Ableton Live 7 LE gives you an intuitive interface and pro features for recording, songwriting, remixing and DJing.

Live LE offers two main views—the Session View and the Arrangement View—that interact in a powerful and unique way, allowing you to create, produce and perform your music all in a single application. Here is the principle behind each view

• Session View - Live's Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.
• Arrangement View - The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.

Features

• Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz*
• Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project
• Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments
• More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
• Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
• VST and AU effects and instruments support; automatic plug-in delay compensation*
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing
• Tweak Live's controls in real time with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
• Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
• Multicore and multiprocessor support

* Live LE is limited to two simultaneous stereo audio inputs and outputs, twelve built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.

System Requirements

• Mac
  • Any G4 or faster (Intel Mac recommended)
  • 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
  • 4 GB of hard drive space
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 (10.4 or later recommended)
  • Quicktime 6.5 or higher recommended
  • DVD-ROM drive
• Windows
  • 1.5 GHz CPU or faster
  • 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
  • 4 GB of hard drive space
  • Windows XP or Windows Vista
  • Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended)
  • Quicktime 6.5 or higher recommended
  • DVD-ROM drive

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