You may have seen it pop up on your socials, but Ableton just announced they’ve opened up the Live 10 beta to the public. So if you already own a license for either Live 9 Standard, or Live 9 Suite, you can give the beta a whirl. You’ll need to create a Centercode account before going through a very short questionnaire about your level of skill with music production, various bits of kit, and Ableton Live itself.
The current download clocks in at around 1.3 GB.
My thoughts
Since you’re all such massive fans of DJWORX and never miss an article, you’ll have read Ray’s thorough and optimistic ‘first look’ at the new features you’ll see in Ableton Live 10. Ray put the feature run-down into words far better than I could, and we at DJWORX defer to him on all matters production related (unless it’s Max4Live, right Darren?).
Something I would like to say is that there is seemingly some backlash against Ableton for supposedly ignoring the community’s highly voted feature requests during the closed beta. While the issue of a company listening to feedback (or not) is always going to be a hot topic amongst fans of a product, there needs to be some clarification about what a beta test is.
The big issue is about why a popular feature won’t get implemented, and the reality is that a beta test is not that time. By the time software reaches beta, features will be locked in, and testing is there simply to find ways to break stuff, and maybe tweak the user experience. You can expect bug fixes, and setting to move, but the idea of adding a new feature just isn’t feasible, because you then have to do another round of testing on that update.
With that in mind, if you do sign up for the beta, try to get involved with the community. Give feedback. Break shit. Submit bug reports. Try different hardware and software combinations. This is the time to help Ableton make the software as sturdy as possible, not as feature-packed as The Homer.
Your thoughts
Have you had a play with the Live 10 beta? What did you think? Share your tracks in the comments to show us what it can do!
If you already own Live 9 Standard or Live 9 Suite, head over to the beta signup page to start testing!
I’m Testing it since 3 months now.
The New Effects are really great (I love the Drum Bus and the Echo).
The Wavetable Instrument is really fun, simple and powerful. (Simple If you know what you are doing…)
The new Interface is fresh, you can manipulate Audio Clip with fast fade in/out like the other DAW when working with audio.
You can show/hide automations in the arrangement view. (so cool to clear the interface).
For me, the best of this version are :
– Autosave project and made “backups” is a must, either being able to “Undo” after saving a project.
– The PUSH2 integration is better than ever, you can work on a Session View without looking at your computer screen, it’s a real instrument.
– The Capture function is awesome.
– Multi Clip edition is a must.
I don’t really think Ableton guys are not listening to their users at all, If you’re a REAL user, with a paid version, you are going to Ableton’s events and really participating in the forums when the betas are up, you’ll be listened to…
If you just complain on Social media’s about the fact Ableton is not working Like FL, Pro Tools, Logic or Cubase… It’s normal, it’s Live, not an other DAW.
Lots of people are complaining about the upgrade price, but c’mon guys, it’s totally worth it.
I only raised that point about not listening because I’ve seen it in several places over the last few weeks. People expecting brand new features adding at this point, when that’s not how betas work.
I agree !
I didn’t wanted to be mean, it’s just I had lot of sterile discussions with people claiming that the Live 10 update should be more “ProTools-Cubase-FruityLoops-Reaper-Like”, and they were disappointed… (because they don’t want to buy to upgrade… or buy at all…)
Downloaded the beta yesterday, really love the refreshed clearer look, the fact you can do so much more from the push 2, drum bus is awesome !! Favorite folder is gonna save me lost of time searching for things,
first impressions so far, need to spend some more time to find out the other improvements.. and yes its already worth the money to upgrade…!!
Release date announced = Feb 6th