New additions

Hybrid Reverb

Convolution and algorithmic reverb

Spectral Resonator

Frequency shifting, stretching and blurring

Spectral Time

Frequency-based delay and Freezer

Step by step

1. Take Recording and Comping

1 A significant addition to Live 11 is Take Recording where you can make multiple passes of the same recording – great for either getting a perfect recording from one of the passes or comping the best bits of multiple takes together. Here we have an audio track ready to record.

2 Set your loop points and simply record your take around the loop points and Live will now automatically record each loop onto new Take Lanes. You can insert more from the Create menu or use the key command Opt>Shift>T.

3 Watch as you record your different takes over several audio Take Lanes beneath your main audio track.

4 Each different Take Lane now contains a different audio clip which increases in number as you record and add another take. The main audio track plays back the most recently recorded take, in this case Audio 3.

5 Once you have finished recording your different takes – or, as in our case, simply given up playing midway through your final one – you can audition each lane by clicking the speaker icon within each Take Lane.

6 You could simply select one as your main take, of course, but better still is to use bits of each one, comping, to create the perfect main take. Here you simply draw across the perfect parts on each take lane. In this case we’ve drawn across the last section of Take Lane 3. Note how it appears