Gebruik Live's Arrangement View om je muziek te sequencen of de Session View om te improviseren en ideëen uit te proberen zonder de beperkingen van een tijdslijn. Verander het tempo en de timing van eende welke audio in realtime zonder de muziek te stoppen dankzij Live's warping. Neem MIDI op of echte instrumenten, stemmen of ander geluid met Live's creatieve features om je optreden te perfectioneren, nieuwe ideëen aan te wakker of spontane momenten om te zetten in muziek.

Bouw je geluid op met Live's rijkelijk gamma aan instrumenten en effecten of vorm een diverse verzameling van gecureerde Packs om naar iets nieuw. En omdat de software je alles laat doen in realtime en eindeloos customizable is, is hij perfect voor live optredens en hands-on spelen, wat je setup ook is.

En tenslotte is er de Push, Ableton's instrument die specifiek gebouwd is voor Live en die je alle functionaliteit geeft van de software met de directheid van hardware.

Live's laatste creatieve features, devices en geluiden bevatten:

- Comping: combineer de beste van meerdere takes van een audio of MIDI performance naar één perfecte take. Of benader sound design in een nieuwe manier door random samples uit je bibliotheek de combineren.

- MPE ondersteuning: gebruik een MPE MIDI controller en voeg bends, slides en druk toe op iedere individuele noot in een akkoord, maak subtiele expressieve variaties, morph tussen akkoorten en creëer evoluerende sonische texturen.

- Nieuwe devices: stretch, shift en blur signalen met Spectral Resonator en Spectral Time. Plaats geluiden in eender welke echte of synthetische ruimte met de Hybrid Reverb. Genereeer ideëen met Inspired by Nature -  zes devices die gebaseerd zijn op natuurlijke en fysieke processen - of voeg jittery glitches toe, delayed digitale shimmers en meer met Pitch Loop89.

- Features voor het podium: met tempo following past Live zijn tempo aan in realtime gebaseerd op binnenkomende audio en maakt zo een dynamisch deel uit van je band. Creëer builds, drops en directe variaties op geluiden tijdens een optreden met gebruik van Macro Snapshots. Racks bieden nu 1 tot 16 Macros en je kan hun status randomizen met en duw op de knop.

- Tools om verandering toe te voegen: note chance an velocity chance functies laten je de waarschijnlijkheid van noten en velocitywaarden definiëren om zo verrassend variaties aan je patterns toe te voegen of menselijke variatie in je dynamiek te brengen.

- Nieuwe sound packs: Voice Box voor experimentele vocal manipulatie, Mood Reel voor moderene omgevingszetting en Drone Lab voor lange tonen en texturen. En de drie nieuwe Upright Piano, String en Brass Quartet Packs die in samenwerking met Spitfire Audio werden gecreëerd leggen populaire orchestrale instrumentencombinaties vast met een intiem, expressief detail.

• Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments

• Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation

• Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo

• MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers

• Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.

• Linked-track editing: link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.

• Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.

• Audio-to-MIDI conversion tools: extract harmony, melody or drums from an audio sample and convert it into MIDI.

• Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal

• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.

• Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device with Instrument Racks

• Combine MIDI effects into a single device with MIDI Effect Racks

• Comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering

• Advanced sampling and slicing tools

• VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support

• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.

• Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files

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

• Time signature changes

• Built-in Max for Live software with more instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and the ability to customize Live

• 17 instruments: Wavetable, Operator, Analog, Sampler, Simpler, Electric,Tension, Collision, Bass, Poli, Drum Rack, Drum Synths, Impulse, CV Instrument and CV Triggers, Instrument Racks and the External Instrument device

• 59 audio- and 15 MIDI effects, including Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Time and Spectral Resonator

• 5000+ sounds

• 70+GB of loops and samples

 • Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo

• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz

• Automatic plug-in delay compensation

• Ableton Link integration

• MPE support

• MIDI remote control instant mapping

• MIDI output to hardware synths

• MIDI Clock/sync

• Generate or receive Pitch, Control, Clock and Trigger CV

• Multicore/multiprocessor support

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

• Unlimited Audio and MIDI tracks

• Unlimited Scenes

• 12 Send and return tracks

• 256 Audio inputs, 256 outputs

• Rex file support

• POW-r dithering

• Groove Pool and extract groove

• Capture MIDI

• Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments

• Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation

• Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo

• MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers

• Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.

• Linked-track editing: link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.

• Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.

• Audio-to-MIDI conversion tools: extract harmony, melody or drums from an audio sample and convert it into MIDI.

• Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal

• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.

• Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device with Instrument Racks

• Combine MIDI effects into a single device with MIDI Effect Racks

• Comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering

• Advanced sampling and slicing tools

• VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support

• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.

• Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files

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

• 6 instruments: Simpler, Impulse, Drum Rack and Drum Synths, Instrument Racks and the External Instrument device

• 36 audio and 13 MIDI effects

• 1800+ sounds

• 10+GB of loops and samples

• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo

• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz

• Automatic plug-in delay compensation

• Ableton Link integration

• MPE support

• MIDI remote control instant mapping

• MIDI output to hardware synths

• MIDI Clock/sync

• Multicore/multiprocessor support

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

• Unlimited Audio and MIDI tracks

• Unlimited Scenes

• 12 Send and return tracks

• 256 Audio inputs, 256 outputs

• Rex file support

• POW-r dithering

• Groove Pool and extract groove

• Capture MIDI

• Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments

• Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation

• Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo

• MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers

• Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.

• Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.

• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.

• Updated Instrument Racks: Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device

• Updated MIDI Effect Racks: Combine MIDI effects into a single device

• Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal

• Built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering

• Advanced sampling tools

• VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support

• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.

• Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files

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

• 4 instruments: Simpler, Impulse and Drum Rack and Instrument Racks

• 21 audio and 11 MIDI effects

• 1500+ sounds

• 5+GB of loops and samples

 • Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo

• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz

• Automatic plug-in delay compensation

• Ableton Link integration

• MIDI remote control instant mapping

• MIDI output to hardware synths

• MIDI Clock/sync

• Multicore/multiprocessor support

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

• 16 Audio and MIDI tracks

• 16 Scenes

• 2 Send and return tracks

• 8 input and 8 output audio channels

• Capture MIDI