Ableton Live 10 Released With Four New Plugins

Beginning February 6, Live 10 was available for the world to grab and gear up their production setups.  Here at edmtutorials.io we have been lucky enough to get our hands on a beta test copy in order to give you the full run down on what’s new.  The good, the bad, and the ugly of course!  The this Rev 10 update of Live includes new devices, faster workflows, a redesigned library, advancement in Push integration and many more tidbits. As if that weren’t enough the folks at ableton are also providing built in Mac for Live with Live Suite.  This upgrade truly is worth the hype.

Lives new devices are a real value upgrade for anyone out there that depends on the low latency and high reliability of plug-ins designed specifically for Ableton.  This version includes the following new additions to the family:

1. Wavetable
2. Echo
3. Drum Buss
4. Pedal

WAVETABLE

This is a great new instrument that is based off wavetable synthesis much like the insanely popular Massive by Native Instruments and Serum by Xfer records.  Ableton’s version can shape, stretch morph and mangle into oblivion using both analog synth sources as well as a range of other sounds.  

This synth is powered by two morphable oscillators that are equipped with an extensive assortment of wavetable.  There is additionally a sub oscillator to balance out the low end.  The oscillators can be routed into two cytomic-built analog modeled filters with a plethora of shaping and overdriving options.  This really outdoes any of the built in synths out there up to this point.  There is also new and cool unison modes that can dirty up your sound with noise, add some space with width, or just go nuts with random generators.  Finally the synth is owner of a very mature modulation matrix with options including three built-in envelopes, two morphable LFOs, and midi control.

Echo

Echo is a new and unique combination plugin that crosses analog and digital delay into one device.There are sweet drive and shape options within analog filtered models as well as coise and wobble parameters to introduce those old school imperfections.  You can add modulation to a reverb, create shimmering backdrops, screeching feedback loops, and much more.

Drum Bus

This plug in takes the glue compressor to the next level and lets you really get a drums set up dialed in to the max.  It’s capable of awesome character and inflections adding warmth, overdrive, crunchy distortion, and more.  It’s a great option for transient control and shaping as well as dialing in the low end sub of the kick and toms with a dedicated bass section.

Pedal

Separate circuit-level models of distortion, fuzz, overdrive guitar pedals rolled into one digital stomp box.  This pedal is cool on way more than just guitar.  It’s akin to some of the awesome tones available with Native Instruments Guitar Rig.  It excels at lifting lots of other instruments with presence and warmth like vocals, and drums.  

Stay Tuned for our upcoming blog post covering all the workflow updates that will be coming with live 10 at its release.