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Ableton Live 8 Review

A Unique Studio Tool For Making Music

ableton live 8Making music is easy for some and hard for others. This is the actual scenario in the music industry. There are many factors that affect making music and one factor may be your studio tool. Your studio tool may make your music making easy or hard. Ableton Live 8 music software puts this situation in proper perspective. The software is all about music: song-writing, composing, recording, producing, remixing and recording live performance. Since it is all about music, it also includes tools for making music easy, fast, convenient and excellent.

Viewing Your Music Session Is So Convenient

When making music, viewing your music session is very essential. Viewing must be so convenient that you can record and playback easily. Ableton Live 8 includes a grid where you can record and play your musical ideas and your music phrases. The music session viewer has the distinct advantage of being non-linear and this gives you the advance of recording and playing back in the order that you want. Working on a new track is comes with flexibility and with enough room for innovation. When performing with live music, recording comes easy with the non-linear recording and playback.

Viewing Your Music Environment Is Comprehensive

An important balance in making music is the music environment. The music environment in Ableton Live 8 comes similar to the traditional recording, arranging and mixing. This is a linear system and comes as an excellent partner to the non-linear system. Since the environment comes in the traditional format it has strengths, as well as peculiarities. But even with certain peculiarities, the guiding principle of the music environment remains the same all throughout. The principle of creativity and the principle of imaginative music creation remain in force.

Key Features Hold the Key

Ableton Live 8 is loaded with key features that hold the key to excellent music making. A partial list of key features include: recording by multi-track at 32 bit/192kHz, editing that comes with non-destructive and unlimited undo, creative MIDI sequencing and complete selection of built-in audio and MIDI effects. Other features are file support in the following formats: MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis Files. More features that come with the software are; built-in instruments with sampler for sample based music, impulse for drum instrument samples, groove application and groove extraction in real time, VST and AU support, auto delay compensator for plug-ins, support for FEX file, built-in slicing from audio to MIDI, plus many more.

Compatible Means Able

The software Ableton Live 8 is compatible and so it is able to work well with different hardware and software. It is compatible with controller hardware and works perfectly with custom MIDI controls. It also supports computer hardware whether a multicore or multiprocessor system. The software is compatible with almost all music file formats; MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and also AU and VST instruments and effects. Ableton Live 8 is capable of handling REX files and can run as ReWire Slave or ReWire Master.

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