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Ableton Live 12 Suite (Education) Music Production Software (Download Only)
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£269.00
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Quick overview
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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Perfect for budding artists and music enthusiasts. Ableton Live 12 Suite is a great educational tool that can be used to demonstrate exciting new concepts to music and production. Teach students 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 flexible and multifaceted software created for music creation and live shows. The software provides a diverse selection of effects, instruments, sounds, and creative tools that allow users to create music across all genres.
Use Live's extensive array of instruments and effects to craft distinctive sounds, or customise pre-made Packs to generate new creations. The software's real-time features and extensive customisation options make it ideal for live performances and interactive applications, regardless of your configuration.
Organise your music in Live 12 by use the linear Arrangement View for sequencing or the Session View for improvising and exploring ideas freely without adhering to a fixed timeline. Modify the tempo and timing of audio in real time with Live's warping feature without interrupting the music. Utilise Live's innovative tools to elevate your performance, generate fresh concepts, or convert impromptu instances into music through the recording of MIDI or live instruments, vocals, or other sounds. Use MIDI Transformations to modify patterns and MIDI Generators to generate new notions for your compositions. Use Sound Similarity to identify presets and sounds that closely like the ones you are currently working on.
Live 12 introduces advanced MIDI transformations and generators, sound similarity, adaptable tuning systems, improved keys and scales, new devices (Roar, Meld’s Twin sound engines, and Granulator III), enhanced MIDI editor, improved workflow, better accessibility and navigation, and new packs including Performance Pack, Lost and Found collection, and two drum packs from Sound Oracle.
- 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
- Time signature changes
- Built-in Max for Live software with more instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and the ability to customise Live
Instruments, effects and sounds:
- 20 instruments: Wavetable, Operator, Analog, Meld, Sampler, Simpler, Granulator III, Drift, Electric, Tension, Collision, Bass, Poli, Drum Rack, Drum Synths, Impulse, CV Instrument and CV Triggers, Instrument Racks and the External Instrument device
- 58 Audio and 14 MIDI effects, including Roar, Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Time and Spectral Resonator
- 14 MIDI Tools
- 71+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 Suite Technical Specification
- 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
- Generate or receive Pitch, Control, Clock and Trigger CV
- 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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