Ableton Live is the music-production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments, as well as your digital audio recordings, together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use. In the end, Live lets you focus on what really matters: your music.

Features

• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192kHz
• Complete nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files, for improvisation and instant remixing
• A comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs
• Built-in software instruments: Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, Impulse for sampled drums
• Instrument-, Drum-, Effect Racks for creating and managing complex performance setups, drum kits and multi-effects
• VST and AU effects and instruments support; automatic plug-in delay compensation
• REX file support and native sliced audio file creation
• Video import and export for scoring to picture or warping picture to music
• Real-time control of parameters with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
• Full ReWire support
• Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
• Multicore and multiprocessor support

New in v7.0.12

• Improvements: MIDI surface controller support for the Alesis Master Control
• Improvements: MIDI controller support for Vestax VCM 600
• Bug fixes: Operator's voice stealing would not work properly.
• Bug fixes: Under certain conditions an empty MIDI effect Rack could lead to audio drop-outs.
• Bug fixes: The 'Rename' command for an Impulse slot would not be available via the context menu.
• Bug fixes: A copied or moved Reverb would not properly show the correct curve with Diffusion Network enabled.
• Bug fixes: After installing content packages, a dialog could show a message about a failed installation although the installation was successful.
• Bug fixes: A copied or moved Tension instrument would not show the correct filter curve.
• Bug fixes: Dragging a particular chain from a Drum Rack into 'empty' Arranger space could crash Live.
• Bug fixes: Moving a clip in a track with an External Instrument and routed to a multitimbral plug-in could crash Live.
• Bug fixes: Moving zones in the the Sampler could lead to hard disk dropouts.
• Bug fixes: Live's search index would not properly handle version 2.3 ID3 tags.
• Bug fixes: Dragging in a clip containing an Audio Unit plug-in could cause a message box to appear, canceling the drag.
• Bug fixes: Tighter MIDI timing when looping in the Arranger.
• Bug fixes: Files would incorrectly be dated as “Yesterday” during a few hours around midnight.
• Bug fixes: The macro settings of a rack containing certain third party plug-ins would not properly restored when loading the rack.
• Bug fixes: Having multiple automation lanes on an audio track and removing one lane would not properly display the audio waveform on the remaining lanes.
• Bug fixes: Doing the the Capture and Insert Scene command could create a memory leak.
• Bug fixes: When running as MIDI clock slave, Live would only display a rounded to the nearest integer tempo.
• Bug fixes: The functionality to ask the AU plug-in for its supported formats would not work properly.
• Bug fixes: If Live would run as ReWire slave but would not get called from the ReWire master for some time, a message box would appear to inform about that problem. This message box again could lead to a crash of Live and the ReWire master. Now, the the message about the inactive ReWire master is displayed on the status bar.
• Bug fixes: Sending a MIDI program change message from an external MIDI source into Live would lead to a crash.
• Bug fixes: Depending on the structure of the current Live set, arming a track could be extremely slow.
• Bug fixes: Unlock offline would not work properly.