However, it’s important to know that at the time of writing this Ableton Live Review, it isn’t yet possible to select and move notes from multiple clips simultaneously. MIDI editing itself now permits you to select multiple MIDI clips at once and edit notes within that view. After hours of fiddling around on other DAWs this is truly a welcome relief. MIDI controllers map quickly and easily with Ableton Live. Last of all, Ableton Live now runs natively on Apple silicon with multicore support. With the Suite version of Live, you receive a vast collection of soundpacks and instruments, including a selection from Spitfire Audio such as “String Quartet”.

Preserving or altering the timing and pitch of audio is a breeze in Live, and with the advanced parameters it can lead to creative sound design possibilities. So if you like to tinkle on the MIDI piano but don’t want to leave Live recording all the time, you can now save that great sequence you just came up with while experimenting.Īnother impressive feature is Live’s warping ability for audio clips. This will create midi clips of what you have just been playing – even when you weren’t recording. There’s “Capture MIDI” which I use very frequently. The Ableton 11 upgrade brings a whole host of new features including MPE support and workflow improvements, which we’ll look at below.īeyond the standard features you would expect in a DAW, Live has certain aspects which can assist you with writing and production. This is a great tool to create your own instruments and effects. In addition you’ll find 16 midi effects as well as Max for Live.

Live Suite is a complete software studio and includes 17 instruments, 60 audio effects and over 70GB of sounds.

In this Ableton Live Review, we’ll be looking at my favorite DAW.

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