live-oriented DAW and instruments
Ableton Suite is the XL version of Ableton Live. Suite 8 gives you all of the features in Live 8 plus SOUND, with a radically new Library packed with beautiful new sounds and a wealth of useful resources. Suite 8 contains 10 Ableton instruments including synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments and the new, reworked Operator. Two completely new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion, round off the set. Ableton Suite 8 is a complete package: the tools AND the sounds.
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Version 8.1.1 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Dec 30, 2009 |
Bugfixes:
A very short MIDI note at the beginning of a clip would not be audible. [6130]
Recording via 'Resampling' would not properly compensate latency. [6124]
Under certain conditions, it would be possible to get 2 Arranger tracks highlighted. [6144]
Using the Launchpad as control surface and additionally for manual mappings would not always work properly.
When installing Live Packs which have dependencies to other content, Live would show the corresponding message twice. [6153]
Using a Rex file could crash Live. [6157]
'lock control surface' function would not properly work in user remote scripts. [6064]
A particular Live set could not be loaded and would lead to a 'Invalid Product ID Error' message. [6165]
In the Arranger, punch In/Out would delay notes by the 'punch in time' in beats. [6167]
Using the pads of the Akai MPD18 would not work properly.
Having a Live set with particular Drum Racks could increase the CPU usage of the main thread, which would result in very slow graphical updates. [6181]
Installing a new Library from within a second running instance of Live could crash Live. [6171]
Certain operations like sample crop/reverse/replace would remove the tempo envelope. [6179]
Using Novation's Launchpad, when switching between Automap and Live control would not work properly.
Under certain conditions, editing or creating parameter automation would not work properly. [6188]
Playing a 32-bit audio file immediately after a 16-bit audio file could cause a click in the audio. [6152]
Moving the last track out of a track group onto a closed group track in the Arranger could crash Live. [6193]
In the Auto Pan device, switching shape to random would not show the 'Width' knob. [6192]
Loading a Max device would crash if Pluggo was already active.
It would not be possible to create a new Project in the File Browser if the root is set to 'Workspace'.
Fine tuning of macro knobs would not work via key modifier. [6180]
Starting clips via the Launchpad while changing parameters via mouse could crash Live. [6143]
Moving the mouse over a certain Sampler preset could crash Live. [6207]
Loading a Live set containing not yet authorized add-ons could crash Live. [6203]
Under certain conditions, fade creation would not work properly. [6195]
An Ableton preset of a third party plug-in would not change the On/Off mapping range. [5652]
Receiving an invalid parameter index from Max could crash Live.
Inverting a macro mapping range would not work properly. [6238]
Under certain conditions, extracting an existing groove from a clip would crash Live. [6235]
Having a Max device sending many blob changes during saving could crash Live.
A malformed database file would interrupt user interactions like renaming files, saving presets, recording, etc. [6230]
Having a particular Live set loaded and searching for media files could crash Live. [6241]
On Mac OS X, under certain conditions, making Live the foreground window could lead to a crash.
The context menu of a frozen clip would have enabled audio fades commands. [6253]
In the Arranger, changing the mixer properties like volume, pan etc. would not show the changed value in the status bar. [3238]
Having a multi selection of Arranger track and use the 'Show Automation' command would destroy the selection. [6243]
Choosing a custom VST directory within the preferences would not keep this new directory until the next start of Live if the required rescan leads to a crash. [6190]
On Mac OS X, duplicating a track with Fab Filter Twin 1+2 could crash Live. [6063]
The Looper display would use the wrong colour in 'play' mode. [6234]
Holding SHIFT + Space Bar would make the transport play button flicker. [6227]
The area to click on an Arranger clip would be too small by a few pixels. [6261]
Particular Live sets, especially with a lot of transient data, could not be loaded. [6263]
Pasting 3 unstretched and crossfaded Arranger clips could crash Live [6289]
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Version 8.0.9 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Nov 4, 2009 |
Improvements:
- Updated manuals
- Updated Help Pages
Bugfixes:
- Surface controller support for the Oxygen 3rd generation
- Using the Axiom Pro as controller surface would not work properly with certain effects and instruments
- Under certain conditions, a volume automation would not work properly [6005]
- The mouse handling of certain Sampler parameters would not work properly [5961]
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Version 8.0.8 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Oct 24, 2009 |
Improvements:
- Updated manuals
- Updated Help Pages
- Control Surface support for Novation Launchpad
- Several improvements for the AxiomPro Controllers
Bugfixes:
- Using the double/halve tempo buttons of the Looper could introduce an audible offset [5857]
- Playing MIDI could crash Live when multi-core support is enabled [5608]
- If the slot button below a disabled Session clip has been removed, the disabled clip would not respect this and act as stop button [5872]
- In the Arranger, auto scrolling would not work properly when dragging tracks [5865]
- On Mac OS X, open the application menu would not close an open context menu [5768]
- On Mac OS X, using a Remote SL and loading a particular Live set with a Fab Filter Twin 2 would crash Live
- On Mac OS X, the Key stroke handling for AudioUnits using Cocoa views would not work properly
- On Mac OS X 10.6.x, starting Live with a template set that contains audio clips, and with another CoreAudio client running at the same time (e.g. iTunes), would freeze Live. Also, changing sample rates in Live would not work properly
- Replacing a Macro mapping with a Key mapping could crash Live [5913]
- Return track header selection would not work properly [5677]
- On Mac OS X, Audio Units, wrapped by Novation Automap, would not appear in the right folders [5752]
- Setting an MTC start offset to a negative value would not show the value properly [5456]
- Grabbing and moving the left edge of an Arranger loop while the loop start is out of the view would not behave properly [5216]
- In the Arranger, scrolling would not work properly when dragging or moving tracks [5139]
- Under certain conditions, the LFO of the Sampler would not work properly
- Switching banks via remote script would not be indicated in the status bar [5969]
- Switching on track-solo would not work properly in exclusive mode when switching via the APC controller [5838]
- Unsupported multi channel audio files would crash Live [5995]
- When exporting an video file, the resulting video file would grow on each export instead to be replaced [5996]
- On Mac OS X, when typing the name of an existing file, but without the extension, Live would overwrite the existing file without asking for confirmation