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Ableton Live 12  v12.0.20 Beta-AUDIOWAREZ screenshot
AUDIOWAREZ | 12.2023 | 3.2 GB
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.



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  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
Tags work here on W10.

You can block Ableton 12 exe in you firewall to stop it from updating.
  Member 6.11.2023 52
+56
Ahh ok. When you say that tags work, do you mean that you can tag your own samples? cause that's what I meant.

As for blocking Ableton's connect, that's not the worst idea when it comes to preventing updates but it seems to affect Ableton. It loads WAY slower for some reason and also crashes more often/easily. I'm not sure why, but try unblocking it and launch it, then turn it off and try again with blocked version.
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
Tired it for you, both 11 and 12 beta. Takes around 10 secounds either way and I'm on a pretty old PC (6th generation i5 with the fastes nvme my mobo can handle). I've been using 10 and 11 blocked since forever and never had problems. I even block my legit Reaper, just to be safe with cracked plugins. I unblock when I wanna use ReaPack. It might be unnesecary, but hey, why change whats been working for me.

I get a longer loading time when I open 11 after 12 or the other way around. Some intall helper thingy asks for premission and it takes around 20 secs after that.
  Member 6.11.2023 52
+56
Ohhhh ok thank you. The issue for me might've been the install helper thing then too
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
YW mate, hope it works out.
  Member 6.11.2023 52
+56
Yeah I just tried blocking it with firewall and it works completely fine, I was using something else before and I think that was the reason it was slow
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
Windows firewall is cool. There is a GUI on github called easy-firewall that makes it faster to use. Defender sucks tho, false positives on keygens and sometimes wont detect actual viruses.

I didnt notice your other question. Yes, I can tag my own samples, just tagged my whole Drums That Knock collection. There is an edit button right top corner in the browser.
  Member 30.10.2016 19
+2
can anyone confirm this runs on windows 7?
  Resident 28.06.2013 687
+256
the Comment has been Removed
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
With the default dark theme and high contrast mode the look and feel of this is perfect. Good job Ableton!
  Resident 2.02.2014 1 2542
+1411
Win7 people? Alert
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  Member 24.02.2023 188
+71
Ableton is ALREADY more unstable every release.
So Beta will probably take forever to load ... and crash just after

Thanks for sharing ... may be ?
  Member 17.04.2022 17
+3
Thanks!!
  Resident 26.04.2021 14 107
+459
I don't see any new instruments I only ran the installer anything I missed ?
080
  Member 12.08.2022 114
+46
This does seem to work on my win11 machine, instruments and fx don't appear even after activation tho which is a bit of a bummer so far, I'll keep testing and report back

Update: it does work now, you need to close it and open it back up, then the inst/fx will show up again.
  Member 6.12.2021 9
+3
Wait a moment and they will appear.
It did the same thing to me
  Resident 26.04.2021 14 107
+459
Doesn't happen for me I need to know if I missed anything only basic instruments/fx show up and my 3rd party plugins no new ableton 12 instruments/fx for me :(
080
  Member 16.11.2013 18 224
+419
What are the limitations of this, except for obviously potential bugs, not fully developed, and so on?

Does it recognise Push 2? Does it allow for loading in third party plugins? Any significant restrictions?
  Member 8.05.2022 7
0
Hello,
Is this beta modified somehow or it is the same as the one you download from ableton servers?
  Resident 8.09.2020 96
+12
DAWsome! Thanks
  Member 23.11.2013 42
+5
This is the worst version of live ever, The daw is destroyed, A big delay to open midi editor, Result of putting a max4live on each midi. I think ableton is over now! Next updates will alway have this disaster on them!
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
I'm on an 8 year old PC and the midi editor opens instantly every time, even in big projects that hit 90% cpu while playing.
  Member 23.11.2013 42
+5
well some people doesn't perceive the lattency. because i tested on my pc and my new mac, and both have the same problem. And is so obvious
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
I think I can perceive latency since I can tell the difference between 25ms online and LAN in Quake... and 25ms is pretty low latency :D
  Resident 17.02.2015 754
+111
This update is a game changer!
The new parameter changes within the piano roll are insane!!!
The new plugs and browser are simply divine!
I simply cannot stress this enough "Epic Game Changing update "


Thankyou so much Audioz
Working just fine
WIn 11 INTEL 9500K
  Member 4.09.2020 348
+119
"Epic Game Changing" eh, wow did you come up with that one by yourself?

Equally life changing experience, im a born again human, cant express how much i will never see the world the same way ever again.
I mean, my life was one way to begin, then ableton released v12, and my life was another way! A distinctly different, shockingly new way. (even though every other DAW company on earth managed to achieve 3x more under the same time period, im like a cult member foaming at the mouth here throwing around shitbrained valley girl buzzwords that mean jack shit to any semi-intelligent english speaker)
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
It worked fine... until now. I blocked the .exe in both inbound and outbound rules, jet Ableton starts to update. Only workaround I've found is to go completely offline while using. Never had this happen with other DAWs before.
  Resident 26.04.2021 14 107
+459
What else can trigger autoupdate ?
080
  Member 23.05.2018 59
+22
I'm trying to figure it out. I tried blocking the "Web connector" and the "Install helper" .exe's, and it still wanted to update. I hope somebody figures it out since being offline is pretty inconvenient.
  Member 26.11.2014 15 37
+771
Could anyone block the updates? i've tried to to block with Windows Firewall inbound and outbound connections of "Ableton Live 12 Beta" and "InstallHelper" but it keeps updating Ableton for some reason.

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