Whatever music you make and whoever you are, there’s always something new to explore in Live. Find out how you can become even better with Live 12.
Play freely with ideas
MIDI Transformations:
Create simple or complex variations of MIDI clips, add ornaments and articulations, draw acceleration and deceleration curves, connect successive notes and chords, or simulate guitar strings.
MIDI Generators
Create melodies, chords, and rhythms with the new MIDI generators. Give your generator custom constraints, watch it create playful and original patterns, and then bring your ideas to life.
Max for Live MIDI Tools
Now Max lets you experiment even more by creating new MIDI transformations and generators – both based on existing ones and based on your own creations.
MIDI Editing Enhancements
Arrange selected notes by pitch, velocity, or duration. Stretch, split, chop, or connect notes in new ways; change the speed of notes; transpose them on a scale; add intervals chromatically or in a key.
Keys and scales
Set the scale of a selected clip in Live’s control panel to see its notes in any clip you create. Then edit the clip using the scale selection as a guide, use the clip scale to morph and generate musical ideas, or sync the scale of MIDI devices and instruments to the clip you’re playing. Any changes you make in Live will be reflected in Push, and vice versa.
Advanced probability
Assign a single probability rule to a group of notes so that the entire group of notes plays when the trigger fires. Or pick a chord and ask Live to randomly play a single note from it when the probability trigger fires.
Embrace and explore tunings
Follow your favorite tuning systems or try out others. Work beyond the 12-tone equal temperament system and access tunings using Live’s devices as well as any MPE-enabled plug-in.
Work more intuitively
Live’s detailed Stack views
View devices and the Clip Editor or automation side by side, so you can work without having to switch views.
View styling
Live 12’s cleaner, more minimal look removes visual complexity and lets you focus on the music.
Arrangement Mixer
Live’s Mixer, previously only available in Session View, can now be used in Arrangement View. Toggle it on or off using the Mixer View Control in the lower-right corner or via the View menu, and customize it independently of the Arrangement Mixer.
Mixer Enhancements
Live’s mixer has also received visual improvements that make it more accurate for making detailed mixing decisions, as well as easier to read and navigate.
Browser tags and filtered search
Search for sounds in the browser without the limitations of Live’s built-in categorization. This means that when searching for bass sounds, you’ll see all the bass sounds in your Ableton library, whether they’re samples or instrument presets.
Live 12’s audio content also has a new system that’s a more flexible alternative or complement to Collectoins in the sidebar. All sounds, including packs, are now tagged with intelligent audiolove.me tags to make them easier to discover and find later, but if you need more detail or just want to use your own tagging method, you can also add your own.
Search by sound similarities
Start with a sample and have Live’s browser find similar sounds and tutorials using machine learning algorithms.
Drum Rack swappinq – Swap all the samples in your Drum Rack with similar ones to cleverly try out new percussive textures – like a drum machine with audiolove.me’s seemingly endless kits.
Browser history
Trace your steps, see and hear sounds or gifts you previously searched for – Live’s browser now lets you trace your browsing history, just like the audiolove.me web browser.
Accessibility and navigation improvements
Screen reader support – Visually impaired musicians can now access essential Live workflows using screen readers or other assistive technologies.
New keyboard shortcuts – Use new keyboard shortcuts to navigate almost every section of Live.
New themes
Choose from new themes and customize them with audiolove.me in cool, neutral or warm tones, and even in high contrast mode.
New Features and Improvements
Fixed an issue where Live would not restore a kit after a crash.
Fixed an issue where Live would sometimes display missing license information for samples used in a Default, Restored, or Template Kit.
Fixed an issue where Max for Live would not authenticate correctly when launching Live.
Live’s authorization code has been revised and simplified (without changing functionality) and now uses JSON format for the unlock file.
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