The big news of the day was for sure the official announcement of Live 10. In addition to this news, another company has published majors news that belongs to the Ableton Group. Cycling’74 announced today the next version of Max that will come with many performance and workflow improvements. There are no information yet what the new features and improvements will be but they shared that they are currently working on Max 8 with a better integration in Live environment. The developers are planning to release Max 8 in the second quarter of 2018. Stay tuned for more informations.
Max 8 is Coming in 2018
We are planning to release a Max 8 upgrade in the second quarter of 2018 with many performance and workflow improvements that we will begin to detail in the coming months.
The Ableton Live 10 beta is using a preliminary version of Max 8. Here are a few things to know about what’s going on.
- In order to make it easier for the Max for Live user, Ableton is now including a version of Max inside the Live application. (Previously it was a separate download.) The version of Max 8 bundled inside Live 10 will not affect your use of either Max 7 or Max for Live in older versions of Live.
- During the Live 10 beta period, we chose to provide Ableton with a preliminary version of Max 8 whose user-facing features are identical to Max 7 but which contains many changes under the hood. By doing this, we hope to get a lot of testing on these changes as part of our Max 8 development project.
As of November 2, 2017 anyone who purchases a full version or an upgrade to Max 7 will receive an upgrade to Max 8 for free. Anyone who is an active Max subscriber when Max 8 is released will have access to the new version.
More information here: Cycling’74 Max 8
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