Ableton Live 9 Intro (boxed)

The Perfect Way to Get into Live!

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Ableton Live 9 Intro DAW software is the perfect way to get into making and performing music live with your computer. Whether you're a long-time recording pro or a just getting into music production and digital DJing, Live 9 Intro has a world of flexible and creative options to offer you. With Live's non-linear Session view, you're naturally encouraged to write music and arrange loops in independent pieces and then experiment with your arrangements. MIDI control and automation are intuitive, and since it comes with a whole collection of effects and virtual instruments, you'll be up and running right away with Ableton Live 9 Intro.

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• Create music your way
• Loaded with killer content to fuel your creativity
• Automation has never been easier

While Ableton Live 9 offers all of the tools you need to make music in a traditional "linear" way, the gurus at Ableton developed this software suite to allow a uniquely creative approach to song creation. Use Ableton Live 9 to piece together song ideas and song structures by dragging around sections and loops in Session View" Live 9's Session View will enhance your live performances by assigning out massive MIDI controls - so you can record loops, overdub, perform in a massive synth part, and develop songs, all on the fly. Offering an inspiring workflow for everyone from DJs to solo musicians to top-level groove producers, Ableton Live 9 is a complete solution for brainstorming, creating, composing, building, growing, and performing your songs.

Don't mistake this for some stripped-down or crippled DAW - Ableton loaded Live 9 Intro with a ton of content that will have you pushing your creativity to the limit and creating music you didn't even realize you had in you. For starters, Ableton included three of their hit virtual instrument in this package: the Drum Rack 16-pad-style sampler, the Impulse advanced drum sampler, and the Simpler classic synthesis-based sampler. A set of 7 awesome MIDI effects includes tools like a flexible arpeggiator and a powerful chord creator. Finally, there's Ableton Live 9 Intro's collection of 19 essential audio effects, ranging from reverb and delay to cutting edge lo-fi and stutter processors. On top of that you get four amazing content packs full of exciting instrument sounds, and you can always add more AU or VST plug-ins if you need even more content.

One of our favorites things about Ableton Live 9 at Sweetwater is how easy it is to add and edit automation. Capture parameter changes on the fly like mixer move and tweaks to sound over time. Live 9 will record knob and fader movements in real-time or you can draw the automation in with your mouse. You can even create curved automation. Ableton Live 9 makes automation easier than ever.

• A unique DAW designed from the ground up for the creative studio or performing musician
• Original Session View provides quick and intuitive composition plus flexible performance and improvisation options
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• 16 x tracks and 8 x scenes gives you plenty of space to create intense compositions
• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo lets you freely create
• Powerful MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching
• Unlimited Instruments, Audio effects and MIDI effects per project
• VST and Audio Unit support lets you use all of your favorite plug-ins and virtual instruments
• Includes 3 x virtual instruments, 7 x powerful MIDI effects, and 19 x studio-quality audio effects plug-ins
• Bundled with 4 x content filled sound expansion packs
• Group tracks for better organization and simpler automation
• Time signature changes allows you greater flexibility when scoring to video
• Multiple automation lanes makes setting up intensely dynamic mixes easy
• Track Freeze lets you free up your computer's resources without stripping down your mix
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation minimizes phase issues and tightens up your mix
• Instantly map MIDI control to nearly any parameter for a fully customized control environment
• MIDI output and MIDI Clock/sync let you create deeply complex rigs combining hardware and software seamlessly
• ReWire support provides easy integration with Propellerhead's Reason and other software
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support