‌Ableton Live 11 Intro

Live comes in three editions: Intro, Standard and Suite. They share common features, but Standard and Suite have additional features, instruments, effects, and Packs.

Overview

• Key Features : Limited
  
• Software Instruments : 4
  
• Sounds : 1500+
  
• Library Size : 5+ GB
  
• Audio Effects : 21

Live Key Features: 

Unique Session View for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation

Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo

Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz

Powerful MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments

Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching

Unlimited Instruments, Audio effects and MIDI effects per project

Group tracks

Use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.

VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support

Time signature changes

Comping New in Live 11

Record multiple takes of a performance, then combine the best ones.

Multiple automation lanes

MIDI Polyphonic Expression New in Live 11

Add bends, slides and pressure for each individual note in a chord, add subtle expression variations, morph between chords and create evolving sonic textures more easily.

Track Freeze

Capture MIDI

Recall your best ideas after you’ve played them – Capture MIDI can turn what you played into MIDI clips, without having to think about recording.

Tempo Following New in Live 11

Live listens to and adjusts its tempo based on incoming audio in real time, making it a dynamic part of the band instead of the tempo source that everyone has to follow.

Note Chance New in Live 11

Set the probability that a note or drum hit will occur and let Live generate surprising variations to your patterns that change over time.

Velocity Chance New in Live 11

Define ranges for velocity probability for subtle, humanized variations in the dynamics of your patterns.

Automatic plug-in delay compensation

MIDI remote control instant mapping

MIDI output to hardware synths

MIDI Clock/sync

Multicore/multiprocessor support

WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support

Ableton Link

A technology that keeps instances of Live and a growing collection of iOS apps in time over a wireless network.

Instrument Racks Updated for Live 11

Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device, allowing for split and layered sounds with customized Macro controls

MIDI Effect Racks Updated for Live 11

Combine MIDI effects into a single device, allowing for customized MIDI processing chains with simple Macro controls

Drum Rack Updated for Live 11

An instrument for layering samples, synths and effects in a classic 16-pad grid

Audio & MIDI tracks :16

Scenes Updated for Live 11 : 16

Send and return tracks : 2

Audio inputs

Mono audio input channels : 8

Audio outputs

Mono audio output channels : 8

Complex warp modes

Advanced algorithms for stretching audio, ideal for working with mixed audio or full tracks.

Groove Pool and extract groove

A set of templates that lets you adjust the timing and “feel” of sequences or make your own by extracting timing from existing audio material.

Video import/export Updated for Live 11

Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio.

Software Instruments

Drum Rack Updated for Live 11

An instrument for layering samples, synths and effects in a classic 16-pad grid.

Impulse

A drum sampler with complex modulation capabilities.

Instrument Rack Updated for Live 11

Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device, allowing for split and layered sounds with customized Macro controls.

Simpler

An easy-to-use but powerful sampler with classic synthesis parameters.

Packs

Chop and Swing Updated for Live 11

A homage to the style that made sampling an art form and put a new kind of groove on the musical map. Chop and Swing comes loaded with curated recordings and professional presets perfect for cutting up and re-combining into fresh new tracks.

Audio Effects

Audio Effect Rack Updated for Live 11

Combine audio effects into a single device, allowing for the creation of simplified Macro controls for complex effects chains.

Auto Filter

Classic analog filter emulation with an envelope follower and LFO.

Auto Pan

LFO-driven panning, tremolo and beat-synchronized chopping effects.

Beat Repeat

Creative beat mangling with controlled or randomized repetitions of an incoming signal.

Channel EQ

A flexible and simple EQ with curves and gain ranges suitable for a variety of audio material.

Chorus-Ensemble Updated for Live 11

Create thickening, flanging and vibrato effects. Ensemble is a new algorithm inspired by a thick 3-delay line chorus used in the 70s for string machines.

Compressor

Dynamics processing to add punch and loudness.

Delay

A simple delay with Ping pong behavior, filter modulation and the ability to infinitely repeat the input signal.

EQ Three

Three-band EQ with kill switches, modeled on classic DJ mixers.

Erosion

Adds “digital”-sounding artifacts and noise to audio signals.

Gate

Dynamics processing for noise reduction and decay or reverb shaping.

Grain Delay

Granular delay with controlled or randomized pitch.

LFO Now in Live 11 Intro and Standard

An LFO with sync to modulate up to eight device parameters with one device.

Limiter

Sets an absolute output limit, suitable for mastering.

Looper

Records, loops and overdubs audio, based on classic hardware looping pedals.

Phaser-Flanger Updated for Live 11

Phaser-Flanger has a new, lusher sound with increased frequency and modulation ranges.

Redux Updated for Live 11

Redux adds a wider range of sounds from vintage digital gear including harsh distortion, digital and aliasing artifacts, as well as warm and saturated 8-bit textures.

Reverb

Simulates the acoustics of real or imaginary rooms.

Saturator

Waveshaping distortion for adding dirt, punch and warmth.

Tuner

Tuner shows the incoming pitch and its distance from the nearest semitone, helping you quickly get instruments in tune.

Utility

Multipurpose tool for adjusting gain, phase, stereo width and more.

MIDI Effects

Arpeggiator

Takes individual notes from a held chord and plays them as a rhythmical pattern.

Chord

Adds up to six additional pitches to incoming MIDI notes to create chords.

Expression Control Now in Live 11 Intro and StandardUpdated for Live 11

A control device for pairing MIDI parameters such as velocity, modwheel, pitchbend, aftertouch, and keytrack with any parameter in your Live Set.

MIDI Effect Rack Updated for Live 11

Combine MIDI effects into a single device, allowing for customized MIDI processing chains with simple Macro controls

MIDI Monitor Now in Live 11 Intro and Standard

Monitor your MIDI data stream.

MPE Control New in Live 11

Adjust Live’s response to MPE information from your MPE controller.

Note Length

Alters the length of incoming MIDI notes or triggers notes via Note Off.

Pitch

Transposes MIDI notes by a specified amount.

Random

Applies chance-based random transposition to MIDI notes.

Scale

Remaps incoming MIDI notes to different outgoing MIDI notes.

Velocity

Randomizes or compresses MIDI note velocity.

Export-enabled products

In a growing number of products you can save your ideas as Ableton Live Sets – complete with audio and MIDI clips.

Currently built into the following products:

• BeatHawk
  
• Blocs Wave
  
• EG Pulse
  
• Elastic Drums
  
• FORCE
  
• Groovebox
  
• iKaossilator
  
• Koala Sampler
  
• KORG Gadget
  
• Loopseque 8
  
• MPC Live
  
• MPC Live II
  
• MPC One
  
• MPC X
  
• Ninja Jamm
  
• Patterning 2
  
• Patterning for iPhone
  
• Triqtraq - Jam Sequencer
  

Live 11 System Requirements

macOS

• macOS High Sierra 10.13 to Monterey 12
  
• Intel® Core™ i5 processor or Apple M1
  
• 8 GB RAM
  
• 1280x800 display resolution
  
• Core Audio compliant audio interface recommended
  
• Access to an internet connection for authorizing Live (for downloading additional content and updating Live, a fast internet connection is recommended)
  
• Approximately 3 GB disk space on the system drive for the basic installation (8 GB free disk space recommended)
  
• Up to 76 GB disk space for additionally available sound content

Windows

• Windows 10 (Build 1909 and later)
  
• Intel® Core™ i5 processor or an AMD multi-core processor.
  
• 8 GB RAM
  
• 1366x768 display resolution
  
• ASIO compatible audio hardware for Link support (also recommended for optimal audio performance)
  
• Access to an internet connection for authorizing Live (for downloading additional content and updating Live, a fast internet connection is recommended)
  
• Approximately 3 GB disk space on the system drive for the basic installation (8 GB free disk space recommended)
  
• Up to 76 GB disk space for additionally available sound content
  

Ableton Live from scratch - Duration: 08h 53m 51s, 34 parts

Possibly the most hands-on Ableton Live course on the market! Already in the second episode, we will provide you with nearly 1GB of samples and background music, on the basis of which you will be able to create an arrangement, and then a remix - repeating our operations. Thanks to this, you will quickly feel that making music can be simple and enormously rewarding. We present individual areas of the program in practice, as needed and in great detail. Additionally, at the end of each video you will find a summary containing important commands, functions and keyboard shortcuts.

ONLY NOW FREE OF CHARGE A professionally completed 50-track downloadable project (Ableton Live 9.7 or later)! You can study it as well as use the effects and sample settings it contains!

After purchasing the course, you will receive a boxcontaining a license with a code for a 180-day subscription to watch the course ONLINE.

Episode list:

1. Entry to the Ableton Live course from scratch

2. Sample package for the AL10 course

3. Arrangement vs scenes

4. Changing tempo and warping modes

5. Methodology of building the arrangement and registration of performance

6. Efficient navigation through the arrangement window

7. The modular structure and functions of the Live 10 mixer

8. Practical tips on applying effects

9. Live 10 dynamics processors and their applications

10. Review of onboard correctors and filters

11. Spatial effects in practice

12. Working on arrangement and audio editing

13. Creating and editing parameter automation record

14. Everything about automation registration

15. Browser, presets, clips, clips, collections, plugins, sample libraries

16. Comfort and convenience of working at Ableton Live

17. Programming electronic rhythms

18. Simpler vs Sampler vs Drum Rack

19. Composed with Simple

20. Preparation for sound recording

21. Audio recording and editing in the session window

22. Record and edit audio in the arrangement window

23.Capture, recording, editing and MIDI warping

24. Slice to New MIDI Track

25. Quantization, swing and groove

26. Groove Pool and Feeling Transfer

27. Freeze

28. Rendering Oversampling Dithering HQ Interpolation

29. Ripping scenes to sound files (audio)

30. Project management at Ableton Live

31. Archiving and creating ALP files

32. Fallin In (original mix)

33. Fallin In DESIGN FOR DOWNLOAD

34. Overview of the Fallin In project