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 MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching Library with over 1600 expressive sounds, each with versatile control options A comprehensive selection of built-in audio and MIDI effects A wide range of software instruments Instrument Racks for simple management of complex instrument setups Drum Racks for intuitive and responsive beat-making Effect Racks for professional-grade mastering, mixing and creative sound processing New groove engine; apply and extract grooves in real time Construction kits containing loops and phrases in a number of styles Sound Objects Lite, from SonArte: a toolkit of real world object recordings 440 MB of abstract, experimental loops from renowned music software pioneers Cycling '74 * Over 400 loops and samples from Zero-G * 1000s of single-device presets: simple components for making new sounds and exploring synthesis Song templates with pre-configured tracks and routing Supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files 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 Multicore and multiprocessor support Support for The Bridge, Ableton's collaboration with Serato *Boxed version only. Also includes 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, Japanese and Italian. System requirements The installation size of the boxed version of Ableton Suite 8 is 48 GB. The downloadable version requires 4.6 GB of hard drive space. 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
