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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.


   Key features
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   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

   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 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

   Support for The Bridge, Ableton's collaboration with Serato