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Ableton Live is a commercial music sequencer 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 | Ableton Live is a commercial music sequencer 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. | ||
==Features== | ==Features== | ||
===Instruments=== | ===Instruments=== | ||
Revision as of 04:45, 1 December 2006
| Developer(s) | Ableton Team |
| Release information | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.2.2 |
| Preview release | 6.0 |
| Compatibility | |
| Operating system | Windows, Mac OS/X, Linux/BSD (Wine Emulation) |
| Additional information | |
| Use | MIDI Sequencing |
| License | Propreitary |
| Website | http://www.ableton.com/ |
Introduction
Ableton Live is a commercial music sequencer 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.
Features
Instruments
DSP 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 in reguard to using Ableton Live.
External links
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