Ableton Live

Accessibility: Screen readers now correctly follow focus inside the Learn View and the Splice label. The Ctrl F (Win) / Cmd F (Mac) keyboard shortcut now selects the existing search term instead of clearing it. This makes it easier to replace the term by typing or edit it using the left and right arrow keys. When using the Move Control Surface, selecting an audio track no longer selects its clip unless the track contains no devices. Added Control Surface support for the Novation Launchkey MK4 88. Updated software text in various areas of Live. Updated various software text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Live can now display remote notifications in the Status Bar, similar to notifications about automatic updates. Updated the bundled version of Max to 9.1.5: MIDI: improved recovery from bad bytes Parameters: fixed param visibility getting stuck after saving in Live Updated the Splice installer to version 1.2.1. Fixed a bug that affected some control surfaces, such as Move, where moving devices on a track could cause device navigation to stop working temporarily. Fixed a crash in Live that occurred when switching the Parameter Visibility setting in the Max for Live device editor between "Automated" and other options. Fixed a crash that could occur when sample analysis completed while the mouse was held down on the Clip Overview of the analyzed clip. Fixed a bug where navigating video playback with the arrow keys did not work correctly in the Learn View. Fixed a crash on macOS that could sometimes occur in certain scenarios, for example when closing Live. Fixed a crash that could occur when making changes to device parameters that were being modulated or remote controlled by Max. For example, Live could sometimes crash when changing a parameter value in certain devices (such as Operator, Simpler, and Sampler) while another device parameter was mapped to the LFO modulator. Fixed an issue where there were audio dropouts and a blinking disk indicator when the Transient Mode was selected within Beats warp mode while triggering playback on a locator. Fixed a potential crash that could occur during startup. Fixed a crash that occurred when using the Delete Unused Take Lanes command on a multi-track selection containing a Group Track. Fixed a crash on macOS that occurred during shutdown when the shortcut Cmd Q was used while a plug-in window was focused. Fixed a crash that could occur on startup when opening a Live Set that contained an accompanying lesson in the Learn View. When loading a Set or preset, a Max for Live device's non-automatable "unstored" parameters now initialize to their default value instead of resetting to 0 or the parameter's minimum.

The Re-Pitch Warp Mode will now respect the clip's groove settings. It is possible to reinstate the old behavior by adding the -RepitchWarperNoGroove debug option to the Options.txt file. Improved the device parameter mappings for Auto Pan-Tremolo, Erosion, Shifter, Spectral Resonator and Spectral Time for use with newer control surfaces. Added Control Surface support for the Novation Launchkey MK4 88. The dialog that is shown when a feature limitation is reached within Live Lite and Intro now includes an Upgrade Live button. Additionally, the Upgrade Live button appears in the Licenses & Updates tab in Live's Settings for Lite and Intro. Fixed a bug where the metronome would miss the downbeat when the global quantization was switched off. Max for Live can now open or close plug-in editor windows via the LOM. When controlling Live with Move, it is now possible to open or close plug-in editor windows by pressing the wheel on Move. MPE mode is now enabled by default for the Ctrl-E plug-in from Expressive E. When rendering a single track, either by choosing the "All Individual Tracks" option or the "Selected Tracks Only" option where only one track is selected, the track's name will now be appended to the name provided in the Save File As dialog, to match the rendering behavior when more than one track is selected. Updated the Splice installer to version 1.1.0. 12-tone tuning systems are now better supported in MIDI Tools. Fixed an issue where it was possible to add more deeply nested tags via Quick Tags than is possible via the Tag Editor. Fixed an issue where automating the tempo while also automating a device parameter could lead to silence. Accessibility: On Windows, fixed a bug that prevented screen readers from making announcement when the browser's Filter View or Tag Editor were focused. Fixed a crash that occurred when Live was scanning a large number of plug-ins. Fixed a crash that occurred when undoing track reordering in a Set that included a Max for Live device that observes the selected track via JavaScript, e.g., Knobbler4. Fixed a crash that sporadically occurred when loading a new Live Set after using the File Manager. Fixed an issue where it was not possible to capture a time selection of the Main track in the Arrangement View for use with Splice's Search with Sound feature. Fixed an issue that occurred when copying a pad that contained multiple chains in a Drum Rack via dragging, where only the first chain would inherit the note assignment of the destination pad. Fixed a crash that could occur when working with time signature changes in the Arrangement and deleting fragmentary bar time via the context menu. Live will now correctly restore warp markers in long samples when those samples are imported into a Set. Fixed an issue where the visibility of the Edit button in Max for Live MIDI Tools did not correctly reflect the state of the Max for Live Developer Mode toggle in the Options menu. Fixed an issue where some menu commands were only available in English instead of the selected UI language. On macOS, fixed an issue with navigating the Learn View using the Tab key. Fixed a crash that could occur when copying a live.remote~ or live.modulate~ object in the Max for Live device editor. Fixed an issue where applying changes to a Drum Rack chain in the mixer via the context menu would affect the previously selected chain instead of the currently selected one. Fixed a bug where bouncing parts of a tempo leader clip to a new track would not preserve the current song tempo automation. Fixed an issue where the Bounce to New Track option was disabled when a track was sidechained in another track and the sidechain was set to Pre-FX. Fixed two issues related to modifying the tempo automation while the automation is overridden: Fixed a bug where audible glitches would occur in an unwarped clip's playback as the tempo automation changed. Fixed a bug where the tempo in the Control Bar would not correspond to the tempo automat

Added Control Surface support for the Arturia MiniLab 37. Fixed an issue with the sound of the Delay preset Tape Warble.

Added support for direct track selection to the Komplete Kontrol S Mk3 Control Surface. Added Control Surface support for the NKS Connect. Fixed an issue with Link Audio where the recorded audio would not be properly aligned when being sent from tracks with effects which introduce latency while latency compensation was enabled. Fixed a crash that occurred when restoring a Set after a crash. Fixed a bug where the video window's close button would not work on Windows.

Link Audio: With Link Audio, you can stream audio in real-time between Link peers in a shared session. To send or receive audio, make sure that both Link and Link Audio are enabled for all participants. Once enabled, all tracks with audio output can be received by Link peers. The names for active peers are shown in the new Link drop-down menu in the Control Bar. To receive audio, select a peer via the input type chooser on an audio track and then choose the specific source track with the input channel chooser. Make sure the audio track's monitoring state in Live is set to In to hear the incoming audio, as well as armed to record the audio. A dedicated Link page has been added to Live's Settings. It contains all the previously available options related to Link, as well as the following new options for Link Audio: Audio — Enable this toggle to activate Link Audio. Make sure that Link is also enabled via its toggle in the Control Bar once you're ready to start sending or receiving audio. Name — Use this field to specify the name that is shown to connected peers. Latency — Use this slider to set the input latency applied to the audio received from peers. We recommend adjusting this based on your network performance and workflow needs. The current buffered amount for each peer is shown in the Peers list and will be updated as you adjust the latency. Sync to Incoming Audio — Enable this toggle when monitoring incoming audio from Link Audio peers in Live. When enabled, Live's Link session is delayed by the set latency value. Note that all other peers in the session must have Monitoring Mode set to Off. Peers — A list of current Link Audio peers is shown here, along with their current status and buffered amount. For the best streaming quality and reliability, we recommend using a wired LAN connection with Link Audio. Wi-Fi is supported, but the audio quality depends on the stability of the wireless network. Note that the audio buffer size affects the streaming latency. We recommend using lower buffer sizes on peers receiving audio and higher buffer sizes on peers sending audio to achieve lower streaming latency. Erosion: The Erosion device has been updated to feature new sound capabilities, as well as a refreshed interface. In the previous version of the device, there were three separate modes for applying sine- or noise-based modulation to a signal. Now, these modulation sources can be combined via the new Noise Blend control. The Stereo Width control can be used to morph from a mono to stereo modulation source, which allows the stereo width to be scaled precisely. In addition, the algorithmic latency in the device has been reduced to 2 ms, down from the previous ~5 ms. Sets created prior to 12.4 that include Erosion will load the previous version of the device, which is now named Erosion Legacy. Chorus-Ensemble: The Classic mode in the Chorus-Ensemble device has been refined to improve results with a wider range of source material. This mode has also been renamed to Chorus to better reflect its resulting effect. Chorus mode also includes two new parameters: Time and Taps. You can use the Time chooser to select a fixed delay time for the delay lines in the chorus. This makes it possible to set longer delay times, which can be useful for bass and guitar sounds. The Auto setting preserves the original behavior where the delay time is scaled dynamically per tap and with the modulation amount. The Taps parameter lets you switch between a one or two tap delay. The single tap delay results in simpler, thicker chorus textures that sound similar to the effects from classic hardware pedals. Note that the default Auto value for the Time parameter ensures backward compatibility with Chorus-Ensemble presets from Sets created prior to 12.4. Delay: The LFO section in the Delay device includes more modulation time modes and LFO shapes. The LFO rate can now be set in Hertz, milliseconds, or tempo-synced beat divisions. You can also choose from seven

Stem separation can now use the GPU instead of the CPU on computers running macOS 26.4 and above, which makes the separation process faster.

Added Control Surface support for the Novation Launch Control 3. Fixed a bug in the Launch Control XL 3 Control Surface that could cause the Track button LEDs to show incorrect states while Shift was held after return tracks were added or removed. Fixed an issue that occurred when macro mapping Simpler's legacy filter type, where it was not possible to set the filter type to Notch.

When using the Bounce to New Track command, bounced tracks now display a unique track number instead of the source track's number. When first bounced, new tracks will use one number higher than the source track, so if track 3 is bounced, the new track becomes track 4. When starting a new search with the Ctrl F (Win) / Cmd F (Mac) shortcut, any previous search terms and active filters in the All label are now cleared. Updated software text in various areas of Live. Updated various software text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Bouncing a Group Track no longer produces a silent bounce file when a track outside the group is soloed. This behavior is now consistent with bouncing individual tracks. Fixed an issue where bouncing a nested Group Track caused the main Group Track's effects to be applied to the bounced audio twice. Files that are older than one week in the Crash folder of Live's preferences are now automatically deleted when Live is launched. Fixed an issue where it was possible to extend the right edge of a bounced audio clip past the original source clip length. Fixed an issue where MIDI signals routed to a plug-in via the External Instrument device were ignored when exporting the track containing the plug-in using the Selected Tracks Only option. Fixed a bug in the APC64 Control Surface that could result in an error being written to Live's Log.txt file when using a touch strip to adjust a disabled parameter. Fixed an issue that occurred when navigating Max for Live devices with the keyboard while wrapped navigation was turned off. Fixed an issue where the DS HH instrument could miss notes. Fixed an issue where samples could not be dropped from the Session or Arrangement View onto plug-in windows as expected. Fixed an issue where adding a device with a focused control to a multiselection caused the multiselection to be lost. Adding devices to a multiselection now works as expected. As a result of this change, selecting a device's title bar now clears the focus of any controls within the device. Fixed a crash that could occur on Windows when closing Live from the taskbar after confirming whether to save a modified Live Set. Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a Soundtoys plug-in and then performing an undo step to remove the plug-in. The buttons in the Help View header now use a square shape. Fixed an issue where using the Bounce Track In Place command on a track containing only a very short clip created an additional undo step. Live no longer crashes when selecting and deleting multiple tracks when one of the tracks has a remote~ mapped to a track parameter. Fixed an issue where soloing would not work as expected in some scenarios involving an instrument modulated by a Max for Live device. Fixed a crash that occurred in Session View when dragging a clip selection containing a clip that was being recorded. Fixed a crash that occurred when starting Live with the screen zoomed in using the macOS Zoom accessibility feature. Updated the bundled Max version to build 9.0.10. This includes a fix for an issue on Push 3 that occurred when disabling OpenGL in the context of Max for Live. Please see the Max 9.0.10 Release Notes for all updates.

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a Soundtoys plug-in and then performing an undo step to remove the plug-in. Updated software text in various areas of Live.

Live Suite now features built-in stem separation that runs locally. Any recorded audio material — such as a song, loop, or sample — can be separated into four stems: Vocals, Drums, Bass, and Others. The Others stem includes all parts of the audio that are not recognized as vocals, drums, or bass. You can separate audio files from the browser or separate clips from the Session or Arrangement View. To do so, right-click a sample in the browser or a clip in Session or Arrangement View and select Separate Stems to New Audio Tracks. Each stem is rendered onto its own track in a new Group Track. Any audio effects from the source track are also added to the Group Track. The clip used for separation is muted to avoid doubled output.