Posted by admin on August 29th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

cell phoneOf the dozens of music-production software titles currently available, Ableton Live is unique. With its roots in live performance, it presents the user with a fluid, flexible interface that often makes it feel more musical instrument than recording studio. Still, version 5 excelled at both performance and recording, with comprehensive MIDI/audio editing and mixing built around its live performance toolset. Version 6 continues in this vein, with a range of new features on top of an otherwise untouched user interface.

Ableton is proud to announce the release of Live 6 LE, a new member of the Ableton product line that makes Live’s unique, inspiring workflow available to beginning and hobbyist musicians. Built on the same fundamental concepts as Live 6, the LE version gives musicians hassle-free access to tools that will help shape their musical ideas into creative works.

Here is the principle behind each view:

Session View

 

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Live’s Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.

Arrangement View

 

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The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.

Features:

  • Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
  • Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project
  • Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments
  • More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
  • Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
  • Supports VST and AU effects and instruments*
  • Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing
  • Tweak Live’s controls in real time with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
  • Multicore and multiprocessor support
  • All editing of your musical creations is nondestructive, so you can experiment without worries
  • Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation

Also Includes

  • Sampled Instruments: Essential Instruments Collection LE Edition by SONiVOX (boxed version only)
  • Loops and construction kits: Unnatural Selection by Puremagnetik (boxed version only)
  • A wide selection of presets for Live 6 LE’s instruments and effects
  • Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials
  • Printed reference manual in English, Spanish, French, German or Japanese (boxed version only)
  • Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese

* Live LE is limited to twelve simultaneous built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.

References: http://www.ableton.com