For any of you who did what I did, fell in love with them, put as many of them as you could on, uh, everything, and then watched as it tanked your CPU, performance improvements are welcome. And there’s a lot of that stuff getting slowly improved.īut I am stupidly excited about the improvements to the new devices, including performance optimization.
With any DAW, what will keep you coming back is not only that it works in ways that grow familiar, but also that some of these improvements make using the software easier without you even noticing. The usability stuff, which I haven’t detailed here, I have to really say I appreciate. There’s so much work in this release, actually, I thought I had accidentally scrolled down to a previous version’s release notes.
Improved performance of new devices Chorus-Ensemble, Spectral Resonator, Spectral Time, plus some fixes to how performance was displayed for those devices.Various performance improvements (including at least one fixed regression).Sample tab in Clip View is improved, including audio clip adjustment in semitones (finally!) and some visual / usability refinement.
It’s worth a read, as there are actually a lot of nuanced improvements, a lot of which seem to respond to user feedback on workflows. So after a big landmark release, here’s that maintenance release that adds some additional refinement. (That’s why even if you’re not a Live user, you might care this is happening.)įor existing Live users, though, the big news is that 11.0.5 tweaks a lot of the new stuff in Live. With MIDI Polyphonic Expression now baked in, this also extends the range of software with MPE support (and other expressive features) out of the box – and since this is really about hardware bundles, that’s potentially a big deal for future hardware support.
Live Lite also being Live 11 is significant because that’s an entryway for a lot of new users, even if that isn’t you. Ableton Live 11.0.5 just became public with loads of fixes, tweaks, and subtle additions – and the free Lite version that comes with lots of hardware now adds Live 11 functionality.