System Requirements: 600 MHz CPU or faster, 512 MB RAM, Windows 2000/XP, Windows-compatible soundcard.
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.