Ableton Live 1.x

Author: Ableton
Category: Music & Sound
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What is Ableton Live 1.x?

Ableton Live is a loop based music sequencer program that lets you record loops, beat match songs, mix, master, etc...


If you like music of the loopy variety, Ableton Live will make your inner child smile. Though geared toward live musical performance, Live shines equally bright when it comes to constructing dance and electronic music in the studio.

Neither a MIDI-sequencing nor a sample-editing package, Live is a new breed of tool for manipulating sampled audio. The program's name comes from its ability to apply a wide range of real-time effects, ranging from pitch and beat correction to esoteric delay and filtering effects, to looped, sampled audio as it plays.

One of the first neat tricks you'll encounter is automatic beat detection and matching. Load up a drum track with a 110-bpm (beats per minute) speed, and a bass line chugging away at 80 bpm, and Live automatically resynthesizes the two to match perfectly (giving you full control over which beat dominates). The quality of pitch changes is simply astounding, better than the results of some dedicated pitch-shifting software (as we own a classic Eventide Harmonizer device, we know a bit about pitch-shifting esoterica). You load your clips in Live In Session mode, where you can assign keys and MIDI Input (as well as mouse moves) to trigger specific clips. Though Live doesn't record or play MIDI music, it uses MIDI as a triggering method. We wish Live had some basic MIDI track support, but unless you own more than a MIDI controller keyboard, this probably won't bother you much.

Once you load your clips and assign their triggers, you switch to Arrangement mode, where you essentially record your triggering of clips. Extensive quantization options make it easy to synchronize multiple triggered soundtracks, and you can always stretch pitch and time manually to match the sounds in your head. You can easily rearrange clips In the timeline, and this is where the effects magic comes into play. The program offers the expected delay, chorus, and equalization features, which all work quite well (and in real time to boot). It's the more exotic offerings that really shine, though. For example, the delightfully eccentric Grain Delay breaks up a sample using granular synthesis and applies different amounts of delay to the grains— hard to describe, but absolutely astounding to hear. Vinyl Distortion does a stellar job of emulating a scratchy, dust-covered record playing on a wobbly turntable, and Erosion is a downright nasty Trent Reznor-style bit decimator, perfect for going the low-fi route with any sound. You can stack multiple effects for layered mayhem. In addition to its built-in effects modules, Live supports effects in VST format (though not virtual instruments such as synthesizer simulations). Live also includes support for hosting ReWire-based applications, such as Reason and Rebirth.

Once you have a groovy, gratifying session all whipped up, you can record it onto disk as a simple stereo mix, though the process is a little cumbersome (you have to enable a track in the Arrangement window and set its Input to Live Master Output). A simple Record Mix To Disk command would improve the otherwise amazingly clean interface, which doesn't befuddle you with layers of nested windows, instead presenting all functionality onscreen at all times. This is certainly one of the bestlooking audio programs we've ever worked with. If you enjoy playing with audio loops, in or out of the studio, you're going to find a new life in Live.

Biedny, David. (August 2002). Ableton Live 1.1. MacAddict. (pg. 48).


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Architecture


IBM PowerPC



System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.1 up to Mac OS 9.2





Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC

Mac OS 8.1 - Mac OS 9.2.2

 

 


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