Ableton let us know that Live 12.4 is now available as a public beta.
Beta testing is usually the final round of testing done before software products get an official release. Beta testers get an early look at the latest version of applications, but may encounter bugs that can only be identified when testing is expanded to a broad group of users.
Highlights of Ableton Live 12.4 include:
- Link Audio allows audio to be streamed over a local network directly into Live for easier monitoring and recording of external sources.
- The update also brings refinements to Stem Separation, including more flexible clip-based processing, as well as updates to devices like Erosion, Chorus-Ensemble, and Delay.
- A new Learn View replaces Help View, offering guided tutorials for core workflows.
- Push, Note, and Move also receive updates in 12.4. Push benefits from deeper integration with Live and improved device control, while Note and Move gain access to refreshed devices like Erosion and support for Link Audio workflows alongside Live.
Availability:
Ableton Live 12.4 is available now as a public beta. There’s a full overview of what’s new in Live 12.4 at the Ableton site.
Ableton Move is the best groovebox on the planet now. Nothing comes close in value! 🙂
Well, besides an iPad. 😉
Move is wonderful, but an mpc one kicks the value out of it’s A$$ by a large margin.
An MPC One is just an iPad app with a midi controller because of how the workflow centers around the touchscreen. Might as well use the better technology of the iPad then haha
Ableton Live 12 has been the most actively developed version of Live so far I think, the ‘point’ updates Ableton are releasing with amazing regularity are better than the ‘big number’ updates I am seeing on my other DAWS, outstanding work Ableton, real innovation and attention to details, I am a very happy to be a Live and PUSH user!
They had to step up their game, because Live 11 was an absolute cash-grab and offered hardly any reason to upgrade for many users
nooo Ableton gives us upgrades bit by bit all the way up to the next point release.
def one of the best software I own.
An eye on Ableton Centercode tells you that what features are most requested and what actually ends up being included in the updates does not correspond too often. Or worse; turns out to be a strange compromise, like the randomly limited collections feature that was added in Live 10, after an overhaul of that counter-intuitive miscreant of a library had been requested for years.
By the time 11 was released some mass requested (& often basic) feature requests had been on the forum for many years, but rather than retaining their existing user base, Ableton seemed to focus mostly on raking new users in with a mediocre new synth or clones of existing 3rd party effects. Perhaps understandable, given the rampant competition.
12 makes good on several of these ancient requests, but many long-time users had expected those to be part of the 11 upgrade cycle, rather than having to slap down another 175 euros 3 years later.
To be clear though: I love many things about the Ableton workflow, M4L, the minimalist interface, and I would hate to jump ship (which indeed is kind of the reason for being miffed about lacking features in the first place).
Over the years I’ve started to approach it as an expensive quirky toy, rather than a tool for professional use. Which helps.
Out of curiosity – do you use different DAW for professional use? If yes, which one?
Not really. I’ve used Cubase for film scoring in the past, which wasn’t too reliable either, but Ableton Live is definitely the worst choice for such purposes, despite sporting video import functionality:
Tried to use it to score a short film with it in 2021, which was a huge mistake.
The problem is the fact that the more plugins you add, the more latency builds up, but the video playback does not get synced up accordingly, which means the parts you scored earlier get visually out of sync the more devices you add. Absolutely pointless.
Flagged this with Ableton then and they admitted Live ‘was indeed not a viable scoring tool’.
My only professional engagement currently is with two musicians who insist on using Ableton because of M4L dependency. So I’m kinda stuck with it.
Im loving the updates and new features but Ableton should work on optimizing Live core. Decades of code staking has Live with millions of C++ lines that are just not efficient. A single plugin crash get Live kaput vs Bitwig where you can sandbox them, single core bottle neck, unable to run 2 Lives at the same time, PDC, gui lag… Gotta admit it is incredibly stable as a live performance instrument considering decade+ spaguetti code but if Bitwig and Reaper run so much better and efficient, it would be great Live could also perform like that as well.
I can’t wait for the move and note updates. they are way more substantial than the ableton update