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Ableton Live 8.0 Suite :
Dive into the Ableton Live 8 Suite and you'll soon see how deep it is.
You get the breakthrough Ableton Live 8 digital audio workstation
software — which gives creative musicians and DJs a unique and powerful
way of composing, recording, editing, and performing. But, with the
Ableton Live 8 Suite, you also get a collection of 10 virtual
instruments, so you have a complete in-the-box solution for making
music. Included are synthesizers, electronic and acoustic drums,
mallets, strings sounds, and more. Make the most out of Ableton Live 8,
with the Ableton Live 8 Suite.
Ableton Live 8 Suite Digital Audio Workstation at a Glance:
- Get more and save money, with the Ableton Live 8 Suite
- Brand-new Collision and Latin Percussion virtual instruments
- Enhanced Operator synthesizer does it all
- An audio environment for the creative mind
- Session View lets you grow songs in a new way
- Easily MIDI-map nearly everything control in Ableton Live 8 Suite
- New intelligent Looper for building massive one-man-band songs
- Loaded with tools for beat and groove creation
Get more and save money, with the Ableton Live 8 Suite
When you choose the Ableton Live 8 Suite, you're equipping yourself
with an army of music-making tools — both for serious studio production
and for inspiring stage performances. This huge packages comes with the
powerful Live 8 DAW as well as 10 amazing virtual instruments. You can
get creative with everything from lush synthesized pads to thick leads,
back up your sounds with acoustic and electronic drum beats, then layer
in mallets, strings, and more. Because Ableton Live 8 Suite gives you
everything you need to make music right in the box, you won't have to
go right out and drop cash on other virtual instrument libraries, until
you've thoroughly explored this rich collection. In fact, when you
consider the affordable added value of Ableton Live 8, you'll have
already saved more than $700 — as that's what it would cost you to
separately purchase each of these Ableton Live 8 Suite virtual
instrument collections and add them to Ableton Live 8.
Brand-new Collision and Latin Percussion virtual instruments
Ableton packed Ableton Live 8 Suite with a world-class library of
virtual instruments. Two of their newest masterpiece instruments
include Collision and Latin Percussion. Collision is a unique
instrument, giving you authentic mallet sounds for creative percussion.
It employs physical modeling technology to reproduce real-world
instruments, including xylophones, marimbas, and glockenspiels. But,
the depth in Collision is amazing — you'll have plenty of room to
create dramatic new instruments and sounds. Next in the all-new Ableton
Live 8 Suite lineup is Latin Percussion, a massive collection of
acoustic percussion instruments — bongos, claves, timbales, congas,
shakers, bells, and tambourines. Plus, not only does Ableton Live 8
Suite's Latin Percussion give you these playable Brazilian, Afro-Cuban,
and African virtual instruments — it also comes with a bunch of
authentic clips and grooves.
Enhanced Operator synthesizer does it all
Ableton has ramped up their Operator synthesizer for Ableton Live 8
Suite, and seriously hot-rodded it for superb performance. There are
new filter types, even more modulation routing options, plus additive
wavetable synthesis with drawable partials. In short, you'll love
tweaking Ableton Live 8 Suite's Operator.
An audio environment for the creative mind
Included with the Ableton Live 8 Suite is a copy of the Ableton live
DAW. it certainly offers all of the tools you need to make music in a
traditional "linear" way, though the gurus at Ableton developed it to
allow a uniquely creative approach to song creation. Use Ableton Live 8
to piece together song ideas and song structures by dragging around
sections and loops in "Session View" (discussed further below). Or, use
Live 8's Session View to enhance your live performances by assigning
out massive MIDI controls — so you can record loops, overdub, perform
in a massive synth part, and develop songs, all on the fly. Offering an
inspiring workflow for everyone from DJs to solo musicians to top-level
groove producers, Ableton Live 8 Suite is a complete solution for
brainstorming, creating, composing, building, growing, and performing
your songs.
Session View lets you grow songs in a new way
Use Ableton Live 8 Suite's Session View to develop your songs — either
in the creative environment of your studio or out in front of the
audience. In this mode, you can quickly lay out all of each
instrument's "changes" of a song — from up to down, instead of left to
right. Each part is essentially a loop, and you can trigger different
scenes to play different combinations of each part, trying out new song
structures or parts just by dragging and dropping. Ableton Live 8 Suite
appeals to tons of electronic artists for just this feature — you can
record audio into Live 8, leave it running as a loop, record in audio
to another loop, and creatively mash, solo parts, or play synth parts
over the top of everything. For songwriters, Ableton Live 8 Suite's
Session View also offers a unique way to restructure songs and try out
different verse/chorus/verse/bridge lengths and transitions, without
messing up the audio and MIDI you've recorded and sequenced in your
"linear" session. And, once you've landed on a structure you like, you
can easily record it into your Ableton Live 8 Suite regular timeline,
just by triggering the transitions.
Easily MIDI-map nearly everything control in Ableton Live 8 Suite
Nearly every control in Ableton Live 8 Suite is MIDI-mappable, so you
can pair it with any MIDI controller for a serious amount of
flexibility. Use your MIDI controller's knobs and sliders to adjust
volumes, panning, effects, or to trigger scenes and virtual
instruments. By assigning out your custom settings in Ableton Live 8
Suite, you can work — or perform — in any way you want.
New intelligent Looper for building massive one-man-band songs
Ableton Live 8 Suite now includes an intelligent sound-on-sound Looper
feature, which you can easily control remotely with a regular
footswitch. What makes Live 8's Looper so cool is that it will read the
tempo from the length of the first loop you record, and it
automatically syncs up — that way, it eliminates timing issues and lets
you record without the click. Use Live 8's Looper to loop endlessly —
Multiple Looper sync lets you run as many Loopers as you want, without
synchronization headaches. Plus, you can drag and drop a loop from Live
8's Looper right into a clip slot in Session View to make a clip. When
you want it back in Looper, all you have to do is drag it back over.
Loaded with tools for beat and groove creation
If you're into grooving, Ableton Live 8 Suite is even more exciting
than the previously groundbreaking versions of Live. In addition to a
massive Drum Rack for dragging and dropping samples, slicing them, and
laying them out onto your MIDI controller, Live 8 now offers an
enhanced groove engine. You can influence the timing and
velocity/volume of audio and MIDI to give life and swing to straight
patterns. Use the Live 8 groove engine to extract groove patterns from
any audio or MIDI source — and you can build your own library of
grooves from your favorite tracks, which you can apply to other tracks
later. Ableton Live 8 Suite's groove engine also lets you quantize
audio and MIDI in real time — or randomize it for a more "human" feel.
Packed with effects, including a new vocoder
Ableton Live 8 Suite comes to you with tons of effects for developing
your sound and producing it until it's ready to be published on your
website or on CD. Along with creative choruses, delays, phasers, and
other must-have effects, Live 8 is now packed with five new powerful
effects, developed with a bit of extra "Ableton shine." The included
Vocoder lets you get that famous "singing robot" effect, and offers you
a ton of control for sound design. Beyond that, a new Multiband
Dynamics effect lets you visualize what's going on with your audio, so
you can process it more effectively. Other new effects in Ableton Live
8 Suite include a stompbox-modeling Overdrive effect, the brick-wall
Limiter, and the sci-fi-sounding Frequency Shifter.
Ableton Live 8 Suite Digital Audio Workstation Features:
- Designed from the ground up for the creative studio or performing musician
- Unique Session View breaks out of "linear" music composition allows for a new, fluid approach to songwriting
- Nearly every control is MIDI-mappable, for a flexible workflow — onstage or in the studio
- Build songs with a huge collection of 10 virtual instruments —
everything from synthesizers to a sampler to electric and acoustic
drums to mallets and sampled acoustic instruments
- Comes with Sampler, Operator, Electric, Analog, Tension, Drum Machines, Collision, and Latin Percussion
- 1,600 new, expressive sounds: Ableton has worked with top
sound designers to create a comprehensive set of truly useful, high-end
sounds, each one an instrument in its own right
- Library Info Texts: many resources now have descriptive Info
Texts explaining the characteristics and structure of the sound or
Rack, so you know what the sound is before you load it.
- Versatile configuration options: all instrument racks feature
thoughtfully mapped Macro controls for both subtle and dramatic
adjustments without the confusion of too much detail. For detail, just
open up the rack and get in close
- New Effect Racks for professional-grade mastering, mixing and creative sound processing.
- Construction kits: flexible song kits containing loops and
phrases in a number of styles. A useful resource for getting started or
for firing up your imagination
- Sound Objects Lite: to complement and extend the synthesized
sounds, Ableton and SonArte have worked together to produce a tool kit
of real-world object recordings for advanced sound design
- 440 MB of abstract, experimental loops from renowned music software pioneers Cycling '74
- Over 400 loops and samples from Zero-G in a wide range of
styles, including smooth '70s grooves, gritty hip hop and edgy,
abstract weirdness.
- Thousands of single-device presets: simple components for making new sounds and exploring synthesis
- Intelligent Looper makes it easy to build and record one-man-band songs
- Tons of tools to develop beats and apply grooves
- Includes a comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects,
including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio
compressors, and EQs
- Features Elastic Audio, for tweaking the timing of your music as it plays
- Lets you mix, match, and add effects without ever stopping the music
- Powerful creative and performing environment for DJs and mash-up artists
- VST and AU effects and instrument support; automatic plug-in delay compensation
- REX file support and native sliced audio file creation
- Video import and export for scoring to picture or warping picture to music
- Includes built-in step-by-step tutorials
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