This tutorial is for Live 8 to Live 10. Did you know that you can create your own Template Set that will be opened whenever you start Live? This can be very useful if you tend to use the same

This tutorial is only valid for Live 8. You can find an updated version for Live 9 and up here. In Ableton Live, you can only have one Live Set open at any given time. So what if you want

Edit: Updated. Valid for Live 8 to 11. Session View is great for getting down loop based ideas or when performing live. Arrangement View, on the other hand, is best used for the production of songs along a traditional musical

If you’re looking for the tutorial for Ableton Live 9, 10 or 11, you can find it here. Although there is not just one way to use Live and misusing software can be quite creative, there are best practices of

In Ableton Live you have Session and Arrangement View from which you can export audio. This can be quite confusing at first and if you don’t understand how it’s done you might end up with rendered silence or too short

If you want to record real instruments or vocals, you should get a decent audio interface as a built-in sound card won’t give you good quality and may give you high latencies which means you’ll hear an annoying delay while

Edit: Updated. Valid for Live 8 to 11. The audio set up on Windows computers is a bit trickier than on Macs and has a few stumbling blocks in store. This tutorial takes you step by step through the setup

Edit: Updated. Valid for Live 8 to 11. If you simply want to use the built-in sound card, the process is pretty straight forward and you can skip the first two steps. If you have an audio interface, read on