Ableton today released , an upgrade to its sequencing instrument for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. LIVE 2 offers enhancements to the performance and jamming features of the original software and also adds multitrack recording and editing with "Elastic Audio," which is described as the "unique ability to treat audio as being totally malleable with independent control over tempo and pitch. This feature allows tempo to be set at anytime during recording, performance or playback. In addition, users can drop in recordings, loops and complete songs that will play in sync, direct from disk." LIVE 2 can also synchronize loops and recordings of any length at any time, offers advanced automation handling, DJ-like cross-fading, relative session mapping, MIDI-based tempo and transport controls, and new Gate and Redux effects. Upgrades are 70 Euro, while the full version is 400 Euro.

by MacNN Staff