Ableton Live 11 Suite Music Production Software (Download Only)

Ableton Live 11 is an advanced music production and audio editing application that contains a huge amount of brand new features that includes an updated GUI, brand new and updated devices, a multitude of workflow improvements, as well as seamless integration with Max for Live.

Stay in the Groove

The Ableton Live 11 music production software includes a vast number of workflow improvements that aim to help you stay in the creative process. Whether you are just getting down some ideas, organising your set up or getting down to the fundamentals with some creative editing, Live 11 includes many new shortcuts and production-based features that have been designed to help you stay focused on what is most important, making music that sounds great.

The optimised Arrangement View now allows you to create and arrange a track with more efficiency thanks to the updated look and brand new audio editing features that are accessed directly through the Arrangement window. You can now easily time-stretch and move audio samples as well as create fades and reverse audio using the clip interaction functions. You can also automate your effects with even greater precision using the grid-snapping function and other improved breakpoint interactions.

With the quick keyboard shortcuts, you can focus instantly on what you need to such as automation visibility, zoom in/out, nudge clips, and even audio edits like reversing samples.

MIDI Capturing

Using the Capture feature, you can turn your spontaneous ideas into music without having to press record. Simply arm a MIDI track and play, once an idea springs to mind press Capture after you have played, Ableton Live 11 will match your timing and tempo and will start playing your melody or groove in a perfect loop.

This Capture feature also lets you further progress your tracks by adding new melodies or overdubbing MIDI notes into existing clips without killing your workflow, simply press Capture after you have played and Live 11 will add your new melodies.

Another useful workflow improvement is the ability to edit multiple MIDI clips at the same time. This allows you to create chords and melodies in tandem without having to switch between MIDI clips constantly. You can edit multiple MIDI clips across multiple tracks which gives you better control over the musical nuances and lets you make impressive harmonic content.

Other useful workflow features include

• Browser Collections – A feature that keeps your go-to plug-ins and samples in one place, just colour code your favourite effects and plug-ins and access them instantly from the browser.
• Note Chasing – Triggers a MIDI clip even when played back in the middle of a note, this means you won’t have to go to the start of an extended MIDI clip to hear the sound.
• I/O Renaming – This allows you to rename input/output routings so you can stay organised.
• Mixing Improvements – That includes an updated gain range, a bass mono feature for the Utility plug-in and an extended 10Hz low-frequency range for the EQ Eight plug-in, which provides an even more precise bass control. Also, the Split Stereo function for the mixer gives you the flexible placement of individual channels in the stereo space.
• Create Groups within Groups – This lets you work with more flexibility and manage your live sets more efficiently by grouping multiple channels together even when dealing with lots of detailed sound design elements.
• A Refined Look and Feel – Live 11s interface has been updated and gives you a cleaner, clearer look with sharper graphics and colours. There is also a range of optimised themes that give you excellent visibility in any environment.

Not only does Ableton Live 11 come with a wide range of new workflow features, but the DAW also comes with three brand new audio effects that allow you to get ultra-creative with audio manipulation and create interesting new sounds.

Other Great effects

Echo – A delay that aims to provide you with the sound of classic analogue and digital hardware delays. Echo allows you to drive and shape your sounds using analogue-modelled filters while the noise and wobble settings let you create vintage-sounding imperfections. For additional control over your modulation use the Echo controls for reverb amount and feedback, perfect for sound design, diffuse soundscaping and so much more.

Drum Buss – An intuitive one-stop workstation explicitly made for your drum group. Drum buss can give your drums some subtle character or can be used to destroy and break a drum loop to your will. Drive and crunch controls let you add some warmth and distortion while the compression and transient shaping allow you to take full control over the drum dynamics; for additional punch and depth, the dedicated low-end control section gives you control over the bass decay.

Pedal – A guitar pedal effect that features circuit-level models of overdrive, distortion and fuzz, and allows you to add the rich character of analogue stompboxes to your sounds. The Pedal effect can provide subtle nuances or reckless grit to your sounds and excels at warming up vocals, driving hard-hitting synths or completely destroy drum loops, and of course, it goes brilliantly with guitars.

Wavetable synthesiser

Alongside these great effects is a highly advanced, infinitely capable synthesiser designed by Ableton called Wavetable. Using Wavetable, you can stretch, shape and morph your sounds with wavetables derived from analogue synths, and a range of other sounds and instruments. The intuitive interface allows you to start sculpting complex sounds straight away even if you do not have an in-depth knowledge around synthesis.

The Wavetable synthesiser comes with two fully morphable oscillators as well as an additional sub-oscillator with a vast collection of wavetables to play around with. This synthesiser includes two LFOs and three envelopes which can be used to modulate almost any parameter you wish using the highly efficient modulation matrix.

Do Even More With Push 2

Ableton Live 11 really comes into a league of its own when paired with the Push 2 controller. It brings you new functions as well as new high-resolution visualisations that make you spend less time looking at your computer. Whether you’re composing, sound designing, editing MIDI or mixing your tracks the Push 2 combined with Ableton 11 turns your production setup into a true workhorse.

When used in parallel with Ableton 11 the Push 2 groove production machine lets you simultaneously sequence notes and play them from within the same pad layout. This means you can play notes in real-time from the bottom 32 pads or use the top half to sequence in your melodies and chord progressions. Using the MIDI note view you can navigate and alter the notes of your melodies directly from the Push display, just press and hold a step from the sequence to zoom in and use the onboard controls to adjust various parameters such as velocity, note position and note length.

Advanced Visualisation

When using Push 2, you get a clear visualisation of the Wavetable synthesiser and Echo effect when in use, so you won’t need to look at your computer while designing sounds. The visualisation also works for the EQ Eight. You will see a frequency spectrum analysis in real-time across the top screen as well as advanced mid/side and left/right EQ modes; this also works for Ableton Lives’ compressor as you’ll see visuals for the threshold settings and for when the signal ducks.

Max for Live, No Limits

Max for Live technology is fully integrated into Ableton Live 11 and offers a wide variety of brand new devices and capabilities that are designed to provide musicians and device developers with more creative options than ever before. Max for Live is now more intuitive and reliable than ever before and since previous Ableton releases, Max for Live has had many significant improvements under the hood such as faster load times, less CPU usage and an updated look that feels more like Ableton’s native devices.

Many of Max for Live’s devices have had a significant upgrade; the drum synthesizers have all been re-worked with a sound upgrade and a much broader sweet spot, plus the new LFO and other modulation sources allow you to modulate up to eight parameters all from a single device.

For even more advanced MIDI-hardware integration Max for Live can now send and receive SysEx signals which give you more in-depth involvement with hardware synthesisers which includes preset backup dumps, parameter control and more. You can also make custom control surfaces for any of your custom hardware while new audio routing abilities make mixing for performances, theatres and installations using multi-channel speaker setups more accessible than ever thanks to the Surround Panner sound effect.

Extensive Library of Sound Packs

Ableton Live 11 comes with a broad selection of sound packs that are ready for use straight from out the box. They allow you to tweak your composition as you please or take your music to an entirely different place. The Ableton library has been entirely re-organised to make it easier for you to find exactly what you’re looking for. Each of the new range of sound packs has been meticulously created to give you the most useful sounds possible. Each pack shares a common theme and is ready to use as they are. You also get given Macros for shaping the sound into something completely different.

Essential Instruments Included

Some of the other essential instruments that have been designed in collaboration with artists and sound designers include:

• Drum Essentials - A vast collection of classic electronic drum kits and hits.
• Drum Booth - Gives you all the acoustic drum and percussion sounds you’ll ever need.
• Synth Essentials - Provides you with expertly programmed presets for all of Live 11’s synths alongside multi-sampled racks of classic hardware synthesisers.
• Electric Keyboards – Gives you the sweet multi-sampled sound of electric pianos and organs to Live 11’s instrument lineup.