Warp Drive
Decide on the tempo after a recording session. Bend
sampled grooves. Correct timing problems in your recordings. Create new sounds by
restructuring existing sounds. Time-align tracks for remixes. Fit the music to film cues.
Add emotion with tempo curves…
Live will do it all in real-time with superior sound quality. This power is delivered by
ableton's Time-Warping Engine, which allows you to manipulate and adjust the timing and
pitch of your audio with complete flexibility and fidelity.
No matter what you do and how you work, Live is likely to become your favorite problem
solving tool, as well as a never-ending source of inspiration.
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Beautiful Simplicity
Every detail in Live has been carefully designed to
provide you with intuitive, simple and fast access. The result not only looks good, it
feels good as well. Live's single window, clutter-free surface with integrated file and
effects browsers, makes creating music a joyful experience, especially in critical
situations-- whether in the studio or on stage.
Make your project as complex as you want it, Live remains straightforward. Here is the
simplicity and expressive power you can expect from a good instrument.
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A Little Song I Wrote...
Live lets you easily construct music by dragging samples
from the built-in browser into a timeline. Thanks to the Time-Warping Engine you do not
have to worry about their original tempo or key.
Pre-Listen to samples in sync with your song before actually putting them in, apply tempo
changes and manipulate the key of your samples any time you like.
Stereo and mono samples with different sample rates and bit depths happily coexist in a
project without conversions. Live provides all the tools you need for editing your audio,
as well as the possibility to render the result of your work to disk.
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...With My Instrument
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Live is not only a full-featured audio sequencer; it
allows for a previously unimaginable real-time approach to composition and improvisation.
Launch loops, phrases, or complete songs in real-time, and have Live’s Time-Warping
Engine keep it all in sync.
In the studio, real-time song arrangement provides music and score producers with an
abundance of creative possibilities, while saving them a lot of time. Sketch out a rough
layout of samples and jam with them to get ideas. Let the music evolve. Live will log your
actions for further in-depth editing.
Live’s ability to create music on the fly, without being bound to a fixed timeline or
tempo, has already revolutionized the way musicians use computers on stage. Along with
features like tempo-tapping, these possibilities transform the computer into a musical
instrument that actually works in a band context.
DJs are raving about Live because it lets them combine music of any style at the press of
a button. There is better creative use for your time than pitching disks into sync. Be a
DJ, a live act, a remixer or morph between all.
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Recording
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Live offers traditional multi-track hard disk recording
with the familiar monitoring, recording and punch-in/out controls. This is where the
tradition ends. Live's Time-Warping Engine transforms your recordings into elastic matter:
you can tap to define the tempo for a take, slow down to record a difficult part, speed it
up after the fact, combine this take with a slower take from yesterday's session, and so
on.
In a jamming situation, Live's instant recording capabilities allow you to capture loops
on the fly and go directly from recording into loop playback, without interrupting the
flow. Create beat-matched loops directly out of Reason or any other ReWire Slave program,
or resample Live's own output.
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Powerful Effects
Live's acclaimed selection of effect devices range from
standard studio tools like a Paramtertric EQ, Chorus or Compressor to more exotic things
like the stunning "Grain Delay", a vinyl distortion simulator or analog synth
filter emulation.
You can extend the range of possibilities by incorporating VST plug-ins as well. Effects
are inserted, chained, and reordered by drag-and-drop, without interrupting the music. All
Live Effects and VST plug-ins can be fully automated and remote controlled via MIDI.
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Keyboard and MIDI Control
You might be asking how can I play an instrument with the
mouse? You don't need to. Almost all of Live's functions can be arbitrarily assigned to
computer keys, MIDI notes and MIDI controllers: launching of sound files, transport
functions, the tempo (and the Tap button), mixer and effect controls.
With Live on a laptop and a MIDI keyboard or fader box, you are the state of the art
one-man band. You are in complete control.
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Integrate Live into your workflow
Ableton Live is a friendly companion in every
environment. Live runs on the Macintosh and PC platforms, follows MIDI sync signals from
your hardware sequencer, connects to Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Digital Performer,
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From Musicians for Musicians
Live is the result of musicians joining with developers
to fulfill their dream. We had been running into walls with the existing solutions, be it
hardware or software, and decided to create our own. Live provides you with powerful
features, great flexibility and a smart interface. To this day, every detail of what we
offer has been painstakingly scrutinized and heavily tested and approved under real-world
conditions, on stage and in the studio.
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