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Ableton Live Intro (No Longer Available)

Music Recording, Production, Performance, and DJ DAW Software with 500 Virtual Instruments, 16 Audio Tracks, and 7GB of Loops — Mac/PC

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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, 16 audio tracks, and 16 MIDI tracks. 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
  • Break out of the studio and take it live
  • The hottest content from the full version of Ableton Live

A different approach to making music
Whether you're 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 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 19 standard effects that come with the full version of Ableton Live. Plus, you get seven great real-time MIDI manipulation effects. While you are limited to eight scenes, you get a total of 16 audio tracks and 16 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. 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 integrate 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:
  • Loop and scene-based music composition environment
  • 16 audio tracks
  • 16 MIDI tracks
  • All of Ableton Live's effects: audio (31) and MIDI (7)
  • 8 scenes
  • 500 instruments from the Ableton Suite library
  • Over 7GB of loops and samples in many musical genres, especially hip-hop, techno, rock, and more!
  • Multicore and multiprocessor support
  • VST and AU support; automatic plug-in delay compensation
  • Simple MIDI mapping plus instant mapping for selected hardware
  • Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
  • ReWire Master and Slave
  • MIDI Out
  • Groove engine
  • Getting started guide

Dive into Ableton Live Intro, one of the most popular tools of DJs and music producers!
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Manufacturer Part Number 84395

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A fresh Easy Fun way to create music easily and improvise!

by John Mannes from Washington, D.C.
December 22, 2012
Music Background: Composer of original music for all media types for 30 years!
When I saw this deal just 7GB. Of Loopmaters loops for $66.00 seemed enough, but Ableton give's you so much more. Full version Live Effects, Midi Effects, 16 audio and 16 midi tracks with enough scene... read more [+] spaces. To just copy the loops and instruments library and jump right in. Within 1 hour, a2nd hour and 3rd hour just passed as if they were minutes. I was a kid in a candy store and just going from one loop to another or mixed with a third, or improvising melodies with my keyboard controller. Live is layed out so simply yet creatively enough to just dig in, stay in, laugh, tap your feet and say "I can jam on a DAW?" 40 yesrs past my first keyboard , the Minimoog and 30 from my T-1, 20 from my StylusRMX and ths will be another BIG mark from wherever music production goes from here? I'm extremely happy, impressed and improvising like i am in a dream world! Great deal, Sweetwater make's me happy and impressed yet again! This is a great place to start "Live"ing in a whole new musical world and environment Big shout-out to Ryan W. my sales assistant and Sweetwater Guru, who hasn't let me down! Five stars all catagories, as usual! close [-]

Really Enjoying Ableton

by Jeff from Nashville, TN USA
October 11, 2012
Music Background: Worship Leader
So far, this DAW is doing everything I need, which isn't much - I'm just creating clicks for a live recording. But it was so easy to get the hang of with their quality tutorials that I was in busines... read more [+]s very quickly. close [-]

Love it!

by Nick from Advance North Carolina
July 20, 2012
Music Background: Student
Wow! Ableton live intro is amazing for the intro! Its great for almost any type of genre! I'm using it to make Dubstep. It's really simple and easy to use! I recommend i! If your starting off as a new... read more [+] music producer because ableton live intro will introduce you to the music making world! close [-]

Get Creative With Live!

by Ezra from Willow Springs, MO USA
January 3, 2012
Music Background: Electronic Muscician
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 [-]

Excellent Value, Great Content, Stable Performance!

by SongArtist from USA
February 3, 2010
Music Background: Producer, Composer, Musician, Writer.
Honestly, I'm totally new to Ableton Live, so I decided to get 'Live Intro' to get me started.

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 [-]
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