Ableton announces Live 7 LE

Ableton has announced the upcoming release of Live 7 LE, an easy-to-use, professional-grade music-making solution that everyone can afford. Built on the same fundamental concepts as Live, and offering most of Live 7's new features, the LE version aims to make music-making fast, easy and fun.

Features include:

• Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz*.
• Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project.
• Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments.
• More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*.
• Two software instruments: Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*.
• VST and AU effects and instruments support; automatic plug-in delay compensation*.
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing.
• Real-time tweaking of Live's controls with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping.
• Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation.
• Multicore and multiprocessor support.

* Live LE is limited to two simultaneous stereo audio inputs and outputs, twelve built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.

Live 7 LE has everything you need to start making music, including:

• Sampled instruments: Essential Instrument Collection 2 LE Edition by SONiVOX and ChocolateAudio (boxed version only).
• Loops and construction kits by Puremagnetik (boxed version only).
• A wide selection of presets for Live LE's instruments and effects.
• Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials.
• Printed reference manual in English.
• Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese.

Pricing
Live 7 LE will be available as a download from the Ableton webshop for €129 / $149. The boxed version will be available in stores and the Ableton webshop for €169 / $199.

Buy Live 6 LE today and get Live 7 LE Free
All users who buy and unlock Live 6 LE between April 1, 2008 and July 30, 2008 will get a free download upgrade to Ableton Live 7 LE when it is released.

For those not eligible for this offer, upgrades from Live 6 LE to Live 7 LE will be available for €49 / $59 (download version) and €79 / $99 (boxed version) from the Ableton webshop.

Upgrades from Live LE to Ableton Live 7 and Ableton Suite are now available
Live LE to Ableton Live 7 upgrades are available for €299 / $349 (download version) and €329 / $389 (boxed version).

Upgrades to Ableton Suite start at €539 / $609.