Ableton Suite 8 Music Production & DJ Performance Software
Ableton Suite is a complete software studio. Suite 8 gives you all of the features in Live 8 plus sound, with a radically new Library packed with beautiful new sounds and a wealth of useful resources. Suite 8 contains 11 Ableton instruments and effects including synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments, the new, reworked Operator and amp modeling effects. Two completely new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion, round off the set. Ableton Suite 8 is a complete package: the tools and the sounds.
Key features
Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching Supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files A comprehensive selection of built-in audio and MIDI effects Built-in instruments: Simpler for sample-based synthesis, Impulse for sampled drums Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks New groove engine; apply and extract grooves in real time VST and AU support; automatic plug-in delay compensation REX file support plus built-in audio to MIDI slicing Video import and export for scoring, video warping Simple MIDI mapping plus instant mapping for selected hardware Full ReWire support; runs as Slave or Master Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation Multicore and multiprocessor support
Also includes A selection of loops (box only) Essential Instrument Collection 2: a wide range of sampled instruments (box only) Printed reference manual in English, French, German or Japanese (box only) Built-in interactive lessons Localized software menus, tutorials and PDF reference manuals in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese
System requirements Mac: 1.25 GHz G4/G5 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended), Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.5 or later recommended), DVD-ROM drive Windows: 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or Celeron compatible CPU or faster (multicore CPU recommended), 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended), Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime recommended The installation size of the Essential Instrument Collection 2 is 15 GB.
