Ableton is running a rare sale on Live, its flagship digital audio workstation, today through May 20th, 2025.
During this time, you can save up to 25% off Ableton Live, with the following pricing:
Live 12 Intro
Essentials – 16 tracks and 5+ GB of sounds
USD 99
Live 12 Standard
Full features – 38+ GB of sounds and more instruments and effects
Now USD 373 (Original price USD 439)
Live 12 Suite
Complete studio – 71+ GB of sounds, Max for Live and all instruments and effects
Now USD 562 (Original price USD 749)
Ableton Live 12 features new MIDI tools, support for alternate tuning system, new modulation options, workflow improvements, better accessibility and more.
See the Ableton site for full details. If you already own Live but haven’t upgraded, upgrade pricing is available if you log in at the Ableton site.
Save your money and buy it from Thomman for $422. Yes, it’s legit. You get a serial number: https://www.thomannmusic.com/ableton_live_12_suite.htm
I would totally buy suite for $300. Ableton should think about competitive pricing and maybe offer their lowest tier for free. Look at DaVinci Resolve for an example.
Suite is pricey but in terms of plugins, fx, features and also M4L then no other daw offers anything close to that. Especially one that has a session view performance oriented workflow
I fully agree with you, it’s the best and only relevant modern DAW, but for every one person I know with the paid version I’ve met 10 people with cracked versions.
Well the good thing is that when you do buy in to suite then the upgrades to each new version become much more reasonable. I think Live 11 to Live 12 was like €159 or something like that
Bitwig, $399, and they occasionally do 50% off sales.
Lite is free with whatever it’s bundled with. Suite is still a good deal. Ableton is a small company who have put way more effort into making Live great than most companies would.
Bitwig Studio is superior. Got mine 50% off for the 10th anniversary. There’s a reason why the Ableton devs left the company to make Bitwig.
Thomann is cheaper.
If only they decided tu compile for Linux….
They did. It’s on the Ableton Push 3. Copy over the files and you can run a linux build of Ableton.
But unfortunately its nowhere near as stable as bitwig on linux
That’s clear. Bitwig is still the most advanced daw for composers