Live 12.2 is Coming – with Bounce to New Track, New and Updated Devices, and More

Ableton Live 12.2 is now in public beta. Free for all Live 12 users, the next update speeds up essential creative workflows and brings new and updated devices to all editions of Live 12 – along with a host of new features for Push.

Bounce to New Track

You can now bounce clips or time selections on any MIDI or audio track, including all processing, to a new audio track with just a few clicks – or use Bounce Track in Place to convert the whole track to audio.

Explore new and updated devices 

Auto Filter has been a core audio effect since the very first version of Live – but it sounds and looks like new in 12.2. Experiment with creative filter types like Vowel, DJ, and Comb, and shape sounds with greater precision thanks to Auto Filter’s revamped modulation section, new mixing controls, and real-time visualization. Auto Filter will also come to Move and Note, later this year.

Expressive Chords, an MPE-enabled Max for Live device for Live 12 Intro, Standard, and Suite, lets you explore interesting chords and progressions intuitively, one key or pad at a time. Create outside the confines of traditional keys and scales, go with what sounds good to you, and use MIDI and MPE controls for more expressive and natural results.

Roar, Live 12 Suite’s flexible saturation and modulation machine, adds a new Delay routing mode and Dispersion filter type, plus an external audio and MIDI sidechain – allowing you to play the pitch of the feedback in Note mode.

Meld’s new Chord oscillator lets you play chords from a single MIDI note with four sawtooth waves. Adjust or modulate the chord shape and inversion, and keep everything in key with Meld’s scale awareness. The synth also gets a new Scrambler LFO effect.

Spectral Resonator and Resonators now support Live 12’s scale awareness and tuning systems.

Search, tag and browse more easily 

Live’s Browser has been redesigned to help you find and organize your content more efficiently. The new Quick Tags panel lets you view, edit and assign tags directly in the Browser. The Filter View has been simplified, and its hidden features have been made more discoverable.

You can customize the look of any label and user folder in your sidebar with a range of new icons, and the Browser lets you view multiple columns of metadata at once.

For more details, head to the Live 12.2 beta release notes*.

What’s new for Push?

Live 12.2 brings major new creative features to Push. Expressive 16 Pitches lets you make melodies spanning multiple octaves from your drums and one-shot samples, with added fine control from Push’s MPE-enabled pads. 

You can now structure songs, perform Sets, and explore flexible ways of sequencing clips and scenes on Push, with Follow Actions. 

Fine-tune the timing, feel, and even the tonality of your music, with full access to the Groove Pool and Live 12’s Tuning Systems, plus Bounce to New Track directly from Push. 

And in addition to the all-new Expressive Chords and the updates to Auto Filter, Meld, and Roar, Live 12.2 brings the External Audio Effect device to Push – enabling you to use hardware audio effects wherever you like in your Push Set. 

For a full list of what’s new for each version of Push, see the release notes for the Live 12 beta on Push*.

If you own a Live 12 license, you can sign up for the Ableton beta program* to try the new features now.

*Note: Release notes and the Ableton beta program are only available in English