Live 12 Beta Release Notes

January 21, 2026

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash that occurred in Session View when dragging a clip selection containing a clip that was being recorded.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when starting Live with the screen zoomed in using the macOS Zoom accessibility feature.

January 13, 2026

Bugfixes

• Updated the bundled Max version to build 9.0.10. This includes a fix for an issue on Push 3 that occurred when disabling OpenGL in the context of Max for Live. Please see the Max 9.0.10 Release Notes for all updates.

December 15, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• Updated software text in various areas of Live.
• Updated various software text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

Bugfixes

• Live no longer crashes when selecting and deleting multiple tracks when one of the tracks has a remote~ mapped to a track parameter.
• Fixed an issue where soloing would not work as expected in some scenarios involving an instrument modulated by a Max for Live device.
• Fixed an issue with the Max for Live API that caused Live to lag or freeze.

December 2, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• When using the Bounce to New Track command, bounced tracks now display a unique track number instead of the source track’s number. When first bounced, new tracks will use one number higher than the source track, so if track 3 is bounced, the new track becomes track 4.
• When starting a new search with the Ctrl F (Win) / Cmd F (Mac) shortcut, any previous search terms and active filters in the All label are now cleared.
• Bouncing a Group Track no longer produces a silent bounce file when a track outside the group is soloed. This behavior is now consistent with bouncing individual tracks.
• Files that are older than one week in the Crash folder of Live’s preferences are now automatically deleted when Live is launched.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where it was possible to extend the right edge of a bounced audio clip past the original source clip length.
• Fixed an issue where MIDI signals routed to a plug-in via the External Instrument device were ignored when exporting the track containing the plug-in using the Selected Tracks Only option.
• Fixed a bug in the APC64 Control Surface that could result in an error being written to Live's Log.txt file when using a touch strip to adjust a disabled parameter.
• Accessibility:
  Fixed an issue that occurred when navigating Max for Live devices with the keyboard while wrapped navigation was turned off.
• Fixed an issue where the DS HH instrument could miss notes.
• Fixed an issue where samples could not be dropped from the Session or Arrangement View onto plug-in windows as expected.
• Fixed an issue where adding a device with a focused control to a multiselection caused the multiselection to be lost. Adding devices to a multiselection now works as expected. As a result of this change, selecting a device’s title bar now clears the focus of any controls within the device.
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Windows when closing Live from the taskbar after confirming whether to save a modified Live Set.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a Soundtoys plug-in and then performing an undo step to remove the plug-in.
• The buttons in the Help View header now use a square shape.
• Fixed an issue where using the Bounce Track In Place command on a track containing only a very short clip created an additional undo step.
• Fixed an issue where bouncing a nested Group Track caused the main Group Track’s effects to be applied to the bounced audio twice.

November 13, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• In the Trial edition of Live, added purchase options across various areas of the application.
• Updated software text in some areas of the browser.
• Updated various software text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where latency would not be correctly compensated in bounced audio when using plug-ins that have a dedicated latency for offline processing.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when exporting audio, where sidechaining would fail if the sidechain source was a Group Track and the "Include Master and Return Effects" option was enabled.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging files into the Arrangement.

November 5, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• Improved the parameter mappings of Auto Pan-Tremolo and Auto Shift for the Move control surface script.

Bugfixes

• Known issue: Stem separation currently uses the CPU on macOS Tahoe 26.1 on Apple Silicon machines, and will therefore run significantly slower than expected.
• Fixed a bug in the Komplete Kontrol S Mk3 control surface script that caused some pitch-related parameters to be too sensitive.
• Fixed a bug in the APC64 control surface script that could result in a crash when hot-swapping devices via Push.
• Fixed a bug in the Move control surface script that incorrectly allowed the loop menu to be accessed for audio tracks.
• Fixed a bug in the Move control surface script that caused step durations to be displayed incorrectly when a triplet step grid was used.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging Group Tracks from the browser into a Set.
• Fixed an issue where the process of downloading Splice samples could get stuck at 0%.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using Grain Delay.
• On Windows, files with long file names will now be correctly split when separating stems. If necessary, the file names will get truncated.
• The Track.insert_device and Chain.insert_device Max for Live API functions now assign a device's default preset when inserting, as expected.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing Enter with two or more selected scenes.
• Fixed an issue where the track settings (i.e., sends, volume, or pan settings) were not restored when undoing the Bounce Group in Place command.
• The peak meter will be shown in the volume section of the mixer in the default Live Set, as expected.
• When downloading a sample from Splice multiple times, if the sample's properties were updated in the meantime, the updated properties will now be applied to the clip settings, as expected.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking on specific sample references in the File Manager.

October 29, 2025

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when capturing MIDI into the Arrangement if existing clips were overwritten during the process.
• Fixed a bug where duplicating multiple scenes with linked scene follow actions resulted in some of the follow actions to not be triggered as expected.
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when dragging a clip from a track containing a Max for Live device to the User Library.

October 22, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• The clips and tracks for stems now use the corresponding colors from the stem separation dialog.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where Live would hang when bouncing a track that contained samples with high sample rates.
• Plug-in windows on a different monitor from the main window will no longer be moved to the main window during drag and drop operations.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during multi-clip editing when right-clicking a note in a background clip if there were no notes of the same pitch in the foreground clip.
• Fixed an issue that caused stem clips to be muted after the stem separation process.
• Fixed an issue that caused visual glitches when closing the browser by dragging its right edge to the left if the Splice label was open.
• The Splice plug-in has been updated to version 1.0.0. This includes the following changes:
  • Fixed some crashes that could occur when using the Splice label under certain conditions.
  • Captured audio is normalized to avoid audible distortion with loud bounces, especially on Windows.
  • The Shuffle button is disabled when there are no results.

October 15, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• It is now possible to hide Splice, Cloud, and Push labels by right-clicking on them in the browser sidebar and selecting the "Hide from Sidebar" command. The corresponding options in Live's Settings will be updated accordingly.
• When dragging clips or scenes to the Splice label, those clips will now always be used to find a similar sound, with no influence from previously played clips or scenes. If more than one clip is selected from a track, the bottom-most one will be used, unless there is another clip currently playing.
• It is now possible to load samples from Splice by double-clicking on them or using the Enter key

Bugfixes

• Fixed the following issues in the Splice label:
  • Disabled webview pinch to zoom.
  • Fixed range slider at extreme BPMs.
• Fixed an issue where bouncing or rendering a track involving Max for Live Modulators would not work correctly if the Modulator was mapped to a device in the bounced track but was located on a different track.
• Fixed an issue where saving presets or clips would seemingly duplicate folders and files in the browser.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking on the metronome sample references in the File Manager.
• On Windows, Live will no longer crash with NVDA or Narrator screen readers when the browser or File Manager is shown or has its elements expanded.

October 2, 2025

New Features and Improvements

Sync Live’s Scale Settings in Splice

Splice can now follow Live’s scale settings.

When Scale Mode is active in Live, the Key filter in the Splice label includes the “Apply key from DAW” option, which automatically detects the scale root and name set in Live’s transport bar. Select the option and the results will be updated accordingly. Note that the label detects major and minor keys only.

The Transpose control in the label now includes a Sync toggle. When on, Splice will lock to and follow Live's scale settings and transpose samples accordingly when previewing.

New Splice Samples Included

A curated set of 2500 free samples has been added to the Splice label. These are accessible without the need to have an active Splice subscription.

Other Improvements

• Samples downloaded from Splice will now be tagged with the "Creator|Splice" tag. Note that this will not apply to samples downloaded from Splice prior to this release.
• Updated software text in various areas of Live.
• When using the Move Control Surface, it is now possible to navigate between device parameter banks by pressing Shift and turning the wheel.

Bugfixes

• When in automation mode, take lanes can now be inserted and made visible from the tracks header context menu. When these entries are selected, the automation mode is closed in order to show the take lanes.
• Fixed that occurred when manipulating Rack chains that contained some types of VST3 plug-ins.
• Fixed an issue where crossfades would be reset after dragging and dropping a clip.
• When soloing a track, track activators for Group Tracks are now grayed out like other track activators, as expected.
• Fixed an issue where the "Reset Fades" command was disabled for clips with no fades.
• Reduced the spacing between the track index number and track name in default track names.
• Fixed the following issues in the Splice label:
  • On macOS, it is now possible to use keyboard shortcuts inside the label.
  • Splice pack preview playback is now playing the full length, as expected.
  • Fixed minor padding and scaling issues, particularly in onboarding screens.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pasting bounced audio onto an empty MIDI track in Arrangement.
• The GPU renderer on Windows will now perform much better with curves such as MPE curves in the MIDI Note Editor, allocating a lot less memory. The changes should also reduce the likelihood of audio glitches that could occur because of the GPU renderer.
• Fixed an issue where it was impossible to drag a sample from the browser and drop it onto the Serum 2 plug-in window.
• Fixed the following issues in Max for Live:
  • Sending getid to a live.remote~ or live.modulate~ now returns 0 if the last mapping failed.
  • Fixed errors that occurred when undoing or redoing operations such as duplication of a Max device with a remote~ or modulate~ that has been mapped to a parameter.
• Accessibility:
  • Live no longer crashes when navigating the transport Bbar using VoiceOver.
  • Cleaned up the contents of the Control Bar for screen reader users.
  • Improved the way Live's sample rate indicator reports itself to screen readers.

September 24, 2025

New Features and Improvements

Splice

You can now choose a dedicated location for your Splice samples in the Library Settings. The following options are available:

• User Library > Samples > Splice

• Current Project > Samples > Splice

• Custom Download Location (i.e. any location of your choosing)

Stem Separation

On Windows, it is now possible to use an experimental GPU acceleration option for stem separation. This can significantly speed up processing times for users with compatible hardware.

Note that this is an experimental feature and may result in crashes with some hardware. Your feedback is crucial for identifying which hardware configurations are compatible with this feature. Please share your experience (including your GPU model, VRAM, and any issues encountered) on the public beta forum or via a bug report. For instructions, please see this forum post.

Other Improvements

• The Move Control Surface now offers a wider array of LED brightness options when using recent firmware.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where stem separation would fail on Apple Silicon machines running macOS 11 Big Sur.
• Fixed an issue where the UI in the Splice label would stay black on Intel Macs.
• On Windows, Live no longer hangs while working with certain videos.
• On macOS, fixed a crash that occurred when dragging a sample from Splice and dropping it onto a track.
• Updated the Core Library:
  • Added small refinements to Vocal Recording Template and Drum Rack presets.
  • Fixed the Lydian Scale preset.

September 18, 2025

New Features and Improvements

High Quality Stem Separation

Stem Separation now includes a High Quality mode which increases the separation quality and accuracy (measured by Signal to Distortion Ratio, i.e. SDR score) at the cost of slower processing.

In High Quality mode, Vocals, Drums, and Bass are each processed through their own dedicated separation. The Others stem is then created by running all three separations. In contrast, High Speed mode separates all stems in a single pass. You can switch between the two modes in the Stem Separation dialog.

To reduce processing time when using High Quality mode, try separating only the stems you need, and consider consolidating or cropping the sample to the relevant section before running separation.

Splice Improvements

• The UI in the Splice label now loads faster after opening it for the first time.

• Improved volume persistence.

• Added support for Splice sound packs and label pages.

• The browser width is now automatically adjusted when switching between Splice and other labels, if their width differed.

• Samples which have already been downloaded no longer need to be redownloaded when dragging and dropping them from Splice. Note that this behavior is only applicable from this release onwards.

• The default Warp Mode for samples imported from Splice is now set to Complex, in order to more accurately match the sound settings when previewing samples within Splice. This means that when dragging and dropping a sample from Splice, the Warp Mode in the resulting clip will be set to Complex regardless of the default mode set in the Record, Warp & Launch Settings.

• The sample transposition will now be preserved when dragging a transposed sample from Splice and dropping it onto Simpler, Sampler, Drum Sampler, Impulse, or the device chain.

• The Splice label is now remembered when navigating through the browser history.

Other Improvements

• It is now possible to use the "Set 1.1.1 Here" context menu command for multiple clips, if the clips are warped audio clips of the same length and same warp markers.
• It is now possible to paste bounced audio to an empty MIDI track. The track will be converted to an audio track in the process.
• Updated the Stem Separation dialog's UI and text.
• The progress dialog displayed after bouncing audio is now shown after the "This action will stop audio" dialog to prevent overlapping pop-up windows.
• Updated software text in various areas of Live.
• Updated various software text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
• In the Arrangement View, the "Insert Empty MIDI Clip" command can now be used without time selection and will insert a clip at the insert marker. The clip's length will be one bar or the currently selected grid size, whichever is longer.
• Double-clicking to create an empty MIDI clip in the Arrangement View will now work when the grid cell is not completely empty. The clip created as a result will fill the available space in the grid cell.
• It is now possible to paste bounced audio from multiple Session clips that originate from a single track.
• Updated Max 9.0.8 to build 82d284e:
  • amxd~: unnecessary directories are not created on export
  • array.change / dict comparison objects: unordered mode matching non-matching atom arrays
  • array.fill: fix hang when incoming array is empty
  • Audio Driver: fixed audio prefs for Thread Priority and Latency (Windows)
  • Audio Drivers: Fix potential crash on launch due to ad_mme bug (Windows)
  • chooser: fixed crash when cmd-dragging
  • curve~ / line~: fixed issues when used in pfft~
  • Define: improved functionality with v8 / arguments
  • jit.gl.texture: fixed shared context errors
  • jweb: appropriately intercepts keys when it has focus
  • live.banks: notify when parameter mappings change
  • MIDI: improved behavior of port filtering / disambiguation
  • midiin: unsupported MIDI RT messages are output
  • numbox: fixed parameter usage
  • Patching: fixed potential crash with deletion of outlets
  • Projects: fixed issues with resolving file paths with localized files
  • textedit: fixed crash with single quote character
  • Timing: fixed ITM parsing not to be fooled by symbols containing the letter 'n'
  • UI Objects Value Popup: fixed potential crashes
  • v8: fixed crash with max.frontpatcher when Max is in the background
  • v8: load/free performance optimizations
  • v8: notifyclients() notifies on the object (not the box)
• On certain Windows laptops running under power-savings modes, the CPU meter's behavior will now be less erratic and dropouts less likely. However, we do recommend that you run Live with the best performance power plans, with no CPU frequency scaling.
• It is now possible to create Arrangement MIDI clips in a user-definable time range by holding Shift while double-clicking.
• Newer Control Surfaces can now access an additional parameter bank for CC Control.
• The audio files created when separating stems are now placed in the Project folder under /Samples/Processed/Stems.
• When using Stem Separation in the Arrangement View, the separated stems now always follow the tempo as expected.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where restarting the freezing or bouncing of multiple Group Tracks with real-time effects would not restart from the first track.
• Fixed a bug which caused freezing or bouncing Group Tracks to always start at the beginning of the Arrangement instead of with the first Arrangement clip.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a sample download from Splice would fail or be interrupted.
• Fixed an issue where the Paste Bounced Audio command would be disabled when trying to paste into a take lane of an audio track.
• When dragging and dropping a sample from Splice, if the sample's length is 0, an error message will now be displayed stating that the sample is corrupted.
• Fixed a bug that caused Group Track overviews to be cut off in Automation Mode.
• Drift is now less likely to click after the transport is stopped while the device is playing bass notes.
• Using the Bounce Track in Place command for MIDI tracks with an index number included in the name now correctly maintains the number in the name after the track is converted to an audio track.
• Fixed a bug where using the Bounce Tracks in Place command on a multi-selection of MIDI tracks or Group Tracks would not maintain the track selection, including when undoing or redoing the command.
• Adjusted the way Live plays back tempo automation ramps and curves to be more mathematically accurate. Previously, ramps with increasing tempo were played slightly too slow and ramps with decreasing tempo were played slightly too fast.
• Fixed an issue where a sample created with the Bounce to New Track command could potentially be one sample frame short.
• Clicking on the clip title bar in the Clip View now fully scrolls Arrangement clips into view as expected, zooming out if necessary. When multiple clips are selected, all clips are scrolled into view. Previously, only the time selection start was scrolled into view.
• Fixed an issue where the volume for Group Tracks would not appear after clicking the Optimize Arrangement Height toggle. Folded Group Tracks in the Arrangement View are now taller so that the volume controls are visible again.
• Fixed an issue that occurred when using the Bounce to New Track command on a part of a clip from a frozen Group Track, where the entire bounced clip was muted instead of only the time range that was bounced, while at the same time the UI indicated that only the bounced region was muted.
• Fixed a bug where Live could occasionally crash when reconnecting a previously disconnected Push.
• Fixed a bug where a plug-in window would disappear when dragging an item from the browser to drop onto the plug-in.
• Fixed an issue where the Browse Back and Forward buttons would not navigate to the Splice label when stepping through the browser's history.
• After pasting bounced audio, the pasted Session slots or the pasted time in Arrangement are now selected as expected.
• Updated the Core Library:
  • Tamuz Drum Racks: Correct choke groups and sample tails.
  • Auto Pan-Tremolo Preset duplicate removed.
• Fixed an issue where the mixer or device parameters would sometimes briefly show a wrong value when adding or bouncing a track, or loading a Set.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when discarding unsaved changes in the File Manager.
• Fixed an issue where "Bounce to New Track" was displayed instead of "Bounce Group to New Track" as menu text for empty Group Track slots in the Session View and for a Group Track time selection that did not contain clips inside the grouped tracks in the Arrangement View.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when cancelling an export of an audio clip to Splice.
• Fixed an issue with Drum Sampler's Stretch FX where the playback would stop when the grain size approached the overall size of the sample.
• Live will no longer crash when using the ASIO driver of audio interfaces with odd number of output audio channels, e.g. 3 or 9 channels.
• On Windows, added support for odd-numbered input and output channels. Previously, opening a device that used an odd-numbered channel would fail.
• Fixed various issues that occurred when separating stems in warped audio clips.
• Fixed an issue where the AltF would no longer open the File menu on Windows. The shortcut now works as expected and as a result of this change the following keyboard shortcuts were updated:
  • The shortcut to open or close the Filter View is now CtrlAltG (Win) / CmdOptG.
  • The shortcut to start Similarity Search is now CtrlShiftF (Win) / CmdShiftF.
• Fixed an issue that occurred after bouncing multiple tracks to new tracks, where some of the original tracks would have the Back to Arrangement button enabled.
• Fixed a crash in Live that occurred when unplugging an additional MIDI device while Push was attached.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when viewing the browser history after restoring a Set with exactly two undo steps.
• Parameters that are mapped to Push buttons in Max for Live's "trigger" mode now toggle on press and on release immediately, and can no longer be mapped to a macro, as expected.
• Fixed a bug in Komplete Kontrol S Mk3 that could cause delays when renaming tracks and devices.
• The Komplete Kontrol S Mk3 Control Surface no longer shows device-related information in Live's Status Bar.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when calling duplicate_clip_to_arrangement on a track in the Max for Live API.

September 2, 2025

New Features and Improvements

Stem Separation

Live Suite now features built-in stem separation that runs locally. A song can be separated into four stems: Vocals, Drums, Bass, and Other. Other includes all parts of the song that are not recognized as vocals, drums, or bass.

You can separate songs from the browser or separate clips from the Session or Arrangement View. To do so, right-click a sample in the browser or a clip and select Separate Stems to New Audio Tracks. Each stem is rendered onto its own track in a new Group Track. Any audio effects from the source track are also added to the Group Track. The clip used for separation is muted.

To enable a high-quality option for stem separation, add 
-_Feature.StemSeparation.HighQuality=True to the Options.txt file.

Note that stem separation may run very slowly on older Windows systems.

Splice Integration

Splice - the industry’s leading sample library - is now integrated into Live’s browser. Anyone with a free or paid Splice account can access their library, browse, preview, and download samples directly within Live.

You can browse and save samples to your Splice library, as well as preview Splice samples in sync with Live's transport. When you find a sample you like, you can drag it from the Splice label into the Session or Arrangement View. Once you start dragging, the sample is added to User Library > Samples > Splice.

In addition to searching for samples, you can have Splice find samples that would fit with existing material in your Set. To do so, make a clip or time selection within Session or Arrangement View, then click the Search with Sound widget in the Home tab of the Splice label. Splice will then find and display complementary samples based on the style and rhythm of the selection.

Note that a Splice account is required to use this feature, including non-subscription accounts (which offer around 2,500 free samples). You can follow the instructions in the Splice label to create a new account as needed.

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