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Ableton Live 12 Standard (Education) Music Production Software (Download Only)
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Quick overview
Ableton Live 12 is fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance. It comes with effects, instruments, sounds and all kinds of creative features—everything you need to make any kind of music.
Please Note: After obtaining an EDU licence, you can submit one of the following items to your Ableton.com account to prove your status: a genuine student ID with the expiration date or current term clearly visible. A school transcript or enrollment letter. A teacher's work ID with the current term shown.
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Ableton Live 12 is the ideal music production software that can be used to demonstrate exciting new concepts to music and production. Students with a passion for music will learn how to link and edit multiple tracks simultaneously, record separate takes from the same audio, use an MPE-capable controller for more expressive sounds, all while creating dynamic textures simultaneously.
Ableton Live 12 is a versatile music production and performance software known for its speed and flexibility. The software offers a diverse range of effects, instruments, sounds, and creative tools, enabling users to compose music of any genre.
Utilise Live's wide array of instruments and effects to craft your own sound, or blend pre-selected Packs to generate a distinctive creation. Moreover, the programme allows real-time customisation and is well-suited for live performances and interactive play, regardless of your configuration.
Organise your music with Live 12's linear Arrangement View, or use the Session View to improvise and explore ideas without a specific timeframe. Live's warping tool enables you to modify the speed and timing of any audio instantly without disrupting the song. Capture MIDI or acoustic instruments, vocals, or various noises, and utilise Live's innovative features to enhance your performance, spark new concepts, or transform impromptu instances into music. Utilise MIDI Transformations to modify your patterns and MIDI Generators to create new ones that may be integrated into your compositions. Utilise Sound Similarity to find presets and sounds that closely resemble the ones you are now using.
- 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.
- Linked-track editing: link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.
- Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.
- Audio-to-MIDI conversion tools: extract harmony, melody or drums from an audio sample and convert it into MIDI.
- Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal
- 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.
- Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device with Instrument Racks
- Combine MIDI effects into a single device with MIDI Effect Racks
- Comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering
- MIDI Transformations and Generators: use Transformations to create a variety of simple or complex variations of your MIDI clips, or conjure up playful and original ideas with Generators.
- Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets.
- Advanced sampling and slicing 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:
- 13 instruments: Analog, Simpler, Drift, Impulse, Drum Rack and Drum Synths, Collision, Electric, Tension, CV Instrument, CV Triggers, Instrument Rack and the External Instrument device
- 42 audio and 13 MIDI effects
- 12 MIDI Tools
- 38+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.
Please Note: After obtaining an EDU licence, you can submit one of the following items to your Ableton.com account to prove your status: a genuine student ID with the expiration date or current term clearly visible. A school transcript or enrollment letter. A teacher's work ID with the current term shown.
Ableton Live 12 Standard Technical Specifications
- Non-destructive editing with unlimited undo
- Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation
- Ableton Link integration
- MPE support
- MIDI remote control instant mapping
- MIDI output to hardware synths
- MIDI Clock/sync
- Multicore/multiprocessor support
- WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
- Unlimited Audio and MIDI tracks
- Unlimited Scenes
- 12 Send and return tracks
- 256 Audio inputs, 256 outputs
- Rex file support
- POW-r dithering
- Groove Pool and extract groove
- Capture MIDI
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