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Live 5 Realtime Music Production Software

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Overview

Experience the revolutionary music production software--Abelton Live 5.

Abelton Live 5--winner of countless industry awards--lets you simultaneously compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. Loop-based and linear production methodologies, including unique virtual instruments and effects, are integrated in Live to give you creative freedom like never before. Also, Live 5 works seamlessly with Pro Tools M-Powered.

Live 5's new features include MP3 support, awesome beat-synced effects, clip freezing, launchable arrangement locators, Mackie Control support, and much more.

With Abelton Live 5, you can produce audio and MIDI in real time without pressing the stop button, make a new composition using clips with different tempos and pitches, and make on-the-fly tempo and pitch changes. Includes virtual instruments and cool built-in effects with automation. Expandable via VST and ReWire support.

Features

Recording and editing
Up to 32-bit/192kHz multitrack hard disk recording
Complete MIDI and audio sequencing
Nondestructive editing and unlimited undo
Instant capturing and resampling of audio signals during playback
Realtime loop/overdub MIDI recording for pattern build-up
Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks
Nonlinear sequencing
Map audio and MIDI files to MIDI keyboard ranges and computer keys for instant triggering
Records all actions as editable arrangements and automations
Set and jump to arrangement locators complete with quantization
Scene concept for nonlinear organization of audio and MIDI files for live and jamming purposes
Customized and random sequencing of audio and MIDI files for generating ideas and preparing performances
Actions can allow for automatic jamming and generative music
Time and pitch manipulation
Real-time time-stretching to play any audio file in sync with the project tempo, even if original tempo fluctuates
Real-time pitch shifting for the individual notes in a sample
Real-time groove and swing manipulations for MIDI and audio
Tempo automation via continuous breakpoint envelopes
Frequency-domain warping optimized for composite signals such as mixed-down music
Clip transport for looping, editing and shuffling any clip on the fly
Instruments and effects
Includes a wide array of innovative Ableton audio and MIDI effects
New Saturator variable distortion effect
New Beat Repeat audio effect reorganizes beats for endless variations
New beat-synced auto-pan, phaser, and flanger
Arpeggiator with both new and classic modes
Browsing, importing, and exporting
Built-in browser for previewing WAV, AIFF, MP3, and SDII audio files in sync with the project tempo
Browser includes search, Live set merging and preset management
Logs imported song tempo for instant synchronization to project tempo
Audio tracks play mono and stereo audio files of any sample rate, bit depth, length with no prior conversion
Drag-and-drop MIDI file import
Exports MIDI and audio files, as well as Live clips
New Live Clips sound library included
New preset library for all Live devices
Routing, I/O, control and sync
Drag-and-drop signal flow management for MIDI effects, instruments, and audio effects
Unlimited audio/MIDI bussing for mix grouping, synth layering, post-effects recording, MIDI-to-audio
Preview and cue via separate audio outs
Up to 8 send/return tracks
Supports ASIO, MME, DirectX, Sound Manager and CoreAudio audio interfaces
Manages unlimited number of MIDI ins and outs
Acts as MIDI clock master or slave; MIDI Time Code slave
Acts as ReWire master or slave
Mackie Control support for use with control surfaces

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