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Ableton Live 8 EDU Music Production
Software
Ableton Live 8 Music Production Software is revolutionary
software that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and
edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. The winner of
countless industry awards, Live integrates loop-based and linear production
methodologies, including unique virtual instruments and effects, together in a
single interface for unparalleled creative freedom.
New features in Live 8 include Movie Import, Deep Freeze
editing technology, multicore/multiprocessor support, new and improved Ableton
Devices, project management tools, and a comprehensive collection of instruments
sampled at supreme fidelity. Live 8 is a complete music production system and
also works perfectly with Pro Tools M-Powered. If you haven’t experienced Live
8, you owe it to yourself to see what all the buzz is about. Your music will
never be the same.
Standard Features
- Completely real-time audio/MIDI production—compose,
record, arrange and mix without ever hitting the Stop button
- Integrate audio clips of different tempos and pitches
into new compositions
- Change tempo and pitch of your composition independently
on the fly
- Clip envelopes allow endless variations on loops
- Proprietary time-stretching algorithms yield exceptional
flexibility and fidelity
- Drag and drop QuickTime movies with the ability to warp
sound to picture
- Optionally quantize your audio recordings/performances in
real-time
- Edit all aspects of a performance to perfection after the
fact
- Privately audition candidate audio from disk while the
main mix continues
- DJ-like crossfading
- Record unlimited takes on unlimited tracks
- Great built-in effects complete with automation
- Includes virtual instruments
- Simple interface for fluid creativity
- Expandable via VST, AU and ReWire support
- Compatible with Pro Tools M-Powered
The Live Concept
Live offers two main
views—the Session View and the Arrangement View—that interact in a powerful and
unique way, allowing you to create, produce and perform your music all in a
single application. Here is the principle behind each view:
Session View
Live's unique Session View acts as a powerful musical
sketch and launch pad, allowing you to try out new ideas easily and improvise
freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a recording, MIDI file, or
any other musical idea. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in
from the Browser and played in any order and at any time you wish.
Arrangement View
The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for
traditional multitrack recording, MIDI sequencing and other music production
tasks. You can even improvise in the Session View, and all of your actions
will be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited whenever
you like.
New in Ableton Live 8
Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time
digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow
improvements.
- Multicore/multiprocessor support multiplies Live's
processing power on Macs and PCs
- Movie Import feature including warping sound to picture
- Instrument and Effect Racks multiply the creative power
of Live's devices and any plug-ins
- Deep Freeze allows you to edit tracks even while they're
frozen
- New and improved Devices let you shape sound with
precision and add warmth and dirt
- Project management tools insure you stay on top of the
creative chaos
- Essential Instrument Collection with comprehensive
collection of instruments sampled at supreme fidelity
- Complete or track-wise merging of Live sets
- Stretch markers to proportionally scale
durations and start times of notes in the MIDI Editor
- Copying and pasting for Warp Markers
- Easier Warp Marker manipulations for multi-track
recordings
- Multi-destination MIDI and key mappings, with each
mapping able to have its own range and polarity
- Option to define any locator or the loop start as the
song start point
- Browser able to display file type, size and modification
date
New Groove Engine
Groove patterns can add life and swing to straight
sequences. Live 8's new groove engine lets you apply groove patterns in real
time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources, quantize audio and MIDI in
real time. It also comes with a new groove library.
Groove patterns
dynamically influence the timing and velocity/volume of audio and MIDI material.
This can add life and swing to straight patterns, give a track more drive, or
lend a piece an easy, laid-back feeling.
New Warping Engine
Live 8 introduces a new, more direct way of working with
warping and some important Warp Mode enhancements. You can now warp audio events
by adjusting the events themselves on the timeline. Beats Mode has been updated,
and there's a completely new Complex Warp Mode. Plus you can slice audio files
to MIDI tracks based on transients.
Live 8 is the next logical step in
warping evolution with a new, more intuitive warping paradigm and some important
Warp Mode enhancements.
Looper
A much-requested feature, the Ableton Looper effect gives
you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device.
Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more
without touching the computer.
Looper brings the creative power of classic
sound-on-sound looping to Live, without the limitations of a hardware device.
Inspired by some of our favorite sample/delay devices plus a good deal of
Ableton wizardry, Looper provides plenty of scope in a super-simple
interface.
Effects
Live 8 includes five powerful new effects, each with a
strong personality and serious classic potential. These effects add a
special Ableton shine to the well-known aspects of these devices, giving you
effects that are not only practical and easy to use but also
inspiring.
- Vocoder: The famous singing robot effect.
Vocoder is classic vocoding plus advanced, intricate control for flexibility
and rich sound design.
- Multiband Dynamics: Effective processing plus a
refreshing approach to visualizing the dynamics involved lets you really see
and hear what's going on.
- Overdrive: Models the circuits found in legendary
stompboxes and forms a perfect complement to Saturator and Dynamic Tube.
- Limiter: An effective brick-wall limiter that will keep
your peaks in check.
- Frequency Shifter: Frequency shifting and ring modulation
for flange effects, atonal harmonics and the sound of Fifties science
fiction.
Workflow Enhancements
Version 8 makes Live easier with a number of most-wanted
enhancements and some deceptively simple detail work including real-time
crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, a
screen magnifier and more.
- Crossfades in Arrangement View: This much requested
feature gives you real-time, non-destructive crossfades, neatly integrated
into Live's familiar workflow.
- The Enhanced MIDI Editor now features step recording, an
insert marker and editing improvements.
- Group Tracks Lets you group selected tracks (e.g. a group
for drum tracks or a group for all backing vocals). Each group works like a
separate mix buss with its own effects and routing settings. You can also
collapse grouped tracks to preserve screen real estate.
- Multi-Parameter Manipulation: Want to lower the volume of
six different tracks? No need any more to adjust six different faders; just
select all six tracks and adjust one volume control.
- Magnify the User Interface For optimal visibility on dark
stages or hi-res screens. Zoom out for the big picture.
- Browser Waveform Display: Audio and MIDI browser preview
now with waveform display and scrubbing for more informed browsing and file
selection.
- Plug-In Parameters: Improved configuration and control
for plug-ins with numerous parameters.
System Requirements for
Macintosh:
- 1.25 GHz G4/G5 or faster (Intel Mac recommended)
- 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.5 or later recommended)
- DVD-ROM drive
System Requirements for Windows:
- 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or Celeron compatible CPU or faster
(Multicore CPU recommended)
- 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
- Windows XP or Windows Vista
- Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support
recommended)
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime recommended