Ableton Live 11.3.25 Suite

New in Max for Live:

• New API Additions: a redesigned, MPE-compatible note API gives Max for Live access to Live 11’s new note features — probability, velocity deviation, and release velocity. You can also now access slices of a sample loaded in Simpler, a clip or sample’s warp markers, and much more.
• MIDI Channel Routings: it is now possible to route MIDI to and from Max for Live audio effects and instruments. Inputs and outputs are routable and show up in a track’s MIDI From and MIDI To choosers.
• Improvements for Device Creators: a new live.scope object adds an oscilloscope to the object library. Double-clicking an error in the Max Console jumps the cursor to the device causing the error. A new Max for Live category in the Inspector Window allows developers to more clearly indicate which systems their devices can be used on, and much more.
• Performance Improvements: a complete overhaul of Max for Live’s user interface integration means a smoother experience when working with Max for Live devices, including improvements to focus, positioning, scrolling behavior, and performance.

New packs and effects:

• Voice Box: a comprehensive collection of contemporary vocal samples from multiple voices, a set of playable vocal instruments, and Effect Racks designed for vocal processing.
• Drone Lab: sustained tonal and textural samples, generative noise, multi-sampled instruments, plus devices and Effect Racks designed for experimentation.
• Mood Reel: evocative layered instruments that combine organic and synthetic sounds with textural elements to add mood, space, and movement to productions.
• Upright Piano: Upright Piano is close recorded for an intimate feel — a classic sound that is at home in many styles of music. Created in collaboration with Spitfire Audio.
• Brass Quartet: this instrument highlights the natural breathiness, range of expression, and broad tonality of the brass quartet. Created in collaboration with Spitfire Audio.
• String Quartet: a great starting point for sonic exploration, this combination of two violins, viola, and cello has a sound that is immediately intimate. Created in collaboration with Spitfire Audio.
• Hybrid Reverb: combines convolution and algorithmic reverbs, making it possible to create any space, from accurate real-life environments to those that defy physical reality.
• Spectral Time: transforms sound into partials and feeds them into a frequency-based delay, resulting in metallic echoes, frequency-shifted, and reverb-like effects. The Freeze function captures and holds audio.
• Spectral Resonator: breaks the spectrum of an incoming audio signal into partials, then stretches, shift, and blurs the result by a frequency or a note in subtle or radical ways. Play it like an instrument with MIDI.
• Inspired by Nature: six playful instruments and effects that use natural and physical processes as their inspiration. Created in collaboration with Dillon Bastan.

New functions:

• Comping: Live organizes multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance into individual takes. Combine the best of many takes or find creative new combinations.
• Linked-track editing: link two or more audio or MIDI tracks to edit or comp their content simultaneously.
• MPE Compatibility: add bends, slides, and pressure for each individual note in a chord. Add subtle expression variations, morph between chords, and create evolving sonic textures.
• MPE-capable Native Devices: Wavetable, Sampler, and Arpeggiator now support MPE. Use Push’s pad pressure to control parameters per note.
• Expression View: add and edit pitch, timbre, and pressure variations of individual notes directly in a new tab in the Clip Detail View.
• Tempo Following: Live listens to and adjusts its tempo based on incoming audio in real time, making it a dynamic part of the band instead of the tempo source that everyone has to follow.
• Note Chance: set the probability that a note or drum hit will occur and let Live generate surprising variations to your patterns that change over time.
• Velocity Chance: define ranges for velocity probability for subtle, humanized variations in the dynamics of your patterns.
• Follow Actions: Live 11 adds Scene Follow Actions for evolving arrangements. Follow Actions can now jump to specific clips and enable and disable Follow Actions globally.
• Macro Snapshots: store the state of Macros for later recall — this is a fast way to create instant variations to sounds or builds and drops during a performance.
• Variable Macros: set your Racks up to have between one and 16 Macros.
• Randomized Macro Values: randomize the state of your Macros or map the randomization button to MIDI.

Ableton Live 11 Suite Features:

• Comprehensive DAW designed from the ground up for the creative studio or performing musician
• Includes 5,000+ sounds (70GB+), unlimited tracks and scenes, 15 software instruments, 72 effects, and 29 content Packs — Mac/PC VST, AU
• Session View provides a nonlinear approach to music creation via groove/loop/riff arrangement
• Arrangement View provides quick and intuitive composition plus flexible performance and improvisation options
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192kHz
• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo lets you freely create
• Powerful MIDI sequencing lets you take control of software and hardware instruments
• Convert audio to MIDI to use with virtual instruments and more
• Advanced warping and real-time time stretching provides extensive flexibility with audio files
• Get creative with unlimited Audio effects and MIDI effects per project
• Includes a comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors, and EQs
• Integrated Cycling 74’s Max for Live lets you make your own instruments and effects
• Full set of included Max for Live devices makes creating your own tools fun and easy
• VST and Audio Unit support lets you use all of your favorite plug-ins and virtual instruments
• Mix, match, and add effects without ever stopping the music
• Powerful creative and performing environment for DJs and mash-up artists
• Group tracks for better organization and simpler automation
• Time signature changes allow you greater flexibility when scoring to video
• Multiple automation lanes make setting up intensely dynamic mixes easy
• Track Freeze lets you free up your computer’s resources without stripping down your mix
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation minimizes phase issues and tightens up your mix
• Instantly map MIDI control to nearly any parameter for a fully customized control environment
• MIDI output and MIDI Clock/sync let you create deeply complex rigs combining hardware and software seamlessly
• REX file support and native sliced audio file creation
• Video import and export for scoring to picture or warping picture to music
• Includes built-in step-by-step tutorials
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support