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Pete G explains how the Iso-Acoustics stands make a difference to the sound of your studio

Intro, Standard or Suite? For those new to Ableton live: It comes in three editions: Intro, Standard and Suite. Intro is exceptional value and a great introduction to Ableton’s main features. Suite is aimed at the producer who needs a wealth of sounds and virtual instruments. All of the versions have the unique Session View for quick, intuitive composition, flexible performance and improvisation.

Software developers maximise profits by producing popular computer games for consoles and the PC. It is relatively straightforward to optimise games for consoles because the specification is fixed; the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have been around for more than six years and developers understand how to tease the most out of the underlying hardware.

The recent introduction of mainstream graphics processors has brought PC gaming into sharper focus. £100-£150 cutting-edge GPUs provide reasonable 1080p performance in today's latest games, while in-game visual quality is, quite rightly, far superior than that achievable on the years-old PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.

It's a great time to be interested in small-form-factor computing. Once a niche hobby for home-theatre PC enthusiasts, small-form-factor designs are now capturing everyone's imagination thanks in no small part to the Raspberry Pi phenomenon.