Ableton Live is the music-production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments, as well as your digital audio recordings, together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use. In the end, Live lets you focus on what really matters: your music.
Features
* Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192kHz
* Complete nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
* Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
* Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files, for improvisation and instant remixing
* A comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs
* Built-in software instruments: Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, Impulse for sampled drums
* Instrument-, Drum-, Effect Racks for creating and managing complex performance setups, drum kits and multi-effects
* VST and AU effects and instruments support; automatic plug-in delay compensation
* REX file support and native sliced audio file creation
* Video import and export for scoring to picture or warping picture to music
* Real-time control of parameters with any MIDI controller梛ust MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
* Full ReWire support
* Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
* Multicore and multiprocessor support
New in v7.0.3
* Improvements: Updated manuals.
* Improvements: Two new Lessons: "Compression and Sidechaining" and "Session Drums."
* Improvements: Added control surface support for the Akai MPD24. The volumes of tracks 1 to 6 are mapped to the faders. The encoders are mapped to macro controls.
* Improvements: Support for dynamic adjustment of the plug-in buffer size for Audio Units. For technical reasons, an Audio Unit device must be instantiated for a buffer size change.
* Improvements: Improvements for dialog to set up a Library when starting Live without one.
* Improvements: On Mac OS X, Live now supports up to 256 input & output mono channels of the selected audio device.
* Improvements: It is now possible to drag a complete folder with presets and/or samples from the Browser onto a Drum Rack's pads.
* Improvements: Updated texts.
* Improvements: Improve the performance when loading large presets.
* Improvements: Support for the Record LED when using the Remote SL as a controller surface.
* Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, the chooser for the Library path would not update properly.
* Bug fixes: The message box saying that the selected Library is not available would not be displayed properly.
* Bug fixes: When Live is running as the MIDI clock master, the first two sent MIDI clock messages could have the same time stamp. An Options.txt entry called '-_Live6ClockOutputCompatibility' brings back the old behavior if required.
* Bug fixes: Analog instrument with unison enabled would always use CPU power even if it was not used.
* Bug fixes: Dropping an instrument on a pad or chain that has devices would not replace the chain.
* Bug fixes: Quitting Live because the expiration date was reached would lead to a crash on Mac OS X 10.5.x.
* Bug fixes: Deleting a track with a Rack in Mapping mode would crash Live.
* Bug fixes: Switching Sampler or Simpler presets during playback could lead to a short but heavy audio signal distortion.
* Bug fixes: When using more than 8 return tracks, the return track volume mixing would not work properly.
* Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, a song loop back jump could lead to a hard disk overload.
* Bug fixes: Starting up Live with a corrupt header template document would lead to a crash.
* Bug fixes: When using particular audio files, Live could crash for certain warp actions.
* Bug fixes: In the inline mixer, resizing a chain would resize all other chains too.
* Bug fixes: When scrubbing behind the loop within a clip, looping would not work properly after the next song start / stop.
* Bug fixes: On Windows, when loading a Rack that contains an AudioUnit (which is disabled on PC), Live would crash when opening or closing Rack chains, or when turning one of the other rack marbles on or off.
* Bug fixes: Installing a content package update could result in an imprecise success message.
* Bug fixes: In ReWire slave mode, sending MIDI data from the master to more than one target within Live could result in audio drop-outs.
* Bug fixes: Freezing of Drum Racks with chain-out routings to the top level would not work properly.
* Bug fixes: Changing the "Block" value in the Spectrum device would cause audio drop-outs.
* Bug fixes: In ReWire slave mode, clips would play from the beginning after rewinding.
* Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, the MIDI handling of VSTs could not work properly.
* Bug fixes: Undoing the creation of a time signature change would crash Live. When installing several packages at once, if one contained a file that already existed and was modified locally, the question whether to replace this file was asked for each pack even when the user answered 'yes to all'.
* Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, a progress bar could display a value greater than 100%.
* Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, default content would not be installed when a certain version of Live would run for the first time.
* Bug fixes: On Mac OS X, changing the Library path to an empty folder would not work properly.
* Bug fixes: Certain texts would not fit into their corresponding button controls.
* Bug fixes: On Windows, Live's main view would not be updated if a certain dialog was in the foreground.
* Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, content packages marked as 'update' would not be automatically installed.
* Bug fixes: Saving a particular device chain as a preset could crash because of an invalid routing.