New skin for Ableton 9 Studio

Free when you update to 9.0.4 using either the built in updater or download from your account page on Ableton. The new skin is called Disco.

A high contrast dark skin like this would be good in a low light gig situation. More on Ableton Live at Molebomb

How to achieve the highest sound quality from Ableton Live

Many of the default settings in Ableton Live are intended to optimise playback smoothness and keep CPU usage low. This is great for performance and working on a track but doesn’t provide the highest sound quality available from Live.

Perhaps you are at the final stage of a project and you wish to ensure you have the absolute highest quality playback and effects to bounce down a high quality recording. This is when you can tweak settings to achieve higher quality output. All these settings will increase the load on your CPU and you may want to freeze tracks before and after engaging the high quality settings.

Full article:

http://www.molebomb.com/audiotech/Ableton/abletonhiq.html

Public beta of Live 8

A public beta of Ableton Live 8 is now available for download...

A public beta of Live 8 is now available. If you own a full version of Live (versions 1 - 7) and would like to test Live 8, you can download the current beta version at http://www.ableton.com/nl211-beta