Ableton has announced Ableton Live Intro – their new entry-level version of Ableton Live.
Description:
The new Live Intro has all the essential basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes including a huge library of sounds from Hip Hop, Rock, Soul, Techno – Including 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the Ableton Live Suite library.
Also included a Getting Started Manual, Integrated Step By Step Tutorials and Practical Song Templates.
Key-Features:
- Studio Quality Recording up to 32 bit / 192 kHz
- Full REWIRE Support / Slave or Master
- 64 AUDIO Tracks / Unlimited MIDI Tracks
- Instant Mapping of MIDI Hardware, Controllers etc.
- MIDI Sync to other software / Incl. Impulse and Simpler
- Supports all VST and AU Instruments, Effects and Plug ins
- MAC OSX and WINDOWS XP / VISTA compatible
Live Intro will be available shortly at a street price of €99 or $99. There is a free upgrade to Live Intro for Live 6 LE and Live 7 LE users.
via Macmusic
What´s the catch? Well the biggest catch I can see is that it limits external VST (effect or synth) to 4(!!!!!!) per project….
ouch only 4? well, still pretty cool I guess if you really can't afford the full thing… you could still fart around and learn about things until the day you hopefully get the rest of Ableton's offerings
Why is the price €99 OR $99? Do they have any idea of the current exchange rates? The euro price should be a lot lower, or the dollar price about 45-50 bucks higher. Especially as this is from a European company.
Maybe you could arrange a group buy and fly over the US boxes….
I agree entirely on the price. I had to part with about £92 instead of whatever, say, the USD rate would have given me. As a newbie to MIDI and Ableton, I'd be interested to know what people think of the product itself, given that and accepting that is's a somewhat watered-down version of Live 8. Is it good, notwithstanding? And are there workarounds to enhance it, such as downloading third-party instruments, that kind of thing?
I agree entirely on the price. I had to part with about £92 instead of whatever, say, the USD rate would have given me. As a newbie to MIDI and Ableton, I'd be interested to know what people think of the product itself, given that and accepting that is's a somewhat watered-down version of Live 8. Is it good, notwithstanding? And are there workarounds to enhance it, such as downloading third-party instruments, that kind of thing?
I agree entirely on the price. I had to part with about £92 instead of whatever, say, the USD rate would have given me. As a newbie to MIDI and Ableton, I'd be interested to know what people think of the product itself, given that and accepting that is's a somewhat watered-down version of Live 8. Is it good, notwithstanding? And are there workarounds to enhance it, such as downloading third-party instruments, that kind of thing?