Live 12 Intro

Innovative Music Creation & Performance

Live is a fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance. It comes with all kinds of effects, instruments, sounds and creative tools  - everything you need to make any kind of music.

Use Live’s linear Arrangement View to sequence your music, or the Session View to improvise and try out ideas without the constraints of a timeline. Change the tempo and timing of any audio in real time without stopping the music thanks to Live’s warping. Record MIDI or real-world instruments, vocals or other audio, using Live’s creative features to perfect your performance, spark new ideas, or turn spontaneous moments into music. Use MIDI Transformations to add variations to your patterns, or MIDI Generators to create new ideas that you can turn into your own. And find presets and sounds comparable to the ones you’re working on with Sound Similarity.

Build your sound with Live’s rich range of instruments and effects, or shape a diverse collection of curated Packs into something new. And since the software lets you do everything in real time and is endlessly customizable, it's perfect for live performance and hands-on play, whatever your setup.

Live 12 Intro Key Features

• Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments

• Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation

• Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo

• MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers

• Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.

• Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.

• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.

• Updated Instrument Racks: Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device

• Updated MIDI Effect Racks: Combine MIDI effects into a single device

• Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal

• Built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering

• Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets.

• Advanced sampling tools

• VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support

• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.

• Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files

• Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio

Instruments, effects and sounds

• 8 instruments: Drum Rack, Impulse, Instrument Rack, Simpler, Drift, CV

• Instrument, CV Triggers, External Instrument

• 27 audio and 12 MIDI effects

• 5+GB of loops and samples

Technical feature spec / compatibility

• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation
• Ableton Link integration
• MIDI remote control instant mapping
• MIDI output to hardware synths
• MIDI Clock/sync
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
• 16 Audio and MIDI tracks
• 16 Scenes
• 2 send and return tracks
• 8 input and 8 output audio channels
• Capture MIDI