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Ableton Live is about making music; for composition, songwriting, recording, production, remixing and live performance. Live's nonlinear, intuitive flow, alongside powerful real-time editing and flexible performance options, make it a unique studio tool and a favorite with live performers. If you'd rather be "making music" than just "using music software," Ableton Live is for you. Live 8, the latest version, includes a wealth of new techniques and improvements with a new groove engine, revamped warping, live looping, new effects, crossfades in the Arrangement View and a reworked MIDI editor.
Ableton Live is an audio sequencer that you can play like an instrument. On its own or with other musicians or DJs, live on stage, or when remixing in the studio all you need is Live and a PC.
Ableton Live is the revolutionary music production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments as well as your digital audio recordings and MIDI sequences, together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use. In short, Live lets you focus on what really matters: your music. Live's award-winning elastic audio sequencing lets you record, import, arrange and process multiple audio clips and loops into complete songs regardless of their pitch or tempo�all in real time while the music continues. You can even change tempo and pitch of audio independently after the fact and clip envelopes create endless loop variations. Of course, you can also integrate linear tape-style recording along with your loops. With Live, Ableton's unique approach to music production extends to a new paradigm in MIDI sequencing and manipulation as well, complete with virtual instruments. As simple to use as it is powerful, Live is a completely unique musical tool that blurs the distinction between stage and studio. Ableton develops modern software technology to inspire creative people. Since the company started in 1999, more than forty-five developers and business professionals have joined Ableton - many of them active musicians or DJs. The company has received outstanding press, awards and customer feedback since the unveiling of Live in October 2001. Ableton Live is the only solution designed for each stage of the musical process, from creation to production to performance. In the creative stage, Live is transparent, intuitive and responsive, capturing inspiration and encouraging the flow of musical ideas. During production, Live provides all of the professional tools and studio compatibility required to complete and perfect projects. On stage, Live delivers the expressive control and stability that innumerable performing artists have come to rely on. Ableton Live - Music Creation, Production, and Performance for Mac OS and Windows. Create. Produce. Perform. * From Sketch to Composition. Live's specialty is composition by improvisation. Record musical ideas, combine or create new songs, and compose on the fly. Live captures your every move for later refinement and editing. * The Musical Hub. Come together, right now. Live offers complete multitrack recording and editing for any acoustic source, hardware synthesizer or software instrument. * Easy MIDI. Yes, MIDI can be fun and easy. Drop a software instrument in a track and play. Drag and drop MIDI and audio effects, layer synths, and record MIDI as audio. * Pattern Mode. Your laptop is about to turn into a groove box. Live puts an arsenal of groove-making tools at your fingertips. * Mix and Remix. Instantly combine jazz with house with hip hop with soul... Live synchronizes it all in real time. This year, 58 international magazines voted Live as the best DJ tool on the market. Details... * On-the-Spot Sound Design. Perform real-time sonic surgery on your sounds. Draw melodies, rhythms and effects changes onto loops and samples while they play. * Hands-on Control. Liberate yourself from the mouse. Play your sequencer like an instrument on stage or in the studio. Key features: * Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz * Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo * Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments * Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching * Supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files * A comprehensive selection of built-in audio and MIDI effects * Built-in instruments: Simpler for sample-based synthesis, Impulse for sampled drums * Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks * New groove engine; apply and extract grooves in real time * VST and AU support; automatic plug-in delay compensation * REX file support plus built-in audio to MIDI slicing * Video import and export for scoring, video warping * Simple MIDI mapping plus instant mapping for selected hardware * Full ReWire support; runs as Slave or Master * Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation * Multicore and multiprocessor support Also includes: * A selection of loops (box only) * Essential Instrument Collection 2: a wide range of sampled instruments (box only) * Printed reference manual in English, French, German or Japanese (box only) * Built-in interactive lessons * Localized software menus, tutorials and PDF reference manuals in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese System requirements: Mac: 1.25 GHz G4/G5 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended), Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.5 or later recommended), DVD-ROM drive Windows: 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or Celeron compatible CPU or faster (multicore CPU recommended), 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended), Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime recommended The installation size of the Essential Instrument Collection 2 is 15 GB. |
