Suite 8 is a package which gives you a rich world of sound, perfectly complementing the tools and features in Live 8. Provides all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a powerful sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments: 10 instruments in all. New features include: World-class library, Collision, & Latin Percussion.

Ableton Suite combines Ableton Live with an inspired collection of Ableton instruments in a consistent workflow. The boxed version of Ableton Suite includes the host program Ableton Live 9 , the software instruments Sampler, Operator, Electric, Analog, and Tension, and the sampled instrument packages Session Drums, Drum Machines, and Essential Instrument Collection 2.

Version 8 enhances the vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements. New features include: New groove engine, new warping engine, a looper, vocoder (singing robot effect), Multiband dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and a Frequency shifter.

Ableton Live 8 renews the core of Live with enhancements to the audio engine including 64-bit mix summing, new and improved devices with side-chaining capability, better MIDI timing and hardware integration. We have also included the most-requested features, such as time signature changes, video export, multiple automation lanes and much more. Version 8 marks the arrival of the new ''Drum Rack'' which streamlines beat production via an easy drag-and-drop interface and offers native sliced audio and REX file support, bringing endless creative possibilities to beat lovers.

Ableton Live 8 includes the Essential Instrument Collection 2, a multi-gigabyte library of meticulously sampled instruments providing a choice selection of acoustic and electric pianos, guitars, bass, drums, orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds and more.

Start making music: Get started quickly with intuitive composition tools, beats, samples, instruments and interactive lessons.

Enhance your studio setup: Inject your sequencer with Ableton Live power via ReWire. Plus full AU and VST support, and up to 32-bit/192-kHz quality. # Play live on stage: Perform, improvise and remix live: Intro plays like an instrument and it's completely stable

DJs, get creative: Enter the world of digital DJing or power-up your current DJ set with live remixing, effects and recording.

For the established DJ and producer, Intro adds that studio-quality sound and Live's composition and performance easily into your current setup providing another way to write and perform for less than the price of a plug-in.

Ableton Intro Features:

• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Advanced warping and real-time time-stretching
• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• Supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files
• Full ReWire support; runs as Slave or Master
• Top-grade content package with loops and beats from premium sound designers
• 500 built-in Instrument and Drum Racks
• Includes Simpler (sampler) and Impulse (virtual drum machine)
• 200 built-in audio and MIDI effects
• New groove engine; apply and extract grooves in real time
• VST and AU support; automatic plug-in delay compensation
• Simple MIDI mapping plus instant mapping for selected hardware
• Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
• Multicore and multiprocessor support