Ableton Live
Ableton Live
Record music using digital instruments, loops, and more.
Ableton Live overview
Ableton Live lets you create and record music on your Mac. Use digital instruments, pre-recorded sounds, and sampled loops to arrange, produce, and perform your music like never before. Ableton Live is an all-in-one production suite.
Find your sound
- Start in Arrangement View. Create and edit multitrack recordings in a straightforward linear view.
- Go further in Session View. Switch to this one-of-a-kind interface to improvise and experiment with countless sounds and loops.
- Access an endless palette of sounds. With 5 built-in synths, 3 samplers, 390 drum kits, and 4000 loops, the possibilities are endless.
What’s new in version 11.2
Updated on Sep 29 2022
Bugfixes
- Improved Live's performance when selecting or deselecting many clips.
- On macOS, Live's UI would sometimes show graphical errors after opening Live on a HiDPI monitor, changing the Zoom Display settings to a value other than 100%, and moving the window to a LowDPI monitor.
- Fixed the appearance of the Phaser-Flanger device's Env Fol parameter when the device is deactivated.
- Fixed a bug that would stop the manual freeze output when switching the Spectral Time device's Freezer Fade Shape from Crossfade to Envelope mode.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Corpus device to output silence when using larger buffer sizes on Windows.
- Added info texts for the Frz > Dly and Dly > Frz toggles in the Spectral Time device.
- Added a missing info text for the Env Amt parameter in Collision’s Noise Filter section.
- Fixed some issues with the LFO and MPE Control devices.
- Previously, Live would crash when routing an Ext. Instrument's MIDI output to an MPE routing target if the track's device chain also contained a plug-in, Max for Live device, or certain built-in audio effects.
Full list of changes available here
Information
App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 10.13.0 or later
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Apr 30 2019
Version: 10.0.6
Perfect if you produce EDM, but if you're a songwriter, it's unusable. Logic is ten times better at half the price. I'd rather turn down work on film scores if I had to use this DAW.
Jan 27 2018
Version: 9.7.5
Ableton 10 public beta is released.
Although Ableton 9 is one of the best DAW ever made to unleash your creativity. Ableton 10 doesn't really add that much new. It has some improvements and nice new delay plugins but that's it. No new innovative features or better mastering abilities and no better arrangement editor. IMO it is a mist change to put it in next gear. Now it just cruises at same speed.
But I will upgrade for sure. It's is still the best DAW for my needs.
Jan 24 2017
Version: 9.7.1
Ableton is so impressive. Switched from a PC recently and could no longer use FL Studio, which turned out to be such a beautiful change in my life. Outstanding!
Nov 6 2016
Version: 9.6.2
Brilliant DAW that surpasses any other by offering huge creativity features.
It is so versatile and easy to grab, only you are the limitation of doing great things with it.
By far the best DAW with by far the best music making community !
Jun 11 2016
Version: 9.2.2
Absolutely the best and most creative DAW every made.
The work flow enables and invites every musician to be creative with high standard quality.
All offered plugins are insanely useful and give great control of what you want to achieve.
One thing I think is 'troublesome ' is mastering with Live. I still think Logic ProX has the upper hand for doing this.
Still, Ableton Live is a must have tool for modern musicians. Essential for sure !
Note worthy: it works great with UAD-2 plugins. With the thunderbolt version it has about zero latency which is truly amazing. Something you cannot say about Reaper or Cubase. Both have problems with latency with UAD hardware.
Jan 6 2015
Version: 9.1.7
Although i have a MacUpdate paid account the MacUpdate install it NOW is not working for me.
And i do have Ableton Live version 9.1.6 installed but just wanted to test the services of MacUpdate with no luck.
OH, by the way still give Ableton Live a 5 star rating although it is not my favorite DAW in my tool box o f DAW's i own/use.
Aug 14 2014
Version: 9.1.4
Baby you'll get 5 stars again when you finally display Retina graphics ! Now go get dressed !
Oct 30 2013
Version: 9.0.6
Ableton Live + Ableton Push = AWESOMENESS
Thank you for making such great products.
Sep 29 2013
Version: 9.0.6
Ableton Live and Push .. the perfect combination for making creative music.
Top notch
Apr 2 2013
Version: 9.0.2b1
The new version is surprisingly compatible both with plugs and OS X versions with Intel 10.5 as the oldest.
I run Ableton Live Suite 9 on 10.6.8 and the new version 9 features fit very well into what you already know about Live from version 8.
So far I haven't found major issues though third party plug-ins may need updating. I use VST-plugs only at the moment: I find speed to be acceptable, but haven't measured anything yet.
Of all the new features the Audio to MIDI yields very interesting results. I'm loving it. I will post a more detailed report later.
Mar 11 2013
Version: 9.0.2b1
The best DAW got even better.
Awesome DAW
Feb 19 2013
Version: 8.3.3
Ableton is on 25% off sale until the 4th of March. Free upgrade to version 9 which is coming 5th of March!
Go to Abletons site for purchases.
Oct 24 2011
Version: 8.2.6
Finally paid for this brilliant DAW!
Worth every penny.
No other DAW/Sequencer comes even close. Its freedom and creativity.
Sep 13 2011
Version: 8.2.6
I haven't really given this a rating before?! 5 Stars in minimum. One of the most creative music apps available. Actually this means it helps you to be creative and to concentrate on your production - not that the app itself tries to be creative, like many other tools. Just experiment, jam, record and you will simply love how it works. This is how creating music should be understood.
May 8 2011
Version: 8.2.2
what can I say.. its practically my life line. The graphics are timeless.
Mar 29 2011
Version: 8.2.2
RElease notes: http://www.ableton.com/releasenotes-lesson
Jan 11 2011
Version: 8.2.1
This DAW is by far the best you can get your hands on.
Admitting the GUI could be more bling-bling alike like Cubase or Logic but it works very intuitive nevertheless.
Making arrangements is one of its strengths. Never seen before in another DAW.
If you make music this is what you need. Period
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