Ableton Suite is a complete software studio. 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 11 Ableton instruments and effects including synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments, the new, reworked Operator and amp modeling effects. Two completely new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion, round off the set. Ableton Suite 8 is a complete package: the tools AND the sounds.

Record perfectly cut loops on the fly, mix and match audio of any tempo, and add effects, all without ever stopping the music: Everything happens in real time. Follow your inspiration and use your time more creatively, instead of spending it converting sample rates, calculating tempos, editing loops and routing complicated effect chains. Live keeps the music flowing and gives you back your creative time.

Live's drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to realize your ideas and experiment. Just browse and instantly preview audio files at the project tempo, and then drag them in to mix and match while the music plays. No need to think about tempos, file formats, sample rates or bit depth—Live takes care of it all in real time.

Effects and instruments are also drag and drop, just like your files. Simply browse, drag and drop, and reorder Live's wide array of creative devices, all in real time, and without so much as a hiccup. Live also offers full support for your favorite VST and AU effects and instruments.

Live's unique performance-oriented Session View offers new ways of working with your music. Capture those quick riffs and other ideas on the fly with quantized loop recording, and go directly from recording into looped playback with the press of a button. No editing required, just continue on to the next idea.

Even if things get a little heavy, with numerous tracks full of massive effects chains and virtual instruments, Live's freeze function keeps things flowing. Just deep freeze your track and retain the ability to experiment with editing, automation and more without unfreezing it.

For Beat Creators

Live's unique Drum Rack combines drag-and-drop simplicity in a familiar drum-centric pad interface with unprecedented depth and control. Each of the 128 drum pads can have its own instrument or sample and your choice of effects, and then appear in the Session mixer for easy mixing. Drum Racks even allow you to slice and dice loops and import REX format files.

Drag. Drop. Simple.

Drum Racks are seamlessly integrated with Live's workflow. Drag any sample, virtual instrument or anything that makes sound onto a pad. It'll be automatically mapped to MIDI notes, and your pad controller will always match—ready to play. This makes it easy to swap drum presets and customize kits. For instance, replace a sampled kick drum with a synthesized kick from Operator or your favorite sampled break—simply drag and drop.

Unprecedented Depth

Each of the 128 pads has its own device chain, including instruments and effects. For deeper tweaking of each drum, double-click its pad to reveal its device chain. Drop effects behind the Drum Rack to process the whole kit or onto the pads to process individual drums. In the Session View mixer, unfold the drum track to reveal individual channels for each drum, for easy mixing.

Slice and Dice

Ableton Live's slicing feature fills a Drum Rack with the individual hits from REX files or your audio loops. The original groove is represented as a MIDI clip with individual notes for each slice, making it easy to replace, reshuffle or re-record the events and process them individually.

More Beats

Need drums? Ableton Session Drums is an add-on collection of acoustic drums that give you full mix control of the close mics for each drum as well as the overheads and room mics. Drum Machines is a choice selection of classic drum machines, meticulously sampled to faithfully reproduce the original sounds. Session Drums and Drum Machines include MIDI grooves in various styles and are programmed as Drum Racks so you can customize, tweak and abuse them as much as you like.

For DJs

Thanks to its unique real-time features, Live opens up entirely new worlds of creative expression. Mix any number of tracks and loops, remix on the fly, capture audio loops in real time from decks and other external sources, incorporate your own productions into the mix, and much more. Whether it's the center of your DJing rig or a creative addition to your existing setup, Live brings fresh possibilities to DJing.

Powerful Real-Time Remix Features

Live's Elastic Audio engine allows for real-time remixing and endless experimentation. Mix as many tracks or track elements as you want, Live keeps everything in sync all the time. Create remixes on the fly by reworking song structures and mashing up beats and a cappellas from different tracks. Play the loops and tracks you produce in your sets.

Infinitely Effective

Find your own sound with Live's uniquely creative effects. Live's effects are easy to use, yet allow you to dig deep and experiment. Create your own custom effects and assign the key effects parameters to a simplified, performance-friendly interface for quick tweaking. Or choose from Live's studio-proven palette of EQs, filters, delays and more. Full VST and AU plug-in support opens up even more possibilities.

From DJing to Production

Take your DJ skills to the production realm with Live's powerful production tools and inspiring workflow. Live makes it easy to create your own loops, customized remixes, rearranged songs and unbelievable mash-ups, and incorporate them into your DJ sets. Before you know it you will be producing completely original tracks within Live.

At Home in the Booth

Live integrates easily into existing DJ setups and brings new creative possibilities along. Simply plug your audio interface into your DJ mixer and add Live to the mix. Mixing from decks to Live and back is as simple as mixing with two decks. Live also acts as a powerful effects box, sampler and, of course, recording device for capturing and mastering your mixes.