Live 8 Beta Release Notes

Bugfixes:

• The mouse and keyboard could sometimes become unresponsive after zooming or tweaking parameters on OS X 10.9 "Mavericks".

Improvements and feature changes:

• Added control surface support for M-Audio Axiom Air 25, 49 and 61 keyboards.
• Updated control surface lessons.
• Updated ReWire engine to support Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks". 

Bugfixes:

• Under certain conditions, Live would not launch and return an error message "The Side-by-Side configuration is incorrect" (Win only).
• Live could crash when moving a VST or AU plug-in to a different track while having its GUI open.
• Live could crash when deleting a AU plug-in device from a track while having its GUI open.

Improvements and feature changes:

• Added a user satisfaction survey. After several hours of usage, Live will ask you to rate the software on the next startup. You can submit a star rating or simply dismiss the survey.

Improvements and feature changes:

• Added control surface support for Novation Launchkey series.
• Added control surface support for M-Audio Axiom Air Mini 32.

Bugfixes:

• (64-bit Windows) Exporting video at 48 kHz would not work.
• (64-bit Mac) The video window could go black after toggling full-screen mode on and off.
• (64-bit Mac) The content in the video window would sometimes not resize correctly in the 64-bit Mac version after when jumping in the playback position.

Improvements:

• The 64-bit version now also supports video export.
• Improved automatic updates.

Bugfixes:

• Deactivating a playing clip and then reactivating it would leave the clip in an incorrect state. The clip would look as if it is playing, although it was actually stopped.
• Mappings from Max devices to VST plugin parameters could get lost after saving an instrument rack preset and then reloading it.
• Loading certain video files into the 64-bit version could freeze Live.
• Switching between the 64-bit and 32-bit versions after changing the VST plug-in preferences could cause Live to crash on launch.
• Fixed a crash which could occur when using the copy / paste time commands inside a group track.
• Fixed a crash which could occur under certain conditions when deleting a VST plug-in from a drum rack's return chain.
• 3 more crashes have been fixed.

Improvements and feature changes:

• The 64-bit version now supports video playback. Exporting video is not yet possible.
  Important note for Windows users: You may need to install a DirectShow compatible codec as explained in our 64-bit Video knowledge base article. The compatibility of video files will depend on the chosen codec.

Bugfixes:

• Decoding certain types of MP3 files would lead to a different offset (leading silence) in the decoded audio file on OS X 10.8.x.
• Certain MP3 files would not be decoded in the 64-bit version at all, and also in the 32-bit version if Quicktime is not installed (Win only).
• Under certain conditions, Live would hang when decoding MP3 files (Win only).
• Fixed a crash which could occur when importing extremely long MP3 files into Live (several hours long files). 
• Fixed a crash which could occur when changing the sample rate.
• Live would not respond to time signature changes from a ReWire master.
• Live could crash under certain conditions when triggering scenes containing time signature changes.
• Fixed a rare crash which could occur when switching through rack chains (e.g. with the "Auto" select function) whilst renaming a device inside the chain.
• Fixed a bug in the 32-bit version, which could cause problems when resizing 32-Bit-Cocoa plugins.

Bugfixes:

• Decoding MP3 files with the 64-bit version could result in audio files with a different leading silence than in files decoded with the 32-bit version. Known issue: this problem is still present on OS X 10.8 with VBR and ABR encoded files.
• Fixed a crash which could occur when changing the sample rate for audio interfaces with dynamically changing channel configurations (Mac OS X only).
• Fixed a crash which could occur when dropping MIDI Effect Rack presets onto Drum Rack pads or an Instrument Rack chain.
• Fixed a crash which could occur when saving an Audio Effect Rack containing devices with certain side-chain routings.
• Fixed an occasional crash which could occur when recording time signature changes.
• Live could hang when using "Insert Time" or "Insert Silence".
• Live could freeze when successively sending Program Change messages to a VST or AU plug-in (Mac OS X only).

• In rare conditions, certain Live Sets could not be opened.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug which could cause a "memory corruption error".
• Fixed a memory leak which could occur when previewing audio files in the Browser, using the "Complex" warp mode. 

Improvements and feature changes:

• Improved the authorization dialogue when launching Live as a Trial version.
• Live is now showing the email address of the currently authorized user account in the "About" window.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a crash which could occur when deleting a clip while recording.

Bugfixes:

• Minor improvements for Usage Data Reporting.
• The Session View selection frame of the APC40 or Launchpad could get stuck after deleting scenes or undoing the creation of scenes.
• (32-bit version only) Live parameters would no longer update correctly after deleting a Max for Live device which was mapped to that parameter via live.remote~.

Improvements and feature changes:

• The word size of the Live application is now shown in the splash screen.

Bugfixes: 

• When switching from the 32-bit version of Ableton Live to the 64-bit version, users were prompted to enter the password in order to install the ReWire engine.
• The APC40 control surface wasn't working in the 64-bit version on Mac OS X.
• Under certain conditions, the playback position in audio clips was incorrect after changing clip start markers in unwarped clips and then re-enabling 'warp' (regression from 8.2.7). 
• Fixed a bug which prevented VST plugins stored in the OS X system library folder to show up in Live's browser.

• Minor changes for usage data reporting.