The Ultimate Music Creation and Performance DAW

Every DAW has its strong suit — some are built specifically for recording and editing, others lean heavily on production, but no DAW does real-time music production like Ableton Live, and with Live 10 Suite, your options are never-ending. Whether you’re using it to trigger loops and with a combination of software and hardware instruments or to loop riffs and backing tracks with your band, Live 10 Suite has it covered. As a creative tool, its 70GB of content and extensive collection of virtual instruments and effects will never leave you wanting, and with Max for Live built in, anything you can’t accomplish with the included content or your favorite plug-ins is still easily within reach.

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An ideal DAW for creative artists

From the beginning, Ableton Live has been as much a creative tool as a DAW. That largely has to do with the way Live lets you construct tracks and play with audio in real time. There are two main parts to Live: the Session View, and the Arrangement View. The Arrangement View is more or less a standard linear DAW, with time on the X axis and tracks on the Y axis. Where Live differs from other DAWs is its Session View, which puts individual tracks on the X axis and scenes on the Y axis. Each scene contains a slot on each channel for a clip. Clips are usually short pieces of audio or MIDI a few measures long or shorter, which loop to create grooves. Launched individually, these loops let you experiment with your arrangements, trying out various combinations of grooves and riffs.
Since everything from modern electronic music to classic rock and blues is heavily based on repeating sections, Live’s Session View makes it an ideal creative tool for all kinds of songwriters. In fact, the songwriting tools don’t stop there. In addition to launching individual clips, you can launch entire scenes, complete with automatic advancement to subsequent scenes, scene repeat instructions, and other logic options.
Using scenes makes it easy to arrange entire songs in parts (verse, chorus, etc). And when you record your progression to the linear Arrangement View, you add the possibility to record lead lines and other performances that fall outside the rest of the song structure. What’s more, all of the loop-/riff-based arrangement options are still available on the timeline, so you can continue to edit and build on your song, even after you record it to the session view.

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All of the standard DAW functions you need

In addition to the standard linear Session View, Ableton Live comes loaded with every standard DAW function you need. Nondestructive multitrack recording at up to 32-bit/192kHz is the beginning. You get powerful mixing and signal-flow tools such as bussing and return tracks. VST and AU plug-in formats fit right into your workflow, right alongside the wonderful tools bundled with Live. Live’s MIDI sequencing capabilities are second to none, and easy access to automation curves, MIDI learn, and more make this DAW a total powerhouse.

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More content than you could ever ask for

When you stop and consider the staggering amount of content Ableton packed into Live 10 Suite, it’s almost too much to imagine. Download all 34 content packs, and we’re talking about over 70GB of killer sounds — that’s upwards of 5,000 sounds! You also get all 13 virtual instruments and 41 effects. That includes things like amp emulation, acoustic resonance, and other unique effects in addition to all of the standard effects, EQs, dynamics, and other processors. Top-notch synth and sampler instruments only add to the value, and that’s not all. Live 10 Suite also includes the flexible architecture of Max for Live built right in, providing a whole new dimension to its creative potential.

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Make your own effects and instruments with Max for Live

In the unlikely event that you can’t find the sound you’re looking for somewhere in Ableton Live 10 Suite’s massive sound library, then you’re probably not looking hard enough. Otherwise, you’ve got some pretty zany ideas, in which case, cool! You’re going to love diving into Max for Live. Max for Live is like a programming language, but instead of lines of code, you use virtual boxes, gizmos, and cables to turn your ideas into original instruments and effects — right inside Ableton Live 10. And to get you rolling smoothly with Max for Live, Live 10 Suite even includes an extensive collection of excellent Max Devices that will make building more complex modules much less difficult.

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Live 10 Suite blows up your rig with killer new content

Nine new packs, six new effects, and a crazy new virtual instrument all bolster Live 10 Suite’s content in beautiful new ways. From acoustic drums and breakbeats to keys, synths, and crazy textures, these new packs dramatically expand the kind of music you can make right out of the box with Live 10 Suite. What’s more, you get four epic effects, starting with tools for polishing drums and tweaking tracks to stellar delay and stompbox emulations. Add to that the impressive Wavetable synth and expanded Max for Live integration, and you’ll never run out of creative inspiration.

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Tons of powerful new features in every version of Live 10

Ableton really stepped up their game with Live 10, introducing a bunch of great new features. If you’ve used previous versions of live, then you’re definitely going to want to check these out. Both live and in the studio, organization is key. Being able to group tracks within groups lets you work with massive track counts efficiently, while I/O renaming is a nice bonus. Likewise, Browser Collections also streamline content management. Other great features include Capture, which lets you turn any performance into MIDI information, without thinking about recording, while Note Chasing will play MIDI notes, even if you start playback in the middle of a note.

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