Ableton Suite 8 - Professional Edition

Ableton Suite 8 - Professional Edition. (Music Creation, Production & Performance). ABLETN. CD-ROM. Hal Leonard #83615. Published by Hal Leonard.

Ableton Suite 8 is a complete software studio. Suite 8 gives you all the features in Live 8 plus a beautiful new sound library, 11 Ableton instruments and a wealth of useful resources. Live 8, the latest version, adds and updates such features as a powerful groove engine, audio warping, live looping, built-in effects, crossfades for editing in the Arrangement View and improved MIDI editing. The music never has to stop in Live. Record audio and MIDI on the fly, drop in loops and samples, add effects and swap sounds without ever hitting the stop button: everything happens in real time. Once you have begun your project, use a wealth of tools to manipulate your audio and midi. The Groove engine allows you to apply groove patterns in real time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources or quantize audio and MIDI in real time. An extensive library of grooves is included with Live. Warp audio events by adjusting the position of beats on the timeline. Plus you can slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients. Live offers total compatibility. It works seamlessly with controller hardware and makes it simple to assign custom MIDI controls. Live supports AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files, as well as VST and AU effects and instruments. Live 8 also offers full ReWire support and can run as either a ReWire master or slave.

System requirements:

The installation size of the boxed version of Ableton Suite 8 is 48 GB space.

Mac: 1.8 GHz G4/G5 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended, if supported by your computer), Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.5 or later recommended), DVD-ROM drive

Windows: 2 GHz Pentium 4 or Celeron compatible CPU or faster (multicore CPU recommended), 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended on Windows Vista and Windows 7), Windows XP (home or Pro), Windows Vista or Windows 7, sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime recommended.