Create, produce and perform. Create ideas, make changes without stopping, and capture everything as you work.
If you’ve used music software before, you’re already familiar with one half of Ableton Live. Live’s Arrangement View is a familiar working space: time moves from left to right, while tracks are stacked vertically.
But Live also features the revolutionary Session View: a unique 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 - everything stays in sync. Almost everything in Live works in real-time - add, reorder or remove devices, play with Live’s flexible track routing and more - all without interrupting your creative flow.
Session View
Arrangement View
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Into Live 9 with Robert Lippok -
Nicolas Jaar explains how Live is his instrument -
See how Live's part of Caribou's band -
Live gives Mouse on Mars freedom to play -
Watch Redinho mix it up -
See how Robot Koch finds beats in the details -
Kapture by Plastikman and Liine -
Monolake and the Granulator -
Watch Ski Beats demonstrate some unique techniques -
Watch Martin Gretschmann explore Corpus -
See how Depeche Mode use Live for drum processing -
See how Steve Lehman combines Live and Jazz
The instruments and sounds you need to make music. Live comes with a collection of instruments, sounds, kits and loops for creating any kind of music.
5 Synths and 3 Samplers
Live’s raw devices are the foundation of sound design in Live, including FM and physical modelling synthesis as well as sampling.390 Drum kits
Classic analogue drum machines, one-shot samples and multi-sampled acoustic drum kits.25 Packs
Over 3000 Sounds including vintage synthesisers, acoustic instruments and cutting-edge combinations of sampling, effects and synthesis.4000 Loops
Audio and MIDI patterns, ready to use in your own productions, covering everything from 60s Soul and Hip Hop to electronica.
Live 9 Suite comes with the full collection of instruments and sounds. See what’s included with Standard and Intro.
- Operator – a versatile synthesizer combining frequency modulation and subtractive synthesis.Included in Suite./
- Sampler – sampling instrument with multisample playback and import as well as profound sound design options.Included in Suite./
- Analog – emulates the unique character of vintage analog synthesizers.Included in Suite./
- Collision – physical modeling instrument for authentic mallet percussion sounds and creative percussion.Included in Suite./
- Tension – physical modeling string synthesizer.Included in Suite./
- Electric – the sounds of classic electric pianos.Included in Suite./
- Drum Rack – an instrument for layering samples, synths and effects in a classic 16-pad grid.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Simpler – an easy-to-use but powerful sampler with classic synthesis parameters.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Impulse – a drum sampler with complex modulation capabilities.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- External Instrument – integrate your external hardware synthesizers into your Live Sets with the ease and flexibility of plug-ins.Included in Suite and Standard./
Effects, processing and tweaking. For getting your sound right (or wrong in just the way you like it) Live has a full range of effects from corrective to creative.
34 Audio Effects
Live comes with a wide selection of audio processors, from the classic to the unique7 MIDI Effects
Devices to rearrange, constrain or randomize MIDI notes for creating endless variations
Live 9 Suite comes with the full collection of audio and MIDI effects. See what’s included with Standard and Intro.
- Amp – emulates the sound and character of seven classic guitar amplifiers.Included in Suite./
- Cabinet – emulates the sound and character of five classic guitar cabinets.Included in Suite./
- Corpus – simulates the acoustic characteristics of seven types of resonant objects.Included in Suite./
- Glue – analog-modeled compressor based on the classic bus compressor from a famous 80s mixing console.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Vocoder – classic "talking synthesizer" and robotic voice effectsIncluded in Suite and Standard./
- EQ Eight – eight parametric filters with a variety of controls for shaping timbre.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Dynamic Tube – tube saturation for added harmonics and warmth.Included in Suite and Standard./
- External Audio Effect – a tool for integrating your external hardware effects into your Live Sets with the ease and flexibility of plug-ins.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Filter Delay – three delay lines with independent filtering, feedback, stereo position, and more.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Frequency Shifter – classic frequency shifting and ring modulation for effects ranging from subtle phasing to dissonant, metallic sounds.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Multiband Dynamics – upward and downward compression and expansion of up to three frequency bands.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Overdrive – distortion effect based on classic guitar pedals.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Resonators – five parallel tunable resonators that apply a tonal character to incoming audio.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Spectrum – realtime analysis and visualization of incoming audio.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Vinyl Distortion – emulates the noise and distortion of vinyl records.Included in Suite and Standard./
- Auto Filter – classic analog filter emulation with an envelope follower and LFO.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Beat Repeat – creative beat mangling with controlled or randomized repetitions of an incoming signal.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Chorus – create thickening or flanging effects with two parallel modulated delays.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Compressor – dynamics processing to add punch and loudness.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- EQ Three – three-band EQ with kill switches, modeled on classic DJ mixers.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Erosion – adds "digital"-sounding artifacts and noise to audio signalsIncluded in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Redux – bit- and sample-rate reduction for classic lo-fi sounds.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Reverb – simulates the acoustics of real or imaginary rooms.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Simple Delay – two independent delay lines with feedback and tempo-sync.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Utility – multipurpose tool for adjusting gain, phase, stereo width and more.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Auto Pan – LFO-driven panning, tremolo and beat-synchronized chopping effects.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Flanger – classic tape phasing sound caused by time-modulated delays.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Gate – dynamics processing for noise reduction and decay or reverb shaping.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Grain Delay – granular delay with controlled or randomized pitch.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Limiter – sets an absolute output limit, suitable for mastering.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Looper – records, loops and overdubs audio, based on classic hardware looping pedals.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Phaser – sweeping effects created by notches in the frequency spectrum.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Ping Pong Delay – filtered delay that jumps between the left and right outputs.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Saturator – waveshaping distortion for adding dirt, punch and warmth.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Arpeggiator – takes individual notes from a held chord and plays them as a rhythmical pattern.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Chord – adds up to six additional pitches to incoming MIDI notes to create chords.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Note Length – alters the length of incoming MIDI notes or triggers notes via Note Off.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Pitch – transposes MIDI notes by a specified amount.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Random – applies chance-based random transposition to MIDI notes.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Scale – remaps incoming MIDI notes to different outgoing MIDI notes.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
- Velocity – alters, randomizes or compresses MIDI note velocity.Included in Suite, Standard and Intro./
