- Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
- Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation
- Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo
- MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers
- Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance
- Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily
- Note chance and velocity chance
- Updated Instrument Racks: Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device
- Updated MIDI Effect Racks: Combine MIDI effects into a single device
- Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal
- Built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering
- Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets
- Advanced sampling tools
- VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support
- MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances
- Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files
- Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio
- 8 instruments: Drum Rack, Impulse, Instrument Rack, Simpler, Drift, CV Instrument, CV Triggers, External Instrument
- 27 audio and 12 MIDI effects
- 5+GB of loops and samples
- Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
- Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation
- Ableton Link integration
- MIDI remote control instant mapping
- MIDI output to hardware synths
- MIDI Clock/sync
- Multicore/multiprocessor support
- WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
- 16 Audio and MIDI tracks
- 16 Scenes
- 2 send and return tracks
- 8 input and 8 output audio channels
- Capture MIDI