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Ableton Live is Ableton's computer program for musicians, used both for studio work (arranging, mixing) and for live play (improvising, DJing).

Ableton co-founders Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke, and Bernd Roggendorf developed Live based on homemade software that Behles and Henke created to facilitate their live music performances for the Monolake project. They released the first version of Live in 2001 as commercial software. Ableton Live is written in C++. Live itself was not prototyped in Max, although most of its audio devices were.

Live 1 had no MIDI playback or recording functions, and was adapted solely for looped audio and sample manipulation. The basic idea of the developers: a computer is a musical instrument, and a man is the conductor and performer for that instrument.

Live 4

Released on July 28, 2004 was a significant revision of the program since its introduction. A new feature was the introduction of the MIDI sequencer. For the first time, Live began to support virtual instruments (VST for Windows, VST and AU for Mac), and to record and edit MIDI notes.

Live 5

Released on July 24, 2005. Starting with this version, Ableton Live has a feature called Clip Freeze, which is used to reduce the load on the processor. "Frozen" tracks cannot be edited, but they no longer put a lot of load on the CPU. In addition, new effects have been added: Phaser, Flanger, Auto Pan, Saturator, Arpeggiator and Beat Repeat. In addition to WAV and AIFF, MP3 files can also be imported.

Live 5.2 (April 10, 2006) integrates built-in support for the Intel Apple-Macintosh.

Live 6

Released on September 29, 2006. Added Sampler tool, Dynamic Tube effect. Live can now edit frozen tracks without defrosting them (Deep Freeze). Live 6 offers not only the ability to group built-in and external instruments and effects, but also to organize them into virtual racks and thus manage them centrally. Support for multiple processors and multi-core CPUs, the ability to import QuickTime movies and thus voice them, export audio tracks as separate files, and direct support for multiple MIDI controllers are announced. Version 6 can come with an extensive library of Essential Instrument Collection instrumental sounds samples.

Live 7.

Released on November 29, 2007. A Suite option has appeared, offering users access to a multitude of add-ons, including additional plug-ins, instruments, and loops. A Drum Rack has been added. Sidesharing became possible, REX Loops got support for importing and slicing. Suite version included new instruments Analog, Electric and Tension.

Live 8

This version was released on April 2, 2009. The warping of audio clips has been improved, new features have been introduced: Groove, the ability to combine tracks into groups, a vocoder effect, Looper, Limiter, Multiband compressor, Overdrive and Frequency Shifter effects, and many other minor changes. A new Collision instrument for percussion sounds and the Latin Percussion sample library are included or for an additional fee. The Live user interface has been localized into different languages.

Starting with version 8.2.6, Live is compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and supports the Impulse series of controllers from Novation. Version 8.3 was released on April 2, 2012; from this version the program is updated automatically. You can now upload audio files directly from the program to your SoundCloud account. Compatibility with OS X Mountain Lion has been addressed during the upgrade to 8.3.1.

Live 9.

Released on March 5, 2013. Provided support for the native Push hardware controller, the ability to record clip automation curves, an updated browser, added support for multiple monitors (version 9.1, November 20, 2013), a new Glue Compressor, and the ability to convert audio clips to MIDI.

Live 10.

Released February 6, 2018. Contains a Wavetable synthesizer, two new effects, and improved interaction with Push, allowing you to visualize effects and MIDI notes.

Live 11.

Released February 23, 2021. Contains new features such as Comping, support for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE), and new sound effects, instruments, and enhancements to various features.

The company was founded in 1876 by Gustav Paulig (1850-1907), who had arrived in the Grand Duchy of Finland from the German town of Lübeck. At first the company dealt with the importation to Finland and sale of colonial products and groceries: coffee, spices, port wine, cognac, salt, flour and others. In 1904 the company began roasting coffee in a special warehouse in Helsinki.

Owners and management

The owners of the company are the Paulig family. The managing director is Rolf Ladau.

The company specializes in the roasting of natural coffee (65% of the Finnish market in 2009, this area is handled by a subsidiary, Gustav Paulig Ltd.), the production of liquid chocolate, spices and ethnic cuisine products. The Paulig Group is active in the markets in Northern Europe, the Baltic countries, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

The company employs 2,000 people (2018). The Paulig Group's revenue in 2008 was 700 million euros.

Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. (Lavazza, Lavazza) is an Italian coffee company founded by Luigi Lavazza in 1895.

History

The founder of the company is Luigi Lavazza, who moved to Turin from Murizengo, buying Paissa & Olivero, a small business in downtown Turin. This grocery, the progenitor of the future company, began operations on March 24, 1894, but 1895 is usually given as the founding year of Lavazza.

In 1910 the Lavazza grocer in need of larger premises moved to Via San Tommaso 10, where he opened his own bar and restaurant of the Lavazza family.

Luigi Lavazza, his wife Emilia and children Mario, Pericles and Giuseppe, managed to avoid the hardships of World War I. They founded the company, which became a joint stock company in 1927 with a capital of 1.500.000 lire. As a result of rapid growth, the company moves first to Corso Ponte Mosca (now Corso Giulio Cesare) and then to a new location, Corso Novara 59, by decision of Mario Lavazza, who had already succeeded his father Luigi in running the company. During these years Lavazza ran an advertising campaign, issuing collection cards depicting various events related to coffee as well as historical facts, both Italian and international. Lavazza cards become collector's items like stamps or coins. In the following years, Mario Lavazza begins an advertising collaboration with the advertising studio of Armando Testa at his request. In 2018, the last move of the company's office takes place in its own office Nuvola Lavazza (Lavazza cloud), designed by Cino Zucchi and built in the Borgo Aurora neighborhood.

In 2016. Lavazza was the official partner of the Chess Olympics in Baku.

In 2016. Lavazza acquires the French coffee brand Carte Noir from the Jacobs Douwe Egberts group. In 2017, following a strategy to strengthen the global coffee market, it acquires Kicking Horse Coffee in Canada, ESP (Espresso Service Proximité) in France and Italian Nims. In July 2018, it acquires Blue Pod Coffee in Australia and in October, American Mars Drinks.

Trading

In addition to its own sales, the company works with global retailers such as Starbucks or Caribou Coffee. Lavazza stores offer whole beans and ground coffee for household use. The line of coffee pods for coffee machines includes a wide range of coffees both for home cooking and for cafes, restaurants or offices.

Coffee

Lavazza imports coffee from all over the world. The supply geography includes all coffee growing regions: South America (Brazil and Colombia), Central America (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras), Africa (Uganda), Asia (Indonesia and Vietnam) and North America (the United States and Mexico). An urgent production need prompted the company to decide to launch Project Tierra, an agricultural development program in Honduras, Colombia and Peru. It aims to improve coffee quality, working conditions for workers and the quality of the environment in these countries. According to marketing studies, 80% of Italian coffee-consuming families choose Lavazza. That's why the company's slogan is "Italy's favorite coffee." Today Lavazza offers dozens of varieties of natural coffee - different degrees of roasting, variously blended, ground and in beans.

The company

Lavazza has four production facilities in Italy and seven branches in Europe and America (France, Germany, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria and the United States). Lavazza products are sold in 80 countries. In 2008, the company entered the Indian market through the purchase of a controlling stake in Sterling Infotech group, which owns the coffee chain The Barista Coffee and the Fresh and Honest retail chain. In 2010, the company's turnover was estimated at 1.1 billion euros.

FL Studio (formerly FruityLoops) is a digital sound workstation (DAW) and sequencer for writing music. Music is created by recording and mixing audio or MIDI material.

The first version of Fruity Loops was developed for Image-Line by programmer Didier Dumbren (known by his pseudonym "gol"); it was partially released in December 1997. It was officially released in early 1998; at the time, it was a four-channel MIDI drum machine. Dumbren was appointed chief developer of the program, and it soon underwent a series of major improvements that turned it into a popular digital music studio. FL Studio has been upgraded with 10 major releases since its introduction and FL Studio 10 was released in March 2011. Arguru programmer and DJ and composer Joel Tommas Zimmerman, under the alias Deadmau5, contributed to the creation of various editions of FL Studio.

On April 22, 2013, FL Studio 11.0.0 was released. This update brought with it a number of fixes and improvements; as well as changes that had been made to the beta versions of the program.

April 22, 2015 saw the release of version 12 of the program. It completely redesigned the interface, which became vector and scalable. Also, a multi-touch function was added to the mixer and the procedure for installing and searching for VST plug-ins was changed.

The next version of FL Studio followed the twelfth immediately with the 20th number. The main reason for this step is the 20th anniversary of the DAW. Its release took place on May 22, 2018. In this version, Plugin Delay Compensation was improved, the ability to change the musical size throughout the song was added, the ability to work with multiple arrangements in Playlist, the number of tracks in Playlist was increased to 500, and in Mixer - to 125, some features that were available in earlier versions of FL Studio (Step Sequencer Graph Editor, legacy precomputed sampler effects) were returned. Also, starting from version 20, FL Studio officially supported macOS.

It is currently released by Image-Line Software.

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