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Tempo Follower adapts to external rhythms, hybrid reverb creates new sounds for your experimentation, Warping applies several flavors.Warping can alter the flow of beats, tone, texture pitch and more (Image credit: Ableton)

They work by specifying actions to follow the playback of a particular clip (or scene), including ‘play again’, ‘next’, ‘first’ ‘last’ and so on.įollow Actions can be applied from Session or Arrangement View, can be tied to clip lengths as well as Scenes and can either be precisely ordered or programmed through probability for satisfying randomness. Live’s Follow Actions can recreate a sense of spontaneous creativity, of lively variation among sameness. There’s an irony in the fact that early sound tech was used to disguise many uniquely human variations inevitably present in recorded live music, whereas innovations these days often seek to put those elements back in.

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The audio editing software also now has advanced track linking properties for bulk editing, effects, processing, and just about anything that will cut down the time taken to polish your creations. You can then collapse all the composites inside it if you don’t want to delete them. It’s so simple: just use the pen tool to select the piece of each take you want and Live 11 organizes them into one single master ‘take’ on top. The tool has joined the comping party and you can do it to recorded MIDI tracks as well as vocal tracks.

Take Lanes allow easy comping, linked tracks allow for bulk operations, Follow Actions program either precision or random play.

Take Lanes allow easy comping using the pen tool (Image credit: Ableton)

With no preconceptions about linear editing, you can simply dive (or gently nudge your lilo away from the edge) towards the middle of the globally quantised groove pool. If you’ve never made music in a DAW before, you’re going to love the way Live 11 is set out and organized from the get-go. It turns out Scenes are a fantastic way to trigger sets of loops.

They can be set to play in specific orders or programmed with randomness or a mixture of the two. Each row of clips, or Scene can have a particular mood or atmosphere, set of effects or combination of processes. If you’re familiar with video editing software, the use of the term Scenes to describe audio may seem strange, but Live 11 uses that term to describe a horizontal set of clips designed to play together in Session view. Both views contain the same clips, but you can alter them in different ways. Arrangement View has a more familiar timeline look. Session View at first looks reminiscent of a mixer but it’s actually designed to be the most plastic loop machine ever. The next thing you need to get your head around are the two views in Ableton, Session View and Arrangement View, as they’re designed to work together. Basically it helps if you can count to four, but if you can’t Live will do it for you and it’s virtually impossible to go out of time. Without having ever worked on a linear DAW, this approach would instantly make the most sense. The count always returns to the beginning of a bar before your next selection begins to play on beat number one, it’s that simple. While this could take a minute to acclimatize to if you’re not used to working with loops, it’s a pretty logical approach. Session View lets you organize and randomize loops - once you’ve got the hang of it Arrangement View will be more familiar to linear DAW usersĪbleton Live 11 is driven by Global Launch Quantisation.Programmable Follow Actions make Live Sessions even more flexible (Image credit: Ableton) 3GB RAM is the minimum, but 8GB RAM is recommended.

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Windows requires ASIO-compatible hardware for Link support and optimal audio performance. Windows can either use an Intel core processor or an AMD multi-core processor.

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Live 11 is compatible with Windows 10 (build 1909 and later) and Windows 11.

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Mac users will need at least High Sierra 10.13, either an Intel Core processor or Apple M1, a high resolution monitor, and a Core Audio compliant audio interface.

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Organizations with low to no budget for instruments can also apply for free Push units. With a 90-day test period you’ve got plenty of time to learn if the music-making software hits your creative workflow.Ībleton offers free licenses for young learners in schools, who can also get discounts on Push, Ableton’s Live Suite’s fully integrated and programmable hardware. Live Suite, at $749 / £539 / AU$1099, adds Max sonic creation environment and realistic sample packs adding up to 75GB of sounds, with 17 instruments and 60 audio effects. You also get audio warp and slicing, audio to MIDI, 6 instruments 10GB of sounds and 37 audio effects. This has unlimited tracks with 256 inputs and 12 sends and returns.

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