Ableton Live 9 Standard - Music Production Software

What's New in Ableton 9

Automation

• Record parameter changes directly into Session View
• Edit automation with curves
• Edit automation curves with the mouse to create smooth mix transitions or radical parameter changes in your clips
• Create new Session View scenes from your Arrangement tracks with a single click, or drag and copy individual clips from Arrangement to Session

Browser

• Find sounds fast with a new browser
• Browser puts all instruments and effects, samples, Packs and VST/Audio Units plug-ins into a single easy-to-navigate view
• Drag and drop folders into the browser from anywhere on the computer
• Search while typing, navigate from the keyboard, and sort items by various categories
• Browse by type with samples, devices, presets, and VST/Audio Units plug-ins all available from the same view
• View items by how frequently they were used in the past
• Store sounds and Packs on any hard drive, even multiple drives
• Instant preview of all Ableton Packs

Effects

• Analog-modeled Glue Compressor and redesigned studio effects
• Glue Compressor modeled on a classic 80's console bus compressor, both for its sound and also to provide musical results with a simple set of controls
• Studio effects (compressor, gate and EQ Eight) have been improved with new displays and enhanced controls and sound
• EQ Eight includes a breakout display, an Audition mode for soloing frequencies, an analog-style adaptive Q option, and improved filters

Audio-to-MIDI

• Extract musical ideas from samples and then build upon them
• Convert drum-breaks with the Drums-to-MIDI feature and reuse them with custom sounds
• Speed up remixing work by using Harmony-to-MIDI to get the notes and chords from the original audio stems
• Sketch out ideas quickly by singing (or beatboxing) into Live and converting the recording into MIDI
• Sing, beatbox, tap a rhythm, or play any solo instrument to capture musical ideas as they come and then use the Melody- or Drums-to-MIDI feature to turn the recordings into MIDI clips that can edited and reused with any sound

Editing

• MIDI note manipulation tools and an improved editing workflow aid in creating new musical ideas quickly
• Invert, reverse, transpose and speed up or slow down selected MIDI notes in a single click
• MIDI Note Stretch markers let you speed up, slow down, or even reverse selected MIDI notes
• Add or remove breakpoints with a single click
• Hover the mouse near envelope segments to select and drag them without using a modifier
• Editing grids are now "sticky," allowing notes to be freely moved and resized while still snapping when close to grid lines
• Warp clip automation alongside the audio
• Envelopes in MIDI clips can be stretched using MIDI stretch markers
• Hold a modifier while dragging to create and edit curves in automation envelopes

Features

Recording and Editing

• Software that allows for creating ideas and making changes without stopping using two project windows
• Arrangement View uses the traditional track-style convention where time moves from left to right, while tracks are stacked vertically
• Session View is a sketchpad for improvising, playing and performing with musical ideas, without the constraints of the timeline
• Freely and independently start and stop any number of audio or MIDI loops while everything stays in sync
• Almost everything works in real-time - add, reorder or remove devices, play with track routing and more, all without interrupting the creative flow

Instruments and Sounds

• Includes a collection of instruments, sounds, kits and loops for creating any kind of music
• Three instruments
• Devices including FM and physical modeling synthesis as well as sampling
• Classic analog drum machines, one-shot samples and multi-sampled acoustic drum kits
• Over 1,100 Sounds including vintage synthesizers, acoustic instruments and combinations of sampling, effects and synthesis
• Variety of audio and MIDI patterns ready to use, covering everything from 60's Soul and Hip Hop to Electronica

Effects

• Thirty-seven audio effects
• Wide selection of audio processors, from the classic to the unique
• Seven MIDI effects
• Includes devices to rearrange, constrain or randomize MIDI notes for creating endless variations

Integrating External Hardware

• Use external hardware synthesizers or effects units as if they were plug-ins, via the software's External Instrument and External Audio Effect devices
• Create custom racks
• Racks allow for combining multiple instruments and effects into a single device
• Each of the eight Macro knobs can be mapped to any number of parameters in a Rack, allowing for customized controls

VST and Audio Units

• Use VST or Audio Units instruments and effects alongside Live's native devices

Controllers

• Works with any MIDI controller with instant mapping available for the most popular ones
• Control Live with your iOS or Android device using third-party software
• Flexible MIDI and keyboard mapping
• Map MIDI knobs, sliders, and buttons or a computer keyboard to almost every control in Live

General

• Unlimited multi-track recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Warping and real-time time-stretching
• Unlimited Instruments, Audio effects and MIDI effects per project
• Group tracks
• Time signature changes
• Multiple automation lanes
• Track Freeze
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation
• MIDI remote control instant mapping
• MIDI output to hardware synthesizers
• MIDI Clock/sync
• ReWire
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support