Ableton snuck a feature into a late beta of Live 6 that will make many users very happy indeed: crossfader curves. The Live user community, as usual, is even more on top of the new feature than the Abletons. Live forum contributor kabuki from Texas tested, graphed, and labeled the new curves:

Curves in all the right places: Live user kabuki illuminates the new crossfader curves in Live 6. Thanks, kabuki!


L6 Cross Fader Curves REVEALED AND GRAPHED [Live forums; thanks, David!]

The second from top, “transition”, is the crossfader curve you know from Live 5, and will be selected by default in any projects you import from the previous release. Having a true constant cross-fade should be really handy, however, as will the ability to shape other curves.

I’m embarrassed not to know about this fantastic Wiki, which just added the crossfader info along with volumes of useful information for Live 5 and Live 6:

Ableton Live TeraWiki

The beta versions keep rolling out, but the beta list is pretty narrow. For those of you who have been waiting patiently but haven’t gotten to the beta, I do think you’ll get access to Live 6 soon.

I’ll keep adding plenty of Live 6 info here on CDM, just because I know so many of our readers are Live users. Crossfader curves are a relatively minor feature in Live 6 compared to the rest of what’s in there, but this brings me to a question: how many of you non-DJs make use of the crossfader? I know that, compositionally, it’s something I like to have in live performance, because I’m more likely to want to fade from one thing to another than to try to mix eight or more channels live. Now that I have a Faderfox DJ2 controller, because I liked the DJ layout better than the generic Live layout, and crossfader curves, I intend to use this even more. Is it just me, or are other non-DJs appropriating the veritable crossfader?

5 responses to “Ableton Live 6 Crossfader Curves; Live Wiki”

  1. Tom says:

    Beautiful! Can I get that woven into a rug?

  2. Logickal says:

    I use Live's Crossfader all the time in non-DJ contexts… One of the patented Logickal live performance techniques is to drop a Beat Repeat or two (and/or LiveCut) into a return track, set it for prefader, then pipe tracks into it assigned to xfade A with the return track on xfade B. Much fun with the remote by assigning parameters of the livecut to the x-y pad and the pitch bend while assigning the crossfader to the modwheel.

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