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Ableton Live

Ableton Live is about making music; for composition, songwriting,  recording, production, remixing and live performance. Live's nonlinear,  intuitive flow, alongside powerful real-time editing and flexible  performance options, make it a unique studio tool and a favorite with  live performers. If you'd rather be "making music" than just "using  music software," Ableton Live is for you. Live 9, the latest version, includes a wealth of new techniques and improvements with a new groove  engine, revamped warping, live looping, new effects, crossfades in the  Arrangement View and a reworked MIDI editor.

 Ableton Live is a software music sequencer and digital audio workstation for OS X and Windows. The latest major release of Live, Version 9, was released on March 5, 2013. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing and mastering. It is also used by DJs, as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching, crossfading, and other effects used by turntablists, and was one of the first music applications to automatically beatmatch songs.

Add-ons

There are a number of additional instruments which may be purchased separately or as part of the Ableton Suite.

• Amp - a device that delivers the sounds of various amplifiers and cabinet combos. It is the newest add-on and a part of Suite 8.2.
• Sampler - an enhanced sampler.
• Operator - an FM synthesizer.
• Electric - an electric piano instrument.
• Tension - a string physical modelling synthesizer.
• Collision - a mallet percussion physical modelling synthesizer.
• Analog - simulates an analog synthesizer.
• Drum Machines - a collection of emulators for classic drum machines.
• Session Drums - a collection of sampled drum kits.
• Latin Percussion - a collection of sampled latin percussion hits and loops.
• Essential Instruments Collection - a large collection of acoustic and electric instrument samples.
• Orchestral Instrument Collection - a collection of four different orchestral libraries, which can be purchased individually or as a bundle: Orchestral Strings, Orchestral Brass, Orchestral Woodwinds and Orchestral Percussion. The Orchestral Instrument Collection is not included in Live Suite.

Effects

Most of Live's effects are already common effects in the digital signal processing world which have been adapted to fit Live's interface. They are tailored to suit Live's target audience – electronic musicians and DJs - but may also be used for other recording tasks such as processing a guitar rig. The effects featured in Ableton Live are grouped into two categories - MIDI effects and audio effects.

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