Announcement November 2012
Ableton Live Intro is on sale!
Manufacturer Description:
Compose, Produce, and Perform with this Amazing Software!
It's time to get creative, with Ableton Live Intro — the awesome package of essential Ableton Live's premier features at a killer introductory price! Come and explore Live's impressively liquid workflow and excitingly alternative approach to music creation. With Ableton Live Intro you get an impressive cross section of Live's most powerful tools. At your disposal, you get eight scenes, 500 instruments, 64 audio track, and all the MIDI tracks you can handle. Dive into scene-based music creation with over 7GB of audio loops by Loopmasters. Check out Ableton Live Intro and discover a world of creativity.
Ableton Live Intro Digital Audio Workstation at a Glance:
A different approach to making music
Break out of the studio and take it live
The hottest content from the full version of Ableton Live
A different approach to making music
Whether your entirely new to making music in any computer-based DAW or just new to Live, you'll love the way that Ableton Live Intro approaches music writing. Most DAWs work along a linear timeline, and while Ableton Live can record and play back along an overall timeline, it can also use loops and scenes to depart sharply from this traditional approach. Each audio or MIDI loop plays indefinitely until you tell it to stop. When you layout a series of loops that go well together, you can create a scene from them. Ableton Live Intro allows you up to eight different scenes. Each scene triggers a series of loops, but you can always trigger loops manually outside of any scene, recombine them, and create new scenes. And although you can trigger scenes to play in order, you can also go back and trigger earlier scenes. By constantly being able to go back and make changes, triggering different loops and finding new combinations, you get a more musically-minded approach to creating music. When you're ready to record, just arm your tracks and record your performance.
Break out of the studio and take it live
Ableton Live's loop and scene based method of approaching music composition adds a completely different element to live DJing. Instead of spinning tracks, you can DJ loops right out of live, assembling completely original music on the fly. Already, the DJ world has jumped on Live and discovered thousands of ways to use it, either on its own or together with DJ programs. Because Ableton Live Intro offers complete ReWire support, it can beat synch and transfer audio into many of the most popular DJ programs. You don't even have to be a DJ to appreciate Live. Many artists from a wide range of music have been using Live's incredibly powerful MIDI engine (which allows you to control almost all of its parameters to be controlled via MIDI) to trigger backing tracks, loops, and sound effects as they play.So, whether you use it on its own, together with other DJ software, or as an accent for your live performance, there is a lot you can do with Ableton Live Intro.
The hottest content from the full version of Ableton Live
Ableton Live Intro isn't some crippled version of Live that only gives you a taste of the full program, it's a feet-first entry into the deep end of the Live experience. For instance, you get ALL of the standard effects that come with the full version of Ableton Live. That's 31 audio processors and seven great real-time MIDI manipulation effects. While you are limited to eight scenes, you get a total of 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks, which is easily enough material to run a complete live performance with. And with 500 awesome instruments and over 7GB of loops, you have plenty of material to shake things up with. Also, you get the complete ReWire capability of the full version of Live, allowing Ableton Live Intro to act as either master or slave over other programs, letting you integrating it fully with other DJ software. Finally, MIDI out gives you control over other hardware units, making Ableton Live Intro a truly powerful tool, both live and in the studio.
Ableton Live Intro Digital Audio Workstation Features:
Loop and scene-based music composition environment
64 audio tracks
Unlimited MIDI tracks
All of Ableton Live's effects: audio (31) and MIDI (7)
8 scenes
500 instruments from the Ableton Suite library
Over 7GB of loops and samples in many musical genres, especially HIP HOP, techno, rock, and more!
Multicore and multiprocessor support
VST and AU support; automatic plug-in delay compensation
Simple MIDI mapping plus instant mapping for selected hardware
Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
ReWire Master and Slave
MIDI Out
Groove engine
Getting started guide
