LINK AND SYNC WITH LIVE IN ABLETON LIVE

For any musician or producer running a lot of digital gear side-by-side, synchronisation has always been an issue – an inconvenient necessity. We’ve used MIDI cables and interfaces to connect the black boxes that clutter our workspaces, and we’ve used ReWire to connect the DAWs that clutter our computer desktops, with varying levels of complexity and reliability.

With Live 9.6, Ableton introduced Link, a sync solution that works via wifi or Ethernet. Link is reliable, and super-easy to understand and to configure. Over time, it’s appeared on ever more software, from Bitwig Studio on macOS/Windows, to Korg Gadget on iOS, while also encroaching into the ‘real world’ through Akai’s new Force hardware, reviewed on page 78. No extra purchase or install is required, and that’s a crucial aspect of what’s made it popular.

LINK TO THE PAST

The great thing about using Link is that you probably won’t need to add any more