It’s been three years since Ableton Live 10 was released, although in some ways it feels longer. The world’s cluttered with ever more hardware synths, beatboxes, samplers, and sequencers, we’ve got MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) threatening to finally go mainstream, and Ableton’s competitors haven’t been idle. Logic Pro has got Live Loops, which provides a very familiar Live-like loop jamming experience, Bitwig Studio has beaten Ableton to embracing MPE, and the old favourite Reason can now run as a plugin, which makes it much easier to integrate into our projects. Now, after a public beta, already reviewed in Computer Music, we have the final release of Ableton Live 11, and there are still things to talk about.
When opening Live 11, the first obvious changes are in the Browser, with…
