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Ableton’s Mobile App, Note, Has Arrived
Digital audio workstation Ableton has launched Note, a brand new mobile application on iOS. It’s available now for $5.99. According to Ableton’s website, “Note is a place to start ideas, experiment with sounds, and find direction. As part of your regular music-making routine, it can help you hone the skill of starting or ease into a creative headspace at the start of a session.” Note comes built-in with drum kits, melodic instruments and a variety of synths, but users are also able to record their own sounds in to craft their own library. While it’s significantly cheaper than the desktop version of Ableton, it’s also not a replacement. Ableton’s full suite is built into the desktop software. Scroll to Continue Recommended A...
Black Artist Database and Ableton Offer Series of Free Masterclasses for Black Music Producers
Black Artist Database is teaming up with Ableton to offer up to 1,200 Black artists a free music production masterclass. Black Artist Database, a crowdfunded platform dedicated to supporting Black artists, labels, and music producers, previously offered free courses in partnership with the popular digital audio workstation company in October 2021. The volunteer-powered organization has scaled to provide coverage across four continents in rapid fashion. Formerly known as Black Bandcamp, Black Artist Database existed merely as a spreadsheet in its earliest form, but has since grown to centralize the work of thousands of Black music industry professionals. In their forthcoming round of artist-led masterclasses, AceMo, Kessler, Suzi Analogue, and Zvrra will be covering a breadth of music...
Ableton Launches Live 11.1 Update Beta
The team behind the popular digital audio workstation Ableton always seems to be making improvements to its software, and now the Live 11.1 update has been launched in public beta to make the program even more user-friendly. The new update sees a myriad of features added to streamline the music production process within Ableton, including native support for Apple brand computers running on the recently introduced M1 Silicon chip. Ableton’s Frequency Shifter received a new mode for real-time monophonic pitch shifting, along with an added envelope section, delay, LFO, and glide functionalities. The public beta for Ableton’s Live 11.1 update is now available. Ableton Recommended Articles Align Delay and MIDI Shaper are two of the new utilities being added with ...
Ableton 11 Live’s Demo Track Was Created by Rising Star Ninajirachi
Producers were delighted when Ableton 11 Live, the latest incarnation of the Ableton digital audio workstation software, dropped on Tuesday. The latest edition has a slew of newly introduced features, like comping and MPE, tools for new devices, and a host of others. Also included in 11 Live is a demo track from none other than Australian producer, DJ, and songwriter Ninajirachi, who created the track to allow users to explore her processes and utilize working stems within the project file. Music producers can find it within their version of Ableton and use it as inspiration. “It’s such an honor to work on a project like this and I’m really grateful for the opportunity,” said Ninajirachi in a statement on her track for Ableton. “Getting to know all of Ableton’s...
Ableton Announces the Release Date for Live 11
Producers can finally start the countdown to the release of Ableton Live 11. Announced last fall was the next iteration of one of the world’s most popular digital audio workstations. Since then, producers have been anxiously awaiting the release of the upgraded software. While the release date was not known at the time of the announcement, developers have now confirmed that the new workstation will hit the market later this month. On Twitter, fans were notified of the release date and that there is a beta available now. For the Live 10 users reading this article, developers have shared a YouTube video comparing the two versions and explaining what’s new in 11. Ableton Live 11 will be available for purchase both online and in-stores on Tuesday, February 23rd, 202...
Ableton 11 is Coming—With a Slew of Amazing New Features
Ableton’s latest incarnation looks to be the quintessential digital audio workstation. Ableton is perhaps the digital audio workstation (DAW) most preferred by producers around the globe. Its functionality and user-friendly features make it a top-of-the-line choice for those just entering the music production game and veteran producers alike. Now, Ableton seeks to set the bar even higher with its newest version. Ableton Live 11 will boast a slew of useful and innovative new features in addition to its already expansive breadth of utility. Among them is a feature that organizes individual takes of recordings into separate tracks, and allows the user to select the best sections of those takes, and splice them together to create a perfect recording. This feature will prove to be in...
Pathwaves Music Production Camp for Women and Nonbinary Artists Slated for November
Placing a much-needed spotlight on marginalized identities in the music industry, a Berlin-based music program called Pathwaves is offering a production camp this November for women and nonbinary folks. Sponsored by Ableton and APRA AMCOS, an Australia-based music rights organization, the program will take place November 2nd to 6th, with some events streamed for attendees located outside of Berlin. Acceptance into the program will occur via an application process closing October 5th. Selected participants—primarily engineers and producers—will be invited to create work in a professional studio during the camp, where they’ll be mentored on technical skills through masterclasses and hands-on experiences. “The layered set-up of Pathwaves takes its inspiration from ...
Ableton Scraps 2021 Loop Summit Due to “Unmanageable Doubt” Casted by COVID-19
Music festivals aren’t the only major events to feel the wrath of COVID-19 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Venerated German music software company Ableton, the developer of the most ubiquitous digital audio workstation on the planet, has cashed in its chips and cancelled its in-person 2021 Loop Summit, citing fears of COVID-19. “We have taken the difficult decision to cancel the Loop Summit in 2021,” Ableton said in a statement. “It is increasingly clear that we cannot guarantee the level of health and safety that our event demands. In addition to the welfare risk, the ongoing global pandemic has continued to cast unmanageable doubt over all aspects of our event planning. Uncertainty in future travel and event restrictions has made it impo...
