Ableton Live 12 Standard (UPG from Live 12 Intro)

Ableton Live 12 Standard is fast, fluid, and flexible software for music creation and performance, offering a fully‑featured production environment for developing complete tracks. With a greatly expanded selection of instruments, effects, sounds and creative tools, Standard gives you everything you need to take ideas further - from first sketch to finished record.

Using Live’s Arrangement and Session Views, you can move seamlessly between structured sequencing and hands‑on improvisation. Record and warp audio in real time, build expressive MIDI performances, and shape ideas using MIDI Transformations, Generators and Sound Similarity. With unlimited tracks and scenes, Live 12 Standard is built to handle larger projects as your productions grow.

Standard includes a broad collection of instruments and audio effects, advanced sampling and audio‑to‑MIDI tools, and over 38 GB of sounds covering drums, synthesis, physical modelling and more. If you’re ready to upgrade from Intro, Live 12 Standard offers a dramatic jump in creative range, flexibility and scale for serious music production and performance.

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Check out the video below for more information on what Ableton Live 12 can do!

• Link Audio (New in 12.4): collaborate in real time by streaming multi‑channel audio between Link‑enabled devices over a local network - no extra hardware or manual latency compensation required. Send audio from Move and Note into Live or Push Standalone, and receive audio from other players directly as inputs in Live and on Push.
• Device updates in 12.4:
  • Erosion: now features real‑time spectrum visualisation, continuous blending between sine and noise modulation, and mono or stereo noise options.
  • Chorus‑Ensemble: expanded control over delay time and structure, ideal for smooth, musical chorus effects on guitar and bass.
  • Delay: new LFO time modes and waveforms provide a wider range of creative modulation possibilities.
• Learn View (New in 12.4): replacing the old Help View, Learn View guides you through Live’s core concepts and workflows using short videos and written explanations, while letting you track your progress lesson by lesson.
• Splice Integration: browse, preview and download samples from Splice directly inside Live’s browser. Includes access to 2,600 free samples even without a Splice account.
• Bounce In Place: instantly render entire MIDI or audio tracks - or selected time ranges, including effects - into new audio clips on separate tracks.
• New devices:
  • Auto Shift: a real‑time pitch tracking and correction device with formant shifting, designed for monophonic audio such as vocals and single‑note instruments.
  • Drum Sampler: a streamlined instrument for shaping and playing one‑shot samples within Drum Racks.
• Redesigned devices: Auto Filter, Limiter, Saturator, Erosion and Auto Pan‑Tremolo have been refreshed with improved workflows and updated visuals.
• Improved devices: Chorus, Delay, Meld, Roar, Resonator, Spectral Resonator and Operator receive sound, performance and usability enhancements.
• Device A/B Comparison: toggle instantly between two device states to compare settings and make faster, more confident mix decisions.
• Improved browser: redesigned filters and quick tagging make finding sounds faster and more intuitive across your entire library.

• 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 humanise 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

On stage you can trigger, re-sequence and remix your music in real time. Use flexible MIDI mapping to set up almost any part of Live for hands-on tweaking with your controller. You can design your own unique combinations of instruments and effects, and use up to 16 Macro knobs to control any number of parameters. Find settings you like and save them as Macro snapshots to create builds, drops and instant variations during your performance.

Use Live to pull your show together. Control external hardware, integrate outboard effects or mixing desks. Improvise on your own, resample sounds, or process audio played by others, all in real-time. And Live can be a dynamic part of the band - with tempo following it can listen to incoming audio and adjust its tempo in real time. DJs can even use Live as a tempo-synced FX box.

Not only does Live come with everything you need, you can use it almost any way you want. Connect Live to any MIDI controller - even MPE-compatible hardware, which lets you add bends, slides and pressure to individual notes in a chord, make subtle expression variations and create evolving sonic textures with your hands.

Extend your setup using Ableton Link, technology built into Live that keeps multiple devices in perfect time over a network connection. It makes it easy to play alongside other music applications like Reason, Serato and an ever-growing number of iOS apps and Link-integrated hardware. And with Note, our iOS app designed for sketching musical ideas, you can start a track on the go and continue working on it in Live.

• 13 instruments: Analog, Simpler, Drift, Impulse, Drum Rack and Drum Synths, Collision, Electric, Tension, CV Instrument, CV Triggers, Instrument Rack and the External Instrument device
• 42 audio and 13 MIDI effects
• 14 MIDI Tools
• 38+GB of loops and samples

• Non-destructive 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
• 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