April 4th, 2012Improvements and feature changes:
· A new "Upload to SoundCloud" option is available in the Export Audio/Video dialog. When enabled, Live will open an upload client after the file has been rendered to disk, so you can upload the rendered file directly to your SoundCloud account.
· Added automatic software updating. When enabled, Live will automatically download and install software updates in the background. Users who update to Live 8.3 from an older Live version will see a dialog box when launching Live 8.3 for the first time, where Automatic Updates can be enabled or disabled. You can always change the settings in Live’s "Licenses/Maintenance" Preferences. More detailed information about Automatic Updates is available in our Knowledge Base.
· Changed the naming of the Live application. The application is now called "Ableton Live 8" and does not include a specific revision number. The revision number can still be found in the About screen in the Help menu.
· The Windows installer has been updated to a newer version.
· The default installation path of the Live application has changed on Windows. More information can be found in our Knowledge Base.
· Added usage data collection. When enabled, Live will send data about your Live installation and usage to ableton.com. This data will be used to help our developers identify bugs and improve the software. Usage data collection is optional and can be enabled/disabled in the "Licenses/Maintenance" Preferences. More information can be found in our Knowledge Base.
· Added control surface support for Akai MPK Mini.
Bugfixes:
· Fixed a crash that could occur when modulating a parameter in the Corpus device with Max for Live.
· Fixed crashes and audio dropouts that could occur when hot-swapping through AAS instruments.
· Fixed a crash that could occur when undoing the deletion of the last warp marker in an audio clip.
February 6th, 2012Improvements:
Added support for the Ableton Improvement Program, an automatic usage and data reporting tool. To enable, add this line to your Options.txt file:
· ImprovementProgramParticipation=On
· More information about the Ableton Improvement Program can be found in our forum announcement.
· (For more information about using the Options.txt file, see http://www.ableton.com/pages/faq/options_text)
Bugfixes:
· Receiving MIDI CCs on a MIDI track’s input was causing a high CPU load on OS X Lion.
· Fixed a bug in the "Beats" warp mode which could lead to unwanted clicks in rare cases.
December 8th, 2011Improvements and feature changes:
· There is a new entry in the Options menu: "Reduced Latency When Monitoring", which toggles latency compensation on and off for tracks which have input monitoring on. When enabled, input-monitored tracks will have the lowest possible latency but may be out of sync with some other tracks in your Set. When disabled, all tracks will be in sync, but input-monitored tracks may have higher latency. Before, the option was only available via the 'StrictDelayCompensation' options.txt, and was ON per default. It now defaults to OFF.
· When restarting after a crash, Live will now display a warning in the Help View if the crash was caused by an issue with a VST plug-in. Note: this is currently for Mac OS X only.
Bug fixes:
· Authorizing a full version of Live would sometimes activate a feature-limited version (Live Lite or Live Intro).
· Fixed a bug that prevented setting the start marker of an audio clip before the sample start.
· On Mac OS X, saving a Live Set could lead to an unresponsive Save dialog box, if the destination folder contained an alias file which points to an unavailable volume.
· Fixed a crash which occurred when importing a Drum Rack with a routing to a return track.
· 3 additional crashes were also fixed.
September 15th, 2011· Improvements and feature changes - Added support for Novation Impulse controllers.
· Bug fixes - In Live 8.2.5, it was not possible to try Amp or Max for Live.
September 27th, 2010New groove engine:
· Groove patterns can add life and swing to straight sequences. Live 8's new groove engine lets you apply groove patterns in real time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources, quantize audio and MIDI in real time. It also comes with a new groove library.
New warping engine:
· Live 8 introduces a new, more direct way of working with warping and some important Warp Mode enhancements. You can now warp audio events by adjusting the events themselves on the timeline. Beats Mode has been updated, and there's a completely new Complex Warp Mode. Plus you can slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients.
Looper:
· A much-requested feature, the Ableton Looper effect gives you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer.
New effects:
· Live 8 includes five powerful new effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter. These effects cover all the well-known aspects of these devices, but really shine due to some innovative features and enhancements from the Ableton labs.
Workflow enhancements:
· Version 8 makes Live easier with a number of most-wanted enhancements and some deceptively simple detail work including real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, a screen magnifier and more.
December 30th, 2009Bug fixes:
· 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]
October 23rd, 2009Improvements:
· 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
September 14th, 2009Improvements:
· Updated manuals
· Updated Help Pages
· When using the APC40 Controller surface script, we check if the selection MIDI ports are the one from the APC40
· Improved graphic performance when using Live on Windows 7 RC 1
· On Mac OS X, Cocoa support for Audio Units
· Having an unfolded Live set file in the browser, now the tracks from that Live set can be inserted into the current set by double clicking too. In earlier versions it was only possible via drag'n drop.
· Controller surface support for the AKAI MPD-18, MPK-25, MPK-61 and MPK-88 controllers.
· Controller surface support for OpenLabs devices
June 17th, 2009Improvements:
· Updated manual
· Improved handling of the library database
· Better GUI performance when recording many automation parameters
· The APC40 script remembers the last set bank for each device and restores that setting when the corresponding device is selecting again.
· On Mac OS X, if the custom dialog of a plug-in would not process incoming keys Live will handle them. Depending on the plug-in, this should provide a similar work flow as in Live 7
· Several improvements for the Share functionality
· On Windows, support for up to 256 audio channels when using ASIO
Bugfixes:
· Unquantized scrubbing would not work properly in MIDI clips
· On Mac OS X, the DUY Tape AU plug-in would crash on instantiation [5429]
· When the Looper is set to a fixed length recording and the song is running, the recording length of the Looper might be miscalculated
· Under certain conditions, moving a MIDI clip in arrangement could crash Live [5543]
· Protocol recording of audio clips in ReWire slave mode would lead to silent arranger clips [5541]
· Dragging a multi selection of audio files into Live would not work properly, when the multi selection would contain .asd files too [5485]
· The 'Select All' context menu command would be available by accident for an entry in the device browser [5496]
· On Windows, moving Library could transform .AbletonPresetInfo files into _AbletonPresetInfo files [5506]
· Quantized scrubbing would not work properly in the Arranger [5490]
· Setting a tempo via scene launch would not work properly if there's a loop in the Arranger [5535]
· Exporting or consolidating audio would create a fade in in the resulting audio file [5540]
· After Grouping, ungrouping or re-grouping of tracks, the APC40 would not work properly anymore
· Doing undo via keyboard shortcut while a modal dialog is opened could crash Live [5561]
· With the APC40, stopping clips via the clip-stop buttons would not work properly
· Switching device banks would not work properly when using the 'microKontrol' as Control Surface [5568]
· On Mac OS X, having a plug-in opening a modal dialog and switching then to another application would crash Live [5583]
· MIDI loop recording in Arranger would not work properly after the first loop iteration [5203]
· Using follow actions on clips in Legato mode could crash Live [5580]
· On Windows, editing the info text for an arrangement locator would not work properly [5574]
· On Mac OS X, slow mouse wheel changes would not work properly [5552]
· On Mac OS X, drag'n drop operation with certain key modifiers could lead to an 'unstoppable' drag'n drop operation [5564]
· Restoring from the undo history after a crash could lead to another crash
· In several surface controller scripts, the arm buttons would not select tracks anymore [5594]
May 20th, 2009Improvements:
· Slightly improved graphic performance on Mac OS X
· Setting up a cache folder is restricted to an empty folder or previous cache folder. Root directories are not longer allowed.
Bug fixes:
· On Mac OS X, "Move to trash" and "Show in finder" command would not work when particular toll are installed. (e.g. PathFinder)
· The unfrozen-state of a track would not be saved properly within a Live set [4413]
· Opening a particular set would crash as soon as the clip detail view of a particular clip would be opened [5454]
· When committing grooves for audio clips, the created volume clip envelope could produce audio clicks [5266]
· The "Auto" switch of racks would not always work properly [4568]
· When moving the mouse over Macros, the the name of the corresponding macro would not always displayed in the status bar [5116]
· In the Operator, the Notch filter display would not be displayed properly [5157]
· MIDI note preview would not always play all notes when moving the insert marker with arrow left/right [5469]
· Arranger recording of an unwarped clip could result in different playing offsets [5455]
· In the file manager, the project and library link would not work [5467]
· Installing a Live pack fails when one of the installed samples is already in use [3041]
· MIDI step input would sometimes happen when it should not; for example when just playing a note while there's a time selection, or when pressing keys other than arrow left and arrow right. MIDI step input would also generate undo steps even if nothing happened [5486]
· When scrubbing in the Arranger, sample pre-loading would not always work properly [4696]
· Transport controls of certain controller surfaces would not work properly [5505]
· Playing back a particular audio clip in Beats warp mode would lead to disk overloads on loop back jump [5501]
· Under certain conditions, Collect and Save would copies no longer used audio files of frozen tracks [5114]
· Slice to MIDI track on audio clip might crash Live [5390]
· The voice stealing mechanism of the Impulse would not always work properly [573]
· In the Vocoder, several parameter would appear with different names in the automation chooser compared to the names from the info text [5060]
· In the Multiband Dynamics, several parameter would appear with different names in the automation chooser compared to the names from the info text [5060]
· Creating a MIDI track via double click on an instrument preset in the Browser would not work when a Return or the master track is selected [3399]
· The Session view scrolling with the APC40 would not always work properly
· Third party plug-in offering more inputs that outputs could crash Live
· Pasting a Live set from the browser into the current Live set would select and scroll to a slot in the last scene [5493]
· Not quantized arranger scrubbing would not work properly [5491]
· Slicing audio file using a slicing preset containing two levels of nested racks with cascading macro mappings would crash Live [5458]
· Dragging a clip from a Live set in the browser to the empty arranger area would not work sometimes or even crash Live [5508]
· Having an unwarped clip which spans more than the whole range of its next clip. Copying both of them are could crash Live.
· In the browser, collapsing a folder while renaming contained file after exporting a clip or track into that folder could crash Live [5528]
· Play through optimization would not work properly for audio monitoring and recording, resulting in high latencies [5529]
May 7th, 2009Improvements:
· Updated manuals
· Updated help pages
· Dragging a file from the OS into Live's file browser copies the file by default instead of moving it. When pressing the copy modifier the file will be moved [4976]
· Improvements for offline authorization
· Resizing tracks with ALT now only resizes tracks withing the same level of the group track hierarchy.
· Unfold all (ALT-click the arrow) now works only in the same level of hierarchy - "resize all" and "unfold all" works now either on "player and group tracks", or on "return and master tracks".
· In Session View, group tracks provide a “track launch” button in map mode.
· The fold/unfold triangle of a group track is painted blue when a track inside is soloed.
· In the file browser, the "create folder" command is available in the "parent folder" context menu.
· Added an option for the Options.txt file to support Wacom Tablets. Adding the line ”-AbsoluteMouseMode” into Options.txt file switches Live into absolute mouse position mode.
Bugfixes:
· Prelistening of encoded audio files could lead to hard disk overloads.
· Under certain conditions, replacing files via the File Manager would not work.[5142]
· Repairing the Library would not update/repair meta data of Groove files.[5156]
· On Mac OS X, having the Library on an external drive and attach/detaching it while Live is running would not work properly [4529]
· Loading a third party plug-in which has fewer parameters than a previous version could crash Live.
· Drag & drop of a preset within the Live's browser would not keep the destination folder open.[5140]
· In a particular Live set, a certain audio clip would not play properly because of misaligned transients.[5284]
· Some parameters for Faderfox controllers would not be correctly named.
· Macro names would not always be automatically updated in nested Racks.[4149]
· Saving a preset would fail if the corresponding preset folder does not exist.[5247]
· The “Collect and Save” button of the file manager would not be named properly in some cases.[5290]
· Under certain conditions, the file icon for an audio file would not be updated after an .asd file is created.[5299]
· Under certain conditions, Arranger crossfades would produces clicks in the audio.
· Looping an audio file in 'Tones' warp mode could have audio artifacts while fading.[5269]
· Horizontal lines in pitch-like envelope editors would disappear with Zoom > 100%.[5315]
· As soon as a progress bar for a Live pack installation was shown for the first time, there were no 'marching ants' anymore when loading a document, for the rest of the Live run.
· Under certain conditions, the loop brace vertical lines in the Arranger would not cover the whole height of the Arranger.[5316]
· If no Library is selected, the Repair button would be enabled and clicking it would crash Live.[5324]
· The "Show Preferences" command would check if default packages need to be installed.[5308]
· Copying, deleting and then pasting a file in the file browser would freeze Live.
· Pasting files into Live's browser could make the mouse cursor jump.[4422]
· Under certain conditions, clip fades and device automation would be visible at the same time.[5344]
· In the Arpeggiator, receiving a note-off for the current step could skip a note.
· Slicing presets would be shown even if they can't be used because the required additional products are not unlocked.
· The 'Configure' mode would not work for certain VST plug-ins.
· Copying an Instrument over an existing instrument from one track to another would not work.[5351]
· The latency when playing instruments via external input might be too high in some cases.[5355]
· Recording MIDI controller events into a MIDI clip could crash Live when the clip would be deleted during the recording.
· On Windows and depending on the computer hardware setup, unlocking Live would not be persistent and had to be done on each new Live start.
· Playing back certain REX loops would not work properly for each the second iteration.[5345]
· Playing back a sample in 'Tones' warp mode would not work properly during the waveform analyzing.[5310]
· Looper pedal would be macro mappable by mistake.[5371]
· The overview for a group track would not be updated when undoing a recording.[5343]
· In the clip detail view, changing clip loop start time via edit boxes would not work properly when loop start time is negative.[5326]
· Under certain conditions, authorize Live on Mac OS X could freeze Live. [5372]
· For particular parameters, the automation view would not properly updated. [5386]
· Using any XY control would let the mouse pointer jump on mouse-up and could even crash Live.[5400]
· On Mac OS X, the Configure mode for Audio Units would not work.
· Adding the audio file of a frozen track into the arrangement would result in an extremely long clip.[5409]
· Trigger any clip in Complex or Complex Pro warp mode via MIDI Key range mapping would not pitch the clip.[5395]
· Under certain conditions, opening a set would not be possible as long as the file manger is open.[5379]
· Under certain conditions, when loading a new Live set it would not be possible to delete the temp directory of the current project. For example after unfreezing a track.[5408]
· MIDI Mapping a parameter with identical min and max value would crash Live.[5346]
· Loading a particular Live set would fail with an "Invalid Product ID" message box.[5427]
· Browsing within the Japanese help pages could freeze Live [5449]
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December 19th, 2008Improvements:
· Updated Manual
· On Mac OS X, changing the audio buffer size requires you to click on an 'Apply' button to commit the new buffer size. This should avoid that Audio Uinit plug-in are re-created more than once when changing the buffer size.
Bug fixes:
· Deleting or moving a Rack chain while there are clip envelopes for one of the chain mixer's parameters (volume, pan, or sends) could crash Live.
· MIDI overdub during Arranger recording could delete or cut notes.
· Selecting a scene would display “Insert Scene” for the “Select All” menu entry.
· Under very rare conditions and only with a Live set having at least 48 tracks, certain routings could switch to 'None' after previewing aLive clip or MIDI file.
· Replacing an instrument inside a Rack with a track having additional automation lanes controlling parameters of the previous instrument would crash Live.
· Dragging a clip from within Live or from the Browser would not use the Default preset.
· When running Live as ReWire master with Propellerheads Reason as ReWire slave, under certain conditions Live would crash when switching presets in Reason in a way that would modify or change its MIDI targets.
November 22nd, 2008Improvements:
· MIDI surface controller support for the Alesis Master Control.
· MIDI controller support for Vestax VCM 600.
Bug fixes:
· Operator's voice stealing would not work properly.
· Under certain conditions an empty MIDI effect Rack could lead to audio drop-outs.
· The 'Rename' command for an Impulse slot would not be available via the context menu.
· A copied or moved Reverb would not properly show the correct curve with Diffusion Network enabled.
· After installing content packages, a dialog could show a message about a failed installation although the installation was successful.
· A copied or moved Tension instrument would not show the correct filter curve.
· Dragging a particular chain from a Drum Rack into 'empty' Arranger space could crash Live.
· On Windows Vista, resizing the main window would heavily flicker if AERO was enabled.
· On Windows Vista, locking the computer or coming back from a screen saver would temporarily disable AERO.
· Moving a clip in a track with an External Instrument and routed to a multitimbral plug-in could crash Live.
· Moving zones in the the Sampler could lead to hard disk dropouts.
· Live's search index would not properly handle version 2.3 ID3 tags.
· Dragging in a clip containing an Audio Unit plug-in could cause a message box to appear, canceling the drag.
· Some memory leaks could appear under Vista when resizing windows.
· Tighter MIDI timing when looping in the Arranger.
· Files would incorrectly be dated as “Yesterday” during a few hours around midnight.
· The macro settings of a rack containing certain third party plug-ins would not properly restored when loading the rack.
· Having multiple automation lanes on an audio track and removing one lane would not properly display the audio waveform on the remaining lanes.
· Doing the the Capture and Insert Scene command could create a memory leak.
· When running as MIDI clock slave, Live would only display a rounded to the nearest integer tempo.
· On Mac OS X, the functionality to ask the AU plug-in for its supported formats would not work properly.
· If Live would run as ReWire slave but would not get called from the ReWire master for some time, a message box would appear to inform about that problem. This message box again could lead to a crash of Live and the ReWire master. Now, the the message about the inactive ReWire master is displayed on the status bar.
· Sending a MIDI program change message from an external MIDI source into Live would lead to a crash.
· Depending on the structure of the current Live set, arming a track could be extremely slow.
· Unlock offline would not work properly.
August 15th, 2008· Executing the'Sort Chains' command in a Rack could crash Live.
· Sidechain routings were not properly saved in a Live Clip.
· Setting the 'Count In' to 4 bars would result in a 3 bar count in.
· Under certain conditions, the unlocking of additional instruments could fail.
· Sending MIDI SysEx data into Live could lead to crashes.
July 25th, 2008· Updated manuals
· Updated texts
· Updated lesson package
· Consolidating frozen tracks could result in a silent consolidate clip.
· The infotexts for the MIDI/KEY learn frame over the cross fade section were corrupted.
· On Mac OS X, sending out MIDI clock would not work properly for a song loop back jump.
· If the File Manager was opened, and the cursor was over it, the title of the infoview would say 'Lessons View' instead of 'File Manager'.
· Previewing Live clips and MIDI files would show a cut text in the status bar.
· Hotswap buttons for devices would not 'glow' when the mouse hovered over them.
· Under certain conditions, hotswap for nested Drum Racks would open the wrong preset folder in the Browser.
· If the fine song tempo was learned to a MIDI controller, moving that controller immediately after adding a Live clip would lead to a crash.
· In Live's Browser, plugins were not sorted according to sort order when the folder was expanded.
· In Live's file Browser, renaming a folder containing a recorded sample would silently fail and could set clips, used in the current Live set, offline.
· Having an audio track set to external input, armed and muted; the level meter color was still green instead of grey.
· Recording MIDI could lead to a crash when the first note was recorded immediately after starting a MIDI clip by clicking on a slot button of an armed track.
· 'Collect Samples on Export' would not work even if the corresponding Preferences option was enabled.
· In Live's Browser, when sorting preset by path, the current project entry would be placed randomly within the presets.
· Analog, Tension and Electric would show 16 MIDI channels although they receive MIDI only on channel 1.
· If a window was opened from within the Live process that Live does not know about (for example from NI Kore), Live would crash when opening a context menu or a popup chooser.
· Under certain conditions, the pads of a Drum Rack could stay permanently hidden.
· Changing the name of an effect or instrument device would not be reflected in the context menu of an assigned Macro knob.
· Renaming a send track would not immediately effect the parameter chooser display for that track.
· In the 'External Instrument' device, changing the 'MIDI To' chooser always reset the 'Audio From' chooser.
· A few OIC presets would require an unlocked EIC product.
· Opening a list view from within nested Drum Racks could lead to a crash.
· Depending of the current language, texts in the Trial section of the Preferences would not be displayed completely.
· On Windows Vista and independent of buffer size and CPU usage, using some FW based audio interfaces would always result in clicks & pops in the audio as soon as multi-core support was enabled
· In a Drum Rack, extracting a chain with a certain routing to its parent return chain would lead to a crash.
· In several message boxes for Library installations, file sizes would be displayed in GB and MB.
· Freezing an armed track with audio coming from 'Resampling' would crash Live.
· Unfolding the Browser by dragging over its open/close button would not work.
· On Mac OS X, using several Analog instances could lead to dropouts.
May 14th, 2008· Updated manuals
· Updated texts
· Updated lesson package
· Suppressing unnecessary question about "stop audio" on document close.
· Running the Analyze audio command from the context menu of the File Browser would only create .asd files if the respective Preferences option was set to On. Now Analyze audio is independent of the preferences option.
· On Mac OS X, the date in Live's File Browser would not reflect daylight savings time.
· Under certain conditions, the pad of a Drum Rack would have a sticky hotswap button until mousing over that pad again.
· The progress bar for consolidating could sometimes show values greater than 100%.
· When switching the MIDI input sources of a track, pitchbend values would not be reset.
· MIDI mapping the transpose parameter of an audio clip could lead to not quantized values.
· Sending of MIDI Song Position Pointer message beyond bar 1025 would lead to incorrect behavior and different behavior on Mac OS X and Windows.
· Under certain conditions, the Operator and Sampler envelopes could go out of sync. We provide a Options.txt entry called _AdsrRepeatQuantizeTo16th to restore the previous behavior.
· Certain Live sets originally created on Mac OS X and containing Audio Units within the chain of a Rack would crash when opening on Windows.
· The display of a Mackie Control-based surface controller would not be updated when several sections of the Simpler or Sampler instrument were switched off or on.
· The display of a Mackie Control-based surface controller would not be updated after renaming a particular device.
· The LFO sync rate parameter of the Sampler would not be available as a clip envelope.
· The time range display of the render dialog would not reflect an Arranger selection with a time signature change.
· Even if all external device tracks were frozen, rendering would still happen in real-time.
· Deleting an audio file within Live's Browser which was currently being previewed was not possible.
April 25th, 2008· Updated manuals.
· Updated texts.
· When switching the Library to a folder on a different hard drive, a message box appears asking if the current library should copied to the new location too.
· Fix: Playing the Clavibell.adg preset from Puremagnetic Wavebase package could lead to a crash.
· Fix: Live could crash if the root dir of a file browser is set to a non-existing directory.
· Fix: Folders below the current selected Library folder or the current project could not be bookmarked.
· Fix: The message box with the information about the installed packages would miss a scrollbar if many packages would be installed.
· Fix: In Sampler, pan would not working properly.
· Fix: Duplicate an audio track containing a clip with certain envelopes could lead crash Live.
· Fix: Grouping a top level effect device that has any of its parameters macro-mapped would crash Live.
March 27th, 2008· Updated manuals.
· Two new Lessons: Compression and Sidechaining and Session Drums.
· Added control surface support for the Akai MPD24. The volumes of tracks 1 to 6 are mapped to the faders. The encoders are mapped to macro controls. The order of the mapping is based on the feedback of this forum poll: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82431
· Support for dynamic adjustment of the plug-in buffer size for Audio Units. For technical reasons, an Audio Unit device must be instantiated for a buffer size change.
· Improvements for dialog to set up a Library when starting Live without one.
· On Mac OS X, Live now supports up to 256 input & output mono channels of the selected audio device.
· It is now possible to drag a complete folder with presets and/or samples from the Browser onto a Drum Rack's pads.
· Updated texts.
· Improve the performance when loading large presets.
· Support for the Record LED when using the Remote SL as a controller surface.
· Bug fix: Under certain conditions, the chooser for the Library path would not update properly.
· Bug fix: The message box saying that the selected Library is not available would not be displayed properly.
· Bug fix: When Live is running as the MIDI clock master, the first two sent MIDI clock messages could have the same time stamp. An Options.txt entry called '-_Live6ClockOutputCompatibility' brings back the old behavior if required.
· Bug fix: Analog instrument with unison enabled would always use CPU power even if it was not used.
· Bug fix: Dropping an instrument on a pad or chain that has devices would not replace the chain.
· Bug fix: Quitting Live because the expiration date was reached would lead to a crash on Mac OS X 10.5.x.
· Bug fix: Deleting a track with a Rack in Mappping mode would crash Live.
· Bug fix: Switching Sampler or Simpler presets during playback could lead to a short but heavy audio signal distortion.
· Bug fix: When using more than 8 return tracks, the return track volume mixing would not work properly.
· Bug fix: Under certain conditions, a song loop back jump could lead to a hard disk overload.
· Bug fix: Starting up Live with a corrupt header template document would lead to a crash.
· Bug fix: When using particular audio files, Live could crash for certain warp actions.
· Bug fix: In the inline mixer, resizing a chain would resize all other chains too.
· Bug fix: When scrubbing behind the loop within a clip, looping would not work properly after the next song start / stop.
· Bug fix: On Windows, when loading a Rack that contains an AudioUnit (which is disabled on PC), Live would crash when opening or closing Rack chains, or when turning one of the other rack marbles on or off.
· Bug fix: Installing a content package update could result in an imprecise success message.
· Bug fix: In ReWire slave mode, sending MIDI data from the master to more than one target within Live could result in audio drop-outs.
· Bug fix: Freezing of Drum Racks with chain-out routings to the top level would not work properly.
· Bug fix: Changing the Block value in the Spectrum device would cause audio drop-outs.
· Bug fix: In ReWire slave mode, clips would play from the beginning after rewinding.
· Bug fix: Under certain conditions, the MIDI handling of VSTs could not work properly.
· Bug fix: Undoing the creation of a time signature change would crash Live.
· Bug fix: When installing several packages at once, if one contained a file that already existed and was modified locally, the question whether to replace this file was asked for each pack even when the user answered 'yes to all'.
· Bug fix: Under certain conditions, a progress bar could display a value greater than 100%.
· Bug fix: Under certain conditions, default content would not be installed when a certain version of Live would run for the first time.
· Bug fix: On Mac OS X, changing the Library path to an empty folder would not work properly.
· Bug fix: Certain texts would not fit into their corresponding button controls.
· Bug fix: On Windows, Live's main view would not be updated if a certain dialog was in the foreground.
· Bug fix: Under certain conditions, content packages marked as 'update' would not be automatically installed.
· Bug fix: Saving a particular device chain as a preset could crash because of an invalid routing.
February 8th, 2008· Enhanced Audio Engine - Live 7's enhanced audio engine improves fidelity with precision 64-bit summing at all mix points throughout the program, POW-r dithering, optimized sample-rate conversion and other advances.
· New Compressor - The new compressor device integrates the compression models of Compressor I and II, and offers a new model based on a feedback design commonly found in the most praised vintage compressors.
· Sidechaining - Fully integrated side-chaining capability is available for the new Compressor as well as Gate and Auto Filter.
· Device High-Quality Modes - Operator, Dynamic Tube and Saturator now feature optional High-Quality modes for anti-aliased processing, reducing typical "digital" artifacts.
· EQ EightNew and Improved - EQ Eight sports an improved user interface and a new 64-bit mode for increased accuracy and fidelity.
· Introducing Spectrum - The new Spectrum device is an analyzer that provides real-time visual feedback for any audio signals within Live (and it looks really cool!).
· Improved MIDI Timing - The MIDI engine has been reworked, and we were able to significantly reduce timing error (jitter) of recorded MIDI.
· Easy Hardware Integration - Hardware integration has been streamlined with the addition of two new devicesExternal Instrument and External Audio Effectallowing hardware synthesizers and effects to be inserted into device chains just like software plug-ins.
· Enhanced Memory Management - New memory management technology allows users of large sample libraries, such as Ableton's new sampled instruments or third-party libraries imported via Sampler, to run an impressive number of instruments at the same time. This happens automatically, with no setup changes required.
· Audio Engine Fact Sheet - The Audio Engine Fact Sheet explains exactly how signals are (or are not) being modified when performing fundamental audio operations in Live, and provides tips for achieving the highest quality results.
· MIDI Engine Fact Sheet - The MIDI Engine Fact Sheet documents MIDI timing tests on both Windows and Mac platforms using various MIDI interfaces, and describes exactly what users can expect in terms of MIDI timing accuracy.
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