Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 are officially out now (download / boxed version), with a pretty amazing list of new features, such as a new groove engine, new warping engine, Looper (classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device) and 5 brand new fx’s:Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter.
From Ableton Newsletter:
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, that include crossfades in the Arrangement View, track grouping 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.
Pricing and Availability
Ableton Suite 8
– Boxed version: EUR 699/USD 849 (includes Ableton Live 8, sound library, 10 Ableton instruments including Session Drums and Essential Instrument Collection 2, printed manual)
– Download version: EUR 549/USD 699 (includes Ableton Live 8, sound library, 8 Ableton instruments)
Ableton Live 8
– Boxed version: EUR 449/USD 549 (includes the Essential Instrument Collection 2 and a printed manual)
– Download version: EUR 349/USD 449
Read further details about this new release here.
If you want to test-drive it for 14 days for free: http://www.ableton.com/downloads
