Ableton Suite is the XL version of Ableton Live. Suite 8 gives you all of the features in Live8 plus SOUND, with a radically new Library packed with beautiful new sounds and a wealth of useful resources. Suite8 contains 10 Ableton instruments including synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments and the new, reworked Operator. Two completely new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion, round off the set. Ableton Suite8 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

• 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
• 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

Additional Versions:

• Ableton Live Intro 8
• Ableton Live 8.0