• Multitrack audio recording and MIDI sequencing HW and SW instruments
• Unique "session view" for non-linear composition, production and improvisation
• Real-time audio warping, automatic synchronization regardless of tempo
• MIDI mappable drivers for a variety of live/studio instruments + auto mapping of popular hardware controllers
• Comping: select and combine the best parts of several of your audio and MIDI recordings
• Linked-track editing: edit two or more tracks at once
• Group tracks: several levels of grouping for greater flexibility and simplification of the arrangement
• Audio> MIDI conversion tool: convert harmonies, melodies or drums from audio format to MIDI notation
• Tempo follow: Live changes its tempo based on the incoming external signal in real time
• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability with the speed which MIDI or drums will play
• Combine several devices and audio effects with Instrument Rack
• Combine multiple MIDI effects with the MIDI Effect rack
• Extensive selection of audio effects for creative sound design, mix and mastering
• Improved Sampling and Slice tools
• Support for VST2/VST3 and Audio Unit plugins
• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-compatible devices to control several parameters of each note in real time
• Groove engine to "swing" to audio/MIDI files, or extract rhythms from other audio files
• Video import/export to edit musi/video audio
• Max for Live - with more instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and more customizable Live (Suite only!)
• 17 virtual instruments: Wavetable, Operator, Analog, Sampler, Simpler, Electric, Tension, Collision, Bass, Poli, Drum Rack, Drum Synths, Impulse, CV Instrument and CV Triggers, Instrument Racks, External Instrument device
• 59 audio and 15 MIDI effects: new Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Time and Spectral Resonator
• 5000+ sounds, 70 + GB loops and samples

Tech-info/compatibility:

• Non-destructive editing with unlimited undo steps
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192kHz
• Automatic delay compensation for external plug-ins
• Integration of Ableton link!
• MIDI control using simple mapping
• MIDI output for HW synths
• MIDI clock/sync
• Multicore/Multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC file support
• Unlimited Audio/MIDI tracks
• 12x send/return track
• 256 audio inputs, 256 audio outputs
• REX format support
• POW-r, Groove Pool, extract and capture functions
• MIDI Capture