Live 12 Suite key features:
● Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
● Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation
● Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo
● MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers
● Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.
● Linked-track editing: link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.
● Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.
● Audio-to-MIDI conversion tools: extract harmony, melody or drums from an audio sample and convert it into MIDI.
● Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal
● Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.
● Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device with Instrument Racks
● Combine MIDI effects into a single device with MIDI Effect Racks
● Comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering
● MIDI Transformations and Generators: use Transformations to create a variety of simple or complex variations of your MIDI clips, or conjure up playful and original ideas with Generators.
● Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets.
● Advanced sampling and slicing tools
● VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support
● MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.
● Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files
● Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio
● Time signature changes
● Built-in Max for Live software with more instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and the ability to customize Live
Instruments, effects and sounds:
● 20 instruments: Wavetable, Operator, Analog, Meld, Sampler, Simpler, Drum Sampler, Granulator III, Drift, Electric, Tension, Collision, Bass, Poli, Drum Rack, Drum Synths, Impulse, CV Instrument and CV Triggers, Instrument Racks and the External Instrument device
● 58 Audio and 14 MIDI effects, including Auto Shift, Roar, Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Time and Spectral Resonator
● 14 MIDI Tools
● 71+ GB of loops and samples
Technical feature spec / compatibility:
● Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
● Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
● Automatic plug-in delay compensation
● Ableton Link integration
● MPE support
● MIDI remote control instant mapping
● MIDI output to hardware synths
● MIDI Clock/sync
● Generate or receive Pitch, Control, Clock and Trigger CV
● Multicore/multiprocessor support
● WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
● Unlimited Audio and MIDI tracks
● Unlimited Scenes
● 12 Send and return tracks
● 256 Audio inputs, 256 outputs
● Rex file support
● POW-r dithering
● Groove Pool and extract groove
● Capture MIDI