Ableton and Cycling ’74 are pleased to announce the release of Max for Live, the long-awaited product that puts the power and potential of Max/MSP inside Live. Co-developed by Ableton and Cycling ’74 over a period of more than two years, Max for Live effectively opens up the Live platform, allowing users to create and edit their own instruments, effects and devices.
To celebrate the 10 Years of Ableton, Media Satellite offers every new Ableton Live user in the month’s November, December and January a FREE Introduction course ‘Get On Track with Ableton Live‘ held at an Educational Institute in the Netherlands or Belgium.
To celebrate the Able10 anniversary, Ableton is giving away 10 free, exclusive Live Packs from Ableton artists. Take a look inside these songs and sounds and see how these exceptional artists work their Live mojo.
Ableton and Cycling ’74 are pleased to announce a special workshop taking place on October 9th at 12:00 pm at the AES Show 2009 in New York City.
Time Designer is the debut Live Pack from extendlive.com containing 50 advanced multitap delays for Live 8 and a 10-step tutorial for creating and customizing your own delays using only Live’s built-in devices.
Swayzak, UK artisans of compelling electronica, have made an exclusive, FREE Ableton Live Set to download. The Swayzak Live Pack contains 2 Live Sets: “Swayset Live” and “Swayset Suite“. The Suite version uses Operator, the Live version has the Operator tracks rendered as audio.
DJ Jazzy Jeff is a legendary DJ and producer with countless hits and even signature scratch styles to his name. Jeff’s skills and knowledge have earned him a reputation as one of the industry’s musical godfathers. With over 20 years in the game and a back catalog covering soul, hip hop, jazz and house, he is still making records and developing the art of the DJ. Ableton got the chance to meet Jeff in his studio, so they took their cameras along.
Ablteon is giving away a free audio package with new sounds, lessons, presets, Instrument Racks and Construction Kits. This is more than just a few audio files. Samplification will kick-start your sampling skills and demonstrate what Sampler is really capable of.
Puremagnetik presents two free downloads specifically created with Live 8 users in mind. Adam Matta’s Human Beatbox Kit comes packed with a fully programmed beatbox Drum Rack and a collection of dynamically expressive Live Clips. Designed specifically to take advantage of the latest features in Ableton Live 8, Human Beatbox Kit is a unique addition to Puremagnetik’s line of Artist Kits.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces that it has launched APC40.com, the dedicated Web site for its APC40 Ableton Performance Controller.
The Jazzberry musicians collective presents a complete program of workshops and live performances – on May 7 at the Hotel Arena Club. The evening starts with a workshop about Ableton Live 8 and Live 8 SUITE with all the new features and new Ableton virtual instruments by producer team DUOTONE (Auke Ferwerda and Chris Beemster).
Ableton Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8 are out now. Two new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion are also available; both are included in Ableton Suite 8.