Ableton Live is an audio sequencer that may be played like a musical instrument. All you need is a Life and a Mac or PC to use alone or with other musicians or DJs, live on stage or while remixing in the studio.
Ableton Live is a game-changing music production software. It enables you to compose spontaneously, record, remix, improvise and edit musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment.
Live unites your acoustic, electronic, and ”Virtual Instruments” and digital audio recordings and MIDI sequences in a single user interface. In short, Ableton allows you to concentrate on what matters: your music.
The ”Award-Winning Elastic Audio Sequencing” in Live allows you to record, import, arrange, and manipulate various audio snippets and loops into full songs regardless of pitch. Or tempoó in real time as the song is playing. You may even modify the pace and pitch of the audio after the fact, and clip envelopes produce an infinite number of loop variations. You can even mix in linear tape-style recording with your loops.
Features of Ableton Live 11:
- From Sketch to Composition. Live’s specialty is improvisational composition. Make a mental note of musical ideas, combine or create new tunes, and compose on the fly. Your every move is recorded in real-time for further modification and editing.
- The Musical Center. Bring everyone together right now. Live provides complete multitrack recording and editing for any acoustic source, hardware synthesizer, or software instrument.
- Simple MIDI. Yes, MIDI may be enjoyable and simple. Insert a software instrument into a track and start playing. Layer synths, drag and drop MIDI and audio effects, and record MIDI as audio.
- Mode Pattern. Your laptop is about to be transformed into a groove box. Live gives you access to a plethora of groove-making tools.
- Remix and mix. Combine jazz, house, hip-hop, and soul in one instant… Live synchronizes everything in real-time.
- Sound Design on the Spot. Perform sonic surgery on your sounds in real-time. While loops and samples are playing, draw melodies and rhythms and effect change on them.
- Direct control. Remove yourself from the grip of the mouse. On stage or in the studio, treat your sequencer like an instrument.
Ableton’s distinct approach to music production extends to a new MIDI sequencing and manipulation paradigm, replete with virtual instruments, with Live. Ableton Live is a new musical tool that blurs the line between stage and studio. It is as simple to use as it is powerful.
Other Features:
- Recording on multiple tracks
- Editing is completely nondestructive, with limitless undo.
- MIDI sequencing of software and hardware devices that is both powerful and imaginative.
- Time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and MP3 files in real-time, for improvisation and fast remixing.
- A wide range of built-in audio effects, including various creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors, and EQs.
- In-built software instruments Impulse for sampled beats, Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis
- Drum, Instrument, and Effect Racks for generating and managing complicated performance setups, drum kits, and VST and AU effects and instruments.
- Automatic delay compensation for plug-ins.
- REX file support and the ability to create native sliced audio files.
- Import and export video for scoring to image or warping image to music.
- Control parameters in real-time using any MIDI controller. Simply MIDI-map it or select from a list of common compatible controllers for immediate mapping.
- Complete ReWire support.
- Single-screen user interface for easy, creative operation.
- Support for multicore and multiprocessor systems.
Ableton Live is the only system that addresses every stage of the musical process, from invention to production to performance. Live is transparent, intuitive, and sensitive during the creative stage, catching inspiration and promoting the flow of musical ideas.
The program includes all the professional tools and studio compatibility needed to complete and perfect projects throughout production. On stage, Ableton Live provides the expressive control and stability on which countless performers have grown to rely.
Ableton Live 11 Suite includes the following items:
- Ableton Live 13 Instruments to try (including Wavetable, Operator, Sampler, Analog, and more)
56 effects for audio and MIDI processing (including Echo, Pedal, Beat Repeat, Amp, Vocoder, Glue, and lots more). - You can use Live with your keyboards or controllers right away, thanks to the instant mappings.
You can use Max for Live to access a variety of instruments, effects, and customizations produced by the Live community.
