The Ableton Live 6 version 6 extends each aspect of Live—from creation to production to performance—while bringing countless improvements to existing features. From multicore and multiprocessor support to movie import, device Racks, and an astounding sample collection, Live 6 offers a powerfully expanded palette for your creativity.The Essential Instrument Collection Version 6 ships with a multi-gigabyte library of meticulously sampled and selected virtual instruments from the SONiVOX (formerly Sonic Implants) premium collections. The Essential Instrument Collection provides a choice selection of acoustic and electric pianos, orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds, plucked strings, and mallets. Using Ableton's Simpler instrument, which is included with Live 6 creation software, the Essential Instrument Collection is ready to play right out of the box.Deep Freeze The new Deep Freeze feature keeps most editing functions available while a track is frozen.Multicore and Multiprocessor Support Today's new Macs, and many new PCs, have processors with multiple "cores," providing, in effect, several processors in one chip. In addition, some machines, including older PowerPC Macs and PCs, have multiple processors. Live 6's audio engine takes advantage of these architectures by distributing the computation load from virtual instruments and effects among the multiple cores/processors, resulting in faster, more responsive performance and easier handling of large projects.Instrument and Effect Racks A Rack recalls a custom grouping of instruments, effects and plug-ins along with a simplified set of controls for tweaking the sound. The controls allow you to expressively play the Rack without having to deal with its technical intricacies. Within a Rack, you can have parallel device chains, VST/AU plug-ins and even other Racks. Preserve that carefully crafted crunchy guitar effects chain, complex instrument layers and splits, or your favorite arrangem
