This is an upgrade to Ableton Live 9 Standard for Ableton Live 9 Lite owners

Ableton 9 Live Standard Features:

Unlimited Audio and MIDI Tracks

3 Instruments, 37 Effects

Over 1,100 Production-Ready Sounds

Glue Compressor and Updated Effects

Record Automation into Clips

Audio to MIDI

Mac OS X, Windows

Create, produce and perform. Create ideas, make changes without stopping, and capture everything as you work. If you’ve used music software before, you’re already familiar with one half of Ableton Live. Live’s Arrangement View is a familiar working space: time moves from left to right, while tracks are stacked vertically. But Live also features the revolutionary Session View: a unique sketchpad for improvising, playing and performing with musical ideas, without the constraints of the timeline. Freely and independently start and stop any number of audio or MIDI loops - everything stays in sync. Almost everything in Live works in real-time - add, reorder or remove devices, play with Live’s flexible track routing and more - all without interrupting your creative flow.

What's New in Ableton 9?

Automation

Record parameter changes directly into Session View
Edit automation with curves
Edit automation curves with the mouse to create smooth mix transitions or radical parameter changes in clips
Create new Session View scenes from Arrangement tracks with a single click, or drag and copy individual clips from Arrangement to Session

Browser

Find sounds fast via new browser
Browser puts all instruments and effects, samples, Packs and VST/Audio Units plug-ins into a single easy-to-navigate view
Drag and drop folders into the browser from anywhere on the computer
Search while typing, navigate from the keyboard, and sort items by various categories
Browse by type with samples, devices, presets, and VST/Audio Units plug-ins all available from the same view
View items by frequency of previous use
Store sounds and Packs on any hard drive, or multiple drives
Instant preview of all Ableton Packs

Effects

Analog-modeled Glue Compressor and redesigned studio effects
Glue Compressor modeled on a classic 80's console bus compressor, both its sound and also to provide musical results with a simple set of controls
Studio effects (compressor, gate and EQ Eight) have been improved with new displays and enhanced controls and sound
EQ Eight includes a breakout display, an Audition mode for soloing frequencies, an analog-style adaptive Q option, and improved filters

Audio-to-MIDI

Extract musical ideas from samples and build upon them
Convert drum-breaks with the Drums-to-MIDI feature and reuse them with custom sounds
Speed up remixing work by using Harmony-to-MIDI to get the notes and chords from the original audio stems
Sketch out ideas quickly by singing (or beatboxing) into Live and converting the recording into MIDI
Sing, beatbox, tap a rhythm, or play any solo instrument to capture musical ideas as they come and then use the Melody- or Drums-to-MIDI feature to turn the recordings into MIDI clips that can edited and reused with any sound

Editing

MIDI note manipulation tools and an improved editing workflow aid in creating new musical ideas quickly
Invert, reverse, transpose and speed up or slow down selected MIDI notes in a single click
MIDI Note Stretch markers let you speed up, slow down, or even reverse selected MIDI notes
Add or remove breakpoints with a single click
Hover the mouse near envelope segments to select and drag them without using a modifier
Editing grids are now "sticky," allowing notes to be freely moved and resized while still snapping when close to grid lines
Warp clip automation alongside the audio
Envelopes in MIDI clips can be stretched using stretch markers
Hold a modifier while dragging to create and edit curves in automation envelopes

Max for Live

Collection of instruments, effects, and tools, with more available from artists who share their Max for Live creations
Create custom synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, and audio effects
Create other tools to do exactly what's needed
Edit button displays how a device was constructed and provides for further modification
Includes Live's native interface elements for building devices that look and feel just like Live
Change how Live works by building devices that modify Live, including the properties of tracks, clips, and native devices
Includes tools for modifying the way controllers and other hardware interact with Live, such as common MIDI controllers, multi-touch surfaces, and even "non-musical" tools like video cameras - turn pad controllers into step sequencers, trigger video from drum pads, and much more
Based on the latest version of Max 6 software from cycling74
Features
Recording and Editing
Software that allows for creating ideas and making changes without stopping using two project windows
Arrangement View uses the traditional track-style convention where time moves from left to right, while tracks are stacked vertically
Session View is a sketchpad for improvising, playing and performing with musical ideas, without the constraints of the timeline
Freely and independently start and stop any number of audio or MIDI loops while everything stays in sync
Almost everything works in real-time - add, reorder or remove devices, play with track routing and more, all without interrupting the creative flow

Instruments and Sounds

Includes a collection of instruments, sounds, kits and loops for creating any kind of music
Three instruments
Devices including FM and physical modeling synthesis as well as sampling
Classic analog drum machines, one-shot samples and multi-sampled acoustic drum kits
Over 1,100 Sounds including vintage synthesizers, acoustic instruments and combinations of sampling, effects and synthesis
Variety of audio and MIDI patterns ready to use, covering everything from 60's Soul and Hip Hop to Electronica

Effects

Thirty-seven audio effects
Wide selection of audio processors, from the classic to the unique
Seven MIDI effects
Includes devices to rearrange, constrain or randomize MIDI notes for creating endless variations

Integrating External Hardware

Use external hardware synthesizers or effects units as if they were plug-ins, via the software's External Instrument and External Audio Effect devices
Create custom racks
Racks allow for combining multiple instruments and effects into a single device
Each of the eight Macro knobs can be mapped to any number of parameters in a Rack, allowing for customized controls

VST and Audio Units

Use VST or Audio Units instruments and effects alongside Live's native devices

Controllers

Works with any MIDI controller with instant mapping available for the most popular ones
Control Live with your iOS or Android device using third-party software
Flexible MIDI and keyboard mapping
Map MIDI knobs, sliders, and buttons or a computer keyboard to almost every control in Live

General

Unlimited multi-track recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
Warping and real-time time-stretching
Unlimited Instruments, Audio effects and MIDI effects per project
Group tracks
Time signature changes
Multiple automation lanes
Track Freeze
Automatic plug-in delay compensation
MIDI remote control instant mapping
MIDI output to hardware synthesizers
MIDI Clock/sync
ReWire
Multicore/multiprocessor support
WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support

Tracks and Channels

Audio and MIDI Tracks: Unlimited
Scenes: Unlimited
Send and Return Tracks: 12
Mono Audio Input Channels: 128
Mono Audio Output Channels: 128

System Requirements

Mac

Intel multi-core processor
OS X 10.5 or later
2 GB RAM
1024 x 768 display resolution
3 GB disk space required for basic installation
55 GB free disk space for full sounds installation

PC

Multi-core processor
Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
2 GB RAM
1024 x 768 display resolution
3 GB disk space required for basic installation
55 GB free disk space for full sounds installation

Ableton Live 9 Standard upgrade from Live 9 Lite (Ableton Live standard 9 upgrade from Live 9 Lite)