ABLETON Live 12 Suite

Find out what’s possible in Live 12:Reshape MIDI patternsApply a variety of simple or complex variations to your MIDI clips with new MIDI Transformations. Add ornaments and articulations, draw acceleration and deceleration curves, connect successive notes and chords, simulate the strum of a guitar, and more.Generate inspirationConjure up melodies, chords and rhythms with the help of new MIDI Generators. Set constraints and let your chosen Generator create playful and original ideas for you to develop and turn into your own.Do more with Max for LiveTry out additional Max for Live Transformations and Generators that give you deeper ways of working with MIDI, or go even further by building new ones.Embrace and explore tuningsFollow your preferred tuning systems or try different ones more easily. Work outside of 12-tone equal temperament, and use your tuning with Live’s devices as well as any MPE-capable plugin or hardware.Stay in keyTransform or generate ideas within the confines of the selected scale, or sync the scale of MIDI devices and instruments to the clip being played.Edit MIDI more easilyUse keyboard and mouse operations to edit MIDI in new ways. Split a note in two, or chop it into several parts. Select a set of notes and join them together, or make them fill a selected time range. Plus, you can access to more tools from the Note Utilities panel on the left, such as Fit Scale, Humanize, Add Intervals, and more.Modulate more flexiblyStay in control of a parameter, even after it’s been mapped to a modulation source; Max for Live devices like LFO, Shaper and Envelope Follower now let you freely adjust a destination that’s being modulated.Find inspirationStart playing with any of Live’s new instruments and effects and you’ll soon find new textures and techniques to spark further experimentation.Lose yourself in MeldLive’s new MPE-capable synthesizer is designed for sound variety, playfulness and character. Equipped with two independent oscillators and an extensive modulation matrix, Meld excels at textural soundscapes, harmonic and atonal sounds, and rhythmic drones.Meld’s Macro Oscillators provides simple access of complex waveforms made by various synthesis methods. Quickly dial up subtractive, FM, granular, and other sources, quantize the oscillators to a scale and even use the LFOs from one oscillator to modulate the other.