Ableton Suite is the XL version of Ableton Live. 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 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 Suite 8 is a complete package: the tools AND the sounds.

Session View
Live is the only music production software with the “Session View”: a unique grid for recording and playing musical ideas and phrases. The Session View is non-linear, so you can record and play back your ideas in any order you want. When you’re working on a new track, this is a smart, flexible way to write and record. If you’re performing music live, it gives you complete flexibility and freedom to improvise.

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 pioneersCycling ’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