Ableton Live 8 Upgrade from Lite and Launchpad

Ableton Live 8 Upgrade from Live Lite

 has given you a sampling of what Ableton Live can do, and with this upgrade offer, you can step up to the real deal at a price that's a steal. Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of improved techniques, effects, and workflow improvements including:

Unlimited Tracks, Scenes and I/O
With the full version of Ableton Live you will be able to take your projects to the next level with unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, unlimited Session View scenes and as many audio inputs and outputs as your hardware can handle.

Drum Racks
The new Drum Rack streamlines beat production via a familiar drum pad interface allows dragging and dropping of samples, instruments and effects. Each pad has its own device chain and can be shown as a mixer channel in the Session View for easy mixing.

Rack Editing
Racks allow you to create and preserve complex instrument layers, splits or your favorite arrangement of effects settings. Create complex Racks of instruments and effects, and play them via a simplified control interface. Save your effects chains and instrument setups in your library for instant recall.

Unlimited Effects and Instruments
The full version of Ableton Live allows you to use as many of Live's built-in instruments and effects as well as 3rd party VST and Audio Unit instruments and effects per project as your computer can handle.

Full Rewire Support
ReWire Reason to Live, expand your Reason projects with your own audio recordings, and then add Live's effects and instruments, as well as third-party VSTs and AUs, to the mix. Sync Live's spontaneous workflow to ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer, Sonar or any other application that supports the ReWire protocol.

More File Support
Ableton Live 8 offers real-time time-stretching and warping of compressed audio formats such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files. REX files can also be dragged, dropped and played just like WAV or AIFF files.

Complex Warp Mode
Complex Mode is a warping method specifically designed to accommodate composite signals that combine the characteristics covered by other Warp Modes; it works well for warping entire songs, which usually contain beats, tones and textures.

Movie Support
Live is perfect for matching music to picture or vice versa. Elastic audio makes it easy to warp music to match the hit points or key frames of imported video but you can also warp the video to match the music and export the results. In Live, video is just as elastic as audio.

Track Freeze
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.

Novation Launchpad

 is made for Ableton Live - but it's ready to change any MIDI-triggering world! This controller puts 72 trigger buttons under your reign, making it an amazing companion to Live's Session View. The Launchpad's buttons are even backlit, so you always know which clips are playing, loaded, or record enabled. You've also got dedicated buttons for launching scenes. If you don't use Live, go ahead and use Launchpad to map map out the controls however you want - it includes Novation's renowned AutoMap software. Feeling wild Use up to six Novation Launchpads at once!

Ableton Live 8 Upgrade from Live Lite Features

Unique Session View breaks out of "linear" music composition allows for a new, fluid approach to songwriting

Designed from the ground up for the creative studio or performing musician

Features Elastic Audio, for tweaking the timing of your music as it plays

Lets you mix, match, and add effects without ever stopping the music

Nearly every control is MIDI-mappable, for a flexible workflow ?? onstage or in the studio

Intelligent Looper makes it easy to build and record one-man-band songs

Tons of tools to develop beats and apply grooves

Includes a comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors, and EQs

Powerful creative and performing environment for DJs and mash-up artists

VST and AU effects and instrument support; automatic plug-in delay compensation

REX file support and native sliced audio file creation

Video import and export for scoring to picture or warping picture to music

Includes built-in step-by-step tutorials

Novation Launchpad Features

The perfect partner to Ableton Live's Session View
Take control of Ableton Live's Session View with this made-for-Live controller. Designed in partnership with Ableton, Launchpad makes it easy for you to trigger clips and scenes. It's got a 64-button grid with a handy multi-color backlit feature - that way, you always know which clips are playing, which are loaded, and which are record enabled. And you've got eight more buttons along the side for your scenes. Launching clips and scenes is easy!

Use up to six Launchpads together for 432 buttons
If you've got visions of massive Ableton Live sessions, then get ready for total Launchpad madness. You can use up to six Novation Launchpad controllers together, giving you as many as 432 buttons - crazy!

Works for more than just triggering - use buttons for unique level control
While the Novation Launchpad is a majorly cool tool for using Live's Session View, you can also use it to control your mix. Take innovative control over your volume, pans, sends, record arming, soloing, and muting - use Launchpad's buttons to instantly jump to different levels across eight channels at once.

New to Live? Use the included Ableton Live 8 Launchpad Edition software
If you don't already own Ableton Live software, don't fret. Included, you get Ableton Live 8 Launchpad Edition, which is fully functional for performance and production. If you do have Ableton Live, your copy of Live 7 or Live 8 is already ready to go with the Novation Launchpad.

Automap-enabled for easy MIDI mapping and a handy visual display
Another big Novation Launchpad bonus is that it's enabled to work with Novation's Automap software, so you can take instant, intelligent control over VST, AU, RTAS, and TDM plug-ins - as well as an increasing number of standalone samplers and step-sequencers. Automap provides a heads-up transparent display across your computer screen, so you've got at-a-glance recognition of what you're controlling. And you can assign and re-assign parameters with just a quick click and a tap.

Ableton Live 8 Upgrade from Live Lite Specification

Mac: Any G4 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended), Mac OS X 10.3.9 (10.4 or later recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive

Windows: 1.5 GHz CPU or faster, 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended), Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive

Novation Launchpad Specification

Made to give you a premium level of Ableton Live control

64-button clip-launching grid and 8 scene-launching buttons for Live's Session View

Backlit multicolored buttons display the status of each clip

Can also be MIDI-mapped to control other parameters in Live

Includes a copy of Ableton Live 8 Launchpad Edition software

Automap-enabled for RTAS, AU, VST, TDM plug-in control

Connects to your computer via USB

Works with both Mac and PC computers

Dimensions: W = 9.45" H = 0.79" D = 9.45"

Weight: 1.58 lbs.

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