Live Lite provides a great introduction to the world of music making with Ableton Live. Live Lite is available exclusively with select hardware products from a number of manufacturers.
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The Live Concept
Live Lite offers two main views—the Session View and the Arrangement View—that interact in a powerful and unique way, allowing you to create, produce and perform your music all in a single application. Here is the principle behind each view:
Session View
Live's Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.
Arrangement View
The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.
Live Lite Features
- Intuitive audio recording and MIDI sequencing*
- More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
- Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
- Supports VST and AU effects and instruments*
- Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF and WAV files for DJing and instant remixing
- Tweak Live's controls in real time with any MIDI controller—just MIDI map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
- All editing of your musical creations are non-destructive so you can experiment without worries
- Integrated single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
* Live Lite is limited to eight audio/MIDI tracks, four simultaneous built-in audio effects, four built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project. Live Lite versions vary in terms of their features in order to best suit the hardware they are bundled with. For a comparison between your edition of Live Lite and Ableton Live 7, please check this chart.
Also Includes
- A wide selection of presets for Live Lite's instruments and effects
- Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials
- Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese
System Requirements
Mac
Any G3 or faster (G5 or Intel Mac recommended)512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
Mac OS X 10.2.8 (10.4 or later recommended)
DVD-ROM drive
Windows
1.5 GHz CPU or faster512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
QuickTime 6.4 or higher recommended
Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Vista
Windows-compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended)
DVD-ROM drive
