Francis Preve has posted a great tutorial on compression over at Beat Portal. It's a great tutorial that is easy to follow and understand. If you're interested in production this would be recommended reading.

Ableton has an offer going on at the moment that would let you buy Ableton and get operator for free.

Our friends over at Create Digital Music has an article on a project that is underway to create an Ableton controller that mimics the User Interface. The work is already looking pretty cool, so jump over and check it out.

This is a device that uses light for a non contact controller for Ableton live. The video shows a very impressive interaction.

The guys over at Ableton have just released the Orchestral Instrument Collection bringing the symphony sound to Live. It consists of four sampled instrument collections that make up an orchestra including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. All were sampled at different velocities and articulations to make up a massive 24GB of samples ready for use.

Create Digital Music get to preview livid instruments new Ohm midi controller. It's a wooden controller with blue back lit buttons great for all kinds of applications. Be sure to check out the flickr photo set at the bottom.

Ableton Live 7 and Ableton Suite have just been released. Ableton renews the core of Live with enhancements to the audio engine, new and improved devices, better MIDI timing and hardware integration. They have also included the most requested features and heaps of other stuff.