Ableton announces LIVE 5!

Geschreven door Reind Dooyeweerd zondag, 05 juni 2005 04:10

Ableton is proud to announce Live 5 (scheduled for release late JULY 2005) the team's biggest development effort since the initial release of Live in 2001. The version 5 feature set extends each aspect of Live - from creation to production to performance - while making the program easier and even more fun to use.

DAW Features.
Live 5 includes advanced and creative DAW features to satisfy any audio professional. Read more about clip Freeze, plug-in delay compensation, launchable Arrangement locators and Mackie Control support.

Remix Features.
Get ready to remix! Live 5 includes a host of new remix-minded features, assuring instant remix and mash-up gratification. MP3 support, automatic tempo-matching, Complex Warp Mode and the new clip transport make remixing a breeze.

Organizational Tools.
Never lose ideas again! Live 5 features simple tools for saving, previewing and accessing any idea on your hard drive. Explore the new "Live Clip" file format, better browsing, new preset management, Device Groups and the new library.

Instruments and Effects.
Live 5 introduces a selection of innovative new devices, bringing even more creative possibilities. Check out Beat Repeat, Phaser, Flanger, Auto Pan, Saturator, Arpeggiator and the updated Simpler.

Live 5 also brings countless improvements to existing features; for instance, you can change the properties of multiple clips at once, resize and minimize the width of tracks in the Session View, use right-click context menus for most functions and use a count-in for recording. Version 5 is even easier to learn thanks to a new set of lessons and an improved lesson reader.

Live 5 beta testing will begin soon. The release is scheduled for late July 2005.

Live 5 Pricing;

• LIVE 5 SRP will remain the same as LIVE4 € 475,- incl. local VAT
• UPGRADE from LIVE4 > LIVE 5 € 140,- incl. local VAT
• UPGRADE from LIVE1/2/3 > LIVE 5 € 190,- incl. local VAT
  
  
• SPECIAL UPGRADE FOR RECENT PURCHASERS OF LIVE4 !
  
  * Customers who unlock Live 4 for the first time from June 1 2005 (the announcement date) until the final release day of Version 5 will receive a free online
  upgrade to Live 5. Thus, they are effectively among the first to own Live 5!. Like last years, this has been a real incentive to sell those last boxes of the
  previous version.
  
  * For customers who unlocked Live 4 for the first time between May 1 and May 31 2005, downloadable upgrades to Live 5 will be available at the special
  accommodation price of € 49,- from the Ableton web shop.