Overview Ableton Live Suite Live is fast, fluid and flexible software for creating and playing music. It comes with effects, instruments, sounds and all kinds of creative features – everything you need to create any kind of music. Create in a traditional linear layout or improvise without the constraints of a timeline in Live’s Session View. Move freely between musical elements and play with ideas without stopping the music or breaking the flow. Key Features of Ableton Live Suite Comping Live organizes multiple audio or MIDI performance transitions into individual takes. Editing Linked Tracks Link two or more audio or MIDI tracks and edit or compose their content simultaneously.
MPE compatibility Add bends, slides and pressure for each individual note in a chord. Add subtle expressive variations, morph between chords and create evolving sonic textures. Expression View Add and edit pitch, timbre and pressure variations of individual notes directly on a new tab in the clip details view. Native MPE devices Wavetable, Sampler, and Arpeggiator now support MPE. Hybrid Reverb Combines convolutional and algorithmic reverbs, making it possible to create any space, from accurate real-life environments to those that defy physical reality. Spectral Resonator Breaks the spectrum of an incoming audio signal into parts, then stretches, shifts, and blurs the result by frequency or tone in subtle or radical ways.
Spectral Time Transforms the sound into parts and feeds them into a frequency delay, resulting in metallic echoes, frequency-shifted and reverb-like effects. The Freeze function captures and preserves sound. Inspired by nature Six playful tools and effects that use natural and physical processes as their inspiration. Created in collaboration with Dillon Bastan. PitchLoop89 Based on an early digital effects processor, this device creates edgy glitch effects, delayed digital shimmer and unusual vibrato that add character to sounds in the studio or on stage. Created in collaboration with Robert Henke.
Chorus-Ensemble The updated version of Chorus now has a wider range of sound shaping options – add vibrato, spread the left and right signal channels across the stereo field and add a thick 3-delay line chorus. Redux Redux adds a wider variety of sounds from vintage digital gear, including harsh distortion, digital and aliasing artifacts, as well as warm and saturated 8-bit textures. Phaser-Flanger Phaser and Flanger have been combined and now have a fresh new sound with increased frequency and modulation ranges, significant improvements to existing modes and a new Doubler mode for a short modulable delay. Macro Variations Save the state of macros for later recall – this is a quick way to create instant variations of sounds or builds and drops during a performance. Randomized Macro Values Randomize the state of your macros or map the randomization button to MIDI. Tempo follow Live listens and adjusts its tempo based on the incoming sound in real time, making it a dynamic part of the band instead of a tempo source that everyone has to follow.
Note Chance Set the probability that a note or drum will appear and let Live generate surprising variations of your patterns that change over time. Speed Chance Define speed probability ranges for subtle, humanized variations in the dynamics of your patterns. Track Actions can now jump to specific clips and globally enable and disable Track Actions.