Ableton is pleased to announce the beta version of Live 8.4, featuring native 64-bit support. Registered Live 8, Suite 8, Live Intro or Live Lite 8 users can download the beta now.

The 64-bit version of Live allows the use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This means that Live users can now work with Live Sets (including Sets using third-party plug-ins and ReWire configurations) that are much larger and more memory intensive than in the 32-bit version.

The 64-bit version of Live works with PCs running Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit) and with Intel-Macs running OS X 10.5 and up. The 64-bit version of Live 8 does not support Max for Live, video, or The Bridge. Ableton is currently working with its partners to add support for these features.

The release version of Live 8.4 will be available later, as a free update for registered Live 8, Suite 8, Live Intro or Live Lite 8 users.

Native Instruments today launched a major time-limited special offer on their highly successful MASCHINE product line, reducing the price of MASCHINE to only $399/399 EUR and the price of MASCHINE MIKRO to a mere $249/249 EUR until August 31st 2012.

This represents a saving of $200/200 EUR on MASCHINE and $150/100 EUR on MASCHINE MIKRO compared to the suggested retail price.

Everybody needs to refresh their sound palette from time to time with some new tubes of fresh color to inspire their creativity, this is the place to find them in abundance.

Golden Ensemble 3 is an outstanding collection of 44 cutting-edge Reaktor ensembles for Native Instruments Reaktor-5 that will provide you with new beautiful and unique colors for your sound palette.

And to make it easy on you (and easy to explain to wife or girl-friend) it will be EXCLUSIVELY at DontCrack for $99 instead of usual $199, but only from today until the 15th of July.

This library offers timeless song starters, being extensively produced on the highest possible level. Rock Ballads consists of 20 construction kits, recorded by versed studio musicians. A broad bandwidth of sensitive and emotional songs to lay the foundation for your ambitious compositions.

Rock Ballads targets demanding musicians and producers. This library is an excellent source of inspiration for songwriters as well as an ideal solution for dubbing and advertisement. It adds the right twist to music productions and is, at the same time, of great use for singers' applications and demo tracks.

Dubstep Terror - Bass Attack, the sequel to the Dubstep Terror release, contains 50 dark, gritty, nasty and aggressive bass sounds which are tagged as Wobble Basses, Straight Bass Sounds and Sub Basses.

The patches make extensive use of the sound browser and the 8 control macros of Massive. This grants a fluent integration of the library in Massive and ensures that every sound can be found fast and tweaked easily.