You’re eligible if you’re

• A teacher, teacher trainee or social worker
• Providing general music education or a youth-focused program to students primarily under the age of 19
• Applying on behalf of a public or private school, charity or youth club 
• With access to computers that meet the minimum system requirements needed to run Live

Organizations excluded from the offer

• Colleges and universities providing further or higher education courses
• Organizations providing vocational or career readiness courses
• Private colleges providing professional production courses

If you’re teaching vocational, further or higher education courses and want to incorporate Live and Push, visit Ableton for Colleges and Universities.

You confirm you’re

• A teacher, teacher trainee or social worker
• Providing general music education or a youth-focused program to students primarily under the age of 19
• Working for a public or private school, charity or youth club
• Ableton will provide you and your organization
• A Live 12 Intro multi-seat license installable on up to 60 computers, for your organization to keep
• Two Live 12 Intro single-user licenses for you and a colleague to authorize on your own computers to assist with lesson preparation
• Access to Ableton’s online community of educators
• Information about additional training, teaching resources and community activities – both online and offline
• Technical support installing and authorizing Live if needed

Ableton asks you and your organization

• Not to sell or transfer the Live licenses you receive without our prior written consent
• On request, provide us with information about how Live is being used in your teaching
• To take part in surveys periodically asking about your experiences using Live in the classroom
• To keep your contact email up to date so we can stay in touch with news about the program

Ableton confirms

• All data submitted as part of the application process and subsequent surveys will be used for the sole purpose of the Ableton for the Classroom program and for no other commercial purposes
• At no time will personal data from students be requested or collected

A multi-seat license is a singular license of Ableton Live that contains multiple license authorizations, called seats. This type of license can be used to install and authorize Live on multiple machines, e.g. in a classroom computer lab environment.

A multi-seat license is registered to a single Ableton.com user account. If possible, the email address used to register the license should be an organizational address accessible by more than one person eg. music@my-school.org; ideally the team/person who will be responsible for installing and maintaining Live on your organization’s computers.

• A unique interface that encourages thoughtful, experimental and practical composition with a strong emphasis on performance and live interaction
• Session View – ideal for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation
• Arrangement View – a timeline-based editor for combining and arranging MIDI, loops, sound effects, video and complete pieces of music
• Simpler – a powerful instrument that gives you the ability to instantly play, reorganize and slice any audio from your computer 
• Core sound library and additional Packs – offering a total of 1500 sounds enabling you to explore a multitude of genres
• Capture – a new way to recall your best ideas after you’ve played them, turning what you played into MIDI clips without having to hit record
• Ableton Link – a technology that keeps instances of Live and a growing collection of iOS apps in time over a wireless network
• Compatible with both PC and Mac

macOS

• macOS 11 Big Sur or higher
• Intel® Core™ i5 processor or Apple Silicon
• 8 GB RAM
• 1280x800 display resolution
• Core Audio compliant audio interface recommended
• Access to an internet connection for authorizing Live (for downloading additional content and updating Live, a fast internet connection is recommended)
• Approximately 3 GB disk space on the system drive for the basic installation (8 GB free disk space recommended)
• Up to 76 GB disk space for additionally available sound content

Windows

• Windows 10 (Version 22H2) or Windows 11 (version 22H2 or higher) 
• 5th generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor or AMD Ryzen processor (CPU supports AVX2 instruction set)
• 8 GB RAM
• 1366x768 display resolution
• ASIO compatible audio hardware for Link support (also recommended for optimal audio performance)
• Access to an internet connection for authorizing Live (for downloading additional content and updating Live, a fast internet connection is recommended)
• Approximately 3 GB disk space on the system drive for the basic installation (8 GB free disk space recommended)
• Optinally up to 76 GB disk space for additionally available sound content

1. You’ll be asked to submit information about yourself, your organization, and the number of computers you want to run Live on 
2. We’ll verify the education status of your organization (verification can take up to 10 working days)
3. Once your organization has been verified, we’ll send you or your nominated IT administrator your Live Intro multi-seat license to install and authorize
4. You’ll receive two Live Intro licenses for you and a colleague to use in a separate email