New from Ableton: Live 4
		
		Ableton's most significant release to date, Live 4 extends Live's
		real-time music-making approach to the complete range of today's
		music-production techniques.
		
		In Live 4, users will find a complete approach to MIDI sequencing,
		pattern recording, drag-and-drop sampling, virtual instruments and MIDI
		hardware support. Ableton has also made substantial extensions and
		enhancements to existing functionality, including such features as
		swing/groove for audio and MIDI clips, a new channel-routing scheme,
		simplified recording, sample reverse, and several exciting new creative
		options for the Session View.
		
		New Live 4 Features include:
		
		MIDI Tracks, Effects and Instruments. MIDI sequencing in Live has been
		designed to get the user started within seconds. Software instruments
		appear in Live's built-in Browser. Dragging an instrument from the
		Browser into the mixer creates a MIDI track containing that instrument,
		ready to play and record. MIDI effects and audio effects can instantly
		be inserted into the same track by dragging, with no need for menus or
		abstract routing concepts. The signal flow within the track is
		intuitively set up by drag and drop. The Track View provides instant
		access to all instrument and effects controls.
		
		Live 4 also includes the 'Simpler' sampling instrument, which allows for
		instant sampling, polyphonic playback and creative exploration of any
		sound dragged into its display. 'Impulse' is a polyphonic percussion
		sampler with drag-and-drop sample import and powerful and innovative
		sound-shaping controls. In addition, Live hosts any VST or Audio Units
		(Mac OS X only) plug-in instruments. MIDI tracks with no software
		instrument can deliver MIDI to external hardware synthesizers, ReWire
		client programs or other MIDI tracks in Live. Live 4 also includes 5
		MIDI effects. The 'Scale' effect, for instance, forces incoming notes
		onto a chosen musical scale and fits well with 'Random,' which creates
		random deviations in note pitch.
		
		MIDI Clips. MIDI clips are created by recording or by dragging in
		Standard MIDI files from Live's Browser. Notes can be viewed, created
		and edited in the Clip View's Note Editor. When Draw Mode is engaged,
		the Note Editor behaves like a drum-pattern interface, where a pattern
		step is set or cleared by a single click, and flams are created by
		dragging across multiple steps. Unlike a static drum grid or step
		sequencer, Live's flexible grid allows the user to change the step
		resolution at any time.
		
		MIDI clips, like audio clips, have their own loop settings.
		MIDI-controller movements are represented as clip envelopes, which can
		be unlocked from the notes to create independent movements. The same
		real-time options apply to MIDI clips as they do to audio clips: MIDI
		clips can be launched at any time, with real-time quantization
		preventing rhythmical error. MIDI clips can be assigned to computer keys
		or MIDI-note ranges for jamming with musical phrases. MIDI clips can
		also be exported from Live as Standard MIDI files.
		
		
		MIDI Recording and Patterns. Patterns can be built up on the fly by
		overdubbing MIDI onto clips while they play in a loop. In conjunction
		with the new 'Impulse' percussion-sampling instrument, Live offers the
		options for spontaneous creation that are normally associated with
		hardware groove boxes. One can, in fact, use the computer keyboard to
		play Impulse's drum samples and create grooves from the laptop alone.
		Standard linear MIDI recording and overdubbing are available in the
		Arrangement View.
		
		Flexible Routing. New monitoring, track routing and view navigation
		allow non-disruptive track setup and recording. Any track can feed and
		tap other tracks for submixes or layering, and be routed to eight
		auxiliary sends per Live Set.
		
		Other new Features
		
		* Swing and Groove - Audio and MIDI clips support variable real-time
		swing and individual groove parameters.
		
		* Automatic Jamming - Audio and MIDI clips can be set to produce
		customized or even random sequences of loops or samples in Live's
		Session View. This is great for generating new ideas, making beats or
		preparing a DJ performance.
		
		* Sample Reverse - A single button can reverse any audio clip in real
		time.
		
		* Session View scenes can change the project tempo.
		
		* Session View scenes can be set to advance automatically.
		
		* Audio performance has been optimized for Macintosh computers.