Ableton Sampled Instruments – Essential Instrument Collection 2

The Essential Instrument Collection 2 is a multi-gigabyte library of meticulously sampled and selected instruments created in cooperation with SONiVOX and Chocolate Audio. The Essential Instrument Collection 2 offers a choice selection of acoustic and electric pianos, guitars, bass, drums, orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds and more.

Completely Inspiring

The Essential Instrument Collection 2 offers a versatile, comprehensive collection of sounds ready to play and inspire—from faithfully sampled acoustic and electric instruments to unique and impressive electronic creations. The sounds come with preconfigured controls that can be easily mapped to your favorite hardware controller for expressive play. You can effortlessly shape sounds without being concerned about technical intricacies, but if you like to dig deeper, you will find myriad possibilities for creating unique, personalized sounds.

Key Features

• All instruments are meticulously multisampled in a variety of velocities and articulations.
• All instruments are perfectly integrated into Ableton Live's workflow. Instruments are loaded via Simpler, which is included with Live 7.
• All instruments take advantage of Live 7's new SmartPriming resource-efficient sample engine, allowing users to work with an impressive number of instruments in their compositions.
• Each instrument includes versions for high-quality production and CPU conservation.

New in the Essential Instrument Collection Version 2

• 1 stereo drum kit from Ableton Session Drums
• 1 drum machine from Ableton Drum Machines
• Presets have been optimized for better sound quality and faster loading
• Benefits from Live 7's numerous performance improvements

What is SmartPriming?
Using large sampled instrument libraries can quickly eat valuable computer resources and slow down the creative process. Ableton Live 7 introduces SmartPriming, a new resource-saving sample playback technology allowing users of large sample libraries, such as Ableton's Essential Instrument Collection 2, to use many instruments in their compositions. Due to Simpler and Sampler's tight integration with Ableton Live, SmartPriming automatically reallocates resources in real time from where they are no longer needed to where they are, without interrupting workflow. Once a sampled instrument is sequenced, Live knows the amount of resources required to play that instrument back and unloads all unused samples to open resources for the next instrument the composer decides to play. Essentially, SmartPriming is an under-the-hood technology that allows Live users to get the most from their computer's resources and take advantage of the realism and expressiveness provided by professional multisampled instruments.

System Requirements:

• The Essential Instrument Collection 2 requires Ableton Live 7 or higher.
• The installation size of the Essential Instrument Collection 2 is 15 GB.