Music Tech Focus

NEW AND UPDATED DEVICES IN ABLETON LIVE

If you read our review this issue, you’ll know that Ableton has released a public beta of Live 10.1. Who knows, by the time you read this, it might have had a final release. Probably not, though, as Ableton can be cautious.

10.1 introduces fixes as well as a few features and even some major changes with the Devices. The Wavetable synth, included with Live 10 Suite, now has the ability to load user-created waveforms. The previous Simple Delay and Ping Pong Delay audio effects have been combined into a new single device – the functionally named Delay – and Channel EQ joins EQ Three and EQ Eight in the toolkit for all versions of 10.1.

NEW STUFF

That Wavetable update is big news for anybody who was frustrated by Ableton’s walled-garden approach to wavetables – you had to use theirs, and that was it – not good if

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