To celebrate the company's 10th anniversary Ableton has released a new introductory package. Ableton Intro makes it easier than ever to start enjoying the intuitive performance and recording features that have made Ableton Live a household name amongst music lovers world-wide.
Ableton Intro lets you record and mix music without any sacrifice to quality. Intro pulls no punches with multi-track recording resolution up to 32 bit/192 kHz. Ableton Intro’s sets provide up to 64 audio tracks, 2 effect sends and 12 Ableton effects at once. While obviously this is a going to restrict the complexity of tracks you can compose in Ableton Intro it’s certainly more than enough options to get imaginative and pull together some great performances and home productions. To use a golden oldie, if you can’t make a good sound with what Ableton Intro offers, it’s not the gear, it’s you.
The cornerstone of Ableton's popularity comes from its unique approach to performance looping, sequencing and time stretching. Ableton Intro gives you access to the entirety of Ableton's DJ mixing features. You can set up standard MIDI controllers to trigger and mix in Ableton Intro. It runs natively with the two brand new Ableton-endorsed controllers, the Akai APC40 and Novation Launchpad, so it is an excellent inexpensive way to give these two great new controllers a test drive.
Reason 4.0 users looking to check out Live's functionality in conjunction with ReWire can do so with Intro. Full ReWire support means you can plug your Reason sets right into the back-end of Ableton. I personally use Ableton 8 with Reason ReWire all the time and find it to be an outstanding setup. Ableton Intro offers a great inexpensive way to check out ReWire's features before moving onto the full version.
Ableton Intro will also support all your favourite VST plug-ins, allowing four simultaneous VST instances per project.
The RRP on Ableton Intro at this stage is $199.99 and will be available instore or online from Spank! Records shortly.
Thanks,
Matt.
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