Get lost in Live 12’s creative features and sounds – and find your own way of making music.
Find out what’s possible in Live 12
Reshape MIDI patterns
Apply 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 inspiration
Conjure 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 Live
Try 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 tunings
Follow 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 key
Transform 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 easily
Use 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 to Scale, Humanize, Add Intervals, and more.
Modulate more flexibly
Stay 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 inspiration
Start 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 Meld
Live’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.
Program Meld’s dual oscillators with dedicated LFOs and an extensive modulation matrix
Each of Meld’s oscillator presets comes with two Engines parameters, carefully chosen for maximum sound design versatility
Listen to more sounds from Meld
Add color with Roar
Bathe your sound in subtle warmth – or break it down with wild distortion. Live’s new coloring and saturation device is made up of three saturation stages for serial, parallel or even mid/side and multiband configurations. Its built-in compressor and feedback routing give you even more ways to shape your sound, and its modulation section lets you add dynamic, evolving saturation and color.
Apply heavy distortion to a specific frequency range with Roar’s multiband configuration
Modulate your sound with Roar’s Envelope Follower
Process a beat in Serial mode to add two separate layers of saturation, one after the other
See what happens when you use Roar’s Feedback panel to distort your signal further
Get expressive with granular synthesis
Granulator III, the latest version of Robert Henke’s granular synthesizer, introduces expressive control that lets you bend notes and add vibrato and glissando. Plus, you can now capture audio in real time and start manipulating it immediately.
Granulator III’s Cloud playback mode excels at layered pad and drone sounds
In Loop mode, grains play one after the other without overlapping
Discover more Granulator III sounds
In Classic mode, grains overlap and fade into each other
Create wild and unpredictable sounds with just a handful of intuitive controls
Lost and Found
Lost and Found brings together multi-sampled instruments, Drum Racks and samples inspired by the unexpected sound sources of the everyday – from household objects, DIY instruments and flea market finds to the organic materials and natural elements that surround us.
Performance Pack
Perform live more freely with four Max for Live devices from Iftah. Control any part of Live with advanced macros, capture and re-deploy snapshots of your Set, instantly loop your location in Arrangement View, and pre-arrange a song with clips that Live fills as you perform.
Golden Era Hip Hop Drums
Explore the gritty drums of old-school hip hop with the new beat-focused Pack from heavyweight producer Sound Oracle. Get your hands on warm, authentic-sounding kits with built-in effects and enhanced MPE functionality, created especially for Live 12.
Trap Drums
Sound Oracle puts the creative power of his in-demand trap beats at your disposal with a Pack of 20 crisp, futuristic kits and clips made for Live 12, loaded with MPE functionality for added expressive control.
Sequencers
Whether you want precise control over complex patterns or ways to generate new ideas, this Pack of Max For Live Sequencers will open up all kinds of possibilities in your music-making.
MIDI Tools
Discover exciting ways to generate new patterns and manipulate your existing sequences with a Pack that demonstrates the potential of Live 12's MIDI Tools.
Set up to stay focused
Use Live’s Mixer in Arrangement View to get more information and control without moving to Session View and breaking the flow. Toggle the visibility of each Mixer section to fit your needs, and benefit from improved readability and feedback.
See everything you need
Stack Live’s Clip and Device Views to see more of what’s going on in your track at a glance. See the Clip Editor or automation and the Instrument or Effect you’re working on at the same time, so you can work without repeatedly switching between views.
Search with tags
Discover new sounds and find them again easier with the help of Live’s new tagging system. All factory sound content – including Packs – in Live now comes labeled in the Browser with instrument categories and helpful musical descriptors – and if you want more tags, you can create your own.
Browse better
Get search results that cover the whole library, rather than being confined to the Browser’s built-in categories. And explore your search history to see sounds or presets you've previously looked for.
Sound Similarity Search
Find sounds that fit
Try Live's new Sound Similarity Search to find sounds with similar characteristics to the one you're working on. Start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument presets, with the help of a neural network.
Instantly replace drums
Swap all the samples in your Drum Rack for similar ones to quickly try out new percussive textures – like a drum machine with seemingly-infinite kits.