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Ableton Live Redesign

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Re: Ableton Live Redesign

#13

Post by olegkikin »

ziikutv wrote: post #12

Sadly the website is down and Wayback Machine did not save the picture. I am really unhappy because I was really looking forward to be amazed. Edit: Found a sneak peek on Nenad's Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/shots/3564223-Ableton-Live-Redesign

http://i.imgur.com/dfCte32.png

There are tons of more detailed images on that page, but it would be too much work to save them all.

Re: Ableton Live Redesign

#14

Post by ziikutv »

olegkikin wrote: post #13
ziikutv wrote: post #12

Sadly the website is down and Wayback Machine did not save the picture. I am really unhappy because I was really looking forward to be amazed. Edit: Found a sneak peek on Nenad's Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/shots/3564223-Ableton-Live-Redesign

http://i.imgur.com/dfCte32.png There are tons of more detailed images on that page, but it would be too much work to save them all.

Yeah its up for me now. Looks great.

Re: Ableton Live Redesign

#16

Post by anonova »

I don't really have a problem with the UI; I want Ableton to fix the other annoyances first:

* Saving the project resets the undo history. A someone who frequently saves, this is super frustrating.

* No normal zoom controls. You have to use the "minimap" at the top.

* Only a single project can be open at once, which makes copying from old projects tedious unless you shuffle files around into your current project.

* Tracks can only be grouped one level deep, i.e., no subgrouping. Most DAWs give you arbitrary grouping depths.

* No way to overlay multiple tracks in the piano roll. I end up starting in one group and extracting to individual buses afterward. This doesn't work well the other way around.

My biggest wish for the next version is project versioning. It's an absolute nightmare managing so many save "checkpoints", especially, as I mentioned, you can only have a single project open at once.

Re: Ableton Live Redesign

#17

Post by cmicali »

anonova wrote: post #16

I don't really have a problem with the UI; I want Ableton to fix the other annoyances first: * Saving the project resets the undo history. A someone who frequently saves, this is super frustrating. * No normal zoom controls. You have to use the "minimap" at the top. * Only a single project can be open at once, which makes copying from old projects tedious unless you shuffle files around into your current project. * T…

You got all of my wish list with 2 additions: * ability to favorite plugins (please!) * aliases on the arrange page

Re: Ableton Live Redesign

#18

Post by JDiculous »

The worst UI flaw of Ableton is its atrocious piano roll. They need to make it more like FL Studio's piano roll - left click to enter a note and hold it down to adjust length, right click to delete (yes there's draw mode, but it doesn't let you do that)

Re: Ableton Live Redesign

#19

Post by ryan-allen »

JDiculous wrote: post #18

The worst UI flaw of Ableton is its atrocious piano roll. They need to make it more like FL Studio's piano roll - left click to enter a note and hold it down to adjust length, right click to delete (yes there's draw mode, but it doesn't let you do that)

I find myself swapping from draw to regular mode with B a lot, and using the arrow keys to adjust things. It's a bit annoying... I thing piano rolls are pretty antiquated in general, most people aren't writing chromatic pieces, so I'd like to see something that was more of a guiding force in programming within certain bounds of western music theory.

I'm a programmer so I guess I could make it happen!

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