#Ableton live 10 reviews Pc

The PC version should run on aВ 300MHz Pentium with 64Mb of RAM, and Windows 95 or later. Minimum system requirements are fairly modest: the Mac version needs aВ G3 with at least 64Mb of RAM, and OS 8.6 or later.

The PC version supports any soundcard with an MME, DirectX or ASIO driver, so if you already have your computer set up to handle digital audio, no additional hardware or drastic system reconfiguration should be necessary to use Live. The Mac version of Live supports Sound Manager and Apple's builtвЂ‘in audio hardware, and any thirdвЂ‘party card compliant with the ubiquitous ASIO standard. CopyвЂ‘protection is of the challenge and response variety, so mercifully there's no dongle to contend with. Live comes in aВ garish bright green box containing aВ crossвЂ‘platform installation CD, aВ fairly hefty paper manual, and aВ selection of Ableton stickers to plaster your flightcases with. For musicians whose music is wholly electronic in nature, Live potentially offers aВ happy medium between, at one extreme, taking an entire studio's worth of MIDIВ gear out on the road and, at the other, standing motionless on stage with one finger poised meaningfully over the Pause button on aВ DAT recorder.

Ableton's Live allows the user to create and record musical performances by combining sampled loops in real time, with highвЂ‘quality pitchвЂ‘shifting, timeвЂ‘stretching and audio effects.ДЄbleton Live is described by the manufacturers as aВ 'sequencing instrument' and is, according to the manual, 'the result of musicians wanting aВ better way to perform live, improvisational music using aВ computer.' In essence it's aВ software sequencer, designed to play back audio 'clips' - which may be short 'soundbites', whole mixed and mastered recordings, or anything in between - via an intuitive graphical front end allowing for aВ fair amount of improvised rearrangement.

Ableton live 10 reviews