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Macworld gives Ableton Suite with Live 7 a 5 mouse rating!

mary | 25 April, 2008 16:41

Ableton Suite with Live 7 is a digital-audio workstation (DAW) program that lets you trigger prerecorded audio with a Mac’s keyboard, mouse, or a MIDI controller. Unlike traditional DAWs, MIDI control makes Live a playable instrument as well as an audio editor and MIDI sequencer. The new Ableton Suite with Live 7 delivers refinements to features found in previous versions, as well as introduces new capabilities that will be welcome to musicians, DJs, and producers.

Ableton Suite with Live 7 is absolutely the tool to use for creating and modifying compelling grooves on the fly. Live can also behave like a traditional DAW, providing an Arrangement view where you linearly record digital audio and MIDI tracks as well as add prerecorded clips, virtual instruments, and effects by dragging them from Ableton Suite with Live 7’s File Browser pane. As with Apple’s GarageBand, you can alter the speed of your composition, and the clips will stretch (or warp, in Live parlance) so that they match the tempo of the piece without changing pitch (and without introducing ugly audio artifacts that can cause the sound to warble or stutter). Unlike GarageBand, Live lets you manipulate clips in a variety of ways. Not only can you add and chain together effects (using Live’s built-in effects, Audio Units and VST effects for audio files, and MIDI effects), but you can also edit MIDI controller data (change the velocity data on a series of notes, for example), and you can edit individual samples to change such elements as their pitch, volume, and panning. Live 6 brought support for editing the audio in a QuickTime movie, multiprocessor support, and instrument and effect racks. Ableton Suite with Live 7, while not a massive departure from what came before, includes its fair share of powerful and musical new features as well.

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Read&Write GOLD Is Solid - www.powertolearn.com

mary | 25 April, 2008 15:59

If it is your job to look at computer applications for your school or district, you know that so much of what is available these days for schools is to assist in record keeping or is a throwback to older software days of drill and practice, ostensibly getting ready for standardized tests, or something disguised as "new" just because it has moved to an online format. For the latter, gone are the platform issues, but software that didn't take advantage of the technology then still has the same problem now, and that isn't fixed just by moving online. When I write this column, I always find I am trying to avoid one of these abysses or another.  
 
But there is a piece of software that takes advantage of all that has come before it, adds it own brand of better to it, as well as understands what technology has to offer students with dyslexia and other learning differences.  It iss for me an oasis in a desert of silicone and like any oasis, Read&Write GOLD from Texthelp is most welcome. It's a piece of software that has so much to offer making it hard to do it justice in a short review.
 
If I had to sum up what Read&Write GOLD is all about in just a few words, I guess I would have to say that it is a word processor/research tool with every assistive technology for students and adults with dyslexia and other language based learning difficulties onboard. And it is just waiting for a challenge to its might.  (More)

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