Ableton Live is a versatile music production software that combines a digital audio workstation with real-time performance capabilities. You can play it like an instrument, whether performing solo, collaborating with other musicians or DJs, live on stage, or remixing tracks in the studio. Compatible with both Mac and PC, Ableton Live offers a seamless environment for creating, arranging, and performing music.
Ableton Live is a revolutionary music production software that enables you to compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit your musical ideas with ease. Its integrated audio and MIDI environment provides flexibility and creative freedom, enabling musicians and producers to experiment and develop tracks in real time.
Ableton Live unifies acoustic, electronic, and virtual instruments, combining digital audio recordings and MIDI sequences within a single, intuitive interface. Its streamlined design allows musicians and producers to focus on creativity and performance, making music production and live performance effortless and enjoyable.
Ableton Live’s award-winning elastic audio sequencing allows you to record, import, arrange, and process multiple audio clips and loops into full songs in real time, regardless of pitch or tempo. You can independently adjust tempo and pitch after recording, while clip envelopes enable endless loop variations. The software also supports linear, tape-style recording alongside looped arrangements, giving producers complete flexibility to experiment and refine their music seamlessly.
Ableton Live 12 Features:
- From Sketch to Composition. Live’s specialty is composition by improvisation. Record musical ideas, combine or create new songs, and compose on the fly. Live captures your every move for later refinement and editing.
- The Musical Hub. Come together, right now. Live offers complete multitrack recording and editing for any acoustic source, hardware synthesizer, or software instrument.
- Easy MIDI. Yes, MIDI can be fun and easy. Drop a software instrument in a track and play. Drag and drop MIDI and audio effects, layer synths, and record MIDI as audio.
- Pattern Mode. Your laptop is about to turn into a groove box. Live puts an arsenal of groove-making tools at your fingertips.
- Mix and Remix. Instantly combine jazz, house, hip hop, and soul… Live synchronizes it all in real-time.
- On-the-Spot Sound Design. Perform real-time sonic surgery on your sounds. Draw melodies, rhythms, and effect changes onto loops and samples while they play.
- Hands-on Control. Liberate yourself from the mouse. Play your sequencer like an instrument on stage or in the studio.
Ableton Live introduces an innovative approach to music production, offering advanced MIDI sequencing and manipulation alongside a wide range of virtual instruments. Both powerful and user-friendly, Live seamlessly bridges the gap between stage performance and studio production, providing musicians and producers with a versatile tool for creating, performing, and experimenting with music.
Other Features:
- Multitrack recording
- 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 a picture or warping a 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
Ableton Live is a complete music production solution, supporting every stage from creation and production to live performance. In the creative phase, Live’s intuitive and responsive interface captures inspiration effortlessly, encouraging a natural flow of musical ideas and allowing musicians to focus entirely on their creativity.
During production, Ableton Live provides professional-grade tools and full studio compatibility, enabling you to complete and refine your projects with precision. On stage, it delivers stable performance, expressive control, and reliability, earning trust from musicians and live performers worldwide.
Ableton Live 11 Suite includes:
- Ableton Live
- 13 Instruments to try (including Wavetable, Operator, Sampler, Analog, and more)
- 56 Effects for processing audio and MIDI (including Echo, Pedal, Beat Repeat, Amp, Vocoder, Glue, and lots more)
- Instant mappings allow you to use Live with your keyboards or controllers.
- Max for Live, so you have access to a range of instruments, effects, and customizations created by the Live community.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10 (Version 22H2) or Windows 11 (version 22H2 or higher)
- macOS 11 Big Sur or higher
