live 11.0 - beta and official release are two separate channels.
Your Live 11 beta serial numbers will be deactivated on February 23. As of this day, you won't be able to authorize your Live 11.0b30 or previous Live 11 beta versions anymore - but the version currently authorized and running on your system still keeps running for a while.
About two weeks after the release, the Live 11 bugfix beta cycle starts: A new bugfix beta version gets published (Live 11.0.1b1), which requires a regular Live 11 serial to be authorized with. Live 11.0b30 automatically updates to that version. Everybody who purchased Live 11 can just re-authorize this beta version and take part in further beta testing. Without a regular Live 11 license, this and all following beta versions cannot be used.
If you are working on an offline machine or prevent auto-updates in any way, all Live 11.0bx versions will expire and stopp working on 15th of March.
This Live 11 Project here will stay active for the bugfix beta test in the same format, starting with Live 11.0.1b1.


Many thanks for this joint journey and for sharing all your feedback and thoughts! Hope you stay with us here further.

Best

Torsten

[pc999]

How it is the registration process of Live these days?

On Bitwig you just enter you login in the first page, if needed you can de-register an old login on the site and I never had any hassle with it, even when I "had fun" formating the PC or trying diferent linux distros. Is it as easy with ableton?

[jonljacobi]

Pretty much the same thing, but I believe the logon is done at the Web site.

[iPlogger]

Has anyone tested the Native Instruments S61 MK2 with Live 11? I saw a post the MK1 scripts didn't work. I wasn't looking to upgrade but something came up and the new lanes feature would be helpful.

[aMUSEd]

Has anyone tested the Native Instruments S61 MK2 with Live 11? I saw a post the MK1 scripts didn't work. I wasn't looking to upgrade but something came up and the new lanes feature would be helpful.

Mine is - at least what I use it for is working, which is transport (using the MkII script) and controlling instruments and macros (I made my own controller script for that which is also working although they now support 16 macros so I might have to update that if possible). Not tried things like instances as I don't use that.

[iPlogger]

Thank you @aMUSEd. I mostly use the mixer view for playing live and practicing. Have my set loaded and select sounds by track. Can do volume changes if necessary.

[Dostoyevsky]

How it is the registration process of Live these days?

On Bitwig you just enter you login in the first page, if needed you can de-register an old login on the site and I never had any hassle with it, even when I "had fun" formating the PC or trying diferent linux distros. Is it as easy with ableton?

There is no way to de-authorize a machine. You get exactly two Live licenses that are bound to the hardware you have installed Live on. Authorization can be done either online or offline. Once used up you have to email Ableton support.

[antic604]

...when I "had fun" formating the PC or trying diferent linux distros. Is it as easy with ableton?

You know you can run most - if not all? - of the Linux distros from USB or external SSD, not to mention dual-boot with Windows? I'm writing this from pop!_OS (it's awesome for Bitwig, BTW!) running off of external SSD

God, I'd pay again for Live running under Linux

[pc999]

How it is the registration process of Live these days?

On Bitwig you just enter you login in the first page, if needed you can de-register an old login on the site and I never had any hassle with it, even when I "had fun" formating the PC or trying diferent linux distros. Is it as easy with ableton?

There is no way to de-authorize a machine. You get exactly two Live licenses that are bound to the hardware you have installed Live on. Authorization can be done either online or offline. Once used up you have to email Ableton support.

That is how I remember it, and I dont like the process at all...

You know you can run most - if not all? - of the Linux distros from USB or external SSD, not to mention dual-boot with Windows? I'm writing this from pop!_OS (it's awesome for Bitwig, BTW!) running off of external SSD

God, I'd pay again for Live running under Linux

I know, but it is not as fun .

More seriously I kind like distro hopping, and a clean install seems like a good way to ensure everything is ok. Given that I dont have many plugins and software to install on Linux it is not a big hassle.

Also I did spend some time going back and forth with W10 and Linux. Now I amd using Linux on a older PC and a Mac.

I still try to make sure everything runs on Linux too, one never knows when it will need to go back to linux only...

[soulata]

Hmmm,

I've been using the beta for the last two weeks but I'm not really sure I'll upgrade.

There's lots of new stuff but hardly anything that would push me to fork out 169€ or so for the upgrade.

I just might wait until 11.2 or something (or the Christmas discounts).

I dunno...

Anybody else in the same boat?

k

[soulata]

Add,

with my main daw being Studio One - I'm still on v4 and see exactly no reason to upgrade to v5. Yes, there are improvements but none of it will make my work better or easier to do.

[antic604]

Anybody else in the same boat?

No, you're literally the 1st person to say they won't upgrade at this time

But seriously, if you're treating your DAW like a tool to get the music out of your head and the current one does the job just fine, then obviously there's no reason to spend the money.

If however, like me, you're a stupid hobbyist that gets excited with new tools they get to play with despite never finishing any music, then this upgrade is well worth the money due to all the "spectral" & "vector" devices, new reverb, comping lanes that can be used very creatively, more macros & snapshots, all the MPE that - quite fittingly - can bring a whole new dimensions to your sound design, etc. You might as well have a lot of this already covered by 3rd party devices, hardware or workarounds, but - for some - there's a certain allure of being able to do that natively, in-the-box and that might be worth the money.

Lastly, if you plan to perhaps upgrade during holiday sales, know that the discounts Ableton offer practically never go beyond what's offered currently, so it's pretty unlikely you're gonna save money by waiting.

[soulata]

Yeah,

I'mainly a musician, songwriter and arranger. I use Live as an idea pad and usually continue my work in S1.

I do a few mixes a year but now actually prefer them to be done by other, more capable mixers.

I feel Live is great as an idea starter, new devices surely look and sound great. But it still might not be worth the investment like Gforce OB-E for instance.

My reasoning is, if I can get a new song out thanks to new sw or hw, then it's ok. It pays for itself (sometimes many times over).

But sw synths and especially hw instruments seem to create more ideas for me, compared to daws.

k