Ableton Live 12.1 - New Features, New Devices, and MORE!

OK so this video was MASSIVE, but it is a MASSIVE update. My fav features have been timestamped with FAV so you can skip through if you'd like. :) What are your favourite new features and updates?

as someone who LOVES working with shortcuts, that Automation update is FIRE

I wish Ableton would enable scaling for the size of Groups; they take up so much real estate in the Arrange window. Such a simple fix that would make a big difference. Thanks for the video

Auto Shift looks great. I can recreate Windowlicker vocal effects 25 years after Aphex Twin made them using who knows what equipment 😂

Excellent summation, thank you very much!

Great deep dive of the new features! Much appreciated 🙏🏻

Thanks so much for this video. I love how in depth you go through the whole changelog and the examples you show for most of them. I’ll be returning your channel frequently from now on! Your video included a couple of things that I glossed over in my deep dive of the patch notes — MIDI Tool chains is especially neat! One of the more intriguing changes I didn’t really pay attention to at first is the global groove that’s applied to any new clips. Functionally, this feels like the successor to the project-wide Swing amount that was removed many versions ago when grooves were added — a change that some people have been mourning for a long time. Now you can just up the groove amount and hotswap the groove within the groove pool to apply different swing settings to every clip in your project! Very interesting change and hopefully the change the Swing enjoyers have been looking for!

whoa, they went all in. Many cool updates here. Downloading now!

super content my friend!❤🎉

Thanks a lot, your channel is so interesting!!!

From what I see, in this update, I think they are starting to listen to our feedback in the Beta forums. Thanks for the deeper dive Matt. I might go back and play around with my Beta update, a bit more.

Thanks for the detailed and honest video, no overhype and honest thoughts, which I really like. My fav updates: keyboard automation, it was annoying to right click, edit value to type in whatever value you want, this little update is really handy. Auto Shift is great (was looking for a formant shifter). And finally, one of my favorite modulation devices, Envelope Follower and the side chain option.

Wow they really did a proper update with this one. Good for them. Can't wait to fuck around with pitch correction also way to make the video with so much speed!

Wow, this made my head spin. Unfortunately I will have to update much of the Live12 curriculum I created for an NYC music school.

Thanks for the detailed video on all the new or updated in Ableton 12. Ableton really great BUT everyone is wanting Stem Separator so disappointed that isn't in the update. It would be really nice Ableton if you would at least say you're working on adding Stem Separation.

The new saturator looks so impressive!

Thanks!

so many exciting features, by any chance, do you know if there's a way to switch between midi clips (like a keymapping option) when editing multiple midi clips at once, I always find it a bit fidly to click on this tiny color line

I’m pretty excited that auto shift has MPE support as well. The only other autotune/harmonizer I’ve seen that has mpe is BLEASS Voices and I don’t really like the way the algorithm on that one sounds. Exciting stuff

Ableton Live 12 is the Goat