Ableton Live

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Instruments

Built-In

By default, Live comes with two instruments - Impulse and Simpler.

• Impulse is a traditional drum triggering instrument which allows the user to define a kit of up to eight drum sounds, each based on a single sample. There are a number of effects available such as basic equalization, attack, decay, pitch shift, etc. Once the kit is defined, rhythms and beats are created through Live's MIDI sequencer.

• Simpler is a relatively easy-to-use sampling instrument. It works using a single sample, applying some simple effects, envelopes, and timing, and then applying pitch transformations in the form of Granular synthesis. In this case, incoming MIDI does not trigger drums as it does in Impulse, but selects the final pitch of the sample, with C3 playing the sample at its original pitch.

• Drum Rack Is a sampler for drums. Midi notes trigger individual "Simplers" so rather than triggering one sample at multiple pitches, individual samples are triggered at predefined pitches, as is suitable for midi drum programming. As is usual with Ableton almost anything can be drag dropped to or from the drum racks, for example you can drop a clip or part of a clip into the drum rack to isolate drum parts from audio.

Hardware Instrument.

Akai Professional makes the APC40, a MIDI controller designed to work solely with Ableton Live. Novation Digital Music Systems has created the "Launchpad" which is a pad device that has been designed for use with Ableton. Ableton has also released their own MIDI controller, the Push, which is the first pad-based controller that embraces scales and melody.

There are a number of additional instruments which may be purchased separately or as part of the Ableton Suite.

• Amp - a device that delivers the sounds of various amplifiers and cabinet combos. It is the newest add-on and a part of Suite 8.2.
• Sampler - an enhanced sampler.
• Operator - an FM synthesizer.
• Electric - an electric piano instrument.
• Tension - a string physical modelling synthesizer.
• Collision - a mallet percussion physical modelling synthesizer.
• Analog - simulates an analog synthesizer.
• Drum Machines - a collection of emulators for classic drum machines.
• Session Drums - a collection of sampled drum kits.
• Latin Percussion - a collection of sampled latin percussion hits and loops.
• Essential Instruments Collection - a large collection of acoustic and electric instrument samples.
• Orchestral Instrument Collection - a collection of four different orchestral libraries, which can be purchased individually or as a bundle: Orchestral Strings, Orchestral Brass, Orchestral Woodwinds and Orchestral Percussion. The Orchestral Instrument Collection is not included in Live Suite.

Effects

The effects featured in Ableton Live are grouped into two categories - MIDI effects and audio effects.

Audio Effects	MIDI Effects
Auto Filter Auto Pan Beat Repeat Chorus Compressor Corpus Dynamic Tube EQ Eight EQ Three Erosion Filter Delay Flanger Frequency Shifter Gate Grain Delay Limiter Looper Multiband Dynamics Overdrive Phaser Ping Pong Delay Redux Resonators Reverb Saturator Simple Delay Spectrum Utility Vinyl Distortion Vocoder	Arpeggiator Chord Note Length Pitch Random Scale Velocity