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Macworld gives Ableton Suite with Live 7 a 5 mouse rating!

mary | 25 April, 2008 16:41

Ableton Suite with Live 7 is a digital-audio workstation (DAW) program that lets you trigger prerecorded audio with a Mac’s keyboard, mouse, or a MIDI controller. Unlike traditional DAWs, MIDI control makes Live a playable instrument as well as an audio editor and MIDI sequencer. The new Ableton Suite with Live 7 delivers refinements to features found in previous versions, as well as introduces new capabilities that will be welcome to musicians, DJs, and producers.

Ableton Suite with Live 7 is absolutely the tool to use for creating and modifying compelling grooves on the fly. Live can also behave like a traditional DAW, providing an Arrangement view where you linearly record digital audio and MIDI tracks as well as add prerecorded clips, virtual instruments, and effects by dragging them from Ableton Suite with Live 7’s File Browser pane. As with Apple’s GarageBand, you can alter the speed of your composition, and the clips will stretch (or warp, in Live parlance) so that they match the tempo of the piece without changing pitch (and without introducing ugly audio artifacts that can cause the sound to warble or stutter). Unlike GarageBand, Live lets you manipulate clips in a variety of ways. Not only can you add and chain together effects (using Live’s built-in effects, Audio Units and VST effects for audio files, and MIDI effects), but you can also edit MIDI controller data (change the velocity data on a series of notes, for example), and you can edit individual samples to change such elements as their pitch, volume, and panning. Live 6 brought support for editing the audio in a QuickTime movie, multiprocessor support, and instrument and effect racks. Ableton Suite with Live 7, while not a massive departure from what came before, includes its fair share of powerful and musical new features as well.

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