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Ableton Live 12 Intro Music Production Software (Download Only)
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Quick overview
Ableton Live 12 is efficient, dynamic, and versatile music production and performance software. It offers a diverse selection of effects, instruments, sounds, and creative tools, enabling you to produce music in any genre. Utilise Live's extensive collection of instruments and effects to craft your own sound, or mix and match from a selection of curated Packs to produce a distinct creation.
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Ableton Live 12 is a dynamic music production and performance software known for its speed and adaptability. It offers a diverse selection of effects, instruments, sounds, and creative features, enabling you to produce music in any genre.
Utilise Live's extensive collection of instruments and effects to craft your own sound, or mix and match curated Packs to produce a distinctive creation. The software's real-time capabilities and full adjustability make it ideal for live performances and interactive use, regardless of your setup.
Ableton Live 12 New Features
Ableton Live 12 introduces a variety of new features.
MIDI Generators and Transformations
To simulate a guitar strumming effect, utilise MIDI Transformations to link consecutive notes and chords, apply acceleration and deceleration curves, and incorporate ornaments and articulations. Utilise MIDI generators to generate innovative and whimsical ideas that you can then expand upon and develop independently. Enhance your capabilities with enhanced Max for Live Generators and Transformations.
Sound Similarity
Begin with a sample and employ a range of efficient machine learning methods to train Live's browser to identify similar sounds and instrument or drum settings. Alternatively, using Drum Rack's or Simpler's Sound Similarity tool to locate and substitute equivalent samples.
System optimisation
Utilise alternative tuning systems and MPE-compatible gear or plugins with Live's devices in your desired tuning.
Music Theory: Scales and Keys
Adjust or elaborate on concepts within the chosen scale, or synchronise the MIDI device scale with the audio clip being played.
Recent technological advancements
Live's new saturation and colouring effect, Roar, enables you to create a diverse array of sounds, ranging from high-quality warmth suitable for mastering to unpredictable and intense sound distortion. Meld's twin sound engines allow you to experiment with various timbres and textures. Granulator III, the latest version of Robert Henke's granular synthesis device, allows for far more expression compared to other options.
Enhancements to the MIDI Editor
To innovate MIDI in unique ways, use your mouse and keyboard. Segment a message into many portions or halve it. Choose a group of notes and connect them, or allocate them to span a specific duration. Access additional tools such as Fit Scale, Humanise, Add Intervals, and more from the Note Utilities panel.
Enhancements to Workflow
Utilise Device Views and Clip Views in Layer Lives to expand your visibility of track activities. To access additional information and control without disrupting the workflow by switching to Session View, utilise Live's Mixer in Arrangement View. Discovering and rediscovering new sounds is facilitated by utilising the browser's search history and the new tagging system. Moreover, a track can be flattened and frozen simultaneously.
Enhancements to accessibility and navigation
Visually impaired artists can now utilise crucial Live workflows and new keyboard shortcuts to access almost every part of the application. Individuals with disabilities can access screen readers and other assistive technology.
About Ableton Live
Live offers the necessary tools for idea capture and exploration of new concepts. The synthesisers offer a wide range of sounds through wavetable, FM, subtractive, granular, analogue, and physical modelling architectures. The Core Library included in every Live edition contains vintage synths, analogue drum machines, keys, multi-sampled drums, and other instruments.
Engage in a live performance
You can perform, rearrange, and mix your music live on stage. Utilise adaptable MIDI mapping to customise nearly any feature of Live for manual control with your controller. You can utilise a maximum of 16 Macro knobs to manipulate various settings when crafting your own distinct combinations of instruments and effects. Create and save your preferred settings as macro snapshots to easily generate builds, drops, and instant variations during performances.
Connect, expand, and personalise
Link Live to any MIDI controller, including MPE-compatible devices, to incorporate bends, slides, and pressure on individual chord notes, modify delicate expressions, and utilise your hands to create intricate audio compositions.
Expand your configuration by utilising Ableton Link, a Live functionality that synchronises several devices over a network connection. It is easy to use with other music software such as Reason, Serato, and a growing variety of iOS apps and Link-enabled gear.
- Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
- Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation
- Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo
- MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers
- Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.
- Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.
- Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.
- Updated Instrument Racks: Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device
- Updated MIDI Effect Racks: Combine MIDI effects into a single device
- Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal
- Built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering
- Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets.
- Advanced sampling tools
- VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support
- MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.
- Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files
- Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio
Instruments, effects and sounds:
- 8 instruments: Drum Rack, Impulse, Instrument Rack, Simpler, Drift, CV Instrument, CV Triggers, External Instrument
- 27 audio and 12 MIDI effects
- 5+GB of loops and samples
Ableton Live 12.1 Update
Explore Live 12’s latest tools, devices, and sounds:
- Auto Shift: Keep every note in key with scale-based tuning and create harmonies from monophonic audio using MIDI sidechain.
- Drum Sampler: This flexible sampling device offers essential controls paired with easy yet powerful effects, enabling quicker beat manipulation and fine-tuning.
- Auto-Tagging: Speed up your library searches with automatic tagging of VST3 plugins and samples under 60 seconds, all accessible through Live 12's enhanced filters.
- Upgraded Limiter and Saturator: Limiter now includes advanced metering, Mid/Side routing, True Peak, Soft Clip, and Maximise modes. Saturator features a new Bass Shaper curve for low-end processing, alongside an improved interface.
- MIDI Transformations and Generators: Add ornaments, create connected note sequences, apply MPE curves, simulate guitar strumming, and more. With MIDI Generators, generate original musical ideas to develop further, and explore advanced Max for Live transformations.
- Sound Similarity: Use Sound Similarity in Live’s browser to find related samples and presets. Swap comparable samples in Simpler or Drum Rack with ease.
- Tuning Systems: Move beyond 12-tone equal temperament and apply custom tuning across Live’s devices and MPE-compatible plugins or hardware.
- Keys and Scales: Generate or adapt ideas to a selected scale, or sync MIDI devices to the active clip's scale.
- New Devices: Roar offers from subtle warmth to intense sound degradation, Meld’s scale-aware engines unlock unique textures, and the now MPE-capable Granulator III by Robert Henke provides granular synthesis.
- Enhanced MIDI Editor: Filter, select, and edit MIDI notes with new capabilities, like splitting or chopping notes and selecting by various properties. The Note Utilities panel includes tools like Fit to Scale, Humanize, and Add Intervals.
- Workflow Enhancements: Stack Clip and Device Views for better track overview, control more in Arrangement View, navigate projects effortlessly with improved Browser and search history, and freeze and flatten tracks in one step.
- Accessibility and Navigation Improvements: Musicians with visual impairments can now access core workflows using screen readers and assistive tools, along with keyboard shortcuts for navigating nearly all areas of Live.
- New Packs: The Performance Pack is perfect for live play, the Lost and Found collection brings unique instruments and foley sounds, and two new Sound Oracle drum packs deliver hip-hop and trap essentials.
- Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
- Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation
- Ableton Link integration
- MIDI remote control instant mapping
- MIDI output to hardware synths
- MIDI Clock/sync
- Multicore/multiprocessor support
- WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
- 16 Audio and MIDI tracks
- 16 Scenes
- 2 send and return tracks
- 8 input and 8 output audio channels
- Capture MIDI
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