Ableton Live 12 v12.0.22 Beta WiN

Live is fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance. It comes with effects, instruments, sounds and all kinds of creative features - everything you need to make any kind of music. Create in a traditional linear arrangement, or improvise without the constraints of a timeline in Live's Session View. Move freely between musical elements and play with ideas, without stopping the music and without breaking your flow.

All new features and updates in Live 12
Play freely with ideas
MIDI Transformations
Create a variety of simple or complex variations to your MIDI clips: add ornaments and articulations, draw acceleration and deceleration curves, connect successive notes and chords, or simulate the strum of a guitar.

MIDI Generators
Conjure up melodies, chords and rhythms with new MIDI Generators. Give your chosen Generator custom constraints, watch it create playful and original patterns, and then turn the ideas it produces into your own.

Max for Live MIDI Tools
Max now facilitates even greater experimentation, letting you create new MIDI Transformations and Generators – either based on existing ones, or your own creations.

MIDI Editing Improvements
Arrange the order of a selection of notes by pitch, velocity or duration. Stretch, split, chop or join notes in new ways; shape the velocity of notes; transpose them into a scale; or add intervals chromatically or in key.

Keys and Scales
Set the selected clip's scale in Live's Control Bar to see its notes in any clip you create. Then edit the clip using scale highlighting as a guide, use the clip scale to transform and generate musical ideas, or sync the scale of MIDI devices and instruments to the clip being played. Any changes in Live will be reflected in Push, and vice versa.

Expanded probability
Assign a single probability rule to a group of notes so that the entire group of notes is played whenever the trigger is fired. Or select a chord and tell Live to randomly play one note from it whenever the probability trigger is fired.

Embrace and explore tunings
Follow your preferred tuning systems or try different ones more easily. Work outside the 12-tone equal temperament system, and access tunings with Live's devices as well as any MPE-capable plugin.

Surprise yourself with the sounds you create
Meld
A bi-timbral, MPE-capable instrument designed for deep sound shaping that lets you create a wide array of textural and experimental tones with its two easy-to-use macro oscillators.

Granulator III
The latest iteration of Robert Henke's granular instrument now has MPE capability, giving you expressive control over parameters like note bend, vibrato and glissando. Plus, you can now capture audio in real time and start manipulating it immediately.

Roar
Create everything from subtle and precise mastering-grade warmth to wild and unpredictable sound degradation with Live's new coloring and saturation effect. Roar's three saturation stages can be used in series, parallel, or even in mid/side and multiband configurations – and it comes equipped with a feedback generator and an extensive modulation matrix.

New Modulation Behavior
Modulation destinations are no longer taken over by the modulation source. This means you can still adjust the parameter being modulated, even after assigning an LFO or other modulation source to it, opening up faster workflows, more possibilities for performance and continuous real-time control of parameters.

New Packs
Lost and Found – A collection of sounds fashioned from unusual materials, percussive trinkets, unique foley recordings and expressive objects to infuse your productions with character and authenticity. Dig deep and create layers of decorative, expressive instruments, playful Drum Racks and rich sound effects.

Performance Pack – A set of innovative devices from Iftah that push the boundaries of performing with Live. Capture snapshots of your sets and deploy them later, control multiple parameters with layered macros and curves, extend performances with looping in Arrangement View and pre-arrange the structure of a performance before you have even recorded it.

Work more intuitively
Stacked Detail Views
View your devices and the Clip Editor, or automation and device parameters, at the same time – so you can work without the distraction of switching between views.

View styling
Live 12's cleaner, more minimal look removes visual complexity and keeps the focus on your music.

Mixer in Arrangement
Live's Mixer, previously available only in Session View, can now be used in Arrangement View. Toggle it on or off with Mixer View Control located in the bottom right corner or via the View menu, and configure it independently of the Arrangement Mixer.

Mixer improvements
Live's Mixer also comes with visual improvements that make it more accurate for detailed mixing decisions, and easier to read and control.

Browser Tagging and Filtered Searches
Search for your sounds in the Browser without the constraints of Live's built-in categorization. That means when you search for bass sounds, you'll see all the bass sounds in your Ableton library, whether they're samples or instrument presets.

Live 12's sound content is also tagged using a new system that acts as a more flexible alternative or addition to Collections in the sidebar. Sounds now come with sensible labels to make them easier to find – but if you need more detail, or just want to use your own method of labeling, you can also add your own.

Aside from Live 12's built-in tags, you can create your own custom categories in the sidebar for easy access to all your favorite sounds and devices in the way that makes the most sense to your workflow.

Sound Similarity Search
Start with a sample and tell Live's browser to find comparable sounds and instrument presets, with the help of a neural network.

Or swap all the samples in your Drum Rack for similar ones to quickly try out new percussive textures – like a drum machine with seemingly-infinite kits.

Browser History
Retrace your steps, and see and hear the sounds or categories you've previously searched for: Live's Browser now lets you backtrack through your search history as you would with a web browser.

Accessibility and navigation improvements
Control core workflows in Live 12 using assistive technologies like screen readers, and use new keyboard shortcuts to navigate to nearly every part of Live.

New Themes
Choose new themes and adjust them with cool, neutral or warm tones and even a high contrast mode.



Changelog for beta 22:

Live - New features and improvements:
Starting a new Similarity Search will now populate results in the All label in the browser.
Comping is now available in all Live editions, including Live Lite. Previously, take lanes were not available in Lite.
The Custom Controller Layout dialog has an updated UI.
When browsing tuning systems in the Tunings label of the browser, a description containing the following details is now shown in Info View:
- Number of notes per octave
- The .ascl short description
- The .ascl defined source
On Windows, video playback no longer requires third-party decoders for common video codecs. Live now supports the same video files as Windows Media Player.
Live - Bugfixes:
Fixed a rare crash that occurred when quickly expanding and collapsing folders in the browser.
Users will have a better experience when hot-swapping legacy Max for Live patches or presets.
Added the following improvements to how the undo action works with tuning systems:
- When using tuning systems and a custom controller layout, if the layout is invalidated through changing the tuning system and switches to All Keys, undoing the action will now restore the previous custom layout.
- It is now possible to undo changes to lowest/highest notes in tuning systems.
It is now possible to hover over any part of a tuning system’s name to display its description in the Info View.
In the Stacks MIDI Tool, browsing chord patterns using the up/down buttons in a Chord Selector Pad when a chord is selected, will now visually indicate focus placed on the pad as expected.
The View menu's and context menu's "Show Similar Files" entry is now only enabled for the files which currently support similarity search.
Samples that can't be loaded will now be skipped when using the Similar Sample Swapping feature.
Added a new icon for the tuning system link button.
In Max for Live MIDI Tools, Live UI objects for which the Initial Enable option was set now send their initial values on load as expected.
It is now possible to perform a search in the browser where the search query contains special characters # and @. As a result, it is now necessary to add a space in front of the # character when searching via tags.
- In MIDI Tools all percentage parameters now move by +/-1%, regardless of whether the [Shift] key is used.
- In Pitch and Time Utilities, fine-tuning velocity and other parameters that do not use decimal point values is now either disabled or changes the original value by 10.
The Status Bar will now show the correct sample information after using Similar Sample Swapping.
The sound analysis of an Ableton Pack will now be triggered directly during the Pack’s installation.
The Connect MIDI Tool now works as expected instead of adding seemingly unrelated notes.
In the Stacks generator, fixed an issue with clicking and dragging in the Chord Selector Pads when the Pen Tablet Mode setting was enabled.
When using the Rhythm generator with the Shift parameter set to 0, changing the Steps parameter will no longer cause the first note to move.
When key tracks are folded or when a new Instrument or Drum Rack is loaded, the pitch range in the Seed and Shape generators will no longer collapse to a single value.
Fixed two issues with the [CMD][E] keyboard shortcut on macOS:
- It is no longer possible to chop a note using the [CMD][E] shortcut at the same time as dragging to move or resize the note.
- Pressing and holding the [CMD][E] key combination when a MIDI note is selected will no longer create multiple undo steps.
Renaming or deleting tags will now occur in collapsed or hidden filters as well.
Sound analysis is no longer performed on unknown files (i.e., files that are not referenced in the metadata files) located in factory packs.
Fixed an issue where the Sound Similarity Search might produce bad results for a file which was recently changed or modified.
When the option “Show Release Velocity (Note-Off)” (formerly “Show Note-Off Velocity”) is selected from the context menu in the Velocity Editor:
- The lane text label reads "Release Velocity."
- The lane header icon is updated.
- The "Off" text is not displayed in the middle of the lane.
- The Randomize and Ramp controls apply to release velocity.
- The Velocity Deviation control is not available (and not mentioned in the Info View).
When generating notes through the Stacks MIDI Tool, if some of the notes are within a valid MIDI output range while others are not, the generator will no longer get stuck and valid notes will now be generated while invalid notes will be omitted.
The filters listed in the context menu accessible through the Filters view header are now sorted in the same order as they appear in the Filters view.
Fixed a bug where the Delete Automation entry was not available in the context menus of Max for Live parameters.
Notes will no longer be generated when MIDI Tools are applied while in the Envelopes View Mode.
When selecting notes before or after the insert marker with the [ALT] and up/down arrow keys combination, the time selection will now be updated to match the new note selection.
- In MIDI Tools, using the [Shift] and up/down arrow keys combination on some parameters no longer changes the value of these parameters by 10.
- In audio clips, fine-tuning pitch now always changes the pitch value by 1 midicent.
When setting up Live 12 for the first time, the Devices tag group in the Sounds label will be no longer visible.
In the browser, MIDI Tools are now correctly described in the Type column.
Lane selector is now visible with MPE lanes in Live Lite edition. It can be focused and activated with the keyboard.
Users starting Live 12 for the first time will see the expected state for filter groups in the Sounds label.
Fixed bug where the Status Bar would appear empty in some circumstances.

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