
Use any MIDI hardware to get hands-on with Live. Access dozens of add-on Packs from Ableton or thousands of community-built Max for Live instruments, effects, and more. Get more sounds, add controllers, or customize almost everything about how Live works.

Since Live handles keeping everything in time, you can play hardware or software instruments, trigger loops, process audio from other musicians, and focus on making music. Take your music out of the studio and onto the stage, with Live’s powerful performance workflows. With extensive editing workflows, great sounding EQs and compressors, great looking meters and waveforms, and fast, flexible exporting options, Live gives you everything you need to get music done. Live helps you get from a collection of musical ideas to a finished song. Work with a huge range of included sounds, instruments, and effects. Mix and match loops and samples from any tempo. Your library will not be overwritten or altered.No matter how you start your music, Live offers a workflow that will help you get going. You can install the trial next to your current version. If you want to uninstall the trial at any point, you can find help here. Then open Live and follow the instructions there. Max for Live to give you even more instruments, effects and customizations from the Live community, and to let you customize Live yourself.Instant mappings so you can use Live with your keyboards or controller.74 Effects for processing Audio and MIDI, including Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Resonator, Spectral Time, PitchLoop89, Echo and many more.17 Instruments, including Wavetable, Operator, Simpler, Analog and more.Live comes with a versatile collection of instruments, sounds, kits and loops for creating any kind of music and provides a full complement of effects to tweak and process your sound. Live keeps everything in sync and works in real-time, so you can play and modify your musical ideas without interrupting the creative flow. Ableton Live lets you easily create, produce and perform music within one intuitive interface.
