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Ableton Live IntroItem ID: LiveIntroMusic Recording, Production, Performance, and DJ DAW Software with 500 Virtual Instruments, 64 Audio Tracks, and 7GB of Loops — Mac/PC 
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From Our Research Team:Compose, Produce, and Perform with this Amazing Software!It's time to get creative, with Ableton Live Intro — the awesome package of essential Ableton Live's premier features at a killer introductory price! Come and explore Live's impressively liquid workflow and excitingly alternative approach to music creation. With Ableton Live Intro you get an impressive cross section of Live's most powerful tools. At your disposal, you get eight scenes, 500 instruments, 64 audio track, and all the MIDI tracks you can handle. Dive into scene-based music creation with over 7GB of audio loops by Loopmasters. Check out Ableton Live Intro and discover a world of creativity.Ableton Live Intro Digital Audio Workstation at a Glance:
A different approach to making music Whether your entirely new to making music in any computer-based DAW or just new to Live, you'll love the way that Ableton Live Intro approaches music writing. Most DAWs work along a linear timeline, and while Ableton Live can record and play back along an overall timeline, it can also use loops and scenes to depart sharply from this traditional approach. Each audio or MIDI loop plays indefinitely until you tell it to stop. When you layout a series of loops that go well together, you can create a scene from them. Ableton Live Intro allows you up to eight different scenes. Each scene triggers a series of loops, but you can always trigger loops manually outside of any scene, recombine them, and create new scenes. And although you can trigger scenes to play in order, you can also go back and trigger earlier scenes. By constantly being able to go back and make changes, triggering different loops and finding new combinations, you get a more musically-minded approach to creating music. When you're ready to record, just arm your tracks and record your performance. Break out of the studio and take it live Ableton Live's loop and scene based method of approaching music composition adds a completely different element to live DJing. Instead of spinning tracks, you can DJ loops right out of live, assembling completely original music on the fly. Already, the DJ world has jumped on Live and discovered thousands of ways to use it, either on its own or together with DJ programs. Because Ableton Live Intro offers complete ReWire support, it can beat synch and transfer audio into many of the most popular DJ programs. You don't even have to be a DJ to appreciate Live. Many artists from a wide range of music have been using Live's incredibly powerful MIDI engine (which allows you to control almost all of its parameters to be controlled via MIDI) to trigger backing tracks, loops, and sound effects as they play.So, whether you use it on its own, together with other DJ software, or as an accent for your live performance, there is a lot you can do with Ableton Live Intro. The hottest content from the full version of Ableton Live Ableton Live Intro isn't some crippled version of Live that only gives you a taste of the full program, it's a feet-first entry into the deep end of the Live experience. For instance, you get ALL of the standard effects that come with the full version of Ableton Live. That's 31 audio processors and seven great real-time MIDI manipulation effects. While you are limited to eight scenes, you get a total of 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks, which is easily enough material to run a complete live performance with. And with 500 awesome instruments and over 7GB of loops, you have plenty of material to shake things up with. Also, you get the complete ReWire capability of the full version of Live, allowing Ableton Live Intro to act as either master or slave over other programs, letting you integrating it fully with other DJ software. Finally, MIDI out gives you control over other hardware units, making Ableton Live Intro a truly powerful tool, both live and in the studio. Ableton Live Intro Digital Audio Workstation Features:
Dive into Ableton Live Intro, one of the most popular tools of DJs and music producers! Live Intro Image Gallery
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Reviewsbased on 4 reviewsGet Creative With Live!
by Ezra from Willow Springs, MO USA
If you are in need of a great, inexpensive digital audio workstation, (DAW), then you are going to love Ableton Live Intro! Withing minutes of setting up Live, I was playing some of the great stock so... read more [+]unds within Live. (There are nearly 500 of them!) Live Intro is great for someone who is just getting started in pro-audio. The price was extremely reasonable, and the capabilities that come with Intro are amazing! I have already created two somgs with Intro and I am hoping to make more. Keep up the good work, Ableton! close [-]
January 3, 2012 Music Background: Electronic Muscician Excellent Value, Great Content, Stable Performance!
by SongArtist from USA
Honestly, I'm totally new to Ableton Live, so I decided to get 'Live Intro' to get me started.February 3, 2010 Music Background: Producer, Composer, Musician, Writer. Overall Live Intro is excellent value considering what's included in the box, lots of grea... read more [+]t content with a very nice user-interface. After install and easy setup of hardware settings for audio and midi, I got to work for about six hours solid, no glitches, no crashes, no clicks, no pops, no pffssss. Perfect! Already I had the beginnings of a new song and it sounds great. Live Intro is 'Awesome' The file browser is very well organized, also very simple to setup external third-party VST/VSTi plugins. Cool! Now I have more than enough to get the job done! I highly recommend either Ableton Live or Intro. close [-] Great starter pack
by Gerren Balch from Sacramento,CA
I was new to Ableton when I bought Intro. It didn't take long to get in and figure out the workflow. It does have two main recording "areas" and this part took me a minute to figure out. The session v... read more [+]iew holds all the colored blocks or clips. Each block or clip is what you record into your computer,this could be virtual instrument midi or audio sources. You have your "rack" at the bottom portion of the screen. This is blank and it's where you drag and drop instrument racks(pre built live sets of sounds like synths and drums kits)you can also drop your effects in here as well. Once you build a few parts and have them ready to go in the session view you can then hit the record button for a global record. This means that from the time you hit record everything you do in your "session" be it knob turns,clip launching,all gets recorded and sent to the second recording view that is the more common view timeline like most other DAWs. January 5, 2012 Music Background: Musician,Home Studio,Electronic Music,Synthesist,Keyboardist,Guitarist,Traditional Music (guitar,bass,vocals) When I first started up intro I wasn't sure how the whole thing worked. I had to watch a few YouTube videos to see this workflow and to fully understand how powerful this makes Live. You can,if you like,start recording directly into the arrangement view if you prefer but if you pass up Live's clip launching you are missing out. Clips turn everything you record into them into almost like an individual instrument. It's hard to think about but imagine if you recorded five guitar parts. You can now fire off those parts in any order at any speed to arrange the song however you'd like. Turning a basic recording more into a playable instrument. It's very cool. That's the basics of Live. The program itself is VERY deep and has so many tools and options as you'd expect from any other DAW like logic and cubase with all the bus options and channels. One thing I love about Live is how easy it is to set up external devices,controllers,interfaces,and even use your iPad as a dedicated controller with native apps that mimic the full interface. Doing things in Live that might take a while to figure out in other DAWs are front and center and open with no confusing menus or hidden routing speak. Now that I've used Intro for a while I have to warn you that you WILL want to upgrade. Watching 100's of tutorials on tips and tricks on YouTube has brought a very clear problem to surface. Intro,while a VERY good price and VERY powerful and stocked with tons of useful features. It lacks the BIG features that everyone in the tutorials use. You will quickly have to resort to "work arounds" due to the limitations imposed by the "lite-ness" of the beginner Live. Things like grouping tracks,chains,and other Major selling points that make Ableton Live such a great and powerful tool are disabled in the intro version. While you get 64 audio tracks you are limited to only 8 midi/virtual instrument/VSTi or AU tracks at a time. This limitation can be reached very quickly if you are a producer making your own music. There are work arounds,like you can freeze/flatten any midi track turning it into audio but you lose your midi flexibility and lock the track to waveform. The next limitation that I run into EVERY session is you are ONLY allowed to use 12 effects TOTAL in the whole project. If you put a reverb,eq,and compressor on every track you can only have effects on 4 tracks! This is a severe limitation that makes mastering and return tracks difficult to juggle(you are also limited to maximum of 2 sends/returns for effects routing). Some of these effects limitations can be avoided due to the clever use of instrument racks Intro comes preinstalled with. Think of racks as a base instrument(piano,synth,drums)with effects and "special" tweaks added and then Ableton pre-groups these things into what they call, a rack instrument. They are very high quality instruments with ample amounts of effects added. The downside is those effects and tweaks are locked into each on. Granted you get 500 to choose from. The real power of Ableton comes from grouping with macro controls to create your own instrument/drum racks but alas,this is disabled. There is so much here and there is so much more to get into. I am just starting out so this is just what I've learned so far. Also,I am a music "producer",meaning I don't use loops and other peoples "clips" for remixes and DJing. I write all my own music,play all my own synth parts,and program all my own drum tracks. The software is really designed as a tool for this kind of work but I'm here to tell you thar traditional musician types can find powerful resources in Live Intro and it's not just a cool DJ tool to play the latest loop packs you bought for $30 to create "instant producers". This is a real tool for real musicians. If you do like to play around with loops and dj stuff then this should work pro. I just can't attest to that portion. For $69 you would be hard pressed to find a more powerful toolset for modern dance music and traditional music creation. If you have $69 and want to get Live well now you can. This is Live albeit with some disabilities thrown in to bait you into expanding your horizons. I give this a 4.5. close [-] Great for beginners
by Bradley Olinger from Virginia
First of all, I primarily bought this as an instrument, not a DAW. Nearly a year after I bought it, I am still discovering things about Ableton Live Intro. Ableton Live Intro is the perfect DAW for ... read more [+]beginners(and I had to relearn from the old analog recording) to cut their teeth on, especially for electronica, hip-hop, and other electronic and urban styles. It has so much to it that it minimizes the need for outside instruments. For the more experienced producer this makes a great plug in instrument when used in the ReWire slave mode. There are aspects that could be improved upon, but Ableton needs to give you reason enough to upgrade to the full version, but I think for most beginners this is ideal. close [-]
September 23, 2011 Music Background: Musician/Hobbyist Recording Producer Also popular
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