Ableton Live 8 wasn’t exactly what you’d call a sweeping success when it was released in 2009. In fact, issues with stability and usability were so poorly received that it led Ableton to publicly ...

Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing the dynamic peaks in an ...

Multiband compressors were not, of course, new to the world in 2009. Ableton’s approach to implementing upward and downward compression and expansion across multiple frequency bands in an intuitive ...