What is Ableton Live Lite 8 ?
Ableton Live Lite is a customized version of Ableton Live that is packaged with selected products.
Live Lite provides a fresh and easy way to write music, features for audio recording and production as well as powerful tools for live performance. It's not time-limited and you can save and mix-down your work.
All the fundamentals of Live 8 are included: Live's intuitive workflow, Session View, Arrangement View, effects and two software instruments: Simpler (a sampler) and Impulse (for drums). Live Lite also includes 200 MB of audio loops from Loopmasters and 50 Instrument Racks (tweakable instrument plus effect configurations) so you can start making music straight away.
Will it run ok on my system ?
Yes there should not be any problems but to be on the safe side here are the recommended minimum specifications.
Mac: 1.8 GHz G4/G5 or faster (Intel® Mac recommended), 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended, if supported by your computer), Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.5 or later recommended), DVD-ROM drive
Windows: 2 GHz Pentium® 4 or Celeron® compatible CPU or faster (multicore CPU recommended), 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended on Windows Vista and Windows 7), Windows XP (home or Pro), Windows Vista or Windows 7, sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime recommended
How come this is free, whats the catch ?
There is no catch. Its a limited offer between soundcloud and Ableton.
Ableton recently added a new feature that allows you to upload your tracks direct to Soundcloud and to celebrate both companies decided to run this promotion. Soundcloud are offering 5 months of Pro membership to Ableton users and Ableton are offering a FREE version of Live Lite 8 to soundcloud users. Saying that though I had no problems downloading and installing Ableton Live Lite 8 without being logged into soundcloud.
How to get your free copy of Ableton Live Lite 8
For me, this one has way too steep of a learning curve. I like my DAW's to be pretty much plug and play - by that I mean start the computer, start the DAW, plug in my USB interface (Digitech, Zoom, M-Audio, etc.), and hit record. Ableton might work that way for some, but it didn't work that way for me. I literally was never able to record a thing, even after following the directions (and I hate to follow directions).
I'm not trying to denigrate the program, I just think it is way too complicated for my needs. I did make a nice wind chime out of all of those Ableton CD's though and they look cool spinning in the desert winds :)
no talk of torrent anything here at looperman or you can find yourself booted off. No copy written material can be used here without permission either. Shan runs a tight ship.
long time ableton user. some words of encouragement for everyone tryin to come to grips with the beast that is live: take it in stride. at first, its about as complicated as trying to get your money back from mf global, but once you get the hang of it its a breeze. take plenty of time to get to know where everything is and, literally, read the manual. it comes in like 7 languages so no excuses.
SS3LDOG }:)-
If, like me, you mostly use vst's for your sounds, rather than the "on-board" one's, then you should be set to go..
I'll report back once I've had a chance to look around the new DAW :)