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1. New in Ableton Live 8

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* New groove engine

Groove patterns can add life and swing to straight sequences. Live 8’s new groove engine lets Live users apply groove patterns in real time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources, and quantize audio and MIDI in real time. It also comes with a new groove library.

* New warping engine
Live 8 introduces a new, more direct way of working with warping and some important Warp Mode enhancements. Live users can now warp audio events by adjusting the events on the timeline (instead of stretching and squeezing the timeline around the events). Beats Mode has been updated, there’s a completely new Complex Warp Mode and it’s now possible to slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients.

* Looper
A much-requested feature, the Ableton Looper effect is classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so it’s possible to record, overdub and more without touching the computer. Live automatically syncs tempo to the loops played (“first loop sync”), and managing loops is a matter of simple drag and drop.

* New effects
Live 8 includes five powerful new effects, each with a strong personality and serious “classic” potential: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter. These effects obviously contain all the well-known aspects of these devices, but they really shine due to some innovative new features and enhancements from the Ableton labs. These are effects that are not only practical and easy to use but also inspiring.

* Workflow enhancements

Version 8 makes Live easier with a number of most-wanted enhancements and some deceptively simple detail work. These include real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, multiple track selection, a screen magnifier and more.

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Am Samstag, 10.01.2009 spiele ich mit Andreas Tiedemann als Woofer/Ohrpilot auf dem Hörkunstfestival in Erlangen, das unter dem Motto “Sprache suchen – Klänge finden” vom 09.-11.01.2009 im Theater Erlangen und E-Werk stattfindet.

Mehr Infos gibt es hier: http://hoerkunst.de

[Update:] Georg Kasch schrieb in der Abendzeitung vom 12.01.09: