This is no different, stylistically, than Discovery-era Daft Punk. That was almost a decade ago and I was charmed by the subtle Bach chord progression that comes in lateway during "Around the World", so I was hoping for more of that playfulness (and homage to Carlos) here. But sadly, it was repetitive (like Homework-era stuff, which I didn't enjoy as much) and didn't grow.

BTW, the poses of the Daft Punk robots on that cover art are reminiscent of the angular Transformers: Animated series.

I'd be quick to call this out as a fake, but then again, I thought Human After All was when leaked, too.

I've also noticed how much Moldover looks like game audio legend George "Fat Man" Sanger, especially those vids where Moldover's on stage in a suit!

How specialized and a creative theme! I was thinking about Numbers Stations the other day after reading about Boards of Canada using some of those samples.

Class this under the "conspiracy theory music" umbrella.

Aside from the price, this thing looks like it'd go together with chiptunes like PB&J.

Nice motion graphics and they piqued my attention (marketing!) but I'd like to see this followed up with some raw videos of PLAYING Electri6ity in action.

So often, features to enhance realistic realtime playing are disappointing when you try them out for yourself, and it's back to tedious step-programming... OH GOSH NO.

So I hope someone from Vir2 or a big fan will show a split webcam/computer screen view of how these elements work together. Specifically performing a virtuoso solo live and then doing more tender, gentle playing incorporating various strumming techniques and articulations.

Sometimes Eno is a cheeky prankster and subject to hyperbole, but he's not only prone to being quotable, but very thoughtful... and there's truth in what he's saying. The evidence is the presence of the present. His observations may even grow progressively true as time rushes on — you know what they say about hindsight. I'm looking forward to watching his full BBC Arena appearance.

Instant ambient! I just wish the plugins were all wrapped in a single "shell" like SFX Machine, and that they had a beautiful UI. Maybe that should be the paid version.

I do support stability! What's particularly interesting is I'm not on any weird flavor of system... I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.2 on a Mac Pro (2008 model). I'm sure I proportionately notice crashes and other glitches more than other apps as I use Live a *lot* and continue to become intimate with it, but nonetheless, the simple steps that result in some of these crashes is concerning.

I notice 8.1.1 still hasn't fixed the bug that broke copy and paste across grouped tracks, so I'm going to report that now! Somewhere, this ties into my New Year's Resolutions... and here's my first video bug report for the Ableton crew to check out when they're back in the office: http://screencast.com/t/ZjVjMjRlYjEt

Here's to a prosperous 2010 for you and Synthtopia!

Ableton Live 8 in general has been disappointingly unstable to me, especially 8.1 which I found very crashy. I'd crash routinely after doing trivial operations like copying an instrument from one track to another, and this was was harsh to my workflow. I also experienced crashes when slicing audio to a MIDI track and undoing — if these issues persist I'll surely become a more active bug reporter (as I do for numerous other companies), but while I focus mainly on recorded work, this makes me question Live's overall reliability when performing... live.

What problem did you encounter? It worked for me — thanx synthhead, on my way to play with it now! :)