Ableton has announced the availability of Live 12.3 as a public beta.
Ableton Live 12.3 features a variety of updates, including Stem Separation, Bounce Groups, the new Auto Pan-Tremolo and Device A/B. Other updates include new features for Push 3, plus updates for Move, Note and Live Lite.
Here’s a summary of key updates:
Stem Separation In Ableton Live 12.3:
Live 12 Suite and Push 3 Standalone can now split vocals, bass, drums and other sounds from any audio clip in Arrangement or Session View, or in the Browser, with just a couple of clicks.
Stem Separation opens up a new options for sampling and reworking existing audio. You can create and chop up acapellas, extract percussion parts then build new drums from your favorite sampled hits, or separate a bassline and rework it with audio to MIDI conversion.
Splice Integration In Ableton Live 12.3:
Splice users now get direct access to Splice’s full library of royalty-free sounds inside Live’s Browser – making it easier to filter, search and audition Splice samples in sync and in key with your project.
With the new Search with Sound feature, you can also capture audio from your project, or drag and drop a clip into the Splice panel, and Splice will find samples that fit the rhythms and harmonies of your track. Once you land on something you like, drop it into your project and see what ideas the new sound sparks.
Bounce Groups and Paste Bounced Audio In Ableton Live 12.3:
With 12.3, you can now bounce an entire Group track in place – or bounce a portion of a Group track, including all its processing, to a new audio track.
The new Paste Bounced Audio feature allows you to paste a copied clip or selection as bounced audio into any track or take lane. Just hit cmd/ ctrl + opt/ alt + v and whatever you’ve copied can be pasted as bounced audio multiple times, even with tweaks to the clip and processing between each paste.
Updated Devices In Ableton Live 12.3:
In Live 12.3, you can now add spatial movement or new rhythmic dimensions to any sound with the reimagined Auto Pan-Tremolo. It can now be used for creative panning effects to sidechain-style pumping, to stuttering trance gates or polyrhythmic patterns.
The device’s new tabbed layout lets you switch instantly between panning and tremolo effects, and each has deeper modulation controls and a wider range of time modes for greater rhythmic control.
A/B Comparison In Ableton Live 12.3:
With the 12.3 update, all built-in instruments, audio and MIDI effects in Live have the ability to set and quickly compare two parameter states with an A/B feature – accessible by right-clicking the device header.
To see the full list of Ableton Live updates, head to the Live 12.3 beta release notes.
What’s New For Push In Live 12.3:
In addition to Stem Separation, Bounce Groups, and the updated devices and Packs – all of which are coming to Push 3 Tethered and Standalone – Live 12.3 gives Push 3 users new ways to play with the instrument’s expressive pads.
With the new XYZ layout, Push’s pads transform into an expressive touchscreen for your racks, instruments, and effects. Slide your finger across Push’s pads to shape the sound in complex ways, and press to trigger punch-in effects – all while playing notes with the other hand. Every device comes with bold, musical pre-mappings to get you started right away, but you can go deeper by creating racks and assigning your own custom macros.
Rhythm Generator is a new Drum Rack layout that makes one of Live’s generative MIDI Tools playable on Push 3. Designed for everything from sparking ideas in the studio to shaking up the rhythmic feel of a live performance, the layout gives you four vertical pad sliders to shape your beat, while the grid above visualizes changes as they happen.
There’s a new, more intuitive way to humanize your beats too: touch sensitive step editing lets you adjust the velocity of notes individually or in bulk, by holding the Accent button and sliding on Push 3’s pads.
Live 12.3 also makes Push Standalone even more flexible as a music making hub – adding support for class compliant audio interfaces. This allows you to expand Push’s inputs and outputs, record using your interface’s mic preamp, perform live with DJ mixers, and more.
See the Live 12 Beta On Push release notes for more info.
What’s New In Note and Move?
In addition to the Live 12.3 public beta, Ableton has released updates for their iOS app, Note, and Ableton Move.
- Access to all of Drift’s parameters is now available as an in-app purchase for Note. The 1.5 update lets you take full control of the characterful synth’s sound – from its two analog-modeled oscillators, to its filters, envelopes, and powerful modulation matrix – so you can enjoy deep sound design sessions on the go.
- After the introduction of sample slicing in Move 1.5, today’s 1.6 update brings new Sliced Loop presets, including drum breaks, guitars, pianos and more to the Move library. You can also reverse Drum Rack samples via the Sample Options menu, and upload Move and Note sets to Move via Move Manager.
The Ableton Live 12.3 beta release is available now to anyone with a Live 12 license.
If you don’t own a Move, you don’t know what you’re missing out on.
And I never liked the Push 3, but wow it’s finally becoming even more useful and intuitive than before. I will eventually have to give it another try.
I don’t know. There are some great features coming to Live alright
But the Push 3 still seems to get scraps in comparison
They need to fully integrate some of the Max4Live stuff into Push. Make it seem more like the stock plugins. Proper GUI interfaces for stuff like Granulator III and what have you
Push 3 costs far more than an Ableton license does and all the dev seems to be elsewhere
Another amazing free update, same for push and move. Ableton are on fire lately, long may it continue!
Yeah, I think the Bitwig guys are giving Ableton some competition, and we benefit from this.
It seems like both Bitwig and Live are evolving faster than other DAWs.
support for class compliant audio interfaces for push 3 standalone is big
it wasn’t very sexy with only 1 stereo I/0, me thinks.
but now wow
the standalone makes a lot more sense now than before, I guess.
yea-yeah, good ableton, well done.
I only have two concerns:
1. wtf is this race with stem separation? I mean why? Is this all the “modern mooozik prodooocers” need – to steal somebody else’s copyrighted acapella? Every piece of gear and software boasts with stem separation these days, like it’s the biggest effing breakthrough in music since the invention of piano. And nowhere do they hint that using somebody else’s music is freaking illegal and morally wrong. I mean, they encourage kids to steal instead of learning to create something themselves. In what freaking universe one might imagine a scenario where stem separation may actually be legal? If I’m making an official remix I should have the actual stems provided by the original artist (along with explicit permission to use those stems). There is only one way stem separation may come in handy: when I want to steal something, like somebody’s vocals or guitar part etc, but I am a nobody and can’t have it legally. And now it is available everywhere. Of course people will use it and think it’s ok. And nobody will think of copyright and moral implications. Why? If it’s right there in your MPC, Ableton, Logic, you name it. And where do we go from there?
It’s like if heroin was freely distributed on every corner and in every classroom. And yes, somewhere in some obscure court room it would be stated every now and then that heroin is bad and using it is wrong, and yet kids would have it given to them along with their lunchboxes. Boo hoo!
2. wtf with splice? Why is it everywhere? Is some freaking conspiracy of philistines who just want to kill off and burn down the already festering body of decaying modern music? Everything already sounds the same and most people who make electronic music can’t play and have zero music skills, because they are always one loop pack away from “commercially competitive product”. Believe me, I’ve been teaching electronic music for 7 years – things are looking bad and ever worse with every passing day. Nobody has time, patience or stamina to learn even the effing C major scale, with all them magic loop packs, midi packs and magic plugins. And now this splice is added everywhere, just like that freaking stem separation.
Music is cooked and we are doomed too
Fantastic contribution. Wait until the holy ones here start to belly ache.
I utterly agree with all of this
If you spent 2000 on a Push 3 and years later after a few useful but not very meaningful updates all you get is “stem separation and splice” bullshit that doesn’t even integrate with Push whatsoever
It’s a race to the bottom. Everything “separated” just sound like artifact-ridden garbage anyways
And yes the whole point is that you can just rip of some other artists vocals or beats or whatever
Wow! Updates for Live, Push, Move and Note! Quite a few someones are going into a long deserved vacation it seems. It’ll be a fun next couple weeks for me 🙂