
There are big areas where we thought Ableton would step up their game and they don’t seem to have been addressed. There’s no word on updates to the mixer or improved time-stretching algorithms. More importantly, it doesn’t look like there are many attempts to compete with the promises of Bitwig Studio, the eagerly anticipated DAW in development by former Ableton staff. Converting audio to MIDI has always been patchy at best when we’ve tried it in other software (particularly when trying to process full tracks or complex polyphonic material). The audio-to-MIDI feature sounds interesting in theory but it’ll need to work well to be useful. If the Glue Compressor and EQ Eight are the biggest updates to the effects we’ll be a bit disappointed. We also assume that Live 9 will introduce 64-bit support as standard. The improvements to Live’s automation capabilities are the biggest news as far as we’re concerned.
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It’s a bit of a mixed result for Live users, who’ve been bombarding Ableton with feature requests since the last major Live update all the way back in January 2009.

Hot on the heels of that Live 9 video leak comes news from Ableton outlining the features to be found in the new version.
