Ableton Live Music Production Software (Macintosh and Windows)
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Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.
Product Description
Live 2's revolutionary concept of elastic audio sequencing lets you record, import, arrange, and process multiple audio clips and loops into complete songs regardless of their pitch or tempo &151; all in real time while the music continues. You can even change tempo and pitch independently after the fact (a function previously only available in the MIDI sequencing domain). The ability to incorporate unlooped, unstretched audio allows linear tape-style recording in conjunction with loop-based manipulation and playback to yield creative flexibility unparalleled in any other product. It even records all of your performance moves for subsequent editing. As simple to use as it is powerful, Live 2 is a completely unique musical tool that blurs the distinction between stage and studio.
Features
Integrate audio clips of different tempos and pitches into new compositions
Change tempo and pitch of your composition independently even after recording, including tap tempo and continuous tempo curve editing
Completely real-time operation — compose, record, arrange, and mix without ever hitting the Stop button
Record unlimited takes on unlimited tracks
Proprietary time-stretching algorithms yield exceptional flexibility and fidelity
Optionally quantize your audio recordings/performances in real-time
Edit all aspects of a recorded performance to perfection after the fact
Privately audition candidate audio from disk while the main mix continues
DJ-like crossfading
Great built-in effects complete with automation
Expandable via VST and Rewire support
Simple user interface with new full-screen mode
Playing and Recording Samples
Live lets you compile live sets from any audio clips, ie: loops, phrases, entire tracks. All the clips play in-sync with each other, irrespective of the original tempo. You can "fire off" clips live, using the mouse, assignable computer keys, or MIDI Notes. Real-time quantization can be used to prevent rhythmical error. Any clip can play at any time — you are not constrained to a fixed arrangement. Since audio is played directly from disk, there is space enough even for large live sets.
Recording new clips is as easy as playing existing ones: Play a MIDI note to start the recording; play the note again to jump to playback mode — without any interruption. This way, you can capture loops or phrases from external sources and directly work them into your performance, without stopping the music. Thanks to the real-time quantization, you will always get perfectly cut loops.
Live can also use it's own Master output as a signal source for recording, allowing you to resample your session while it's going on.
Effects
Every track, each of 4 send-channels and the master, can have a chain of effects. Any number of effects can be pasted in and moved around using drag-and-drop, while the music is playing.
Live comes with a special range of high-impact effects, suitable for subtle and drastic manipulations. Live's effects are controlled by intuitive 2-D displays, which are ideal for live articulation.
VST plug-ins are also supported. A VST plug-in can have its own editor window, but you can also use an integrated panel with a 2-D display to control the plug-in.
Live's mixer and all of its effect parameters can be mapped to arbitrary MIDI controllers, and are fully automated — including every VST plug-in parameter.
Browsing Samples and Effects
Samples can be sought in Live's built-in browser, and privately auditioned by headphone, without the public or other musicians hearing them. There are three browsers for samples and Live Sets, one for the Live effects, and one for VST plug-ins.
Arranging Pieces
Every action carried out in a session can be recorded. The session's protocol is graphically displayed in Live's Arranger view and can be edited, down to the smallest detail. Every movement of the controls is displayed and edited as an envelope curve. Just click on a control to view and edit its automation.
Editing audio is extremely fast. Snap to Grid does away with having to zoom in on wave patterns to find musical counting intervals.
Live offers you the ability to improvise arrangements, and to develop improvisations into pieces later on. And should you decide the previous version was better after all, you can undo as many edit steps as you like.
Warping Time
Live's Time-Warping-Engine stretches and shrinks audio clips as they're being read from the hard disk. The pitch remains unaltered and can be adjusted independently. All clips are automatically synchronized to your session-tempo or to an external sync-source.
The Time-Warping-Engine is controlled by "warp markers," which can be positioned freely. A "warp-marker" attaches a position in a sample to a particular time in the song. During playback, the Warping-Engine stretches and shrinks audio clips so that each marker is reached at a precise moment, irrespective of the song-tempo or whether Live is being driven by external synchronization.
If you only use short loops for your songs you won't need warp markers. If, however, you want to work a 10-minute piece into a set, then just position a few markers to line-up the rhythms. The more tempo irregularities there are in the take, the more markers you'll need. With warp markers, you can get even the sloppiest recordings to jive perfectly.
Audio Interfaces
All of Live's tracks can be routed individually to the outputs of an arbitrary ASIO device; the same is true for the inputs. Sure! DirectX (PC) and SoundManager (Mac) are both supported.
Software Interfaces
Live supports VST plug-ins and can host any ReWire client application. You can process the ReWire client's audio output with Live's effects and VST plug-ins, and record audio coming from the client application.
Synchronization
Live slaves to any MIDI clock or MIDI time-code-source. That means, if the drum machine slows down, Live plays its audio files slower too, without altering the pitch or the groove.
Technical Description
System Requirements Macintosh
Mac G3 or faster;
OS 9.1 or later;
Mac OS X.1.5 or later;
256 MB RAM
System Requirements Windows
400MHz PC or faster;
128MB RAM
Windows 98/2000/XP;
Windows-compatible soundcard (preferably with a DirectX or ASIO driver)
A printed copy of the Live Owners Manual is included with the Live package.
The Live Installation CD contains top class sample material from Big Fish Audio and E-Lab.
Live connects to the Sonomic online sample service.
Keywords
Ableton,Live,Music,Production,Software,(Macintosh,and,Windows),Ableton,Computer Music,Software,Sequencers for Digital Audio, Loops, and MIDI
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