Ableton Push 2 Bundle - Performance Controller w/ Live 9 Standard

Albeton Live has, for quite some time, set the standard for the live & electronic production DAW category. It offers a wealth of intuitive features and an easily navigable interface that have made it hugely popular amongst musicians and producers worldwide.

When they introduced the Push, it truly exceeded all expectations in its brilliant integration with the Ableton software. With the Push 2, they took it up a notch, offering a stunning selection of features like tweakable pad layouts, real-time sample editing, 64 highly articulate pads, and much more. Don't be deceived by its sample pad appearance - this truly is an instrument in its own right.

Now we're offering you the chance to get Ableton Live 9 and the Push 2 in the ultimate music production toolkit - perfect for aspiring hip-hop, EDM and pop producers, and artists who want to incorporate a more organic element to their live performances. This killer setup is guaranteed to put a smile on your face!

Ableton Push 2 Performance Controller

At last, Ableton have produced an update to their highly regarded PUSH controller. Push is the ultimate controller for Ableton live, working seamlessly together to create a powerhouse of creativity.

The New Push 2 offers a raft of new features that improve work flow and creativity. It feels like more than just a controller. Despite having no sound of it's own, when combined with Ableton Live, Push 2 is a full instrument that you can play expressively as well as create full tracks with.

A Gorgeous Instrument

Push 2 has been designed to provide a beautiful and engaging creative experience, with a really intuitive interface. The Push 2 has been upgraded with full RGB pads that offer more detailed visual feedback to help you navigate your session. They feel softer, smoother and more responsive, allowing you to make beats and melodies more musical than before.

The Push 2 also now has a clear multicolour display that adapts to show you exactly what you need to select the perfect parameters without distraction.  Whether you're choosing filter types, gain level or you're slicing up a waveform, the great looking display allows you to edit quickly and effectively.

Create Beats

The Push is the perfect controller to create beats with Live. Browse, preview and load sounds onto the 64 velocity sensitive pads so that you can play beats live; or switch to a 16-pad step sequencer that allows you to programme in something simple very quickly, or go absolutely crazy with an intricate groove. You can also tweak your groove with timing, velocity and a whole host of other parameters to create a beat that's individual and unique.

Play Notes and Chords

The push's 64 responsive pads can also be transformed into a variety of musical keyboard layouts that allow you to play melodies, bass lines and a variety of chords. You don't even need to be any good at piano- you can set the pads to work as a chromatic scale if you want the full piano style control, or set the pads to a chosen key and scale with a touch of a button and it'll be impossible to play a bum note.

If you have a jazz track and want to play only within a blues scale, set the scale and the key you're in and you can improvise with ease. You can even play in different modes (ionian, dorian etc) and use Push's touch slider for pitch bend and modulation. Who needs a keyboard anyway!

If you prefer to sequence your melodies and chords as well as your beats, the push can enter notes, make precise timing changes, create variations or adjust note length and velocity within the grid format. You can even step sequence automation; record a filter value for each step and create amazing depth to your tracks.

Edit Your Samples

With the new detailed colour display on the Push 2, you can now more easily work with your samples right on the unit. Push 2 has three separate workflows that offer fast and flexible ways to get creative!

Slicing Mode- Instantly chop up long samples and distribute the different slices onto the pads.

Classic Mode- Turn melodic samples into playable pitched instruments. its fully adjustable to get the perfect sampled sound.

One Shot Mode- samples play the whole way through without being cut short. Perfect for playing drum samples.

Key Features

• Hardware instrument for hands-on playability with Ableton Live 9.5
• Play or step sequence beats, notes, chords and automation
• New sampling workflows: slice, play and manipulate samples from Push
• Large multicolour display adapts to show what you need
• 64 sensitive and playable backlit pads
• 8 touch-sensitive encoders for controlling mixer, devices and instruments, and Live browser navigation
• Clip launch mode for live performance and arrangement recording
• Scales mode offers unique approach to playing notes and chords
• Includes Live Intro for new users

Specifications

Included
• Push hardware
• 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz with interchangeable heads for North/Central America & Japan (Type A), China (Type A & I),  Europe (Type C), UK (Type G), Australia & New Zealand (Type I)
• USB cable 1.40m (55.12 inches)
• Quick Start Guide + Download version of Live 9

Dimensions
• Width: 370mm (14.57 inches)
• Depth: 293mm (11.54 inches)
• Height (body): 26mm (1.02 inches), (body + encoders): 46mm (1.81 inches)
• Weight: 2990g (6.6 pounds)

Connections
1. External Power: 12V DC 1.25A
2. USB Power: 5V/0.5A
3. Two pedal inputs
4. Kensington Lock

Shell
The upper shell is a thick but lightweight plate of anodized aluminum

Pads
• Soft silicon pads, carefully calibrated to respond perfectly at any velocity
• RGB backlighting

Buttons
The control buttons gently click and are lit with white or multi-colored LEDs to indicate a variety of states

Encoders
High-resolution endless encoders that respond to touch

Display
The high-resolution RGB display is bright and clear at any viewing angle and under any lighting

Touchstrip
• 17cm touch strip for pitch bend/scrolling
• 31 LEDs for navigation

Ableton Live 9

Ableton Live has for years no stood out as the DAW that went against the flow: streamlined and optimised for live use Live is an entirely new way of thinking. Whether you're on stage or just composing in the studio Ableton Live 9 lends itself to a creative workflow that encourages you to build and tweak on the fly, experiment and become immersed in the music you're creating!

With the Download code version, you get a simple code from which you can download all the software and instruction manual online. What's more, it doesn't need to go in the post so you can start downloading straight away!

Features

• Unique Session View for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• Powerful MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching
• Unlimited Instruments, Audio effects and MIDI effects per project
• Group tracks
• VST and Audio Unit support
• Time signature changes
• Multiple automation lanes
• Track Freeze
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation
• MIDI remote control instant mapping
• MIDI output to hardware synths
• MIDI Clock/sync
• ReWire
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support

Here's what Ableton say about Live 9

Record automation into clips. Edit automation with curves. Session View automation lets you capture your performance or add movement to your loops. Use curves to make automation more musical. Live's unique Session View makes it easy to improvise with musical ideas. In Live 9, you can now record parameter changes directly into Session View for even more flexibility. Edit automation curves with the mouse to create smooth mix transitions or radical parameter changes in your clips. In one click, create new Session View scenes from your Arrangement tracks, or drag and copy individual clips from Arrangement to Session. The automation comes with them, making it easier than ever to move from improvising to arranging and back.

Find sounds fast. With Live's new browser, spend less time finding sounds and more time making music. Live's new browser puts all of your instruments and effects, samples, Packs and VST/Audio Units plug-ins in one easy-to-navigate view. Drag and drop folders into the browser from anywhere on your computer. Search as you type, navigate from the keyboard and sort items by various categories.

Browse by type: your samples, devices, presets, and VST/Audio Units plug-ins are all available from the same viewExternal storage: store your sounds and Packs on any hard drive you like, even multiple drivesInstant search: Live's browser filters as you typeSort by rank: view items by how frequently you've used them in the pastInstant preview: all Ableton Packs come with instant audio previews

Live's library includes new Instrument Racks and sounds to get you going fast. Live 9 Suite comes with more than 3000 production-ready sounds that give you the full range of vintage synthesizers, drum kits and one-shot samples, acoustic instruments and loops - all powered by Live's built-in synthesizers and effects so they can be tweaked and personalized. All sounds are organized for Live 9's new browser and work seamlessly with all common hardware controllers. See the full list of Packs included with Live 9 Browse the Pack store at ableton.com to find even more amazing sounds - signature drum kits by Daniel Miller, Soniccouture, Flatpack and Puremagnetik, new tempo-synched loop collections and high-end multisampled instruments specifically designed for Ableton Live. Get your sound right. The new analog-modeled Glue Compressor and redesigned studio effects help you get a better sound in less time. Live's new Glue Compressor, developed in collaboration with Cytomic, is modeled on a classic 80s console bus compressor, both for its great sound and also to provide musical results with a simple set of controls. Live's studio effects - Compressor, Gate and EQ Eight - have been improved with new displays, enhanced controls and better sound, making it easier to see and hear your changes.

The Glue Compressor is an analog-modeled compressor based on the bus compressor from a classic console from the 80s. EQ Eight now has a breakout display, an Audition mode for soloing frequencies, an analog-style adaptive Q option, and improved filters. Compressor's new display makes it clear what's happening. And improved sound means better results with less effort. Gate - a new display and enhanced controls make it easier to dial in the right sound.

Reclaim the music in your samples.... Live 9's new tools for converting audio to MIDI give you unprecedented flexibility to extract musical ideas from your samples and build upon them. Convert your favorite drum break with the Drums-to-MIDI feature and reuse it with your own sounds. Speed up your remixing work by using Harmony-to-MIDI to get the notes and chords from the original audio stems. Or simply seed your creativity with inspiring, natural-feeling MIDI grabbed directly from the most exciting parts of your music collection.

...or sing the music in your head. Sketch out ideas quickly by singing (or beatboxing) into Live and converting your recording to MIDI. Your voice is the new keyboard: sing, beatbox, tap a rhythm on your desk, or play any solo instrument to capture your musical ideas as they come. Then use the Melody- or Drums-to-MIDI feature to turn your recordings into MIDI clips that you can edit and reuse with any sound.

• Capture guitar chords and use them with a synth
• Beatbox your drum loop
• Record any instrument to create melodies

Powerful MIDI note manipulation tools and an improved editing workflow help you create new musical ideas fast:

• Transform MIDI notes: New controls in the MIDI editor let you quickly invert, reverse, transpose and speed up or slow down selected MIDI notes in a single click.
• Move notes on and off the grid: Beats are easier to see when editing, and editing grids are now "sticky," allowing notes to be freely moved and resized while still snapping when close to grid lines.
• Stretch MIDI notes: MIDI Note Stretch markers let you speed up, slow down - or even reverse - selected MIDI notes.
• Warp clip automation: Audio clip automation is warped alongside the audio itself. Envelopes in MIDI clips can be stretched using MIDI stretch markers.
• Edit automation more easily: Add or remove breakpoints with a single click. Hover the mouse near envelope segments to select and drag them without using a modifier.
• Add curves to automation: Hold a modifier while dragging to create and edit curves in automation envelopes.