A low key dope element of this update will be the new
max4live midi generators/transformers created by users.
Whole new can of midi worms on the horizon.
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Possibly a daft question, but whereās the bar gone to scroll left/right through tracks? I can use cursor left and right, but has than been deliberately removed?
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do you guys think there is a chance we will ever get native stem separation with Ableton? I know there are plenty of VSTs that work great and I really love seato sample, but I still wish there was a way to use it with my push 2.
I have the feeling Ableton 12 is missing this feature because they would have to make it work on push 3 standalone. But thatās just me guessing. And I am really curious to see how well stem separation will work on the MPC line.
Preferences > Display & Input > Show scroll bars
Thank goodness for that! Cheers!
Why not on by default though!? 
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Whenever I see a question like this my reaction is āwhat would Ableton think?ā Would this count as being an āinstrument?ā From what Iām seeing, anything that doesnāt meet that criteria is often a side-concern, since āturn your comuter into an instrumentā is what theyāre selling to you. It does seem to be a feature many are asking for but only FL (if I have this right) has gone ahead and added it. I guess to compete with a 3rd party site/plugin it needs to be at least on a par, otherwise folks would just use the alternative. The one thing that could lead them there is its history as a loop based DAW.
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you are probably right. It would just be really handy to sample into Live, slice to midi track, get rid of e.g. drums and have all the power of a drum rack. so I guess as a simpler feature it would be awesome at least for me, but you have a point because it would be just a new feature to an already existing instrumentā¦
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They already have audio to midi so stem separation isnāt a million miles away conceptually
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Got the beta through on Friday - spent a few hours with it today, and I absolutely love Meld and Roar! Roar, especially, is just so nice for sound design. It might not have all the bells and whistles of other things I have (Thermal for example), but the UI and immediacy of it means Iām much mor likely to use it often.
I made a the backbone of a techno track today and other than a couple of breakbeat loops, I didnāt use anything but those 2, and glue compressors (bit obsessed with using it to clip tracks after watching a video Ben Pest posted on his Patreon), and between the 2 if them itās sounding nice!
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Does ableton 12 have free tempo recording? So can just play some improvising on the keys and it detect best tempo like in logic, and then can quantize it to that, its how i start every track in logic so would be good have in ableton too
If you use MIDI capture to begin a track, this is how it works. I use that all the time.
If you prefer audio, the Looper device can set tempo.
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Roar is also amazing on guitar. Iāve stopped using my third-party amp sim (TH-U) because Roar+Abletonās amp and IR stuff is so good.
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For some reason my Live 12 gives huge CPU spikes, even with only 1 midi track with 1 EQ8 device. It used to run fine. I donāt have issues with Live 11 either.
I found that when I stop the task āAbleton Index.exeā in task manager, the issue goes away (but it will probably give other issues instead, didnāt test properly yet).
I tried reĆÆnstalling, but it didnāt help. It is currently unusable sadlyā¦
Any ideas whatās going on? It seems Iām the only one with this issue?
Iāve had lots of bugs. Havenāt tested the newest beta version but for a while, if I started a new project and double clicked an empty clip to start entering midi, Live would crash.
Iām pretty sure that indexer is the one that powers the new similarity search and so scans through all the samples it can find initially. Maybe leave it running overnight to do its thing and then see if you still get spikes once itās finished.
Thereās also an āEnable Similarity Search Analysisā in the settings you can turn off which I havenāt tried but I would assume also stops that task.
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Does anyone run this on an M1 silicon mac? Curious how it holds up.
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I run it on my M1 MBP, it runs fine for me.
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Same. Suns like a champ. Remember to lower your buffer size on M chips for better performance.
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I did uninstall Live 12 and re-installed it again recently. I think it started after that, so it makes sense that it needs to redo āits thingā again for a while before it working properly. Will try, thanks.
This might sound nuts, but it totally works. Best CPU for mine is with 128
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