Ableton Live digital audio workstation review: One of the best software for creating and recording music, and can even be used for live performances.
About Ableton
Ableton makes music software (to create and perform music) for musicians, producers, and DJs. These include Live, software that turns the music studio into an instrument; Push, a hardware instrument for playing and composing with Live; and Link, a technology for playing in time together.
Berlin-based Ableton has always produced products that try to bridge the gap between performers and producers. Over the period of more than a decade, the Ableton Community has become a huge network of artists who come online to share creative ideas.
Ableton Live – Overview
Ableton Live is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation – MIDI and audio recorder/editor) that comes with an ‘easy-to-use and navigate’ interface and with several abilities.
- Despite lots of features, things have been keep simple
- Live’s interface is re-sizable, support for higher-resolution displays.
- Step-based arranger that makes electronic live performance, creation, and improvisation very easy – (parts are called ‘clips’ in Ableton)
- Audio warping (allows manipulating the rhythm, tempo, and pitch of audio or MIDI) can be used to match tempos of dance songs, to fix timing problems in a recording. The software also allows you to extract grooves from existing audio.
Ableton Live 10 now available
Ableton Live 10 is now available, adds several new features and improvements for the Ableton’s Push controller.
It comes bundled with new sampling features and workflows, new sample slicing options, new drum layout and on-screen display improvements to the hardware. Plus you can now route audio or MIDI right from the unit, alongside other features.
Website: ableton.com/en/live
- New slicing functions – chop samples by beat divisions or regions, as well as manually or by transients.
- New drum layout – with 16 set velocity levels for playing and programming more dynamic beats.
- Hands-on audio and MIDI routing – select and record ins and outs directly from Push without disrupting your flow.
- Visual feedback for tighter recordings – new display info shows clip phase and count-in so you can start and finish clip recordings more accurately.
- Hands-on color customization – color pads, tracks and clips using Push to make your performance easier.
Better playability – pad sensitivity adapts to what you play, whether it’s drums or sustained chords.
Expanding Sound Instrument Packs for Ableton
Ableton Instrument – Moog MemoryMoog
MemoryMoog Ableton Instrument Mega Pack is a new Ableton Instrument pack, based on patches created and sampled from a Moog MemoryMoog. You get 6 MiniMoog stacked on top of each other! Up to 18 oscillators at once.
Moog MemoryMoog Ableton Live synth instrument mega pack
Ableton Live – Prices & Buying Links
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