Live 10 comes in three editions: Intro, Standard and Suite. They share common features, but Standard and Suite have additional features, instruments, Packs, and effects.
For the full scoop, including system requirements, head to ableton.com.
Here’s our own Ableton instructor talking about Live 10:
In this tutorial, our instructor Mitchell Owens (aka Subalias) will be showing you how to use basic FM synthesis in one of Ableton‘s stock synths to create a nice pluck bass.
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We had serious #FOMO this weekend as Loop Berlin, fast becoming the most cutting-edge music festival in the entire world, took place at the Funkhaus Berlin. Without our superstar intern Katharine to write about it, we’ve selected some of our favorite posts from the weekend.
Honored guest and new music pioneer Goldie had some interesting quips about the democratization of electronic music:
Goldie (@MRGOLDIE): “As a concept, electronic music did to the world of music what graffiti did to the art world.” #loopberlin pic.twitter.com/C1t3VI4Htv
— Ableton (@Ableton) November 11, 2017
Ethan Hein, music educator at NYU’s @musedlab pointed out how useful computer music is in education:
Ethan Hein (@ethanhein) on computer music in the classroom: "You don't need a huge amount of theory before you start being creative; it lowers technical barriers to making music. It's empowering." #loopberlin pic.twitter.com/2NdZp0GVD8
— Ableton (@Ableton) November 12, 2017
With the recent Ableton purchase of Max for Live developers Cycling74, of course they made an appearance:
Tom Hall of Cycling '74 (@cycling74): "It was an amazing feeling to export code into a piece of hardware for the first time." #loopberlin pic.twitter.com/IWqwJ1aFkJ
— Ableton (@Ableton) November 11, 2017
And BOTH original Together Boston (#tgthr1) guests, Machine Drum and DJ/Rupture (h/t @BeatReasearch), had interesting talks on the power of process:
Machinedrum (@machine_drum): “Old, unfinished projects are not a waste of time. They’re a learning experience, knowledge.” #loopberlin
— Ableton (@Ableton) November 11, 2017
Jace Clayton (@djrupture): “it’s kind of cool… the first message we’re giving to extraterrestrials is: you need to build a turntable.” #loopberlin #goldisthenewvinyl pic.twitter.com/VTm1kVkcgL
— Ableton (@Ableton) November 10, 2017
While JLin was the first to admit trusting yourself is the first step:
JLin (@Jlin_P): “It’s easy to be trendy. It’s so easy. When you say I want to be authentically me, that’s hard as hell.” #loopberlin pic.twitter.com/H7xiIijeNs
— Ableton (@Ableton) November 11, 2017
Then, of course, came the real stars of the show, the astonishing now of Loop’s incredible installations and performances:
It seems the closing performance of Nosaj Thing stole the show in the end, perfectly capturing one of the catchphrases born at #LoopBerlin:
The Screen is Your Stage
BONUS GRAM! We caught former Together New Business Developer and long-time friend of all of ours, Coleman (@onelikecodiac), on the job:
If you’re doing it right, you already know that Ableton, the Berlin-based music software giant, has announced Live 10, the first major upgrade in the DAW in five years.
Here is what the web is saying:
Here’s some more information in Spanish and in German.
Reverb.com even went so far as to create a playlist of some of the newest sounds you can make:
Stay tuned as we plan on holding some seminars and MeetUps to celebrate the release of Ableton 10. Signup for the newsletter to be sure: