Ableton Live Lite is a customized version of Ableton Live that is packaged with selected hardware products.
Live Lite provides a fresh and easy way to write music, features for audio recording and production as well as powerful tools for live performance. It's not time-limited and you can save and mix-down your work.
All the fundamentals of Live 8 are included: Live's intuitive workflow, Session View, Arrangement View, effects and two software instruments: Simpler (a sampler) and Impulse (for drums). Live Lite also includes 200 MB of audio loops from Loopmasters and 50 Instrument Racks (tweakable instrument plus effect configurations) so you can start making music straight away.
Getting Started | Upgrade to Ableton Live 8 or Suite 8 | Upgrade to Live Lite 8
New in Live Lite 8
Live Lite 8 brings many new features:
- ReWire Master and Slave, to integrate with other music software
- MIDI Out for controlling hardware and MIDI Sync for use with external sequencers
- MP3 import makes working with your music library much easier
- Track Freeze, to relieve your CPU
- Tempo Nudge, to sync up with live musicians and turntables
- Brand new content from the Ableton Suite 8 Library
- Crossfades (in the Arrangment View) for seamless edits
Key features
- Intuitive audio recording and MIDI sequencing
- A wide selection of instruments and effects presets from Ableton Suite 8
- Ableton Drum Rack presets for dynamic sampled drums
- Ableton's Simpler instrument for creative sample-based synthesis
- More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, compressors and EQs
- Full support for VST and AU effects and instruments
- Real-time time-stretching of audio files for DJing, timing correction and instant remixing
- Custom and Instant mapping for many popular MIDI controllers
- Non-destructive editing for risk-free experimentation
- Integrated, single-screen user interface for creativity-focused operation
- Extensive, built-in step-by-step tutorials
- Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese
Live Lite versus Live 8
The full version of Ableton Live offers even more potential than Live Lite, with more effects, advanced features and no limitations on the number of tracks, scenes or device instances. For a comprehensive look at the differences between Live Lite and Live 8, see this chart
System Requirements
Mac
Any G4 or faster (Intel Mac recommended)1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher
QuickTime 6.5 or higher
DVD-ROM drive
PC:
1.5 GHz CPU or faster1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
Windows XP, Vista (32-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit)
QuickTime 6.5 or higher
Windows-compatible soundcard (preferably with an ASIO driver)
DVD-ROM drive
