Novation upgrades their SL series with the new SL Mk II line. It has 25-, 49- and 61-key version, plus the Zero again, with no keyboard. Mechanics came from Fatar, a giant display is present (144 character), endless rotary encoders, XY pad, buttons with LED backlight, eight drum pads, and of...

Ableton's Live enjoyed numerous news in the first month of the year. Most importantly, it will receive a serious new version upgrade, Live 8. It will feature a new warping engine, a new groove engine, a new mix toy for looping grooves, five new effects (including a vocoder), and simpler operation....

Ableton has published 400 megabytes of groove material from Loopmasters. Click here to have it.

Ableton bundles a free softsynth, Operator , if you buy Live until 30th, October. Hurry up , the analog/FM world is waiting for you.

Ableton has announced a fully functionable and downloadable demo version of Live 7 , featuring all the add-on instruments (Sampler, Operator etc.), too. It works for 14 days. Try it here .

SONiVOX, while working for Ableton , has sampled an orchestra for Live. The package's name is Orchestral Instruments Collection , and costs 500 euro. If you don't want to invest such amount you can buy less: it is divided into four parts: strings, wood and brass, plus percussion. The whole package...

Ableton will soon release Live 7 LE , a cut-down version of the original. If you buy Live 6 LE from now (150 USD) you will receive upgrade freely. 7 LE will feature the 32 bit, 192 kHz sound engine, 64 audio channels, unlimited MIDI channels, real-time time stretching, multicore processor support...

64-bit, enhanced audio engine, better MIDI timing, new devices - Ableton released Live 7 this week. It also has programmed time signature changing as a landmark, and has a new device for handling beats and grooves: Drum Rack. Another nice feature is the new compressor which was modeled after...

Australian producer, Neon Stereo (working also as a tester for Ableton ) gave 35 effect racks to Puremagnetik , which are now freely downloadable from here .

Ableton has announced to ship Live 7 before the end of this year. It must have a brutal sound quality since the mix process is calculated on 64 bit depth, and the effect routing features sidechaining here also. Selling point is the programmed time signature changing, and a number of new...

Ableton is out with a light version of their flagship sequencer product. Live LE costs you 150 USD (download version), and has the next serious limitations if you compare it with the original: the number of the channels is maximized in 64, handles maximum 2 audio inputs and 4 outputs, soft...