Ableton has announced the upcoming release of Live 7 LE, an easy-to-use, professional-grade music-making solution that everyone can afford. Built on the same fundamental concepts as Live 7, and offering most of Live 7's new features, the LE version aims to make music-making fast and easy.
Buy Live 6 LE today from Digital Village in-store, online or via telephone mail-order and get Live 7 LE FREE! All users who buy and unlock Live 6 LE between April 1st 2008 and July 30th 2008 will get a free download upgrade to Ableton Live 7 LE when it is released.
Ableton Live 7 LE features include:
- Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz*.
- Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project.
- Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments.
- More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*.
- Two software instruments: Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*.
- VST and AU effects and instruments support; automatic plug-in delay compensation*.
- Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing.
- Real-time tweaking of Live's controls with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping.
- Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation.
- Multicore and multiprocessor support.
* Live LE is limited to two simultaneous stereo audio inputs and outputs, twelve built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.
Live 7 LE has everything you need to start making music, including:
- Sampled instruments: Essential Instrument Collection 2 LE Edition by SONiVOX and ChocolateAudio (boxed version only).
- Loops and construction kits by Puremagnetik (boxed version only).
- A wide selection of presets for Live LE's instruments and effects.
- Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials.