Ableton’s Live
6 is a real-time audio production solution that annihilates the boundaries
between composition, performance, recording and sound design.
 Mix, combine and tweak loops, phrases and songs from varied sources
Produce music on the fly, without being bound to a fixed timeline or BPM (beat per minute)
Drop samples in and watch them instantly cue
Improvise song arrangements
Record multi-track audio or use loops in real time
Instantly change the tempo, melody, groove and sonic signature of your sounds at any time
Gig out with Live — it’s the perfect app for laptop performances
Other Features in Live
Live 6 includes MIDI tracks, effects and software instruments
“Simpler” is a sampling instrument that gives you instant
sampling and polyphonic playback. Creatively emulates the attributes of any sound
that is dragged into its display.
“Impulse” is Live’s new polyphonic percussion sampler with drag-and-drop
sample import capabilities, plus robust new sound-shaping controls.
Live 6 features MIDI effects like “Scale” — which forces
incoming notes onto a chosen musical scale, and “Random” which
creates specified random pitch deviations.
And...
Live supports variable real-time swing and individual groove parameters for both audio and MIDI clips.
Set your audio and MIDI clips to produce customized or random sequences of loops or samples within Live’s Session View.
Sample Reverse: single button can reverse any audio clip in real-time.
Use Session View scenes to modify the project tempo.
Set Session View scenes to advance automatically.
Audio performance is now optimized for Macs.
Live 6 combines all of these options in a simple and friendly environment
that lets you jump straight into the creative thought process and start producing
tracks — with zero limitations.
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Get Live 6
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Ableton Live 6
Get the Essential Live Handbook
“Live 2 Power!” will verse you in the ins and outs of the Live
production machine, giving you full license to deploy your secret calling as a sonic
vigilante. Written by Dave Hill Jr.
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Live Testimonials
“I use Live because of the
fantastic sound quality, ease of use, the effects, stability and OS X support,” says
Billy Bush, engineer for the rock band Garbage. “Live’s ease of use is
beyond that of any other piece of software I can think of. We literally loaded it
into our laptops and started making beats with it in minutes without even looking
at the manual. Time-stretching loops on the fly has made writing and preproduction so much more efficient,
which lets us to experiment more than time would normally have allowed.”
“We change a lot of things in the final dub,” explains
award-winning composer Hans Zimmer. “This is when the sound effects come in.
Sometimes the whole feel of the movie changes, so this is always a great moment. It
is fantastic to be able to manipulate things, to make changes the very last
moment. But, rather than doing cuts all of the time, Live makes things much
easier. I really like the fluidity of it.”
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Interviews
