Ableton Live 9 is now available, for Mac & Windows. In addition, Ableton Push is now available for pre-order.
Updates in Ableton Live 9 include:
- Session automation
- New browser
- New sounds
- New studio effects
- You can now extract musical information from samples
- Improved editing tools
- Max for Live is now included in Live Suite.
- These features are common to all versions of Ableton Live 9:
- Unique Session View for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation
- Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
- Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
- Powerful MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
- Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching
- Unlimited Instruments, Audio effects and MIDI effects per project
- Group tracks
- VST and Audio Unit support
- Time signature changes
- Multiple automation lanes
- Track Freeze
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation
- MIDI remote control instant mapping
- MIDI output to hardware synths
- MIDI Clock/sync
- ReWire
- Multicore/multiprocessor support
- WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
Ableton Live 9 is available to purchase for $99 USD / 79 EUR (Live 9 Intro download version), $449 USD / 349 EUR (Live 9 Standard download version) and $749 USD / 599 EUR (Live 9 Suite download version). See the Ableton site for upgrade pricing.
Upgrades to Live 9 Standard / Live 9 Suite vary in price depending on the Ableton products you already own. [Synthtopia]
