Grub Brother

I discovered even more new features that are not part of the interface enhancements: Especially the tool “Looper”, a simple and classic, but ultra useful audio loop station fully controllable by only ONE(!) MIDI pedal, and the new distortion effect, which ads a wonderfully warm overdrive to the existing range of Live’s effects. I guess I will put a demo of it only the next few days when a friend of mine will come over for a little jam session.

Nomen est omen, again. And guess what’s new? It’s Live 8, oh yes, yes!! Currently it’s still installing, but everything seems to work alright, and in about half an hour I will be playing around with it like a madman to get accustomed with all the wonderful new interface and workflow features. It has everything i’ve been missing in Live 7:

• Groupable tracks! I missed this one so much! When you work with 20 to 30 tracks at a time while some of them should have the same effects or automation it can be really difficult to realize this without having the possibility to group them.
• New automated crossfading features. E.g. useful when given a short sample and needing a long one: The short sample must be overlapped and overfaded several times with itself in order to create the long version. This process will be way faster then before when using the new Live.
• Better MIDI-Editor which enhances the workflow of reediting MIDI recordings.
• Transients! I need them to create soft and subtle tempo variations.
• Much more wicked stuff! This is what i want! Especially the wickedness …

So long, cowboy. As you can see, I really like this software. Screenshots will be posted later in a seperate article.