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What is Ableton Live? Ableton Live is a commercial music sequencer that is designed to be an instrument and a live performance tool for composing and arranging. Live was rewritten in C++ from a design in MAX/MSP a graphical editing enviroment and released under a commercial license in 2001. It is popular amongst the electronic music community circles and with DJ's worldwide.  
 
What is Ableton Live? Ableton Live is a commercial music sequencer that is designed to be an instrument and a live performance tool for composing and arranging. Live was rewritten in C++ from a design in MAX/MSP a graphical editing enviroment and released under a commercial license in 2001. It is popular amongst the electronic music community circles and with DJ's worldwide.  
 
==Features==  
 
==Features==  
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===Effects===
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Ableton Live uses a post-processing rig designed with extensive Digital Signal Processing effects. The layout is designed so that electronic musicians and DJ's can drag and drop effects on the fly during a live performance, making it easy to manipulate samples on the fly.
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* Audio Filter
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* Auto Pan
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* Beat Repeat
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* Chorus
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* Compressor I
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* Compressor II
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* Dynamic Tube
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* EQ Three (Band)
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* EQ Eight (Band)
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* Erosion
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* Filter Delay
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* Flanger
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* Gate
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* Grain Delay
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* Phaser
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* Ping Pong Delay
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* Saturator
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* Simple Delay
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* Redux (Quantizer)
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* Resonators
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* Reverb
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* Utility
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including MIDI only effects, arpeggiator, chord, scale, velocity, etc.
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==Resources==   
 
==Resources==   
 
==External links==  
 
==External links==  

Revision as of 21:17, 23 September 2006

Ableton Live
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Fully featured MIDI sequencer
Developer(s) Ableton Team
Release information
Initial release {{{released}}}
Stable release 5.2.2
Preview release 6.0
Compatibility
Operating system Windows, OS/X, Linux/BSD (Wine Emulation)
Additional information
Use MIDI Sequencing
License Propreitary
Website http://www.ableton.com/

Introduction

What is Ableton Live? Ableton Live is a commercial music sequencer that is designed to be an instrument and a live performance tool for composing and arranging. Live was rewritten in C++ from a design in MAX/MSP a graphical editing enviroment and released under a commercial license in 2001. It is popular amongst the electronic music community circles and with DJ's worldwide.

Features

Effects

Ableton Live uses a post-processing rig designed with extensive Digital Signal Processing effects. The layout is designed so that electronic musicians and DJ's can drag and drop effects on the fly during a live performance, making it easy to manipulate samples on the fly.

  • Audio Filter
  • Auto Pan
  • Beat Repeat
  • Chorus
  • Compressor I
  • Compressor II
  • Dynamic Tube
  • EQ Three (Band)
  • EQ Eight (Band)
  • Erosion
  • Filter Delay
  • Flanger
  • Gate
  • Grain Delay
  • Phaser
  • Ping Pong Delay
  • Saturator
  • Simple Delay
  • Redux (Quantizer)
  • Resonators
  • Reverb
  • Utility

including MIDI only effects, arpeggiator, chord, scale, velocity, etc.

Resources

External links