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| Item Weight | 1 Kg |
| Product Dimensions | 24.1 x 7 x 21 cm |
| Item model number | Ableton Live 8 Full Version |
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| ASIN | B003SP1QH0 |
| Best Sellers Rank |
1,627 in Musical Instruments (See top 100)
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| Shipping Weight | 1 Kg |
| Date First Available | 3 April 2009 |
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The latest edition of the award winning music software, Live 8 takes the creative scope of music production, performance and Djing to a whole new level. Building on all the previous editions and developments, Live 8 gives users a fluid working interface, with amazing midi and audio production editing and performance capabilities. Famed for its audio warping, Ableton Live software will analyse any audio file loaded into it. It will then allow you to warp (time-stretch) the file to whatever bpm you need - perfect for effortless Djing, remixing and editiing. Live 8 allows you to edit sections of the audio with the warp editor, allowing you maintain perfectly matched clip tempos, but drag forward, or backwards, any part of the sample. For instance, you can move snares around drum loops, move vocals around and spread bass riffs, all without editing the audio first and with a non-destructive effect on your audio files. A new looping function allows simple, but incredible auto looping of samples and recordings. Completely midi mappable, the loop function means you can be a one man band, or amazing loops sample artist at the press of a button. With all of these capabilities available on-the-fly, remixing, editing, mash-ups and layered creative Djing has never been easier or more effective. Versatile audio interface set-up options means with a compatible interface, you can route audio to two independent outputs, perfect for dj style monitoring. Further to the amazing audio capabilities, the recording suite allows multi-track recording up to 32-bit/192khz and complete non-destructive editing with unlimited undo, so your creativity is not restricted by errors. A comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and eqs provide all the processing you need for on the fly performance and sound shaping. Not one to be left behind other computer music studio programs, Ableton live 8...
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I use Ableton Live obviously. I use it because it's very quick, easy and creative. The main things that attracted me to it were the GUI, Session view, grouping, instrument racks, warping and others.
GUI. Live's interface just looks great. Very clean and minimal. Live's devices don't need separate windows. Here we see Live with everything folded. Sorry these pics haven't come out very sharp by the way. Also, this is a custom skin, MacAbleton style.
[...]
In 2 seconds, literally, I can show the clip view, the browser, the sends, returns, the mixer, and unfold all the tracks, not that you would want to do that all at the same time. And with one finger I can toggle the audio or midi and the devices. This pic just shows the clip view (showing the audio) and one track unfolded:
[...]
F12 toggles the clip view to show the audio devices, plugins etc, I'll show it for a different track:
[...]
What's that? I hear you ask. The Minimoog is represented by a simple box with 8 knobs? In fact the box, called a Rack, contains a whole load more than just a Minimoog...it contains as many effects as you want. You can map multiple parameters to those 8 knobs, and you can have one rack inside another.
[...]
Still no GUI? You don't need it, unless you want to do some complicated sound design. You have your hardware knobs instantly controlling the 8 most useful parameters in Minimoog from the second you load up that rack, which is of course a custom preset in your Minimoog folder. If you use Ableton's synths, you never need a separate GUI.
So, what is Session View? This is your non-linear version of the set. It's best demonstrated by a video I made showing it playing a full song (WIP actually) launching each horizontal row (called a scene) automatically.
[...]
So while you are constructing a song in the early stages, you can stay in this view. Any combination of clips can be captured as a scene. You can use Arrange and Session at the same time, as you can see from the video. You can rearrange the scenes and so you can build a song in Session or Arrange or both. You can finish a song in Arrange, render it to half a dozen audio tracks, import it, slice it up and stick in in Session for live gigs.
Then we have warping and slice to midi etc. I have a video in which I import a song, warp it (match the beats to tempo), and chop a loop out in under 2 minutes total:
Tracks can be grouped, folded, unfolded, dragged in and out of groups, rerouted to audio tracks and so on at will.
If you drag a sample from the browser into Live, it is automatically loaded into a sampler (Simpler) for you. That's how user-friendly Live is.
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Free tutorials, news, reviews and resources for Live users, updated daily!
GUI. Live's interface just looks great. Very clean and minimal. Live's devices don't need separate windows. Here we see Live with everything folded. Sorry these pics haven't come out very sharp by the way. Also, this is a custom skin, MacAbleton style.
[...]
In 2 seconds, literally, I can show the clip view, the browser, the sends, returns, the mixer, and unfold all the tracks, not that you would want to do that all at the same time. And with one finger I can toggle the audio or midi and the devices. This pic just shows the clip view (showing the audio) and one track unfolded:
[...]
F12 toggles the clip view to show the audio devices, plugins etc, I'll show it for a different track:
[...]
What's that? I hear you ask. The Minimoog is represented by a simple box with 8 knobs? In fact the box, called a Rack, contains a whole load more than just a Minimoog...it contains as many effects as you want. You can map multiple parameters to those 8 knobs, and you can have one rack inside another.
[...]
Still no GUI? You don't need it, unless you want to do some complicated sound design. You have your hardware knobs instantly controlling the 8 most useful parameters in Minimoog from the second you load up that rack, which is of course a custom preset in your Minimoog folder. If you use Ableton's synths, you never need a separate GUI.
So, what is Session View? This is your non-linear version of the set. It's best demonstrated by a video I made showing it playing a full song (WIP actually) launching each horizontal row (called a scene) automatically.
[...]
So while you are constructing a song in the early stages, you can stay in this view. Any combination of clips can be captured as a scene. You can use Arrange and Session at the same time, as you can see from the video. You can rearrange the scenes and so you can build a song in Session or Arrange or both. You can finish a song in Arrange, render it to half a dozen audio tracks, import it, slice it up and stick in in Session for live gigs.
Then we have warping and slice to midi etc. I have a video in which I import a song, warp it (match the beats to tempo), and chop a loop out in under 2 minutes total:
Tracks can be grouped, folded, unfolded, dragged in and out of groups, rerouted to audio tracks and so on at will.
If you drag a sample from the browser into Live, it is automatically loaded into a sampler (Simpler) for you. That's how user-friendly Live is.
__________________
[...]
Free tutorials, news, reviews and resources for Live users, updated daily!
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
6 reviews
47 of 47 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ableton Live 8 the mother of all Audio apps for new peoples...
1 Jun 2009
By Charles Bittner
- Published on Amazon.com
Ableton Live 8: Nowadays if you're an artist looking to record or perform music you're probably a lot like me, a newbie impressed (And confused) by the vast array of choices you have your disposal. So with this review I'm going to focus on new people and getting use to and using Ableton Live 8 (Live).
First thing to note a full live demo can be downloaded on their website and it is a 14 day not limited functionality trial. And that is cool if you want to get started and playing around with this powerful software. I recommend doing that and following along with some of the videos that I will point out below.
Now I needed to form drumbeats for a buddy of mine's project and I had live 7, but I downloaded live 8 because I usually like to have the latest software and features. Also Ableton as extensive video tutorials which I've found amazingly insightful and helpful on YouTube.
On YouTube Hudon Singletary an Ableton training rep, has 22 video tutorials that gets you inside this amazing program. check them out and follow along using the demo you will definitely be stoked!
search on YouTube: CD8C2B63AB0E24E9
Are looking to make drumbeats? If so live has a very cool feature that allows you to make an 8 pad drum machine that you can trigger using ASDFGHJK. you can also grab your samples from any loops you already have, when I saw this in the following video I was blown away. It was simple and easy!
Search on YouTube: 9Ff0AcOsH3E
I also found the tour of live video to be very helpful in navigating the user interface. Now I had seen the live interface before and I have seen other mixing programs and felt intimidated. But after watching this video I had better understanding of how to move around the program freely.
Search on YouTube: 3U1-aMHbg7M
I personally have been using live 8 for about four days and I was able to mix a drum track for my buddy that he was happy with, and so was I. Live has made it possible for us to finish his CD without having to find and studio record a drummer at saving us a few thousand dollars.
Now I used to use acid Pro a few years ago so I am semi-familiar with loop-based music creation (made 20 tracks or so), so that may have made my interactions with live a little easier to pick up. But I'm amazed at how quickly and easily live is to learn.
Another cool feature of live is that it has textbased tutorials inside the program. This is something I have never seen implemented in such a way as to be functional and not intrusive. So basically when you're pointing at something or clicking a track there are text boxes in the lower left-hand corner in on the right-hand side that will tell you what you can do in those areas. They were amazingly helpful and gave me answers to questions I had an even asked yet. very very cool!
being a newbie to live I also wanted to add that I have seen this program mentioned by many performers as a tool they use in live performances and home recording (imogen Heap & Venus Hum) And I am starting to understand why they like it so much.
All in all this program is an amazing piece of software,Very solid and a nice user interface. I use Adobe products like after affects and premiere Pro, and wish Adobe had a program like live but their stuff is nowhere close to as intuitive and easy-to-use.
if you're like me once you try live for 14 days you're going to buy it because it is that easy to use! so my encouragement is check out the tutorials while having the trial opened you will definitely pick it up very quickly!
Here is the CD he made using Live: The HolyDaze FreekShow - Castrated Releases
For Abletons video tutorials search on YouTube: AbletonInc
Rock on
Chuck the Capper
First thing to note a full live demo can be downloaded on their website and it is a 14 day not limited functionality trial. And that is cool if you want to get started and playing around with this powerful software. I recommend doing that and following along with some of the videos that I will point out below.
Now I needed to form drumbeats for a buddy of mine's project and I had live 7, but I downloaded live 8 because I usually like to have the latest software and features. Also Ableton as extensive video tutorials which I've found amazingly insightful and helpful on YouTube.
On YouTube Hudon Singletary an Ableton training rep, has 22 video tutorials that gets you inside this amazing program. check them out and follow along using the demo you will definitely be stoked!
search on YouTube: CD8C2B63AB0E24E9
Are looking to make drumbeats? If so live has a very cool feature that allows you to make an 8 pad drum machine that you can trigger using ASDFGHJK. you can also grab your samples from any loops you already have, when I saw this in the following video I was blown away. It was simple and easy!
Search on YouTube: 9Ff0AcOsH3E
I also found the tour of live video to be very helpful in navigating the user interface. Now I had seen the live interface before and I have seen other mixing programs and felt intimidated. But after watching this video I had better understanding of how to move around the program freely.
Search on YouTube: 3U1-aMHbg7M
I personally have been using live 8 for about four days and I was able to mix a drum track for my buddy that he was happy with, and so was I. Live has made it possible for us to finish his CD without having to find and studio record a drummer at saving us a few thousand dollars.
Now I used to use acid Pro a few years ago so I am semi-familiar with loop-based music creation (made 20 tracks or so), so that may have made my interactions with live a little easier to pick up. But I'm amazed at how quickly and easily live is to learn.
Another cool feature of live is that it has textbased tutorials inside the program. This is something I have never seen implemented in such a way as to be functional and not intrusive. So basically when you're pointing at something or clicking a track there are text boxes in the lower left-hand corner in on the right-hand side that will tell you what you can do in those areas. They were amazingly helpful and gave me answers to questions I had an even asked yet. very very cool!
being a newbie to live I also wanted to add that I have seen this program mentioned by many performers as a tool they use in live performances and home recording (imogen Heap & Venus Hum) And I am starting to understand why they like it so much.
All in all this program is an amazing piece of software,Very solid and a nice user interface. I use Adobe products like after affects and premiere Pro, and wish Adobe had a program like live but their stuff is nowhere close to as intuitive and easy-to-use.
if you're like me once you try live for 14 days you're going to buy it because it is that easy to use! so my encouragement is check out the tutorials while having the trial opened you will definitely pick it up very quickly!
Here is the CD he made using Live: The HolyDaze FreekShow - Castrated Releases
For Abletons video tutorials search on YouTube: AbletonInc
Rock on
Chuck the Capper
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great but...
22 Jan 2012
By Anchored87
- Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought Ableton Live 8 for Christmas, and I love it. I had the Ableton Suite 30 day- trial before that. It's great for beginners (they do a great job of explaining how things work) and it's just fun to use. HOWEVER, there are so many features and instruments you cannot use (or I can't at least) because you don't own certain instruments and effects. If I would have known this, I would have just shelled out the extra $200 and bought Suite. So again, this is a great product and I'd recommend it anyone, regardless of skill level. But to me, it only feels like half a product because of all the features I can't use (namely Operator and Analog). [...] <-- Here's a more... detailed page about it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great, Versatile Music Creation Tool
8 Feb 2012
By DJHogie6578
- Published on Amazon.com
I'm an amateur/hobbyist songwriter and producer. I also play keyboards and guitars live with a band. I've found Ableton Live 8 to be a really valuable practice, writing and performance tool.
For recording, I use Live like a sketchpad. The "clip" concept lets you easily loop certain phrases or samples (like a guitar part or drum loop) and figure out other parts without having to keep stopping and restarting playback. Also, being able to trigger individual clips dj style really lets you be creative with how you're going to arrange a song.
I was really impressed with the "looper" effect, which is basically like a looping pedal in live. It's been a lot of fun experimenting with layered guitar parts, etc. I've also found the warping function to be great. This lets you basically stretch something you recorded to be slower or faster, without any change in time. It also lets you clean up your recorded parts if you were a little out of time.
The other thing I really like about this software is that it's very stable, even using other companies plugins. I use a lot of VSTs, and I've never had a problem with live.
Overall, a really great product for studio or performance. It's easy enough to pick up that you can start having fun quickly, but deep enough to really let you go as far as you want to go with programming, mixing, etc. Two thumbs up.
For recording, I use Live like a sketchpad. The "clip" concept lets you easily loop certain phrases or samples (like a guitar part or drum loop) and figure out other parts without having to keep stopping and restarting playback. Also, being able to trigger individual clips dj style really lets you be creative with how you're going to arrange a song.
I was really impressed with the "looper" effect, which is basically like a looping pedal in live. It's been a lot of fun experimenting with layered guitar parts, etc. I've also found the warping function to be great. This lets you basically stretch something you recorded to be slower or faster, without any change in time. It also lets you clean up your recorded parts if you were a little out of time.
The other thing I really like about this software is that it's very stable, even using other companies plugins. I use a lot of VSTs, and I've never had a problem with live.
Overall, a really great product for studio or performance. It's easy enough to pick up that you can start having fun quickly, but deep enough to really let you go as far as you want to go with programming, mixing, etc. Two thumbs up.
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