![]() ![]() Pictures and videos are nice, but as a writer, I also like reading vintage reviews. (Only recently there’s a workaround, using Follow Actions). Loop was also linked to warping, in a weird twist that remains today. I wanted this screenshot, though, just to make sure I wasn’t remembering wrong – Live 1.5 still didn’t have a way to turn Warp off or to select what later would become warp modes. The workaround, though, we still use today – record into a new clip on a trap, using already-available routing options. The Q&A from June 2002 is funny – Live didn’t have a bounce function until 1.5. This image from Sound on Sound I’m sure was provided by Ableton (as it’s a demo of prerelease software, and you’ll notice is in German). Some basic features took a little time – worth remembering if you’re ever checking out new software today. The road from Live 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.5 and so on was frankly a bit rough, having been there. Here’s Live as a lot of us experienced it, in Live 1.5. You’ll see some of the striking simplicity of that first build – but also a whole lot that is familiar. In some ways, it’s a little unfortunate that didn’t stick. Something I’m surprised people haven’t discussed about this screenshot – notice that Warper was a device rather than something built into clips and the Clip view. While Max patches (and Reaktor patches) by Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles did influence Live’s development, the development team did not actually prototype the DAW in Max, though some later devices like Operator were built in Max first, at least to mock up interfaces. A misconception was that Live was prototyped in Max. How did the UI evolve? You can go all the way back to Live 0.9 alpha in 2001, as Ableton shared in summer 2020. ![]() Who here remembers the glossy, jelly-like Live 1.0 icon, for instance? (It was still the era of Mac OS X’s first “lickable” interface and translucent candy-colored Jony Ives iMacs.) The video’s producer has it in mind to do a documentary, and since this happened in March of last year, he’s been busily posting useful VJ tips, so have at his whole channel. Julian Gray went as far as trying every single version. To go really crazy with this, some folks installed old versions. But looking back isn’t just a way to get nostalgic – it’s also helpful to really understanding the interfaces we stare at each day, and seeing the potential for where music software could go next. But want to really see how it’s evolved? Here are screenshots, dated reviews, and even retro installs as proof.Ībleton for their part didn’t make a big deal of that October anniversary – it was much more relevant for all of us to talk Live 11, what’s next. Ableton Live turned 20 in October, and it goes without saying it’s had a profound impact on music making in intervening years. ![]()
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