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You can also simply drop a Groove onto the clip to quantize it. Each marker resides where the program detects as a transient, or the loudest portion of a note/chord/sound. The high-visibility mustard colored markers are for stretching or time aligning audio events under the difficult lighting conditions you sometimes find in clubs. Command-A/Command-I/Command-U and your audio file is quantized to the current value (1/4 notes, 1/16 notes, etc.).

IDGДЄbleton LiveвЂ™s detail view shows editors when clips are selected, and instruments and FX when tracks are selected.ДЄs for audio editing, Live has featured audio stretching since the early days, and itвЂ™s easily the most facile implementation of it among the major DAWs. The whole deal interfaces with AbletonвЂ™s own hardware Push controllers. The sound creation (inventing your own unique noises) possibilities are endless. Combine them, stack them, switch between them using вЂњchainsвЂќ, and assign various parameters to macro controls for use in real time. Live is especially flexible when it comes to combining instruments and effects into drum, instrument, and effects вЂњracksвЂќ. When clips are selected, the appropriate editor appears, and when a track is selected, you get the instruments and FX. The audio and MIDI editors, instruments and effects share the bottom pane. There are a number of normally hidden panes accessible from both views: a content browser (files, FX, sounds, samples, tracks, etc.) a groove pool for applying MIDI grooves to MIDI or audio clips a help pane thatвЂ™s an overview of the content along the timeline a file/project manager and, of course, audio and MIDI editors. If you ever had to hunt through the pile of virtual (software) instruments, youвЂ™ll appreciate that.

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Live was also the first DAW to ditch the once prevalent Multi-Document Interface, a stack of child windows for вЂњpanesвЂќ that fit into the main window with no overlapping. IDGДЄ closeup of the Ableton LiveвЂ™s Arrangement view. Clips are exclusive to each view for playback, but may easily be copied between them via drag and drop, Command-C, etc. You can switch between Session and Arrangement views (which share the same track layout) using the Tab key. ItвЂ™s a bit non-standard with the track headers positioned to the right (footers?), but itвЂ™s nothing users from other DAWs wonвЂ™t settle into quickly. Live has also featured a traditional, track-based timeline (Arrangement view) since day one. Notice the play buttons and the scene button for launching an entire row of clips. IDGДЄ closeup of the Live 11вЂ™s clip launcher in Session view. Competing DAWs have similar features, but by my lights, LiveвЂ™s implementationВ remains the most focused. This is great for DJing or live performance (you can edit and create while clips play), and as a quick and dirty arrangement tool for composers. In LiveвЂ™s Session mode (shown above), clips may be launched individually (one per track) or in groups across tracks. Clockwise from upper left: the media browser, the clip launcher, the mixer, and the detail view containing instruments and effects.

This aspect has since been copied by otherВ DAWs.

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LiveвЂ™sВ once-unique aspect is how it compartmentalizes musical material into вЂњclipsвЂќ, anything from instrument samples, to MIDI sequences, to full songs.

But first and foremost, it remains a tool created for and by artists. With version 11, Live has matured into a DAW that could reasonably be employed in a recording studio. Some love it, while for others itвЂ™s an acquired taste. The look has evolved in restrained fashion, but remains instantly recognizable. To AbletonвЂ™s credit, the initial keep-it-focused design was spot-on, and it has maintained much of its unique and original flavor, even with two decades of improvements and new features.

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