Abelton Live 5-winner of countless industry awards-lets you simultaneously compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. Loop-based and linear production methodologies, including unique virtual instruments and effects, are integrated in Live to give you creative freedom like never before. Also, Live 5 works seamlessly with Pro Tools M-Powered.

Live 5's new features include MP3 support, awesome beat-synced effects, clip freezing, launchable arrangement locators, Mackie Control support, and much more.

With Abelton Live 5, you can produce audio and MIDI in real time without pressing the stop button, make a new composition using clips with different tempos and pitches, and make on-the-fly tempo and pitch changes. Includes virtual instruments and cool built-in effects with automation. Expandable via VST and ReWire support.

Ableton Live 5 Realtime Music Production Software Specifications:

• Compatibility:
• ASIO2
• CoreAudio
• DirectX
  
  System requirements:
  
  PC
• 600 MHz CPU or faster
• 512 MB RAM recommended
• Windows 2000/XP
• Windows-compatible soundcard
  
  Mac
• Any G3 or faster
• 512 MB RAM recommended
• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later

Ableton Live 5 Realtime Music Production Software Features:

• Recording and editing
• Up to 32-bit/192kHz multitrack hard disk recording
• Complete MIDI and audio sequencing
  
  Nondestructive editing and unlimited undo
• Instant capturing and resampling of audio signals during playback
• Realtime loop/overdub MIDI recording for pattern build-up
• Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks
  
  Nonlinear sequencing
• Map audio and MIDI files to MIDI keyboard ranges and computer keys for instant triggering
• Records all actions as editable arrangements and automations
• Set and jump to arrangement locators complete with quantization
• Scene concept for nonlinear organization of audio and MIDI files for live and jamming purposes
• Customized and random sequencing of audio and MIDI files for generating ideas and preparing performances
• Actions can allow for automatic jamming and generative music
  
  Time and pitch manipulation
• Real-time time-stretching to play any audio file in sync with the project tempo, even if original tempo fluctuates
• Real-time pitch shifting for the individual notes in a sample
• Real-time groove and swing manipulations for MIDI and audio
• Tempo automation via continuous breakpoint envelopes
• Frequency-domain warping optimized for composite signals such as mixed-down music
• Clip transport for looping, editing and shuffling any clip on the fly
  
  Instruments and effects
• Includes a wide array of innovative Ableton audio and MIDI effects
• New Saturator variable distortion effect
• New Beat Repeat audio effect reorganizes beats for endless variations
• New beat-synced auto-pan, phaser, and flanger
• Arpeggiator with both new and classic modes
  
  Browsing, importing, and exporting
• Built-in browser for previewing WAV, AIFF, MP3, and SDII audio files in sync with the project tempo
• Browser includes search, Live set merging and preset management
• Logs imported song tempo for instant synchronization to project tempo
• Audio tracks play mono and stereo audio files of any sample rate, bit depth, length with no prior conversion
• Drag-and-drop MIDI file import
• Exports MIDI and audio files, as well as Live clips
• New Live Clips sound library included
• New preset library for all Live devices
  
  Routing, I/O, control and sync
• Drag-and-drop signal flow management for MIDI effects, instruments, and audio effects
• Unlimited audio/MIDI bussing for mix grouping, synth layering, post-effects recording, MIDI-to-audio
• Preview and cue via separate audio outs
• Up to 8 send/return tracks
• Supports ASIO, MME, DirectX, Sound Manager and CoreAudio audio interfaces
• Manages unlimited number of MIDI ins and outs
• Acts as MIDI clock master or slave; MIDI Time Code slave
• Acts as ReWire master or slave
• Mackie Control support for use with control surfaces

Buy Ableton Live 5 now! Your music will thank you for it.