The new engine offers a new method of actually processing your sounds and allows the events to be warped around the timeline rather than vice-versa. The warping engine in earlier versions of Live was really impressive and didn’t give users much room to complain, so the fact that Ableton have improved the system is pretty impressive in itself. Warping is generally considered a better option than traditional time stretching as it introduces less artifacts. The main project tempo can then be changed in real time and the warped audio will remain locked in place. Live 8 has some important Warp Mode enhancementsįor those of you that are new to Ableton or not totally familiar with the process of warping, the process basically allows audio to be analyzed and manipulated so that it can play back at any tempo. Warping has always been a real standout feature in Ableton since its conception, so die hard Ableton users will be pleased to discover that version 8 includes an all new warping engine. Other nice touches here include a randomize function to introduce some truly unpredictable swing into your music and the ability to quantize both audio and midi in realtime. These new grooves can then be applied in the same way as the standard library files and of course they can be stored for use in any project. If you fancy the idea of building your own groove library then you're in luck, the new groove engine allows you to extract grooves from any audio or midi you might have on your drive.
If you want to take things further these grooves can even be applied to your entire project. This is very convenient since Live 8 ships with a an impressive library of groove patterns, that have been created exclusively for Ableton by ’some of music’s most original, expressive and soulful drummers.’ These patterns can be applied to any of your audio or midi parts by simply dragging them from the browser. This simple but effective system brings ‘drag and drop’ MPC style grooves and more to any performance in your arrangement.
ABLETON SUITE 8 REVIEW UPDATE
One update that is sure to be appreciated by a huge percentage of Ableton users is version 8’s new Groove engine.
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