What is Ableton Live?
Ableton Live lets you easily create, produce and perform music within one intuitive interface. Live keeps everything in sync and works in real-time, so you can play and modify your musical ideas without interrupting the creative flow.
Live comes with a versatile collection of instruments, sounds, kits and loops for creating any kind of music and provides a full complement of effects to tweak and process your sound.
 
Ableton Live 12 Suite includes:
20 instruments, including Meld, Granulator III, Wavetable, Simpler and more
74 effects for processing Audio and MIDI, including Roar, Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Resonator, PitchLoop89, the new Performance Pack and many more
14 MIDI Tools including Generators for sparking instant ideas and Transformations for reshaping your MIDI patterns in new ways
Max for Live to give you even more instruments, effects and MIDI Tools from the Live community, and to let you customize Live yourself
Instant mappings so you can use Live with your keyboards or controller
 
Installation on a Mac
Open the DMG and drag Live to your applications folder. Then open Live and follow the instructions there. If you want to uninstall the trial at any point, you can find help here.
 
Using an earlier version of Live?
You can install the trial next to your current version. Your library will not be overwritten or altered.