Pro audio

Live 6 from Copystars

Elastic Audio

In Live, tempo is completely fluid. Throw in whatever you like—from single drum loops to multitrack creations—and Live keeps the groove locked down tight. Match the tempo to a new mood, tie it to a movie's key frames, or keep up with your jamming partners—all without stopping the music. Live also lets you fix timing errors and continue tweaking after the fact, making it simple to repair that near-perfect guitar riff, abuse the groove of a drum loop, or get creative in a hundred ways we haven't even thought of yet. Audio is now a rubber band!

Tempo Automation and Swing

Live lets you automate your project tempo continuously, and your music follows. Record at a slow tempo and play it back faster. Beyond tempo, with the simple twist of a single control, you can also apply a variable amount of swing to your project to get it grooving just the way you like it.

Warp Markers

Warp Markers allow for the arbitrary adjustment of beats within a loop or audio file. Push and pull individual beats to correct (or destroy) the timing of any audio file. Choose from several Warp Modes—Beats, Tones, Texture, RePitch and Complex—to provide pristine warping results for whatever kind of sonic materials you work with.

Warp Music to Picture

Live's Elastic Audio capabilities are perfect for working with video. Align hit points, key frames, music and sound effects easier than ever before. Live supports the import of video clips along with the clip's audio file, which in turn can employ Warp Markers, making post-synchronization tasks a snap.

Auto Warping

Live's Elastic Audio engine automatically detects the beats in your audio files. Just drag in an audio file; Warp Markers will be set automatically and the file warped to the current project tempo. Even entire songs with complex tempo changes can be warped, allowing for intricate DJing and remixing projects.

Uninterrupted Creative Flow

Record perfectly cut loops on the fly, mix and match audio of any tempo, and add effects, all without ever stopping the music: Everything happens in real time. Follow your inspiration and use your time more creatively, instead of spending it converting sample rates, calculating tempos, editing loops and routing complicated effect chains. Live keeps the music flowing and gives you back your creative time.

Browsing Ideas

Live's drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to realize your ideas and experiment. Just browse and instantly preview audio files at the project tempo, and then drag them in to mix and match while the music plays. No need to think about tempos, file formats, sample rates or bit depth—Live takes care of it all in real time.

Drag and Drop Effects and Instruments

Effects and instruments are also drag and drop, just like your files. Simply browse, drag and drop, and reorder Live's wide array of creative devices, all in real time, and without so much as a hiccup. Live also offers full support for your favorite VST and AU effects and instruments.

Random Access Loop Recording

Live's unique performance-oriented Session View offers new ways of working with your music. Capture those quick riffs and other ideas on the fly with quantized loop recording, and go directly from recording into looped playback with the press of a button. No editing required, just continue on to the next idea.

Deep Freeze

Even if things get a little heavy, with numerous tracks full of massive effects chains and virtual instruments, Live's freeze function keeps things flowing. Just deep freeze your track and retain the ability to experiment with editing, automation and more without unfreezing it.

Defy the Timeline

Live defies the boundaries of traditional timeline-based applications. Drag and drop, record new ideas on the fly, play back your ideas in any order and at any moment you wish, all without the restrictions of a linear timeline. Live's escape from the timeline-only paradigm is the original concept that brought it such renown as a stage-performance tool. And Live's unique nonlinear approach has made it a staple in studios of all sizes around the globe.

The Session View

Live's unique Session View acts as a powerful musical sketch and launch pad, allowing you to improvise freely with ideas. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a file, or better yet an idea, which can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser and played in any order and at any time you wish.

Sequencing Instrument

The nonlinear access to your musical ideas that Live provides is perfect for the stage. Play a loop or phrase and switch to another without missing a beat, or play the chorus for another four bars and go into the third verse, or maybe back to the second verse. Every element of your song is at your command, and you determine the structure in the moment, just as you would with any other musical instrument.

From Session to Arrangement

Live lets you seamlessly switch between the Session View's creative, right-brain approach of working with music spontaneously to the more traditional, left-brain environment in the Arrangement View. You can improvise in the Session View, and all of your actions will be recorded into the Arrangement View, and can then be edited whenever you like. Clip launches, effects tweaks and all other actions are captured as an Arrangement in real time. Seamlessly switch from right to left brain.

For the Studio

Producers, engineers and musicians around world have discovered the value of Live as a creative partner in the studio. Whether it's your studio's main DAW or serves as a skillful production assistant to your primary application, Live delivers the professional features you need to record, produce and perfect your music.

Creative DAW

Live offers intuitive 32-bit/192 kHz multitrack recording, powerful and creative MIDI sequencing, Mackie Control compatibility, creative built-in effects, non-destructive editing, powerful automation, VST and AU effect and instrument support, a track freeze function, plug-in delay compensation, full support for ReWire, ASIO and CoreAudio, and much more. Live provides all of the professional tools to get the job done and the intuitive workflow that makes it enjoyable.

Instrumental and Effective

Live provides a wide range of effects and instruments for creative processing, precision mixing, composition and production of your projects. You can also integrate your favorite VST and AU instruments into your projects by simply dragging and dropping. Create complex "Racks" of instruments and effects, and play them via a simplified control interface. Save your effects chains and instrument setups in your library for instant recall.

A Real Live ReWire

ReWire Reason to Live, expand your Reason projects with your own audio recordings, and then add Live's effects and instruments, as well as third-party VSTs and AUs, to the mix. Sync Live's spontaneous workflow to ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer, Sonar or any other application that supports the ReWire protocol.

Movie Support

Live enters the realm of post for film and commercial composers. Improvise, compose and warp music to picture faster than ever before. Use Live's spontaneous workflow to launch sound effects on the fly, align musical cues using Warp Markers, and much more.

For Players and Composers

Live comes with a versatile, comprehensive collection of sounds ready to play and inspire—from faithfully sampled acoustic and electric instruments to unique and impressive electronic creations. The sounds come with pre-configured controls for expressive play, which can be easily mapped to your favorite hardware controller. You can effortlessly shape sounds without being concerned about technical intricacies, but if you like to dig deeper, you will find myriad possibilities for creating unique, personalized sounds.

Essential Instrument Collection

The boxed version of Live ships with a multi-gigabyte library of meticulously sampled and selected instruments from the SONiVOX (formerly Sonic Implants) premium collections. The Essential Instrument Collection provides a choice selection of acoustic and electric pianos, orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds, plucked, and mallets, ready to play right out of the box.

• Acoustic Keyboards
  • Grand Piano
  • Harpsichord
  • Celesta
• Electric Keyboards
  • E-Piano MK 1
  • B3 Jazz Organ
  • B3 Rock Organ
• Orchetral Strings
  • Solo Strings (legato): Double Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin
  • Ensemble Strings (legato, pizzicato)
• Orchestral Brass
  • Solo Brass (legato): French Horn, Bass Trombone, Tuba (Eb), Trumpet
  • Ensemble Brass (legato, staccato)
• Orchestral Woodwinds
  • Solo Woodwinds (legato, legato vibrato): English Horn, Bassoon, Clarinet, French Oboe, Concert Flute, Alto Sax
  • Ensemble Woodwinds (legato)
• Plucked Instruments
  • Harp (fingers)
  • Jazz Upright Bass
  • P-Bass (fingers, picks)
  • Six-String Nylon Guitar (tones, chords)
  • Strat Clean (tones, chords)
• Mallets
  • Glockenspiel (hard mallets)
  • Xylophone (hard mallets)
• Voice
  • Mixed Choir (ahh, ohh)
• Note: The Essential Instrument Collection will not be included with downloadable purchases. Download customers can choose, however, to have the Live 6 box including the Essential Instrument Collection shipped to them later for an additional fee.

Simple From the Outside...

Live's "Racks" recall custom groupings of virtual instruments, effects and plug-ins along with eight controls for tweaking the sound. The controls allow you to expressively play the Rack without having to deal with its technical intricacies. You can use any MIDI controller to tweak, and Live comes with preconfigured settings for many popular hardware surfaces.

...Flexible From the Inside

Racks can contain a multitude of parallel instruments for creating complex layers and splits, as well as effects chains, within a single embedded device. Unfolding a Rack reveals the layers, effects, key and velocity splits, and more, allowing for easy customization.

Built-in Instruments and Effects

Live includes the instruments Simpler, for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse, for dynamic percussion sound design, as well as over twenty audio effects including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs, plus several real-time MIDI effects for endless creativity.

Expand Your Library

Using Ableton's add-on instruments such as the popular hybrid soft-synth Operator; the new Sampler, a powerful multisampling synthesis instrument; or your favorite third-party plug-ins, you can create and save your own custom Racks. Just drag and drop your creation to the Browser and it can be instantly recalled at any time.

For Sound Designers

Whether you're making slight adjustments or shaping new, radical variations, Live is a sound designer's dream. Draw effects automation, pitch changes, volume and pan envelopes, and more over the top of your samples—all without stopping the music. When you've got your sound perfected, just drag it to the Browser and it will be saved for future use.

Real-Time Non-Destructive Processing

All editing in Live is non-destructive, leaving your original sound intact while you experiment as much as you like. Everything happens in real time, making it easy to try out your ideas without stopping the music. The sound evolves as quickly as your ideas come to you.

Draw Inspiration

Live's clip envelopes make tasks that normally require extensive editing a breeze. Draw pitch, volume and effects automation curves over the top of any part of your sample. Copy and paste your creation and go at it again with new envelopes to create endless variations, all in real time.

Save it

Live Clips allow you to easily save any idea that you come up with for future use. Combine clip envelopes, effects chains, MIDI patterns and more in a single Live Clip. Just drag it to the Browser and name it. Then simply drag it back into any Live Set when you need it.

Sonic Expansion

Live includes powerful tools to shape your sonic ideas into audible results. Over twenty built-in audio effects, the Simpler and Impulse instruments, several MIDI effects, Clip Envelopes, Warp Markers, Follow Actions, extensive routing, ReWire, VST and AU support, and much more give you the sonic options you need to accomplish any task.

For DJs

Thanks to its unique real-time features, Live opens up entirely new worlds of creative expression. Mix any number of tracks and loops, remix on the fly, capture audio loops in real time from decks and other external sources, incorporate your own productions into the mix, and much more. Whether it's the center of your DJing rig or a creative addition to your existing setup, Live brings fresh possibilities to DJing.

Powerful Real-Time Remix Features

Live's Elastic Audio engine allows for real-time remixing and endless experimentation. Mix as many tracks or track elements as you want, Live keeps everything in sync all the time. Create remixes on the fly by reworking song structures and mashing up beats and a cappellas from different tracks. Play the loops and tracks you produce in your sets.

Infinitely Effective

Find your own sound with Live's uniquely creative effects. Live's effects are easy to use, yet allow you to dig deep and experiment. Create your own custom effects and assign the key effects parameters to a simplified, performance-friendly interface for quick tweaking. Or choose from Live's studio-proven palette of EQs, filters, delays and more. Full VST and AU plug-in support opens up even more possibilities.

From DJing to Production

Take your DJ skills to the production realm with Live's powerful production tools and inspiring workflow. Live makes it easy to create your own loops, customized remixes, rearranged songs and unbelievable mash-ups, and incorporate them into your DJ sets. Before you know it you will be producing completely original tracks within Live.

At Home in the Booth

Live integrates easily into existing DJ setups and brings new creative possibilities along. Simply plug your audio interface into your DJ mixer and add Live to the mix. Mixing from decks to Live and back is as simple as mixing with two decks. Live also acts as a powerful effects box, sampler and, of course, recording device for capturing and mastering your mixes.

No Idea Lost

Live is a musical sketch pad that quickly and easily lets you try out new ideas and capture those you like for later use. From Live Clips to Racks and its powerful browsing capabilities, Live encourages experimentation and makes sure that no good idea ever gets away.

Live Clips

Ideas are easily preserved with Live Clips. Just drag a clip to the Browser and name it, and it will be available to you whenever you need it. Just drag it back into Live and all its settings come along with it. Every setting remains editable, so you can easily change parameters to adapt it to a new project.

Powerful Browsing

Live's Browser provides fast, intuitive search and organizational tools that make it a breeze to find the sound you're after. Preview your ideas at the current project's tempo—Live stretches them in real time. A single drag-and-drop action puts you right where you want to be.

Racks

Find the perfect effects and instrument combination and save it as a Rack. Racks allow you to preserve that carefully crafted crunchy guitar effects chain, complex instrument layers and splits, or your favorite arrangement of EQ and compression settings for mastering. Drag and drop to and from the Browser to save and recall your custom Racks.

Time Management

Live's intuitive interface enhances the pleasure of the creative process. Your ideas and inspiration come first. Improvise with your ideas in the Session View, drag and drop, draw clip envelopes and experiment in uncountable other ways, all without ever stopping the music or your inspiration.

Hands-On Control

Live's controls are always at your fingertips, or your toes, with the use of any MIDI controller. Assign Live's playback, recording, clip and scene launching, effects controls, tempo, and just about any other feature to your favorite MIDI controller. Live is so expressive that it even allows you to improvise complete performances with the computer. Your computer actually becomes a musical instrument—an expressive and creative tool perfectly at home on stage or in the studio.

Express Yourself

Whether you're working in the studio or on stage, tactile control can speed up the creative process. Live offers full MIDI control of nearly every function in the program. Simply enter MIDI Map Mode, select a parameter, move a MIDI knob, press a key, footswitch or pad, and it is assigned, ready for action.

Control-Surface Compatible

You can use any MIDI controller with Live, but for those who already own a dedicated control surface such as the Mackie Control, Live comes with dedicated support. Manage your mix, effects and all of Live's other real-time controls via hands-on, mouse-free operation.

MultiMap

You can assign multiple Live parameters to a single MIDI control as well. For instance, with a single knob you could open a filter cutoff, increase the resonance, decrease the feedback of a delay, and increase the project tempo. All assigned parameters can be inverted and scaled to a particular range for accurate control.

Live Sampling

With a MIDI controller, Live becomes a powerful real-time sampling and looping device. Using the Session View, you can record clips and go directly into looped playback by assigning a clip launch button to a MIDI controller. Quantized recording makes it easy to capture perfect loops on the fly.