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—just 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 v7.0.7

• Improvements: Updated manuals
• Improvements: Updated texts
• Improvements: Updated lesson package
• Improvements: Suppressing unnecessary question about "stop audio" on document close.
• Bug fixes: Running the "Analyze audio" command from the context menu of the File Browser would only create .asd files if the respective Preferences option was set to "On". Now "Analyze audio" is independent of the preferences option.
• Bug fixes: On Mac OS X, the date in Live's File Browser would not reflect daylight savings time.
• Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, the pad of a Drum Rack would have a "sticky" hotswap button until mousing over that pad again.
• Bug fixes: The progress bar for consolidating could sometimes show values greater than 100%.
• Bug fixes: When switching the MIDI input sources of a track, pitchbend values would not be reset.
• Bug fixes: MIDI mapping the transpose parameter of an audio clip could lead to not quantized values.
• Bug fixes: Sending of MIDI Song Position Pointer message beyond bar 1025 would lead to incorrect behavior and different behavior on Mac OS X and Windows.
• Bug fixes: Under certain conditions, the Operator and Sampler envelopes could go out of sync. We provide a Options.txt entry called "_AdsrRepeatQuantizeTo16th" to restore the previous behavior.
• Bug fixes: Certain Live sets originally created on Mac OS X and containing Audio Units within the chain of a Rack would crash when opening on Windows.
• Bug fixes: The display of a Mackie Control-based surface controller would not be updated when several sections of the Simpler or Sampler instrument were switched off or on.
• Bug fixes: The display of a Mackie Control-based surface controller would not be updated after renaming a particular device.
• Bug fixes: The LFO sync rate parameter of the Sampler would not be available as a clip envelope.
• Bug fixes: The time range display of the render dialog would not reflect an Arranger selection with a time signature change.
• Bug fixes: Even if all external device tracks were frozen, rendering would still happen in real-time.
• Bug fixes: Deleting an audio file within Live's Browser which was currently being previewed was not possible.