ABLETON LIVE 8 OUT NOW!

Live 8 and Suite 8 enhance the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements. These include a new groove engine, revamped warping techniques, live looping, five new effects (including the Ableton Vocoder), crossfades in the Arrangement View, group tracks and a reworked MIDI editor.

Ableton Suite 8 includes all that plus a massive, inspired sound library and all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums (new: Latin percussion), mallets (new: Collision), numerous sampled instruments and a new, even mightier Operator.

The new groove engine lets you extract grooves from audio or MIDI, and allows for real-time groove quantize. The new groove library includes grooves from the legendary Akai MPC and E-mu SP-1200 machines

With the new warping engine you can warp audio events by adjusting the events on the timeline. It also has an updated Beats Warp Mode, a new Complex Warp Mode, and can slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients.

The Looper offers classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer. New effects include a Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter.

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