instal the new Ableton Live Suite 12.0.23

Browserįiltering by content and device type.Live’s browser has had a big revamp. You will probably end up learning a handful of shortcuts and then switching back and forth between keyboard and mouse while working. I’m a fan of keyboard navigation, but there’s so much on screen in a Live project that I’d probably wear my Tab key out if I tried to use it exclusively to navigate. There’s a new Navigate menu that exposes keyboard shortcuts for selecting the main areas of the interface, and various Tab key combinations that then walk around controls within each area: along the control bar, up and down the controls in a mixer channel, and so on - or even within a single device. Navigating around a Live Set has been made easier too.

Try to do both of these things at once and you’re probably going to run out of editing space on a laptop screen, unless you scale the view down and have very good eyesight, but on even a modest external screen these are clear usability improvements.

And - sacrilege! - you can view a track’s device chain and selected clip at the same time. For a start, the mixer view from the Live Session can now be shown in the Arrangement, a design move that makes such obvious sense one wonders why it wasn’t done before. That regime has been broken down a bit in Live 12. Live has always had a pretty regimented idea of what should appear where in its window (or both windows, if used in two‑window mode). The much‑trailed new feature is support for alternate tuning systems, but there’s also a bunch of improvements to Live’s interface, some nifty new editing features and a handful of brand‑new devices. Hot - or at least warm - on the heels of the latest version of the Push controller (Sound On Sound, July 2023) comes a new version of Ableton’s flagship DAW, right on time for the roughly three‑year refresh cycle. Live 12 introduces a raft of new features, devices and general improvements.

Instal the new Ableton Live Suite 12.0.23