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Ableton Live 12.2.5 LATEST
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This app was designed from the ground up to support the needs of electronic music producers, live performers, and musicians who require a flexible and creative workflow.
It provides streamlined tools for recording audio or MIDI from any source, mixing and matching loops and samples from any tempo, and working with a huge range of included sounds, instruments, and effects, making it an ideal choice for professional users.
The app is distributed in three premium editions (Intro, Standard, and Suite), providing flexible access to an incredible offering of advanced tools from essentials to complete studio solutions.

Main Features
- Large offering of instruments and effects – Create music projects of all types.
- Flexible dashboard – Use Arrangement and Session views to organize and experiment with musical ideas.
- End-to-end MIDI support – Hardware accelerated processing of MIDI instruments.
- Professional library of Packs and Presets – Get new projects up and running with ease.
- Max for Live – A fully-featured programming language for creating custom sound effects and devices.
- Link with other devices – New technology that establishes fast, secure, and reliable connections (wired and wireless).
- Flexible Pricing – Available for all tiers of professional users.
To install this powerful DAW app, users need to download the software from the official Ableton website or secure FileHorse servers.
Once downloaded, the software can be installed by following the standard installation procedure of dragging and dropping the icon to the Application folder.
After the installation procedure is finalized, users are required to authenticate their premium license before they can start creating music.
How to Use
This is a fully featured premium DAW product that promotes complete mastery of all captured sound signatures, either recorded from external instruments or composed with powerful built-in MIDI engines.
Newcomers are recommended to learn more about this professional app via built-in and online documentation and tutorials.
User Interface
The main interface of this app is optimized for experienced users and musicians who already know the basics of modern music production. The app promotes a stylish but busy set of on-screen modules that can be customized by the user’s needs, with full support for multi-monitor setups.
The app provides two main types of views (Arrangement or Session), and easy access to capturing recordings or composing new MIDI instruments. All captured music can be edited and customized to an incredible level of detail before the final mix is ready for export as a stereo or a surround audio file.
FAQ
What is Ableton Live?
It is a fully featured premium digital audio workstation (DAW) designed to provide complete control over processes of audio recording, music production, and mastering.
Is it safe?
Yes, this is safe and secure software developed by a reputable company.
Alternatives
Logic Pro X – A comprehensive music production software developed exclusively by Apple for Mac computers and iPad devices.
CubasePro for Mac – A professional digital audio workstation (DAW) for composing, recording, editing, and mastering music.
GarageBand – A free and beginner-friendly DAW created and managed by Apple.
Pro Tools for Mac – A leading digital audio workstation (DAW) for recording, editing, and mixing music and audio.
Reason for Mac – A digital audio workstation (DAW) for music production, featuring virtual instruments, effects, and recording tools.
Pricing
- Free Trial: All new users can test the app during the generous 30-day free trial license.
- Live 12 Intro: $99 for the essential set of tools for new music producers.
- Live 12 Standard: $439 for the advanced set of tools and services for seasoned musicians.
- Live 12 Suite: $749 for professional studio music production.
- OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur) or newer
- CPU: Intel i5 processor or Apple Silicon
- RAM: 8GB of memory
- Storage: 3GB of free space for the basic app, 76 GB of free space for additional downloadable content
- Connectivity: Active internet connection for license authentication and content downloading
- Powerful DAW for professionals.
- A large set of advanced tools.
- Intuitive interface with two basic view modes.
- Flexible music production.
- Integration with external hardware.
- Steep learning curve for beginners.
- Expensive.
- No permanent free tier of use.
Ableton Live for Mac is a powerful premium-only digital audio workstation that provides seasoned professionals complete mastery over the process of music production, recording, and mastering.
Featuring a comprehensive library of instruments and effects, intuitive interface, and flexibility, this DAW represents an ideal choice for electronic music producers, live performers, and musicians who require a reliable, creative, and flexible tool for music production.
Note: 90-day trial version. Limitation (saving and exporting are disabled).
Also Available: Download Ableton Live for Windows
What's new in this version:
New Features and Improvements:
Control Surfaces:
- Added control surface support for the Novation Launch Control XL 3
- Improved device navigation in newer control surfaces (such as APC64 and Move) in order to better account for device selections made in Live
Updated the Komplete Kontrol S MK3 Control Surface:
- Track meters are displayed using the track's color
- Encoders can fine-tune parameter values while Shift is held
- The tempo can be controlled in Tempo mode (accessed via Shift + Metro)
- Devices can be selected, controlled, and viewed in Plugin mode
Interface:
- Updated various software text translations in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.
- Updated software text in various areas of Live
- The following Kilohearts plug-ins are now shown as MPE-compatible: Phase Plant, Mulitpass, and Snap Heap
- On Windows, the GPU renderer now displays icons more quickly, improving the responsiveness in the browser, mixer, and Session views when expanded to a large size
Move Control Surface:
- When using Move in Control Live Mode, the parameter mappings of Auto Filter are now consistent with Standalone Mode
Fixed:
Live Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue where the content of the Clip View's editor would disappear when zooming in a non-playing clip with the + or - keys while Follow mode was active
- Fixed a cut-off label that appeared in the Record, Warp & Launch Settings when using Live in French
- Fixed a bug that caused an offset at the start of the recording when resampling audio
- Fixed a crash that occurred when moving the insert marker with arrow keys while dragging a breakpoint with the mouse at the same time
- Fixed an issue where the color entries were missing from the Arrangement clip context menu after renaming a clip
- Sample rate, bit depth, and channel count are now displayed in the Clip View when multiple audio clips are selected, as expected
- Fixed an issue where Collision's noise generator would randomly skip MIDI notes during playback when switching between Noise and Mallet
- Fixed a bug where Analog would sometimes skip first note with the buffer size set to 32 samples
- Live now correctly updates the color of the waveform in the Clip View when muting and unmuting an audio clip
- Fixed a bug where Arrangement clips starting at 1.1.1 would sometimes fail to send a program change when starting playback immediately after loading a Set
- Fixed MIDI program change for some VST3 plug-ins, including Korg M1, Sylenth1, and Viper
- Fixed a crash that occurred while playing back audio clips
- Fixed a bug where bouncing to a new track was not disabled when the Arrangement time selection contained only take lane clips
- Tracks with a selection only containing take lane clips or muted Arrangement clips are now ignored when bouncing to a new track. Before this fix, this would have created empty tracks without any clips
- Fixed a crash that occurred when zooming the Arrangement View via the Python API while renaming a locator
- When Live is synced to a MIDI clock leader, the latency between the leader and Live is reduced and no longer changes with the tempo. While the fix results in a more stable latency, it may change timing in old Sets where Live was synced to an external MIDI clock source, so the -UseLegacyExtMidiClockIncrement option can be added to the Options.txt file to revert to the original behavior.
- Fixed an issue that occurred when bouncing a track with a delay or reverb effect, where the resulting effect tail clip of a clip that was followed by a muted clip before the bounce would have an incorrect length and and an incorrect name
- Fixed an issue that occurred if an effect tails clip was overlapping a muted clip, where the tail clip would be split at the border of the muted clip
- Fixed a bug where, in muted clips, a bounced clip and effect tail clip would be created if the track had a generator-like effect such as Vinyl Distortion
- Fixed a crash that occurred when opening .ablbundle files when no User Library was configured
- Fixed an issue in Drift where enabling the Mono and Oscillator Retrigger modes in Drift then playing a note and holding it while pressing another note would not change the pitch of the oscillators
- Fixed a bug in Auto Filter where a new value for the SC Gain parameter value was not correctly saved when saving the changes as a new default preset
- The LFO step quantizer in Auto Filter will now correctly take into account the LFO Phase and LFO Phase Offset parameter values when the values are changed during playback
- Fixed a crash on macOS that occurred when attempting to open a Set with a removed alias file
- Fixed a bug where the first file would be overwritten when exporting two tracks with the same name but different capitalization when using the Selected Tracks Only export option
- Fixed an issue that caused graphical artifacts with automation curves that used a large number of breakpoints
- Plug-in scanning and browser indexing is now faster on Windows
- Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging corrupt MIDI files into Live
- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading a Set containing MP3 files if the set cache folder was missing
- When loading a Move or Note Set in Live, the Melodic Sampler instrument is converted to Simpler with the expected number of voices
- Capture will no longer clear its buffer when notes are played over a playing clip and the transport is stopped. Previously, the buffer could be unintentionally cleared in some cases
- Fixed a bug where changes to playing session clips were not reflected if the take lane audition switch was enabled for that track
- On Windows, the GPU renderer no longer causes unexpected pauses longer than 100ms in certain scenarios, such as when displaying all automation envelopes in the Arrangement view
Fixed:
- Added a speculative fix for an issue that prevented Push 2 from starting after updating to Live 12.2 on Windows
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