Ableton Upgraded to v8.2.1

This week saw the release of the updated Ableton Live / Suite 8 - and it's free for registered owners of Live, Suite 8, Live Intro, and Live Lite - that should make a lot of electronic musicians happy!

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. It also has 2 new instruments: Collision and Latin Percussion. It's available for Mac & Windows.

Live 8 includes a range of new techniques and improvements with a new groove engine, live looping, revamped warping, new effects, crossfades in the Arrangement View and a reworked MIDI editor. It's also available for both Mac & Windows

Changes in 8.2.1:

• Improvements to Amp presets including better folder organization, additional guitar and bass amp presets and various other changes.
• Improvements to sound quality in Drum Machines.
• Performance optimizations on many Rack presets.
• Many delay devices now use the "Fade" Delay Transition mode, to avoid clicks.
• All Latin Percussion sounds are additionally available as chromatically tuned Simpler presets.

Bug fixes:

• Amp is now available in the trial version of Ableton Suite.
• Removed duplicate Amp presets.
• Fixed Hot-Swap behavior for a number of Session Drums and Drum Machines presets.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the use of soundcards with only one input on OS X.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when using a ReWire slave such as Reason and manipulating devices in the slave that were referred to by clips in Live.

Here is an overview of the main Ableton 8 features:

For more information visit Ableton

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