In 2009, Dis-patch is continuing its long-term collaboration with Ableton, one of the leading companies from the realms of music and sound design software, due to the success of the ever-expanding platform for production and live performance - Ableton "Live".
The collaboration started already for the 2nd festival edition in 2003, while the latest two editions in 2007 and 2008 featured talks, presentations, a workshop in collaboration with Higher School of Electrical Engineering and, finally, two very successful track competitions which offered a great chance to the local authors to learn and win free software packages of Ableton.
Inevitably, the festival has been following the progress of this product, presenting a new release and features from year to year.
In 2009, Ableton introduced the Version 8, followed by related new products such as hardware controllers or virtual instrument collections. The announcement of a merger of two platforms, Max and Live, is keeping the expectations high until its official release.
The competitions for producers which have been presented by Dis-patch motivated around 30 local authors to send in their works in the last two years, while also giving them an extra temptation - a task to produce a track or a sound piece with Ableton Live based on one single sample sound, or using only the recording of human voice as raw material. This way we aim at developing the producers' skills, while at the same time presenting the powerful potentials of Live as a tool.