Ableton Live

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 and other elements.

• 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

• Ableton Live forum an unofficial forum dedicated to tutorials and topics using Ableton Live.

External links

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