Editing Audio With Live

Those of you who use Live regularly probably know that the program excels at letting you tweak your sounds into oblivion while leaving the original audio files intact. This is known as nondestructive editing.

Get Your Guitar Groove On

To think of Ableton Live as something that is only for DJs or electro-techno- computer music folks is really missing the point. For guitarists, Live works as a handy studio partner for composing, practicing and performing music in almost any genre. Technically speaking, you can use Live as an arrangement tool, an effect device, or for creating ambient guitar loop collages.

Master Class: Going Live

Ableton Live is a multifaceted tool for looping, processing, and sequencing audio. It offers a deep feature set that's equally suited to real-time performance and desktop composition.

Hands On: Ableton Live 5

Whether you're producing tracks in the studio or venturing onstage with a laptop, Ableton Live has an incredible array of features that can take your music to a very high level. But because Live breaks down the barriers between the traditional DAW (digital audio workstation) and musical instruments, it isn't always obvious how to tackle a particular musical task.