Ableton Live Changelog

What's new in Ableton Live 11.3.22

Mar 12, 2024

Push - Bugfixes:
The following Control Surfaces will now work again when using Push 3 in Standalone Mode:
APC Mini
APC mini MK2
Launchkey Mini mkIII
Launchpad MK2
APC40 MK1
APC40 mk2
Launchpad Pro MK3
Push 1

New in Ableton Live 11.3.21 (Jan 26, 2024)

New in Ableton Live 11.3.20 (Jan 15, 2024)

Live - New features and improvements:
It is now possible to access and edit Note PB and PB Range values directly in the Simpler device. The Note PB and PB Range controls have also been added to Simpler’s parameter banks on Push 3 and 2.
The Drift device’s non-automatable parameters are now available as properties in the Max for Live API.
A progress bar now appears when transferring files from Push 3 to Live.
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.5.6. For the changelog, visit: https://cycling74.com/releases/max/8.5.6
Added Control Surface support for the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S Mk3.
Added Control Surface support for the AKAI APC64.
When loading a Note Set containing features from a version of Note that Live does not recognize, the names of those features are now included in the warning dialog.
Updated the Core Library:
Fixed SP 1200 16ths Grooves.
Changed Hybrid Reverb default routing mode to Parallel.
Restored the Hip-Hop Sub Bass preset.
Added Control Surface support for the KORG Keystage.
Previously, when loading a Set that included devices unknown to the currently used version of Live, an error message was displayed and the Set would fail to open. Now, the Set is opened without the unknown devices.
Live - Bugfixes:
Using the Dry/Wet controls in the Redux device while in Eco mode now works as expected instead of producing a phased sound.
Previously, Live might crash when loading a complex Live Set (e.g., a Set containing a large number of Drum Racks.)
Added the following changes to User Remote Scripts:
Clarified information regarding button behavior in the UserConfiguration.txt file.
The behavior of SessionRecButton is now consistent with the behavior of MIDI mapping the Session Record button.
Fixed some rare crashes that might occur under certain circumstances.
While scrolling is in progress upon using a quick flicking gesture on a touch pad and the view under the mouse changes (e.g., by pressing [Tab] to switch between the Session and Arrangement View), the scroll gesture now stops. Previously, the scrolling behavior would continue in the next view.
Limited the number of threads created for audio calculation on Windows to the number of threads that can be created with the highest thread priority. This may prevent audio dropouts on computers with many processor cores.
The text "Connect Push with Live..." in Live's browser now changes color when selecting a dark theme.
Improved the display of Packs normally available for download when Live cannot connect to the internet or the authorization link to the Ableton server is lost.
Fixed a crash that could occur when configuring a parameter in an Audio Unit plug-in.
Fixed an issue in the SL_MkIII Control Surface script where parameter names and values were not correctly displayed in some cases on macOS.
Fixed a bug that caused CPU spikes when using MPE with Instrument Racks or Drum Racks containing many chains.
Live no longer crashes when deleting a take lane while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
Fixed a crash that could potentially occur when running the Convert Melody to New MIDI Track command.
Fixed an issue where the DS Clang device would get triggered by any note of the same choke group.
The MPE Control device no longer affects UI responsiveness when scrolling in the Session View.
Capture MIDI will not cause Live to crash when using MIDI hardware that creates notes of zero duration.
Previously, re-enabling automation was necessary for many AU plug-ins when reloading a Live Set. This issue is now fixed.
Fixed an issue where adding or removing return tracks while mixer sends were not visible resulted in the mixer send view being incorrectly sized when made visible again.
Link is now able to connect to peers it could not connect to before in some cases.
Fixed the following issues that occurred when launching Live in full screen on macOS:
A gray rectangle is no longer shown for a short time at the bottom of the screen.
The padding on the top and bottom of the window is now correct.
Fixed a crash that occurred when editing the numeric value of an automation breakpoint.
Fixed an issue that caused audio dropouts when dragging a selection of many small clips in Arrangement View.
Fixed a bug that made notes appear as if they were jumping around when the start marker or loop brace were adjusted by small amounts.
Fixed an issue in several Control Surface scripts (such as APC mini mk2) where Racks containing macros with duplicate names could not be controlled as expected.
Fixed a bug where some AU and AUv3 plug-ins show no parameters after a changed configuration was saved as default.
Fixed a bug where exporting audio containing an external audio effect or instrument would not create a resulting audio file when restarted manually or due to dropouts.
Fixed a crash that occurred when restarting exporting audio within 100ms after starting Live.
Live no longer crashes when switching away from track (for example via MIDI mapping that changes tracks) while clicking in the Device tab.
Live will no longer repeatedly attempt to re-download an invalid Note Set from the Cloud.
Fixed a crash on Windows that occurred as a result of Direct3D 11 device driver resets and upgrades.
Fixed a “Serious Program Error" crash that occurred when loading a corrupted Max for Live device.
On macOS, fixed an issue that caused CPU dropouts when freezing tracks or rendering Sets which contained External Instrument.
Capture MIDI now correctly compensates for latency across loop jump boundaries.
Fixed a crash that occurred when opening a new Set or closing Live while certain plug-in UIs were visible.
Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing the [CTRL][Q] keyboard shortcut to quit Live while a VST plug-in editor window was in focus.
Fixed an issue where the KeyLab Essential mk3 control surface wouldn't be automatically set up on macOS.
Push 3 - New features and improvements:
Push’s pads and some of the buttons can now be used when browsing the Push 3 Tips lesson on the hardware.
When Note Pitch Bend is set to Automatic in Push’s Expression settings, the glissando type will be pitch bend when using the External Instrument device with the Channel set to MPE.
Two new buttons, ÷2 and ×2, have been added to Clip View for halving and doubling an audio clip’s tempo.
External Sync can now be enabled in the MIDI tab of the Setup menu, this makes it possible to set up external MIDI clock sync directly from Push.
The half-tempo button for audio clips and the Simpler device is now labelled as ÷2.
A Crop command has been added to Clip View for audio clips.
The layout for the Resonators device has been improved on Push 2 and 3.
In the Audio tab of the Setup menu, there are now two entries for Clock Source: Internal and ADAT In. When set to ADAT In, Push will be synced to the external clock, and Live’s audio engine will follow the external clock rate.
When hot-swapping audio clips, the browser will open to the location of the selected clip. When hot-swapping empty clips, the browser will open to its main list of categories.
The current firmware version is now displayed in the Software settings even when Push is in Control Mode.
Updated the design of the Quantize options:
The % character next to the Swing Amount and Quantize Amount controls are larger.
The Quantize To lists are now arranged vertically.
The Play button is now deactivated when external sync is enabled.
In the External Instrument device, meters are now visible for the Channel list of inputs.
The Status and MIDI tabs in the Setup menu now have indicators which tell the user when MIDI data and MIDI clock data is being sent or received, as well as the tempo that Push is synced to if external sync is in use.
The selected MIDI port's sync delay is now shown in the Setup menu's MIDI tab where it can be changed with an encoder.
Push's Play button will now show the state of Live's transport even when it is synced to an external MIDI clock, but pressing the button when it is externally synced will have no effect.
The turn off dialog will now be displayed after a short power button press.
The selected MIDI port's sync delay is now shown in the Setup menu's MIDI tab where it can be changed with an encoder.
When using a tuning system that is not built with twelve notes, the layout option in the Scales menu uses a larger font and now includes a space between the number and the unit.
Users can now upload usage data from when Push was used in Standalone Mode to Live.
Push 3 - Bugfixes:
When loading a Set with a wavetable selected in the Wavetable device, the device's visualization is now reliably shown after loading; this fixes an issue where Push would show "No Device" under certain circumstances.
When entering Hot-Swap Mode while the second Macro page of a Rack device is visible, the Rack device can now be hot-swapped.
Selecting the second Macro page of a Rack device while holding the Delete button will now delete the Rack device.
Push no longer crashes when selecting the first slice of a manually sliced Simpler device by pressing the pad representing that slice while holding the Select button.
When switching between two clips in Clip Mode, the clip's name and parameters are now correctly updated and displayed.
Connecting Push 3 to a computer now works correctly when the currently selected track contains a Wavetable device.
The timing of MIDI coming out of Push 3 is now more accurate, especially at higher audio buffer sizes.
When sliding between pads to change pitch on Push 3 with the Repeat button active, the repeated notes now follow the pitch bend and timbre correctly.
Fixed a typo in the message that appears on Push's display after successfully authorizing Live.
The Transpose parameter is now correctly available in Sampler's main bank on Push 3.
The waveform in Push's Clip View for audio clips is now correctly updated when dragging warp markers around or when using the ÷2 or ×2 buttons.
Max for Live devices that observe the values of controls without getting them will now work with Push 3.
Push 3 will now retain the last chosen buffer size after being rebooted.
When nudging a Simpler slice's start position past the end marker of the sample, Push will no longer crash in Standalone Mode.
After changing the metronome sound setting on Push 3, and then restarting the unit, the sound setting is now preserved.
Previously, files with names containing percent characters would not show correctly on Push.
A MIDI track's instrument can now be played when its input routing is set to "FromPush".
After Push starts up in Standalone Mode, there is now less of a delay before certain features start to work. Also, the first device or Set loaded after starting Push will take longer than before if it uses Max for Live.
The playhead in Push 3's Clip View of audio clips is now correctly displayed when using the ÷2 or ×2 buttons.
It is now possible to open the same Set twice in a row via Live's Push browser label.
An icon now appears to indicate whens a selection cannot be dropped when attempting to drag and drop it on or within the Push label in Live.
The demo song will now be loaded on startup if the onboarding tutorial wasn't finished during Push's previous run.
When starting Push 3 in Standalone Mode, the bottom row of buttons are no longer lit.
It is now possible to use Max for Live patches and presets that utilize Node.js on Push 3 in Standalone Mode.
Toggle controls are once again shown in a white instead of gray when active.
The Cue volume can now be reset to its default value by tapping the Volume encoder when holding the Delete button, while the encoder is controlling the Cue volume.
Samples and .amxd files collected and saved into Projects no longer show up as duplicates in their respective browser categories.
Previously, when holding a step and a note in the Melodic Sequencer + 32 Notes layout, releasing the note after releasing the step would "deactivate" the step sequencer.
When saving a Set after renaming it, the Set is correctly saved under the new name.
Fixed an issue with PMC power button handling to ensure that units in Control Mode can be switched on and off correctly.
While the scale menu is open after pressing the Scale button, Push no longer shows notifications such as "Play C2 to C4".
Trying to delete a device parameter's automation no longer results in an error that causes unexpected behavior.
MIDI and pad feedback will be more reliable on Push in Standalone Mode, especially at lower audio buffer sizes. It is also less likely that the audio will freeze at random times, especially when sending MIDI clock from Push.
Live no longer crashes when deleting multiple Group Tracks at the same time while Push 3 is connected.
It is once again possible to enter Note Edit mode using the jog wheel or Edit button, and select notes.
When connecting Push 3 while in Control Mode to a computer running Live, it will be properly set up and connected to Live - even if Live was previously running seven Control Surfaces.
Sets with larger numbers of tracks don't lag as much when editing steps in a step sequencer.
Live no longer crashes when using Push 3 and changing the length of a note via a step sequencer while at the same time modifying that note via one of the encoders (e.g. Nudge).
Push 3 will no longer crash when going from having an output selected to having no output.
Push will now be less likely to hang before starting when switching from Standalone Mode to Control Mode.
Push units without processor should now start more reliably.
Canceling the shutdown dialog now restores previous views as expected.
Removed the FromPush and ToPush MIDI ports from the Control Surface configuration. When used, these could lead to some erratic behavior. Any Control Surfaces that the user has configured to use these ports will be disconnected.
Push should now be more responsive when switching between Control Mode and Standalone Mode.
Improved Hot-Swap Mode so that the Load Previous and Load Next buttons are now only visible if the previous or next item can be loaded, respectively.
Pads are now less likely to intermittently stop and start working again when playing on Push.
Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing the Edit upper display button in Clip View while an empty MIDI clip was selected.
Push will continue to be automatically armed for recording as expected, even after connecting and then disconnecting a control surface with an auto-arming feature.
Fixed a crash in Live that occurred when quickly turning the Start and End encoders in Simpler on Push.
Pink track Arm buttons are now properly disabled in Live after unplugging Push 2 or Push 3 (in Tethered Mode).
Updated Push’s firmware to version 1.4.0. This addresses the following issues:
An issue with audio distortions that occur when booting into higher sample rates.
A problem with unexpected high velocity outliers on outer pads.
An issue with Y jitter at the lower third of the bottom row of pads.
Fixed a crash that occurred when shutting down Live while a return or the Master track was selected.
Fixed a crash in Live that occurred when changing the scale root from Push 2 or 3.

New in Ableton Live 11.3.13 (Oct 25, 2023)

New in Ableton Live 11.3.12 (Oct 11, 2023)

New in Ableton Live 11.3.11 (Sep 21, 2023)

New in Ableton Live 11.3.10 (Aug 22, 2023)

Live - New features and improvements:
Users that have Cloud enabled but are not logged in will be greeted with a new landing view when selecting the Cloud label in the browser.
Updated the Core Library to make adjustments to Note Pitch Bend settings for some MIDI clip presets.
Users can now control Drift using Max for Live.
Added default values to Drift's Stereo and Unison modes.
Users will now be redirected to the online manual on ableton.com when clicking on links to the manual in Help View lessons.
Added software texts for Pitch Bend Range and Note PB Range in the MIDI/MPE tab in Collision.
Added software texts for the Global/MPE radio buttons in Analog.
Updated various software texts for Drift and the Cloud label.
Updated some software text translations in French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Updated the Max for Live Devices Help View lesson.
Fixed a typo in the A Tour of Live Help View lesson.
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.5.5. For the changelog, visit: https://cycling74.com/forums/max-8-5-5-released
Live - Bugfixes:
Auto-Warp fixes:
Fixed a bug that caused Live to hang when browsing factory packs and loading multisampled instruments.
Improved the loading speed for Sets that contain samples which include .asd files, as well as for Packs that contain sampled instruments.
Fixed an issue that caused noise artifacts to be added to audio signals when using the Complex or Complex Pro warp modes on Apple silicon computers.
When auto-warping samples that were created at a fixed tempo, Live will now often warp these files using a single warp marker with a constant tempo.
Improved the tempo choice of the “Warp From Here (Straight)” context menu option.
Recording samples will no longer result in UI lag.
When the Auto-Warp Long Samples option in Live's Record/Warp/Launch Preferences is switched off, opening existing Live Sets will no longer cause UI freezes due to auto-warp analysis. However, there a few scenarios that could still result in a UI freeze or lag:
If the preference “Auto-Warp Long Samples” is switched on in the Record/Warp/Launch Preferences, long samples will be analyzed when they are imported into Live.
If “Auto-Warp Long Samples” preference is switched off and a sample is imported or recorded directly in Live, the sample will be analyzed when using the context menu options “Warp From Here” or “Warp From Here Straight." Similarly, if an unwarped sample is warped using a context menu option, it will be analyzed.
Updated the End User License Agreement in Live’s installer.
When selecting one or more notes in the MIDI Note Editor and entering a velocity value with the keyboard, the possible velocity range is now limited to 1-127 rather than 0-127.
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused a MIDI note’s velocity value shown in the MIDI Note Editor to be different from the velocity value shown in the Status Bar.
The screen no longer flashes pink when starting Live in full screen on macOS ARM-based machines.
Fixed a bug that prevented Wavetable’s expanded view from filling the entire width of the Live window.
Fixed a bug that caused grooves to replace existing grooves in the Groove Pool instead of being copied when dragging and dropping grooves from Live’s browser or clips while holding the copy modifier CTRL (Win) / ALT (Mac).
In Drift, using a Sample & Hold LFO Waveform in combination with the Retrigger option now correctly changes the initial value of the shape with each triggered note.
Fixed an issue in Drift’s filter that sometimes caused notes to sound as if attack was applied to them.
When using Drift with a sustain pedal, releasing the pedal no longer stops notes that are still held on a MIDI keyboard or Push.
Fixed a bug in the Analog device that caused negative values of the Pitch Env Initial parameter to behave as positive values.
Note-off velocity is now correctly passed through in MPE Control.
On macOS, Live no longer crashes when the Output Device in Audio Preferences is set to "Use System Device" and the Input Device is set to a device which is incompatible with the Output Device.
On macOS, Live no longer crashes when disconnecting certain audio interfaces while the Input Config dialog is open.
Fixed a potential crash that could occur when audio devices or their properties were changed in Live’s Audio Preferences.
Max for Live devices that have only an external output routing no longer cause unwanted delay compensation.
Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when loading the Samplex3 VST3 plug-in. As a result of this fix, the Device View now displays the Show/Hide Plug-In Window wrench icon for VST3 plug-ins.
Fixed an issue that caused plug-ins with 17 output busses to crash Live in some circumstances.
Fixed a crash that occurred when changing a parameter or recording automation while adding or editing an automation value.
On macOS, fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when opening drop-down menus containing very long entries.
Fixed an issue that caused Live to hang at the end of a Pack installation.
Fixed an issue on Apple silicon computers that caused CPU overload and dropouts when using multiple Simpler devices on a drum pad within a Drum Rack.
Fixed a bug that caused Min/Max values for mapped Macro parameters in AUv2 plug-ins to be lost when loading a preset or a Live Set.
Push 3 - New features and improvements:
Updated the Push 3 software package to version 1.3.0 (includes XMOS 1.0.71 firmware).
User Mode is now available when using Push in Control Mode. All of Push's built-in functionality can be deactivated via User Mode. This allows Push to be reprogrammed to control alternate functions in Live or other software. Press the User button to enter User Mode.
Items in the Projects folder are now arranged according to the selected sorting criteria.
Made the following changes to Browse Mode:
Packs are now shown with the Packs folder.
The Favorites button is now no longer shown when navigating away from a folder.
Browse Mode can now be closed correctly if the User Mode was toggled when viewing the browser.
Improved discoverability of available Pushes in Live’s browser.
Improved the design of various icons in Browse Mode.
It is now possible to set global launch quantization by holding the Metronome button and turning the fifth encoder from the left.
Push 3 - Bugfixes:
Fixed an issue that prevented the XMOS firmware from being updated correctly for some units.
Fixed an issue that caused lost or jumping notes when pressing a column of pads with considerable force.
Fixed a bug that caused ADAT clock synchronization to be intermittently lost when changing sample rates.
When using Hot-Swap Mode to swap an empty pad after swapping a non-empty pad, the browser will now open the location of the non-empty pad. This behavior matches hot-swapping on Push 2.
Fixed an issue that caused an error message stating Live had crashed to appear when first turning on a new Push unit. This fix also prevents the same message from appearing when turning on Push in Standalone Mode after shutting it down.
Fixed a bug that caused Live to hang when attempting to recover the Live Intro demo Set after loading the Set crashed Live.
Fixed an issue that made it seem as if Push was in recovery mode after a software update. Rebooting after a software update will now correctly trigger shutdown and startup animations.
Max for Live devices which use grab_midi and receive_midi now work correctly when Push is in Control Mode.
When changing octaves while a clip is playing in Note Mode, the pad feedback will now be updated immediately.
The connect screen is now displayed on Push when Live is closed and Push is in Control Mode.
Improved reliability of pads when using low pressure values.
Double triggers on certain drum hits are now suppressed.
Fixed an issue that caused the touch strip to get stuck.
Fixed a bug that caused some firmware update failures.
Fixed a bug that caused the velocity curve to jump after connecting Push to Live.
Fixed an issue that caused double-finger hits of non-drum MPE pads to be lost.
Fixed an issue where the external ADAT clock source was not working on macOS.
Fixed a crash that occurred when loading a Set with the Master track selected and then pressing the Master Track button.
When the amount of Gain on a sample in Simpler is turned down to the minimum, the value will now be correctly displayed as -inf.
Fixed an issue that prevented users from changing the length of notes in clips when using pads in the step sequencers.
Fixed a bug that prevented audio clips from being immediately available for conversion after being recorded.
Fixed a bug that caused display visualizations to overlap when holding a step in a step sequencer for automation recording while the Setup menu was open.
The input meter will now indicate clipping in cases where too much digital gain is applied.
A value of -0.0 no longer appears when fine-tuning Wavetable's parameters.
When attempting to load a Max for Live device that cannot be opened on Push, an error message will now be immediately displayed on the hardware.
Added icons for Group Tracks and tracks containing Drum Racks or Instrument Racks.
If a new Set is created as a part of a lesson on Push, the display no longer shows a notification about a new Set.
Fixed an issue that caused the sensitivity curve to change abruptly when adjusting settings in the Sensitivity tab of the Setup menu.
Fixed a bug that resulted in parameters representing notes to display an integer value instead of the note name.
Increased the encoder sensitivity when adjusting the pitch bend range in Drift.
When playing repeated notes using the Repeat button in the 16-Velocities layout, changing pressure on the pads will no longer change the velocity of the notes.
Removed the option to choose a different volume option by holding the Select button and tapping the Volume encoder.
Adjusting pressure applied to the pads when playing repeated notes while using the Poly or Mono Aftertouch Expression Modes will now correctly affect the velocity of the notes.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Mute button from working when attempting to mute steps in a step sequencer.
Fixed an issue that could result in the shutdown confirmation message being displayed at the same time as the save confirmation message.
Improved responsiveness of the touch strip when changing octaves in Note Mode while playing back a Set with a high CPU load.
Fixed an issue where Packs available for download or update were not visible after using the Hot-Swap Mode.
Fixed a bug that caused the battery charge level to be displayed as “N/A” after charging to 99%.
Improved handling of data removal, so that installing and then uninstalling a Pack when using Push in Standalone Mode will now result in the same amount of free disk space as before installation.
Deleting the last item in a given folder will now result in the browser returning to the parent folder.
When dragging and dropping a clip onto the Push label in Live’s browser, the cursor now changes to indicate that the action cannot be performed.
Pressing the Preview upper display button in Push’s browser now affects the state of the Preview switch in Live’s browser and vice versa.
Fixed a crash that occurred when stopping all playing clips with a return track selected.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the upper display buttons and editing options for MIDI clips to appear in white instead of matching the clip’s color.
It is now possible to adjust Drift’s Voice Count parameter on Push.
The available options for the Type B parameter in the EQ Eight device are now represented by icons.

New in Ableton Live 11.3.4 (Jul 6, 2023)

New in Ableton Live 11.3.3 (Jun 6, 2023)

New in Ableton Live 11.3.2 (Jun 6, 2023)

New features and improvements:
Auto-Warp Improvements:
Live now uses a new Auto-Warp algorithm. Both downbeat and tempo variations are more accurately analyzed, making it possible to work with longer samples and entire songs without the need for manual warping in most cases.
To run the new Auto-Warp algorithm on clips within an existing Live Set, use any of the Warp From Here commands (found in the Sample Editor's context menu) from any location in a clip.
Cloud in Live:
Song updates made to a synced Note Set will download more quickly to Live, under certain circumstances.
Song updates made to a synced Note Set that is currently open on Windows and has not been saved using the Collect All and Save option will no longer cause a download to fail and retry endlessly.
Samples that are no longer used by a Set.abl file will not be displayed under that Set within the browser's Cloud label.
Control Surfaces:
It is now possible to redo actions using the Launchkey MK3 Control Surface script by holding down Shift button and pressing the Undo button.
Core Library:
Added new presets and Racks featuring MPE.
Added improved MPE mappings in MPE-enabled instruments.
An update to zplane libraries may cause subtle sound changes when using Complex and Complex Pro warp modes in audio clips or the Simpler device.
Interface Improvements:
Accessing Legal Information through the About Live dialog now opens Live’s factory content Legal folder that contains Ableton's End User License Agreement and licensing documents.
Updated the End User License Agreement to:
include new Ableton products
better reflect the Ableton product ecosystem
respond to requests for clarification on our policies
include other small and compliance-related updates
Updated software texts in various areas of Live.
Updated various Help View lessons.
Updated various Help View lessons and software text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese languages.
The "Read the Live Manual…" option in the Help menu will now direct users to the online version of the manual.
Replaced the link in the Help menu that points to Ableton's homepage with one that points to Ableton's Help page.
Help menu items that are related to learning Live are now grouped into one section, and "Get Support..." now appears as "Get Support", to indicate that it is not an external link.
Renamed the Help menu's "Help View" item to "Built-In Lessons".
Renamed the Home button's "Help View" info text in the main Built-In Lessons page to "Lessons Start Page".
Added a link to the Help View's table of contents page that points to Ableton's Help page.
Removed unnecessary dots from the File menu's "Manage Files..." entry.
When Zoom Display is set to 100% on Windows, Live now uses less GPU resources with certain combinations of GPUs and drivers.
Removed the option to "Use System Device" for audio input on macOS.
If audio output is set to “Use System Device” and the system device changes, Live no longer pauses audio with a "System device changed" dialog on macOS.
Max for Live Improvements:
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.5.4. For the changelog, visit: https://cycling74.com/releases/max/8.5.4
fixed parsing error with large gen Patchers
fixed matrix color input
fixed audioschedulertime calculation when device is open in the Editor
Live Object Model: updated docs
sfplay~: fixed crash with timestretching in efficient mode
vst~: improved loading speed for VST shell single plugin
vst~: partian-scan results are used in fas-scan mode
vst~: unique ID argument is used with plug_{format} messages
vst~: VST3 shell plugins cache info about other plugs in the shell
metro in Max for Live: outputs bangs consistently when the Arrangement View's loop brace is active
RNBO in Max for Live: starts up only after a rnbo~ object is present
MIDI Clips and Note Editing:
In MIDI clips, the setting of the Envelope Editor's MIDI Envelope Auto-Reset context menu entry is always respected, even when the respective track's Monitor switch is set to "In".
New Devices and Device Improvements:
AAS Device Improvements:
Added MPE support to the Analog, Collision, Electric, and Tension devices.
Updated info texts in the Analog, Collision, Electric, and Tension devices.
Added visual improvements to the Collision and Tension devices.
Drift:
Introduced Drift, a new Instrument available in all editions of Live. Drift is a compact subtractive synthesizer that comes with a wide sonic palette and an approachable interface.
Expression Control:
Changed the way MIDI and MPE data are parsed for improved reliability. This also delivers a potential performance boost to the device.
Expressive Content for Live:
Added a number of presets to the AAS devices (i.e., Analog, Collision, Electric, and Tension), and the Drift, Sampler, and Wavetable devices, with an emphasis on expressive playability. The updated MPE Control Device can further adjust their playability and also enhance interaction with non-MPE devices such as Operator (via MPE to MIDI).
External Instrument:
The External Instrument device is now available in Live Intro.
MIDI Monitor:
Incoming MPE data can now be viewed in the MIDI Monitor device in the MPE display. Incoming note, velocity, slide, pressure and per-note pitch data are shown in a continuous stream as notes are played.
MPE Control:
Redesigned the UI to include dedicated tabs for MPE sources. This makes it possible to separately adjust each source’s settings, including configuring a default modulation value which will be used when playing notes that do not contain per-note MIDI data. It also introduces the ability to individually mute MPE sources.
Introduced the Swap to Slide option when using the Press MPE source. This is useful for example when controlling an external synth which only supports polyphonic aftertouch, but the user intends to control the modulation via the vertical axis instead.
Introduced a Centered option to the Slide MPE Source, so that the center of the vertical axis corresponds to a Slide value of 0, reaching 127 in both directions when moving away from the center. This feature is meant to help users who utilize a pad based MPE controller. Centered transforms Slide data so that hitting the center of the pad generates non modulated sound and the modulation value increases progressively as the finger slides away from the center alongside the vertical axis.
Added the Ons option to the Slide MPE source. When activated, Slide values are only updated on Note On, without further changes until a new note plays.
Optimized the device for better CPU performance.
The default modulation value will always be used when playing a note which does not contain per-note MIDI data, also in cases where min, max and curve values are tweaked.
Improved the text layout of live.tab objects.
Note Echo:
Added MPE support to the Note Echo device. Each MPE dimension has a feedback control, which defines how fast MPE modulation decays over time. MPE can be enabled with a toggle; when this toggle is disabled, the device behaves exactly how it did in 11.2.
Minor changes have been made to parameter names in Sampler and Wavetable.
Push:
Added support for the Drift device to Push 2.
Improved the UI of the following devices on Push 2: Analog, Collision, Tension, Beat Repeat, Filter Delay, Amp, Vinyl Distortion, Saturator, and Grain Delay.
On Push 2, it is now possible to edit MPE parameters in the Analog device, and missing parameters have been added to the device's banks.
It is now possible to edit MPE parameters in the Tension device on Push 2.
Reduced the knob sensitivity of the Tension device's Octave and Semitone parameters on Push 2.
Setup:
To avoid incompatibilities, you will be asked to save Live Sets created with an older version of Live as a new file in Live 11.3.
Live Bugfixes:
Fixed a bug that caused incorrect formatting of some text in the Info View when Live’s language preference was set to German.
The Sample Editor will now always display the audio clip the user interacted with last, even in cases where multiple audio clips are selected.
Fixed a bug that resulted in an incorrect latency compensation when using positive track delays on Group Tracks or return tracks.
Scale Name and Root Note values of clips which are not in key will now be correctly retrieved when re-opening a saved Live Set. Previously, they would reset to default values when the clip was changed to be in key with the Set.
Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when pressing [Tab] or [Shift][Tab] after clicking on a Session clip title in the Clip View in a second window.
When using a second window, Live will no longer switch between Session and Arrangement Views when clicking on a clip title in the Clip View, even when interacting with a clip from the other view.
Fixed a bug that prevented automation lanes of some AUv2 plug-in devices from showing up when reloading a Live Set.
Fixed an issue in the APC Key 25 mk2, APC mini mk2, ATOM, and ATOMSQ control surfaces where button LEDs would indicate that upward scrolling was possible under the wrong circumstances.
Fixed a bug that might cause Live to crash on Windows when quitting the application.
Fixed a crash that could occur when configuring a plug-in device's parameter while the containing track was unselected.
Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing the [Tab] key after switching to the Arrangement by hovering over the Arrangement View Selector while dragging a Session clip.
Previously, dragging a Drum Rack return chain to the Session/Arrangement View drop area would create an uncolored return track.
Fixed a bug that created an Ableton Folder Info subfolder in the wrong location, or under the wrong circumstances.
Fixed a bug that caused the Analog device's amplifier envelope to ignore the release phase when its Free Run Mode switch was enabled.
Previously, when pressing the Cancel button in the "This action will stop audio. Proceed?" dialog that appears during the Collect All and Save process, the current Set would be moved into the respective Backup folder.
Fixed an issue in the Multiband Dynamics device that would cause its band meters to flicker when used with certain VST plug-ins.
Fixed a bug that caused Live to switch to “Use System Device: No Device” after disconnecting wired headphones while the “Use System Device” setting was enabled.
When using an incompatible device with the “Use System Device” setting active, Live no longer stays connected to the device and instead switches audio devices to "No Device" as indicated in the warning dialog.
Fixed a crash that occurred after canceling a package installation.
Fixed a regression which prevented the Note Echo device from working correctly with MPE.
Fixed a crash that occurred when receiving a call while using AirPods as audio output device.
Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur if loading sample chunks took a long time.
The MIDI input ports of the APC Key 25 mk2 and APC Mini mk2 controllers are now visible in Live's Link/Tempo/MIDI preferences, which allows these controllers to be used for MIDI mapping.
Fixed a performance issue in Sets with many particular VST3 plug-ins, that caused the UI to lag or become unresponsive.
Fixed a typo in the French translation of the Quantize dialog window.
Fixed a bug that allowed dropping a Rack chain containing only audio effects on an audio track header, which caused Live to crash.
Per-track performance impact meters now use less graphics-rendering resources.
Max for Live Bugfixes:
Fixed a crash that occurred when running the duplicate_clip_slot function on return tracks or the Master track with Max for Live.
Fixed a crash that occurred when running the duplicate_clip_to_arrangement function on an Arrangement clip using the same start time as the original.
Fixed a bug which allowed users to run the duplicate_clip_to_arrangement function with negative start time.
Fixed a bug in the MPE Control device that prevented Sustain Messages from working.
Fixed a bug in the Expression Control device that prevented Global Aftertouch from working as expected, under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug in the Shaper MIDI device that caused its envelope to be triggered once a Note Off message was sent.
Fixed a bug in the Shaper device which caused some UI elements to be inconsistent with Live’s color palette when using Dark Theme.
Fixed a bug that caused sound to cut off while triggering the DS Cymbal device and adjusting its Decay parameter.

New in Ableton Live 11.2.11 (Mar 22, 2023)

New in Ableton Live 11.2.10 (Feb 22, 2023)

New features and improvements:
Capture MIDI:
A sequence of Capture MIDI attempts will not be biased by the tempo of previous captured clips.
More material will be kept by Capture MIDI when the transport is playing.
When Live's transport is stopped, Capture MIDI now requires a slightly longer gap to detect new phrases.
Clip View:
Opening a Note Set in Live where the Set has the In Key setting switched on will now activate each clip's Scale Mode (except in tracks containing Drum Racks). Scale Mode is toggled with the Scale button in the Clip panel of the Clip View for MIDI clips.
Cloud in Live:
In the Cloud tab of Live’s browser, the Date Modified column now appears as Cloud Modified.
The Cloud Sign In button has been expanded to fit translated texts.
A loading icon is now displayed next to the Cloud label when syncing Sets.
After signing out of Cloud in Live, the Manage Cloud tab of the ableton.com User Account no longer shows an active session.
When transferring Note Sets to Live, the Sets will now be visible in the Cloud label in Live’s browser. They will appear grayed out until the sync is complete.
Control Surfaces:
The Record button on ATOM, ATOM SQ and MiniLab 3 Control Surfaces will now record the view in the second window when it is in focus. Previously, it would always record the view selected in the main Live screen.
Added Control Surface support for the AKAI APC Key 25 mk2 and APC Mini mk2.
Improved the parameter mappings for Hybrid Reverb and Phaser-Flanger in the AKAI APC Key 25 mk2, APC Mini mk2 and Arturia MiniLab 3 Control Surfaces.
Improved the parameter mappings for Drum Buss, Hybrid Reverb, Phaser-Flanger and Redux on Push and in the AKAI FORCE and Novation SL MkIII Control Surfaces.
Device Improvements:
The Pitch MIDI effect UI has been slightly updated.
In Audio and MIDI Effect Racks, chains are now automatically named based on whichever devices are added.
Interface:
Updated various Help View lessons.
Updated various software texts in English and Simplified Chinese.
Updated the software texts for the Electric device.
Updated the appearance of the "Record/Warp/Launch" tab in Live's Preferences.
Added support for MIDI files with the .midi extension.
When viewing search results in Live’s browser, plug-ins are now organized as expected when sorting by Type.
The Follow button in the Control Bar is no longer hidden when selecting multiple clips in Arrangement View.
When switching audio devices with the Use System Device option activated, Live no longer displays a dialog window about system devices if the device change doesn't impact the current device selection.
Max for Live:
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.3.3. For the changelog, visit: https://cycling74.com/forums/max-8-3-3-released
A new accessor in the C++, Python, and Max for Live APIs allows users to directly access the chain selector of a RackDevice in Max for Live instead of indexing into a parameter list.
Users can now access Live's full version string (instead of only the major, minor, and bugfix version numbers) using the Max for Live API.
Two new properties in the Max for Live API allow users to observe the latency of a device in either samples or milliseconds.
A new property in the Max for Live API allows users to observe the number of visible Macro Controls for a RackDevice.
Improved the sorting of output when getinfo is called on a live.object by making a Rack Chain selector a child property of RackDevice rather than a simple value property.
Updated the LOM documentation to correctly reflect the available values when getting a device’s type.
LiveAPI: A Compressor's input_routing_channel and input_routing_type are now settable.
The properties of the Shifter device are now accessible via Max for Live.
Push
Updated some parameter names for the Reverb device on Push 2.
Setup
The Export Audio/Video dialog is now slightly larger to accommodate translated texts.
When exporting multiple tracks, the option to also export video at the same time is now deactivated in the Export Audio/Video dialog.
Introduced a Use System Device Option in the audio input/output choosers in Live’s Audio Preferences on macOS. Selecting Use System Device will set the input/output device in Live to match what is set in the macOS Sound System Preferences.
If the Use System Device setting is chosen for audio input or output on macOS and the System Audio Device changes, Live’s audio engine will turn off, and a dialog window will appear. The dialog window will prompt you to either accept the changes made by the system or configure Live’s audio settings on your own.
Bugfixes:
Live Bugfixes:
Fixed two bugs relating to Link:
Fixed a bug where Live would sometimes play out of alignment with Link peers when starting playback somewhere after a time signature change.
Fixed a bug where Live’s playhead would move around unpredictably when clicking in the Scrub Area to jump playback into a section with a different time signature while Link was enabled.
Fixed a bug that disabled file synchronization between Live's browser and secondary drive volumes on macOS.
Fixed a bug on macOS that would sometimes prevent Live's UI from updating (and sometimes scaling incorrectly) after connecting or disconnecting an external monitor.
Fixed a bug that caused the minimum parameter values of AU plug-in presets to load instead of their assigned values.
Fixed a bug that incorrectly cropped a warning text in Live's Audio Preferences when the text becomes too long.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused .als files saved in Collections to disappear from the list when using the “Save Live Set” or “Collect All and Save” commands in the File menu.
Fixed a bug where Live would sometimes fail to auto-update when the application was renamed to fit the exact version number (e.g. “Ableton Live 11.2.5 Suite”), and then placed in a folder of the same name.
Fixed a bug where the blue modulation dot would not appear next to modulated sliders immediately after adding a modulation envelope for it.
Fixed a bug that would occur when dragging device chains that contain external files (e.g., the LFO device) into a folder that is not in the User Library. This previously created an entirely new Project folder, even if the Collect Files on Export setting in the Library Preferences was set to “Ask” or “Never,” and the dialog box that appeared when moving the file was not set to copy it.
Fixed a bug where Sets with emojis in their title would stay in the Cloud tab of Live’s browser, even after removing them from Cloud in Note.
Fixed a bug that caused Live to remain synced to an external MIDI clock even when the corresponding MIDI port’s Sync input was deactivated.
Fixed a crash that occurred when renaming samples in selected Drum Rack pads that were outside of the Rack’s displayed Pad Overview.
Fixed a crash on Windows that occurred when using the [right-click] context menu to rename an audio/MIDI clip or locator while it was already being renamed. Now, right-clicking a clip or locator while renaming it no longer opens a context menu.
Fixed a crash on macOS that sometimes occurred when selecting an audio output device in Live’s Audio Preferences and disconnecting it shortly thereafter.
Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging a Session clip away from its original track, holding it over another track long enough to select it, and proceeding to drop it into Live’s browser.
Fixed an issue that caused disk overloads when using MIDI notes with randomized velocities to play Sampler presets in certain Packs (such as Session Drums Club).
Fixed an issue in the MackieControl and MackieControl Classic Control Surface scripts where exclusive arming wouldn't work in some cases.
Fixed an issue in the MackieControl and MackieControl Classic Control Surface scripts where changing a track's input type could leave Rec/Rdy LEDs in incorrect states.
Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances, Draw Mode in the Velocity and Chance Editor lanes did not work correctly when editing multiple clips.
Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances, drawing ramps in the Velocity and Chance Editor lanes when editing multiple clips did not correctly highlight affected notes.
Fixed an issue that caused a value range to be displayed when using the [ALT][Shift] keys to draw linear ramps in the Velocity and Chance Editor lanes instead of a fixed value.
Fixed an issue where drop-down menus in Live’s Preferences would disappear when the initial mouse click was released if the menu was clicked on the leftmost side.
Fixed an issue where clicking the empty area beneath scenes in the Master track would not select the Master track.
Fixed an issue with Sampler devices in Drum Rack pads that created disk overloads under rare circumstances.
Fixed two bugs relating to emojis in Live
Fixed a bug where Set names with emojis would stay in the Cloud tab of Live’s browser, even after removing them from Cloud in Note.
Fixed a regression on macOS where folders saved in the Places section of Live’s browser wouldn’t show any contents if a folder name contained certain emojis.
Fixed a regression on Windows where keyboard shortcuts with the copy modifier [ALT] would not work after using the [F11] shortcut to enter and exit Full Screen Mode until you pressed another key first.
Previously, loading an instance of the Shifter device with the Delay parameter enabled would cause timing and pitch issues during playback.
Previously, crashes on macOS caused by a specific VST2 plug-in would open a Help View lesson that displayed the name of the faulty plug-in along with a few common troubleshooting tips. Due to changes in macOS crash reporting, this feature has been removed.
Previously, video export failed when a warped video clip contained a Start or End marker before the start or after the end of the video.
When dragging or [Shift]-dragging a Warp Marker within a video clip, Live's Video Window now displays the video at the position of the Warp Marker.
Double-clicking the right edge of Live’s browser now folds the window as expected.
Loading older Live Sets, presets, and samples created on macOS will no longer cause Live or the Indexer to crash on Windows if the content contains a forward slash (e.g. “Clip 1/8.adg”).
Opening a pop-up menu with [Enter] then closing it with [ESC] now works as expected.
When using Capture MIDI with Reduce Latency When Monitoring enabled, the resulting MIDI clip now has the exact timing as what was played.
Certain UI elements of the Spectral Resonator, Spectral Time, and Limiter devices are now consistent with Live’s color palette when using the Dark Theme.
The Optimize Arrangement Width command (accessible via the [W] shortcut) now ignores invisible take lanes.
Metal rendering is now turned off for macOS 10.13 High Sierra to fix issues that arise when using Full Screen Mode. Metal rendering can be restored using the "-_MacOSForceMetalLayerOnHighSierra" debug option in the Options.txt file.
Packs will now be selected in Live’s browser when they are finished installing.
Loop start/end markers for audio clips are now properly aligned with the borders of the Push 2 display.
Nudging clips on linked tracks now works as expected.
Under certain circumstances, launching different Rack Macro Control variations would create ramps in recorded automation envelopes due to missing endpoints. These envelopes now appear as discrete automation line segments.
Using [Shift]-click to select clips in Arrangement View now shows the correct selection lengths in Live's Status Bar.
When using [Shift]-click to extend the time selection of linked tracks with take lanes, the selection is no longer extended to all lanes.
Main menus on Windows can be accessed in Full Screen Mode by using [ALT] + character shortcuts.
When using scene Follow Actions to switch between scenes with different tempos, Live now correctly changes tempo with a scene change even when the Arrangement loop is activated. Previously, if the Arrangement loop was on, the tempo would prematurely change when reaching the end of the Arrangement loop brace.
Fixed a bug which prevented the Optimize Arrangement Width button from working correctly when loading Note Sets in Live.
When loading a corrupt Live Set containing non-unique Pointee IDs, Live now automatically offers to repair the set.
Fixed an issue where Live sometimes would not update the UI when switching between viewing note-on and note-off velocities in the MIDI Velocity Editor.
Fixed a bug which prevented adaptive grid modes from working correctly. The grid lines now reappear as expected when zooming out after having previously fully zoomed in.
Fixed a regression which prevented the Expression Control device from recalling mappings to certain parameters when loading a Live Set or preset.
Fixed a bug which caused the Reverb device to stop outputting sound when using long predelay times.
Fixed a crash that occurred when connecting to audio system devices when no output device was available.
Fixed a regression that prevented the MackieControl and MackieControl_Classic Control Surfaces from working correctly in Live Sets that contained Group Tracks.
Max for Live Bugfixes:
LiveAPI: A Compressor's input_routing_type now correctly returns input_routing_type instead of the input_routing_channel.

New in Ableton Live 11.2.7 (Dec 15, 2022)

New in Ableton Live 11.2.6 (Nov 1, 2022)

New in Ableton Live 11.2.5 (Oct 18, 2022)

New in Ableton Live 11.2 (Sep 27, 2022)

New features and improvements:
Capture MIDI:
Capture results are no longer influenced by the song tempo set by the target track's previous Capture attempts.
When Live’s transport is running, Capture MIDI will keep longer phrases in captured clips.
Control Surfaces:
In the Launchkey MK3 Control Surface script, the Quantise button can now quantize clips in Session or Arrangement View.
The Launchkey MK3 Control Surface script now also works with the Launchkey 88.
On the PreSonus ATOM SQ, it is now possible to scroll between device parameter banks by holding the bank navigation buttons down.
In the ATOM SQ Control Surface script, it is now possible to control the Master Track volume and pan in Song mode when the Master Track is selected.
The encoder sensitivity for the ATOM SQ Control Surface script has been refined to better match the parameters they control. Additionally, the encoders can be used to fine tune parameter values when the Shift button is pressed.
Core Library:
Added audio and MIDI clips to Session View in Live’s Demo Song.
In the DS Drum Rack preset, devices contained in the selected chain are now always shown by default.
Interface:
The icons in Live’s Preferences and dialogs have been improved.
Updated the appearance of the "Record/Warp/Launch" tab in Live's Preferences.
The error dialog window that appears when loading a Live Set with disabled plug-ins now displays the track name before the timestamp.
Live now shows different icons for Live Clip (.alc) files that distinguish between Audio and MIDI content in the browser.
When renaming tracks, [Tab] will navigate to the next track or chain header, while [Shift][Tab] navigates to the previous track or chain header.
Value ranges on vertical rulers in the MIDI Note Editor are now always displayed as two values stacked vertically.
Improved drag and drop behavior within list views (such as the Groove Pool and device chains). Instead of always being inserted before the target item, dropped items will now be placed dynamically, depending on which half of the target item the cursor hovers over. In addition, the copy modifier [ALT] now works more consistently.
When Num Lock is switched off on Windows, the number pad arrows, PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End keys now function as expected.
Disabled devices now display an alert icon above error messages in Device View.
When exporting multiple tracks, the option to also export video at the same time is now deactivated in the Export Audio/Video dialog.
Updated various software texts.
Updated various Help View lessons.
Updated various software text and Help View lesson translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
Max for Live:
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.3.1. For the changelog, visit: https://cycling74.com/forums/max-8-3-1-released
live.banks: added warnings to explain non-reactivity in Max-only
Dynamic Colors: changed label of ‘live_control_fg’ to ‘Text /Icon’
jweb / CEF: fixed usage in Max for Live (Windows)
live.* ui objects: updated color code
live.banks: banks configuration is retained if device is opened and saved in Max
live.comment: linecount is preserved
live.gain~: @orientation 1 typed-in a box works as expected
live.gain~: auto-adapts when transforming to MC version
live.observer: fixed value output after opening/closing Max editor
crosspatch: works in the context of a Max for Live device hosted in Live
Max for Live / Gen: improved fixes for intermittent crashes
A new property in the Max for Live API allows users to observe the number of visible Macro Controls for a RackDevice.
Audio driver input and output latencies are now taken into account for Max for Live devices that contain audio routings to external targets. If needed, users can revert to the previous behavior by using the -DisableM4LRoutingCompensation debug option in an Options.txt file.
The time_signature_numerator, time_signature_denominator, time_signature_enabled and tempo_enabled properties are now available in the Max for Live API. Corrected descriptions for the properties have also been added.
Improved and updated the scale_name and scale_intervals descriptions in the Max for Live API.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Reverb:
The Reverb device's interface has been updated with a fresh design.
The Reverb device's Density and Quality parameters have been renamed to Diffusion and Density. The parameter values for Density (previously Quality) have also been changed from Eco, Mid, and High to Sparse, Low, Mid, and High. Sparse mode allows for lower CPU usage.
Added a Smooth dropdown menu to the Reverb device. You can now specify how the Size parameter responds when changed using the Smooth options None, Slow, or Fast.
Setting Smooth to None means that some artifacts may occur when changing the Size parameter values. The Slow and Fast options ensure that new delay times are updated over a specific period of time, resulting in a more musical sound.
Added a switchable filter type to the High filter in Reverb’s Diffusion Network. You can choose between a one-pole low-pass filter or a low-shelf filter.
Optimized for better CPU performance.
Tuner:
The Tuner device now includes three new options for note spellings. You can access a menu with these options when you right-click anywhere within Tuner's UI:
Sharps (C#)
Flats (D♭)
Sharps and Flats (C#/D♭)
It is now possible to zoom out to a full octave in Tuner's Histogram View by clicking the interface and dragging the cursor horizontally.
In the Phaser-Flanger device, the Phase parameter of the LFO now has a default value of 180 degrees.
The Excitator section of the Tension device is now called “Exciter” in Live and on Push.
A context menu option for a Hi-Quality mode has been added to the Delay device. Switching off Hi-Quality uses less CPU resources.
The Channel EQ device now uses less CPU resources.
Presets containing the Saturator device now run with improved CPU usage.
Inactive visualization data will no longer be sent in the Wavetable and Phaser devices, resulting in slightly improved performance.
When mapping and unmapping device parameters to Macros, the Map/Unmap labels now appear as expected.
A Hi-Quality option has been added to the [right-click](Win) / [CTRL-click](Mac) context menu of the Redux device. Using Redux with Hi-Quality switched off saves some extra CPU.
Plug-ins:
Added native support for AUv3 plug-ins on macOS 10.15 or higher.
Live's Preferences now include options to enable both AUv2 and AUv3 plug-ins.
Plug-in errors are now shown in Live’s Status Bar, along with a linked detailed error report.
If the connection to an AUv3 plug-in gets lost, an error message will be displayed. The plug-in will also be disabled, the output muted, and the plug-in window closed.
Push:
On Push 2, the parameter names of the AAS devices (Analog, Collision, Tension and Electric) have been improved and aligned with the UI for readability.
Session View Improvements:
It is now possible to simultaneously rename multiple Rack chains in Session View.
When navigating tracks and device chains using the left arrow key in Session View, navigation will stop at the first track header as expected.
Setup
To avoid incompatibilities, you will be asked to save Live Sets created with an older version of Live as a new file in Live 11.2.
Renamed the Customization section of Live's Preferences to Display Customization, which now also includes the Zoom Display setting.
Metal rendering is now enabled on macOS by default to improve UI rendering performance. To deactivate this, use the Options.txt entry -DisableGraphicsHardwareAcceleration.
Bugfixes:
Live Bugfixes:
Improved Live's performance when selecting or deselecting many clips.
On macOS, Live's UI would sometimes show graphical errors after opening Live on a HiDPI monitor, changing the Zoom Display settings to a value other than 100%, and moving the window to a LowDPI monitor.
Fixed the appearance of the Phaser-Flanger device's Env Fol parameter when the device is deactivated.
Fixed a bug that would stop the manual freeze output when switching the Spectral Time device's Freezer Fade Shape from Crossfade to Envelope mode.
Fixed an issue that caused the Corpus device to output silence when using larger buffer sizes on Windows.
Added info texts for the Frz > Dly and Dly > Frz toggles in the Spectral Time device.
Added a missing info text for the Env Amt parameter in Collision’s Noise Filter section.
Fixed some issues with the LFO and MPE Control devices.
Previously, Live would crash when routing an Ext. Instrument's MIDI output to an MPE routing target if the track's device chain also contained a plug-in, Max for Live device, or certain built-in audio effects.
The dropdown menu for Reverb's Density parameter is now 2px wider to avoid cutting off the word "Sparse.”
Fixed an issue that could cause an invalid selection when selecting all chains in a Drum Rack in Session View.
On Windows, Live’s UI now refreshes as expected after tapping [ALT] to open the main menu.
Any time the Clip Detail view panels are arranged vertically, Live now opens the Envelopes panel and scrolls it into view when creating per-step automation on Push or using the "Show Automation" or "Show Modulation" context menu entries on a parameter.
Opening a context menu on Windows with the keyboard shortcut [Shift][F10] no longer changes the time selection in Arrangement View, Session scene selection, or browser selection.
On Windows, opening a context menu with the [Shift][F10] keyboard shortcut no longer changes the selected Session track header or Session clip.
Fixed an issue that could cause artifacts when using the Complex or Complex Pro warping mode on clips that were only slightly warped.
Fixed an issue that caused unnecessary freeze tail clips when freezing and flattening clips with small gaps between them.
Fixed a bug that caused MIDI notes and audio waveforms to jiggle slightly when adjusting clip edges in Arrangement View.
Selecting a velocity or probability marker and typing in a number sets the value as expected.
When Rack Macro Controls and chains are unfolded, the Rand and Map buttons are now properly aligned.
When showing or hiding chains in a Rack, the buttons would previously move up and down depending on the view shown. These buttons are now evenly spaced at all times.
Fixed an issue that caused Session clips to be added over Arrangement clips when copying a track in Session View and pasting it into Arrangement View.
Fixed an issue that caused inconsistent time signatures when launching scenes with specific time signatures in Session View, and then quickly going back to the Arrangement View. This issue could also cause the Re-enable Automation button to become stuck.
When a track is frozen, the Velocity Range slider will now freeze as expected in MIDI clips.
Fixed an issue that prevented the keyboard shortcut to expand Clip View [CTRL][ALT][E] (Win) / [CMD][OPT][E] (Mac) from working when switching from Session View to Arrangement View (or vice versa) when no clip was selected.
Selecting time in the MIDI Velocity Editor now works as expected when multi-clip editing.
When a user changes the MIDI Envelope Auto-Reset option in a set, they will be prompted to save the changes when they close the set or quit Live.
Fixed an issue that caused Live to hang when zooming out of a clip with a small loop region that was being recorded.
Fixed a crash that occurred when loading certain Live Sets containing more than 1,000 tracks.
Fixed a crash that occurred when using the header area of a time selection to select time in a MIDI clip when in the Expression tab.
Fixed a potential crash when opening old Live Sets that contained devices that have since been removed from Live.
AU plug-ins are now informed about silent inputs so that they can release CPU resources and report output silence if possible. This will allow any device in the device chain after the AU plug-in to release CPU resources as well.
Fixed an issue that caused note feedback to break when using certain Control Surface script interactions, such as repeatedly switching the note layout on Push while a MIDI clip was playing.
Fixed an issue that inadvertently showed blue hand icons and device locking options for particular device control features not available in some Control Surface scripts.
Fixed a bug that kept internal buffers of VST3 plug-ins from resetting properly. As a result of this fix, lingering signals (like reverb and delay tails) are now reset before audio export starts. Lingering signals can also be cut off quickly by clicking the Stop button three times.
Fixed an issue with certain VST3 plug-ins that created unwanted artifacts in rendered audio.
Fixed a crash that occurred when loading a Live Set with plug-in automation on the Master track, or on a Return or Group Track.
Live no longer hangs when opening a dropdown menu while Grammarly is running.
Fixed a crash that would occur when VST plug-ins requested the dedicated GPU, or when the user changed the macOS Battery "Automatic graphics switching” preference.
Fixed a bug that caused silence and/or hanging notes when recording MIDI notes into clips that already contained those same notes.
Fixed a potential crash on Windows that occurred when closing Live right before the program tried to install default Packs.
Fixed an issue with various Control Surface scripts that caused clip launch button LEDs to be in an incorrect state when changing the input type of a track.
When using the ATOM, ATOM SQ, and FANTOM Control Surface scripts, Arm button LEDs now reflect a track’s implicit armed state.
Fixed an issue in the SL_MKIII Control Surface script that resulted in incorrect LED button states when exiting Drum Mode.
Fixed a crash when loading a corrupt Live Set containing non-unique Pointee IDs. Live now recognizes if the set is corrupt and displays a corresponding error message. Users can reach out to Support to see if their sets can be repaired.
Fixed a bug where context menus would close abruptly if Voice Control was enabled on System Settings on macOS.
Switching between Session and Arrangement View while a launched clip is playing on Push will now always display the clip as expected.
Previously, Live would crash when deleting an instance of Simpler from a Drum Rack pad while the Simpler's Envelopes view was visible on Push.
Previously, Live would crash when using the Extract Chains command on a Drum Rack chain that had automation or modulation for the Chain Send Level.
Fixed an issue that deselected AU plug-ins after duplicating a selected plug-in.
Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when loading a plug-in that could not instantiate its presets.
Fixed an issue that caused Live’s menu bar to become invisible after deleting all video clips if the video window was in Full Screen Mode on macOS.
Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging and dropping another Live Set with Group Tracks into Session View as a new scene in certain circumstances.
Max for Live Bugfixes:
Fixed a bug where adding Expression Control would create unnecessary undo steps.
Fixed an issue that caused Shaper MIDI to produce unnecessary Undo steps.
Fixed an issue that resulted in incorrect Undo values when using Align Delay in Distance mode.

New in Ableton Live 11.1.6 (Jun 20, 2022)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.43 (Jun 20, 2022)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.42 (Nov 14, 2021)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.41 (Aug 16, 2021)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.40 (Jul 13, 2021)

New features and improvements:
Added support for the Roland Fantom.
Added control surface support for the M-Audio Hammer 88 Pro, Oxygen Pro Mini and Oxygen MKV Series.
The functionality of the Oxygen Pro control surface script has been drastically changed. Specifically:
The Rewind and Fastforward buttons will now rewind and fastforward the Arrangement position.
Turning the Encoder will now scroll the Session frame up and down.
Holding the Encoder down and turning it will scroll the selected Scene up and down.
The Knobs can now control multiple features (Device parameters, Track Panning, Track Sends and, in the case of the 25 key, Track Volume) that can be selected
by holding down Shift and pressing the Pads used for DAW KNOB CONTROL. Additionally, it is possible to toggle between controlling Send A and Send B
by holding down Shift and pressing the SENDS Pad.
Live's Takeover feature is now enforced for the Knobs and Faders when switching between DAW and Preset Modes.
The Pads now provide LED feedback in respect to Clip/Clip Slot states in Live.
The Buttons beneath the Faders can now control multiple features (Track Arming, Track Muting, Track Soloing and Track Selection) that can be toggled
between via the Mode button.
Fixed an issue where the Session frame was visible even when the hardware was not connected.
On the Arturia KeyLab MkII, the master fader button will cycle the mapping of the encoders between Pan, Send A, Send B, and device parameters. The faders now always control volume.
The PreSonus Faderport and Faderport 8 will be autodetected by Live. The Faderport 16 still requires manual setup, but Faderport 16 and 16 XT will appear in the control surface dropdown menu.
When using the Novation Launchkey MK3 or Launchkey Mini MK3 control surface script, the Record Button will now toggle the Arrangement Record Button when in Arrangement View.
On Windows, pressing "Alt" in Live now shows Menu Accelerator Keys to open menu bar items, as is the behavior in standard Windows applications.
The Arturia KeyLab 49/61/88 control surfaces once again work as expected.
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.11.
For the changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_11.html
Bugfixes:
Fixed an issue where Live hangs when zooming in Arrangement View in some case.
On Windows, Live once again detects if it could not create a directory because one already existed.
Fixed a crash that would occur when trying to group an External Instrument and an audio effect receiving MIDI from that External Instrument. Alternatively, if grouped prior to setting the MIDI routing between the two, Live would also crash when attempting to ungroup the pair once the routing was set. Grouping (and ungrouping) within the device chain will now behave as expected.
On Windows, using the "Alt"+"Enter" keys to enter Full Screen mode is now disabled. Full Screen mode is still available using the "F11" key.
Previously, under certain circumstances, Live appeared to hang because the UI could not be drawn.
Previously, installing many Live Packs at once caused Live's installation dialog window to become too big and unable to be used properly.
Fixed an issue where the Track Solo feature of the Tranzport control surface script did not work correctly.
Fixed an issue where the Session frame of the ATOMSQ control surface script was visible even when the hardware was not connected.
Live will show and use .vstpreset files for certain presets which previously failed to be displayed or supported.
Fixed an issue with User Remote Scripts where the SendsMapMode and MasterSliderChannel settings in UserConfiguration.txt were ignored.
Where possible, the name given to a User Remote Script's folder (the name visible in Live's Control Surface menus) will now be visible to Max for Live. Previously, all User Remote Scripts were named 'GenericScript' from the perspective of Max for Live.
Fixed a visual glitch that would show previously displayed content again (on macOS).
Fixed a crash that could occur during video export when using an external display as the primary display on MacBook Pro (macOS). Also fixed a crash that could occur when right-clicking in the MIDI Note Editor while the Note Expression tab was open, and selecting "Pitch Bend Range Settings...".

New in Ableton Live 10.1.35 (Apr 14, 2021)

New features and improvements:
Live now supports macOS 11 Big Sur using Intel based hardware.
Live is compatible with Apple Silicon computers running Rosetta.
Users should see more reliable engine performance on machines with the Apple M1 CPU.
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.10.
For the changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_10.html
Bugfixes:
Audio hangs if in Live 9 created Simple Delay clip automation on audio track is changed in the Delay Device
Fixes a bug that caused Live to enable the Warp switch and to reset the audible region of unwarped audio clips when locating missing samples or replacing sample files on disk under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue where starting playback via the Novation Launchkey Mini MK3, Launchkey MK3 or Launchpad Pro MK3 control surface scripts could result in MIDI notes getting cut off. With the Launchkey MK3 control surface script, it is now possible to continue playback by holding down the Shift button and pressing the Play button.
Previously on macOS, Live's installer did not ask the user to accept the EULA when mounting the disk image from the command line.
MIDI notes from the Oxygen Pro keyboard are now sent to MIDI track inputs by default when the keyboard is autodetected.
Previously, a visual glitch could appear around the Groove Pool selector button, under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue where a pending auto-update would sometimes not be applied after downloading. (Note: this fix only affects auto-updates to future versions of Live.)
Previously, the Operator device could crash or calculate inaccurate frequencies when its Fixed Mode and Spread parameters were enabled.
The EQ Eight device will now scale its displayed spectrum the same way as the Channel EQ and Hybrid Reverb devices.
Live's window no longer turns red when loading a Set with missing plug-in devices.
Previously, Live would hang when turning its audio engine off, under certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug that prevented certain low-resolution plug-in devices from scaling correctly on macOS.
Fixed a crash that could occur when cancelling an "Export Audio" operation during the "Wait for silence" step.
Fixed a crash that could occur when running certain plug-in devices.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.30 (Nov 19, 2020)

New features and improvements:
Updated some info texts and translations.
When the Vestax VCM-600 is detected by Live, its control surface script will now be automatically selected and set up.
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.7.
For a complete Max 8.1.7 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_7.html
Bugfixes:
Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging a clip with automation to another track with the same devices, under certain circumstances.
The Device View Selector no longer wiggles when switching between Detail Views.
Shift-key functionality once again works as expected in the Clip View's Sample Display.
Previously, Packs would change icons upon being assigned a color in the browser.
The Max device error view description text now follows Live's selected theme.
Previously, MIDI note type values would only display the octave number on Push.
Fixed some bugs
Certain VST3 plug-ins that are not defined as instruments (e.g. Vocoders) were not receiving MIDI CCs.
MIDI Learn would not work with certain VST3 audio effects.
Previously, cropping an unwarped clip could produce a clip whose loop markers were outside the sample. When saving a Set for the first time, self-containing the Set or creating a Pack using Live's File Manager, Live would incorrectly enable the Warp switch for such clips.
Fixed a crash that could occur when using certain VST3 plug-ins.
Previously, the placeholder %%USERNAME%% in the Library.cfg and Options.txt did not work on macOS 10.15.
Previously, when attempting to create new Cache defaults, removing User/Library/Caches/Ableton on macOS would instead reset AU plug-in settings.
Previously, when cropping an unlooped MIDI clip whose loop was outside the audible region, Live would hang when enabling the cropped clip's loop. For MIDI clips and warped/unwarped audio clips), the loop brace is now always inside the clip after cropping.
A memory leak and subsequent crash on macOS has been fixed when Live's window is not being interacted with for a prolonged period of time.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.25 (Oct 6, 2020)

New features and improvements:
Added support for the M-Audio Oxygen Pro control surface.
Every Push 2 user will get a firmware update to v.1.0.71 if their Push firmware is older. This firmware version fixes an issue that caused some displays to appear upside down.
On macOS, Live now uses Apple's Metal framework to present its UI on supported hardware. Metal support is disabled on OS X 10.11 ("El Capitan") due to issues with certain hardware setups.
Live now receives and routes MIDI CC, Pitch Bend, and Aftertouch events sent from a VST3 plug-in device to a MIDI-out bus. Note: this is supported in plug-ins built with VST SDK 3.6.12 or higher.
Added more Live theme colors to Max for Live. After Max starts using GetColorWithAlpha, the colors also contain the correct alpha channel value.
When the Pedal device is disabled, the Pedal Type chooser switch now appears in the correct text color. When the Glue Compressor device is disabled, the text labels around rotary switches now stay in the same place.
Chinese and Japanese are now displayed in their native languages in the Language chooser in the Look/Feel Preferences tab.
Updated various info texts, and improved some info text translations for Spanish and French languages.
Bugfixes:
Fixed hanging that could occur when dragging a compressed sample into Live, under certain circumstances (macOS only).
On macOS, when the AKAI APC Key 25 is detected by Live, its control surface script will now be automatically selected and set up.
Previously, an erroneous message would appear in the Status Bar when deleting an audio file within a folder in the Places section of the browser.
Fixed some minor errors in the MackieControl and MackieControl Classic control surface scripts.
Fixed lagging that occurred in the browser's search field when the Sounds label was selected.
Previously, a Macro Control's range settings were not correctly updated when that Macro Control was being controlled by a Max for Live device.
On first start, Live now only selects Simplified Chinese as the UI language if either: the operating system language is set to Simplified Chinese; or the operating system region is set to the People's Republic of China (excluding Taiwan and special administrative regions such as Hong Kong and Macao).
On macOS, if the operating system language is set to Simplified Chinese, Live now asks for permissions (e.g., to use the microphone) in Simplified Chinese.
Live could crash when closing a window, a drop-down menu, or a context menu, under certain circumstances.
Live no longer crashes when entering full screen on macOS Big Sur Beta.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.18 (Aug 10, 2020)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.17 (Jul 28, 2020)

New features and improvements:
Interface Improvements:
Updated various info texts and translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.
Control Surfaces:
Added support for the Blackstar Live Logic MIDI Footcontroller
When the Launchpad Pro MK3 is in Note Mode and a Drum Rack is present, holding down Clear and pressing a pad will now delete the pitch associated with that pad from the current clip. Pressing and releasing Clear will still delete the current clip.
In the Launchpad Pro MK3's Device Mode, the last selected parameter bank of each device instance will now be recalled upon reselecting the device instance.
Bugfixes:
Interface Improvements:
Fixed a bug that prevented HiDPI support from working on Windows 10 (version 2004).
When Live is set to Japanese, the formatting of lesson texts in the Help View is once again displayed correctly.
Previously, Live would not respond to mouse clicks if a dialog opened while another application was in focus (macOS only).
Previously, newly-created clips sometimes did not inherit their track color.
Devices:
In the Wavetable device, Undo commands performed on changes to user wavetables should now work as expected, and provide more meaningful undo descriptions for parameters that previously only displayed the default "Change Value" Undo action description.
Previously in the Echo and Delay devices, the first repeats of the audio signal were repitched, under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue that caused intermittent dropouts in the DS Kick device.
Running multiple instances of the DS HH device in a Drum Rack now works as expected.
In the Scale device, the Aeolian Mode Natural Minor Scale preset now works as expected.
Misc:
Reduced GPU power usage when Live is idle on Windows.
Fixed a crash that occurred when loading Live Sets, under certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug that created unintended fade-ins, under certain circumstances.
Fixed the display and editing of continuous parameters in VST3 plug-in devices. Where supported, VST3 plug-ins now use a linear knob mode.
Live will now display content on remote Mac machines and macOS VMs without a monitor attached.
Previously, Live's Preferences were reset after updating to a new version, under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug in the implementation of Steinberg::Vst::IAttributeList::getString.
It is no longer possible to change parameter values in a Max for Live device, if the track containing that device is frozen.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.15 (Jun 19, 2020)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.14 (May 15, 2020)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.13 (May 6, 2020)

New features and improvements:
Language Support:
It is now possible to set Live’s language to Chinese via the Look/Feel Preferences tab. Info texts and Help View lessons now have Chinese translations.
Interface Improvements:
Updated info texts and added info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.
Improved the contrast of the text in the dialog that appears after choosing the Slice to New MIDI Track command.
Control Surfaces:
The "Absolute 14bit" MIDI mapping mode can now be used with MIDI Remote Scripts that appear in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab.
It is now possible to create a "Remote Scripts" folder in the User Library, where user/third-party scripts can be added for use with MIDI controllers. Added scripts will appear in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab.
Recording automation for multiple device or mixer parameters together will now result in less steps to undo on Push.
While recording on Push, pressing the Fixed Length button near the end of a segment of time that corresponds with the Global Quantization setting will cause Live to wait until that amount of time is elapsed before stopping the recording.
When Push is connected, other control surfaces will no longer conflict with the automatic track arming behavior of Push. When using multiple Push control surfaces, they will no longer conflict with each other's automatic track arming behavior.
When selecting Drum Mode on the Novation Launchkey Mini MK3 controller, the pad LEDs now correctly reflect their drum pad states upon loading a Set containing a Drum Rack on the selected track.
In the Novation Launchpad Pro MK3 controller's Device Mode, the last selected parameter bank of each device instance will now be recalled upon reselecting the device instance.
The Novation Launchkey Mini MK3, Launchpad Mini MK3, Launchpad Pro MK3 and Launchpad X control surfaces will no longer revert to their default layout when MIDI port settings are changed in Live's Preferences.
It is now possible to select parameter banks of Max for Live and plug-in devices via the Novation Launchkey MKII control surface.
Max for Live:
Default Max for Live devices now use live.comment instead of live.text.
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.3. For a complete Max 8.1.3 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_3.html
General:
The End User License Agreement displayed during installation is now up to date.
Bugfixes:
Interface Improvements:
On Windows, when the Computer MIDI Keyboard is enabled, menus can now be accessed via their keyboard shortcuts (e.g., using "ALT"+"F" to access the "File" menu). Previously, this only worked when the Computer MIDI Keyboard was disabled.
In the Arrangement, time signature markers that change to 4/4 time are now indicated by a "4/4" text label near their markers.
Fixed a bug that prevented undo and redo operations upon creating a computer keyboard mapping, as well as redo operations after deleting a computer keyboard mapping.
Fixed a visual glitch that appeared when moving the mouse over an automation envelope.
Midi Recording and Editing:
Fixed some bugs that affected consolidating MIDI clips.
Previously when dragging a velocity marker, the mouse cursor would jump back to its initial position.
It is now possible to send MIDI clock messages to Live when External Sync is enabled and the transport is stopped, without causing all playing MIDI notes to be cut off. Also, sending a MIDI Start/Continue message to Live when it is already playing will no longer cause playback to briefly stop and then start again – instead, Live will simply continue to play.
When using an encoder on a MIDI controller to control a device parameter with discrete values, the control functionality will no longer be inverted.
Devices:
Previously, when instantiating an Audio Unit plug-in, Live would sometimes display an error message about a folder that could not be created.
Previously, after replacing a Max for Live device and then undoing the operation, the wrong device name would be displayed.
Fixed a crash that occurred after unfreezing a track containing Wavetable, and then deleting the Wavetable device.
Parameter banks in the Wavetable device will now be correctly mapped to control surfaces.
Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting and freezing multiple tracks containing the External Instrument device.
If a track with a plug-in device is unfrozen, has its plug-in parameters or preset changed, and is frozen again, it will now record new audio instead of using the old frozen audio file.
Max for Live devices that are not visible are now correctly notified of active state changes.
Control Surfaces:
When Push 1 is power-cycled or turned on while Live is running, the touch strip will now be correctly updated in Note Mode.
Previously, after cropping an audio file in Live, a flat line might appear on Push 2's display.
Push will now display the correct notifications for playing clips (e.g., "Press Up Arrow to edit playing clip") on the selected track.
When changing integer values of Max for Live devices from Push, the values are always in sync with those shown in Live.
When using Push, Akai Force MPC, Novation SL MkIII or KeyLab Essential, encoders that are not currently in use will no longer send MIDI CC messages to the selected track.
In Volume Mode on the Novation Launchpad Pro MK3 controller, button faders will no longer be set to an incorrect color when changes to return tracks are made.
General:
Older Live Sets with missing components will now be correctly opened in Live.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.9 (Feb 24, 2020)

New features and improvements:
Interface Improvements:
When creating a time selection on a Group Track using keyboard commands, the selection behavior is now consistent with dragging with the mouse. This also applies to Group Tracks when making a time selection across multiple tracks.
Filenames containing Chinese and Japanese text are now properly indexed and searchable in Live's browser.
The translations for the Show Link Toggle and Start Stop Sync buttons is now consistent with other buttons in the Preferences.
Device Improvements:
When toggling between Width and Mid/Side Mode in the Utility device, the layout positions and size no longer change.
In the Delay device, it is now possible to toggle the filter on and off by clicking on the "Filter" text label next to the Filter On switch.
Push 2:
Updated Push 2's firmware to version 1.0.69. This firmware version fixes a bug that prevented LED animations from working, under certain circumstances.
VST3:
VST3 plugins can now use the PreSonus VST extensions to observe the name and index of the track they are on and to control Live’s track volume, pan, mute, solo and sends. This support has been developed and tested against Softube’s Console One plugin but will also work with other plugins that implement the extensions.
Max for Live:
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.1. For a complete Max 8.1.1 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_1.html
OS Support:
eLicenser protected plug-ins are working again on Mojave/Catalina.
When using a plug-in that wants to use Apple Events (such as eLicenser protected plug-ins), a localized text requesting permission appears in the macOS dialog, when the system language is set to German, Spanish, French, Italian or Japanese.
Bugfixes:
Interface
Devices
Midi Recording and Editing
Automation
Recording
VST3 / Plugins
Link
Control Surfaces
Max for Live
Interface:
Previously, zoom-adaptive grid lines would shift off position when their width was adjusted in the Arrangement or Detail View.
Fixed a crash that could occur when pasting Group Tracks, in certain circumstances.
On Windows, dialogs are now always centered on top of Live, even if Live is maximised.
Using a pinch gesture to vertically zoom the MIDI Editor and Arrangement tracks now works as expected on Windows.
Previously, fades would flicker when the cursor moved over fade handles.
Fixed a bug that prevented resizing a track by pressing ALT and scrolling with the mouse, if the track was placed after a folded Group Track.
Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging a template Set from the User Library into the Session View.
Fixed a bug which caused Live to hang when a Set contained very short Arrangement clips.
Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging or copying and pasting an unwarped clip over a tempo change.
Previously, notes playing in Session clips would be re-triggered by note chasing when the Arrangement loop caused playback to jump backward in time.
Auto-updates no longer interrupt the file recovery process after a crash.
Devices:
Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to unfold a missing sample item in the File Manager, if the sample was used as an imported waveform in the Wavetable device.
Fixed a bug which prevented automation in the Wavetable device from playing.
Midi Recording and Editing:
It is no longer possible for zero-duration notes to exist at the same start time as another note. This corrects various unwanted behaviors that previously occurred in the MIDI Note Editor when working with zero-duration notes.
Fixed unwanted behaviors that occurred when a track's Arm or Solo buttons were mapped to MIDI CCs.
Live no longer crashes when pressing the Tab key while dragging MIDI notes.
Automation:
Fixed a crash that occurred when redoing stretching or skewing automation envelopes.
Previously, duplicating a Rack chain would not result in duplicated automation.
Fixed a crash that could occur when a looped audio clip's automation was overridden, under certain circumstances.
Copying automation envelopes from one plug-in device to another now works as expected.
Fixed some crashes related to automation envelopes.
Recording:
Live no longer allows freezing tracks while recording. This prevents any possible loss of the recorded audio.
VST3 / Plugins:
Previously, Live could crash when rearranging tracks containing certain VST3 plug-ins, if Push was connected. Also, if return tracks and/or the Master track were controlled and contained certain VST3 plug-ins, adding audio or MIDI tracks would caused unwanted behavior in track controllability and the plug-in device.
Fixed a bug that prevented VST3 plug-in parameters from updating correctly.
Live no longer crashes when running unlicensed Waves plug-in devices.
Fixed a crash that could occur when changing parameters in a plug-in device's floating window while Key Map Mode, MIDI Map Mode or Macro Map Mode was active.
Fixed a bug that prevented the HALion 6 VST3 plug-in device from enabling multiple outputs.
Link:
When Link is enabled, the tempo of the second Link-enabled app now adjusts to match the first Link-enabled app.
Control Surfaces:
Fixed a bug that prevented certain plug-in devices and track controllability from working as expected.
The Note Mode of the selected track will be correctly recalled when loading a Set, if the selected track has something other than the default Note Mode selected on Push 1 or 2.
Max for Live:
Max for Live devices will now correctly return to their normal state when ungrouped from a Rack while Macro Map Mode is enabled. This behaviour is now consistent as with other Live devices.
Fixed a crash that occurred when saving a Max for Live device that resided in the Master track, when the Crossfader had an assigned MIDI mapping.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.7 (Jan 15, 2020)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.6 (Dec 19, 2019)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.5 (Nov 20, 2019)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.4 (Nov 5, 2019)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.3 (Oct 15, 2019)

New in Ableton Live 10.1.2 (Oct 8, 2019)

OS Support:
Live now supports macOS Catalina (10.15).
Important: before updating to macOS 10.15, please read this Knowledge Base article.
On macOS, Live now uses AVFoundation instead of QTKit / QuickTime for MP3 decoding, video playback and video export. The MP3 experience should be unchanged. Video playback and exporting is now much faster. Some videos using old formats can no longer be played back. For a list of formats that are no longer supported, see https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT209000 (Note: this article is about FinalCut, but applies to Live's video support as well.) While running macOS Mojave (10.14) or earlier, such videos can be converted into a supported format by opening them in QuickTime Player (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202884 for more information).
Please read this Knowledge Base article.
Automation:
When dragging, stretching or skewing automation, or when changing the curve of a segment, pressing the ESC key now resets the automation to its original state.
The Toggle Automation/Modulation buttons now appear grayed out for unwarped clips.
The global "Snap Automation To Grid" option is now ignored when Draw Mode is enabled, so the quantization always matches the visible grid.
A "No more automation events could be removed" message now appears in the Status Bar when performing the "Simplify Automation" command on an envelope has no effect.
Interface Improvements:
Live now supports Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down key interactions in chooser controls and context menus. Home and End keys move the selection to the first and last options respectively. Page Up and Page Down keys move the selection by the size of the page, or by 25 entries if the chooser control is collapsed.
The metronome's Rhythm setting is now saved in the Live Set.
The "Freeze Track" command is now available in the context menu of automation lanes.
Live's browser now starts searching after entering a single Chinese character.
Adding or removing scenes in a Live Set with many scenes is now significantly faster.
Added support for emoji characters in all text fields on the following systems:
Windows 10 1803 and later
macOS 10.11.6 and later
The Preferences dialog window is properly centered when Live's zoom level is not at 100%.
Device Improvements:
In the Multiband Dynamics device, the "Shift" modifier is now used to fine-tune the bands, and the "CMD" (Mac) / "CTRL" (Win) modifier is used to adjust all bands simultaneously.
Text in the Redux device is now correctly displayed.
Made some minor refinements to the Channel EQ device's UI.
Control Surfaces:
Added support for the Akai Professional Force, MPC X, and MPC Live.
Every Push 2 user will get a firmware update to v.1.0.64 if their Push firmware is older. This firmware version implements a fast SysEx that allows setting any RGB LED to any 16 bit-color, independent from the 128-entry palette.
VST3:
Added support for the IInfoListener interface in VST3 plug-ins. Supported properties include Live's track name, track index and track color. Certain plug-ins will now show Live's track names in their Mixer section.
When running VST3 plug-ins in HiDPI mode, it is now possible to disable scaling their GUIs via a "Auto-Scale Plug-in Window" context menu entry. This entry appears in context menus of plug-in devices in the browser, and in the title bar of plug-in devices in the Device View.
Video:
When selecting FLAC as the File Type in the Export Audio/Video dialog, video export is now disabled. AIFF or WAV must be selected to export video with sound. This is consistent with the MP3 export behavior.
Translations:
Updated some info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.
Max for Live Improvements:
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.0.
Live will no longer load Max versions older than Max 8.1. When an external Max version older than 8.1 is selected, Live will fall back to the bundled version. Users cannot select Max versions older than 8.1 in the Preferences.
Changes since Max 8.0.4:
New Features:
live.comment: new object - text color follows live interface colors
live.toggle/live.text: "Enter" key inverts value (as the native Live UI does)
live.arrows: parameter-enabled (off by default)
live.text: added blinktime attr and scheduling for passing bangs while in button mode
Max For Live: audio fades in/out when editing devices
Max Console: Copy Selected Text option in contextual menu (allows copying when in Live)
thispatcher: can get path of .amxd
Fixed Bugs:
amxd~: fixed a crash on unfreeze of device (parameter restore issues)
JS: require works in frozen Max For Live device
jweb: works in Max for Live
live.* UI objects: improved how different mouse drag speeds changes values
live.* UI objects: added improvements to make value output consistent
live.arrows: fixed presentation issues
live.arrows: rename idle -> off in enum
live.banks window: added fixes and improvements
live.banks window: added some UI improvements
live.dial: correctly draws modulation ring
live.drop: disabled 'type' in inspector
live.drop: fixed issues with recalling large files
live.observer: object with property argument observes after id is sent
live.path: outputs properly when in a subpatcher that is in a poly~
live.text: fixed a crash with changing picture attributes
loadbang / freebang / patcher load: general improvements
macOS: 10.15 Catalina Support
Max for Live Device: border color follows Live theme
Max For Live jit.pwindow: fixed issues with creation in Live (fixes some LFO display issues)
Max For Live jit.vcr: write works in the MFL editor
Max For Live midiin/midiout: fixed CPU spikes when two midiin/midiout devices are in a Live set
Max For Live parameters: fixed some issues related to parameters being loaded in abstractions
Max for Live phasor~: @lock 1 does not degrade
Max For Live SR switching: fixed issues with speedlim, pipe, midiout, LFO etc, when switching SR in Live
Max for Live: fixed a crash when editing a device while a large number of files are open
Max For Live: fixed a crash when freeing cached genpatcher
Max For Live: fixed crashing of some Max 7 .amxds (parameter cloning issue)
Max for Live: fixed errors with floating point arguments like in sprintf
Max For Live: removed 2 pixel border in device view
Parameter window: fixes and improvements
Parameters: fixed a crash when automating a parameter via another parameter
Fixed a crash that occurred when undoing/redoing adding Max devices with routing choosers.
Fixed a crash that occurred when undoing/redoing adding Max devices with particular routing settings.
Fixed a crash that occurred when undoing adding a default Max instrument or a Rack containing a Max instrument.
Bugfixes:
Recording and Automation
Midi Recording and Editing
Interface
Devices
Control Surfaces
VST3
Audio
Recording and Automation:
Fixed a bug where Live would crash when stopping recording within the latency period, under certain circumstances.
Live no longer crashes when recording into a Session slot after a device with latency has been deleted.
Fixed a crash that occurred when editing the value of an automation segment within an inactive time selection.
Fixed a crash when moving a device with overridden Arrangement automation to a different track.
Fixed a bug which created an erroneous breakpoint when switching between stretching and skewing automation.
Previously, plug-in parameters would disappear from their Live panel if they were edited using automation shapes.
Previously, recording clip automation into the Arrangement did not work as expected.
Previously, when the Lock Envelopes switch was enabled, moving automation on a frozen track would not work as expected.
When cancelling drawing automation in Draw Mode by pressing the ESC key, the cursor now stays at its current position.
After cancelling editing automation by either pressing the ESC key or entering an invalid value, the mouse cursor now reverts to the correct position when opening a context menu.
Dragging a time selection of a discrete automation would cause the mouse to jump erratically.
Midi Recording and Editing:
Fixed a bug where very short notes arriving from external MIDI controllers were not always recorded.
Fixed an issue where a Set could become corrupt if the MIDI note selection changed during an interactive operation in the MIDI Editor, in some cases.
Fixed a bug where steps in MIDI CC envelopes were incorrectly imported from MIDI files.
Fixed a bug that prevented correctly stretching MIDI notes in a time selection, under certain circumstances.
Velocity values are once again correctly displayed as integers in the MIDI Note Editor, if their velocity markers are dragged.
On Windows, MIDI CC, Channel Pressure, and Pitch Bend events are now sent out smoothly via MIDI at buffer sizes of 128 and below.
Fixed a crash that could occur when importing an empty MIDI clip.
Interface:
Improved the appearance of the Wavetable and Impulse devices, as well as Live's plug-in device panel.
Fixes three issues with crash recovery:
Crash recovery would crash again and again when trying to recover from a crash, instead of only recovering the history until a previous crash.
When trying to recover a Live Set a second time, Live would end up with a corrupt history and possibly crash when undoing directly after recovering.
The percent values in the crash recovery progress display would not start at 0% when recovering a file that was saved the last time Live was run.
Previously, when Shift-clicking to select multiple Arrangement tracks, and editing a parameter for all tracks, the selection focus was erroneously invisible.
Previously, the blue LED that indicates clip modulation would appear on slider controls that were not modulated.
Previously on Windows, a Windows notification sound would play after using the "Consolidate Time to New Scene" command and pressing the Space bar.
Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the View menu while the Master track was selected.
Previously, the playhead would disappear after stopping the song, and would only reappear after making a time selection or clicking in the Arrangement View.
Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging a multi-selection of Session clips past the first scene.
Previously, clip fades could be reset when performing a copy/duplicate command.
Previously, tracks contained within certain Live Sets created by third-party software could not be unfolded in the browser.
Zooming to fit content to the Detail View with the "W" button now works correctly when content is within negative time.
Fixed a bug that caused playheads to appear in the wrong color after resizing Live's window.
When using IME and editing info texts, the text field now retains typed input when clicking outside the text field, without the need to press Enter first. On Windows, reconversion is now supported for Japanese input, and the henkan (変換) key now works as expected.
Fixed a bug that prevented Live from handling more than 1,000 scenes correctly.
Fixed auto-scrolling for automation in the Detail View.
Previously, note velocity ranges in the Status Bar were displayed with four decimal places, when notes with different velocities where selected.
Fixed a bug that caused Live to hang when dragging attachment files to a Drum Rack.
Previously, scrolling through a context menu using arrow keys could erroneously select the context menu item positioned underneath the mouse cursor.
Previously, the Clip Stop button would not blink after it was clicked.
Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the View menu while the Clip View was in focus and no clip was selected.
Devices:
Fixed the value ranges of the Velocity parameters in the Collision device.
Automation applied to parameters in the Wavetable device now has more consistent timing.
Live Sets created in versions of Live older than 10.1 that contain instances of Simple Delay or Ping Pong Delay devices with delay time automation now sound more consistent.
Fixed a bug that caused the Wavetable device to output +100 dB when changing the range of a mapped Macro, under certain circumstances.
Re-added the correct info text for Sampler's Pitch Envelope On/Off button.
Fixed two bugs that affected the appearance of Simpler's loop markers.
Control Surfaces:
Fixed a bug where switching between various mixer modes on the Launchpad MK2 could result in the faders becoming stuck on controlling sends.
Fixed a bug that caused an index error and incorrect LED states when using the Launchpad MK2 in Mixer Mode, under certain circumstances.
Previously when using Push 2, MIDI tracks would not become automatically armed if the Novation SL MkIII control surface was selected in the Link/MIDI Preferences.
VST3:
Fixed rendering in certain VST3 plug-ins when running Live in HiDPI mode on Windows.
Improved keyboard event handling in VST3 plug-ins.
Fixed a crash that could occur when running certain VST3 plug-ins.
Using the "Shift" modifier and arrow keys to change parameters in VST3 plug-ins is now consistent with the behavior in VST2 plug-ins.
Audio:
On Windows, exporting audio would not work as expected and could cause Live to crash, under certain circumstances.

New in Ableton Live 10.1.1 (Sep 19, 2019)

New in Ableton Live 10.1 (Aug 1, 2019)

Arrangement Editing:
Tracks with sidechain routings can now be frozen.
Frozen tracks now provide Post-FX output routing to other tracks. This allows tracks that are sources for sidechains to be frozen.
It is now possible to freeze tracks which contain AU, VST or Max devices that receive audio from another track (sidechains).
Live now has a new option in the Rendering Options section of the Export Audio/Video dialog: "Include return and master effects". If selected, every track will be rendered as if it was soloed and the master track was being recorded. This means that return and master effects are included.
When a track with a sidechain is frozen, unfrozen, and frozen again, the track's audio is now always re-rendered. This ensures that changes in the sidechain source track are considered in the new rendered file.
The Arrangement Overview is now resizable, and its contents now always fit inside the box exactly.
When moving through the Arrangement using the arrow keys, the view will scroll to keep the selected track visible, if necessary.
When committing a groove on a MIDI clip, a time selection is only made if notes were selected prior to committing the groove.
Clicking on the timeline ruler will pause follow.
In arrangement, when calling "Select All" (e.g. by pressing Cmd+A), if there is a locator (cue marker) behind all material, the time selection will extend up to that marker.
Automation:
It is now possible to transform automation horizontally and vertically: upon creating a time selection inside an automation lane, handles will appear, which allow to stretch / scale the selected automation.
Stretching time in the Envelope Editor is now possible with the Automation Transform tool, and the Note Stretch markers have been removed from the Envelope Editor. They are still available in the Note Editor.
It is now possible to edit the value of an automation breakpoint or segment using a context menu and keyboard. While hovering over a breakpoint or segment, right-click and press the new "Edit Value" context menu item to make the automation value box editable. Enter a new value and confirm the entry either by deselecting the value display box or hitting the Enter key.
When hovering over an automation and a 'preview' breakpoint is shown, users can right click and access an "Add Value" context menu item. The new breakpoint can then be added with the entered value.
When right-clicking on an automation lane, the context menu now reveals a number of pre-defined shapes that can be inserted into a given time selection. If no time selection exists, the length of the shape corresponds to the current grid quantization.
In Automation Mode, clip fades can be viewed and edited while holding down the "F" key.
Added buttons to the Envelopes box for Session clips to toggle between automation and modulation envelopes in the Clip View. Modulation envelopes in Arrangement clips can now be accessed directly via the clip envelope chooser. Previously, they were only accessible through a parameter's context menu. Modulation envelopes now appear in a modulation-specific color. Also, the LEDs in the clip envelope choosers now show whether a parameter is automated, modulated or both.
When drawing non-quantized automation (using draw mode with a disabled grid) or recording a continuous stream of value changes, Live now creates ramps instead of small discrete steps, to avoid unwanted zipper noise. Note that this excludes parameters that require discrete steps, e.g. pitch, on/off switches or choosers.
When drawing automation with a deactivated grid, Live will insert fewer breakpoints and tries to use curved segments whenever possible. This will significantly reduce the overall amount of breakpoints and makes it easier to edit the automation envelope afterwards. This also applies to drawing modulation, except when the parameter type doesn't support it.
Added a "Simplify Envelope" command to the context menu of automation envelopes within a time selection, which removes unnecessary breakpoints and tries to use curved segments whenever possible to allow easier breakpoint editing.
When clicking on a control in a clip's Sample Box in the Clip View (e.g., Clip Gain) the corresponding modulation envelope will be selected and displayed in the Clip Envelope Control chooser.
In automation envelopes, the strength of S-Shapes that were inserted via the context menu can be adjusted with the Opt/Alt curve modifier.
Improved Live's history for Automation Mode. Now, only one undo/redo step is created when the value of a single automation segment, breakpoint or selection is edited using multiple subsequent mouse gestures.
It is now possible to edit the value of a time selection in an automation lane with no events. When right-clicking near the dotted line inside the selection, the "Edit Value" context menu command allows entering a value for the selected segment.
In automation lanes, the Automation Transform handles now snap at the top and bottom positions, and at the opposite top and bottom corner positions. Snapping is indicated by a less transparent frame color.
Browser:
Live's database will keep working even if a second Live instance is running. Previously, this was not the case, thus resulting in a partially empty browser.
Control Surfaces:
Added support for the Komplete Kontrol S Mk2 and Komplete Kontrol M32 keyboard controllers. Please note that it is necessary to update the Komplete Kontrol software to its latest version in order for the Live integration to work. You can update Komplete Kontrol via Native Instruments' Native Access application
Interface Improvements:
The Arrangement View can now be zoomed using a pinch gesture on a supported trackpad/touchscreen. Pressing "ALT" while using the pinch gesture changes the track height.
The MIDI Note Editor, Sample Editor, Sampler and Simpler also support zooming by using a pinch gesture on a supported trackpad/touchscreen. Furthermore, the MIDI Note Editor can now be vertically zoomed using the pinch gesture on a supported trackpad/touchscreen while holding "ALT".
Arrangement tracks can now be resized vertically by pressing "ALT" and "+" or "ALT" and "-".
Entering Chinese, Korean or Japanese text now works correctly.
Using the shortcut "Opt/Alt" + "U" folds and unfolds all tracks in the same area / level. If the tracks are in a mixes state (e.g. some are folded, some are not), this third state is also remembered and can be restored by further pressing this same shortcut.
Tracks can be folded in the Arrangement View by pressing "U" (for selected tracks), or "ALT"+"U" (for all tracks).
It is now possible to fold and unfold Group Tracks in the Session View by pressing the "U" key. This also works when multiple Group Tracks are selected.
Automation lanes can now be resized vertically by pressing "ALT" and "+" or "ALT" and "-".
The "Show All Tracks" functionality that was bound to the "S" key in the Arrangement has been removed. The "S" key can now be used to solo tracks in the Session and Arrangement instead.
Pressing “H” in the Arrangement vertically resizes all tracks to fit the view exactly (or as much as possible).
Pressing “W” adjusts the Arrangement View's horizontal zoom so that the whole song fits to the view, with one bar of padding left and right.
Added “H” and “W” buttons next to the Arrangement Overview. These buttons have the same resizing functionality as the “H” and “W” keys in the Arrangement View, and are MIDI-mappable.
The "fit song to screen width" (“W”) and "fit all tracks to screen height" (“H”) now remember the view state when invoked. When invoking them again, the remembered view state is restored. Additionally, the respective buttons in Arrangement indicate whether a remembered state exists by changing their color.
When the Detail View is in focus and displaying either the Envelope Editor or Sample Editor, pressing `W` fits the clip region to the Detail View's width, snapping to the nearest bar on either side (when applicable).
When the Detail View is in focus, pressing "H" zooms in on the area from the lowest to the highest note in the clip. The behavior with multi-clip editing is also the same: notes in all edited clips are considered.
Pressing the "Z" key or clicking the View menu's "Zoom to Time Selection" command changes the height of selected content to fit the Arrangement View. The "X" key now allows zooming back out from the time selection. When zooming in multiple times using the "Z" key, the "X" key can be pressed multiple times to go back one step each time the key is pressed.
The "Z" and "X" keyboard shortcuts now work for MIDI clips in Clip View.
In the Arrangement, when only a few notes exist within a MIDI clip, they now appear in a larger size.
On Windows, Live now respects the Control Panel's "Choose how many lines to scroll each time" setting.
In the Arrangement Overview, clips now always appear in the same color as in the Arrangement.
The Clip Overview in Session View now shows the entire song, and visually aligns with the Arrangement Overview.
In the Arrangement, the "Zoom to/Back from Time Selection" actions are now animated.
When using the pinch gesture or mousewheel + modifier to zoom in the Arrangement View or Detail View while Follow is enabled, Live will now always zoom to the playhead.
Live now supports pixel-perfect scrolling on Apple Trackpads and Windows Precision Touchpads.
On Windows with a HiDPI screen, VST3 plug-ins are now scaled the same way as VST2 plug-ins. Previously they were rendered too small or displayed UI glitches.
On Windows, the cursor that indicates that a breakpoint can be added is now white.
Improved the appearance of note sizes in the Clip Overview / Zooming Hot Spot.
Rubber-band selection now scales correctly on hi-dpi screens.
The status bar text shown after selecting MIDI notes in the editor has been improved, so that if only one note is selected, it does not display that as a range anymore.
Single tracks now appear in a standby selection color, under certain circumstances. Until now, only multiple selected tracks were shown with a standby selection color, whereas single tracks were simply shown as unselected. The changes are as follows:
when resizing an unselected track in the Arrangement, the track now appears as a standby selection. This is consistent with the behavior in Session View.
when selecting one or more tracks with a standby selection, the standby selection is now re-activated, instead of a single track being selected. This applies to both the Session and Arrangement Views.
when tabbing between the Session and Arrangement Views, selected tracks now appear in the standby selection color, even if they were just re-colored.
Max for Live improvements:
Scale intervals can now be observed from Max for Live.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Introduced "Delay", a new audio effect device for Live. Delay combines the functionalities of the Simple Delay and Ping Pong Delay devices into one. Additionally, it provides the ability to modulate delay time and filter frequency with a built-in LFO.
When opening an older Set or Preset which used Simple or Ping Pong Delay, an upgrade button will appear on the Delay device used in place of the original devices. This is to preserve the previously used device free time range: upgrading the device (pressing the button) will only affect the sound of the set / preset if the 'free time' parameter was either mapped to a macro or to a Max for Live device.
Introduced Channel EQ. Channel EQ is a three-band equalizer focused on immediacy. It comes with a highpass filter toggle, a low shelf filter, a semi-parametric mid band and a hybrid high shelf/lowpass filter.
It is now possible to drop an audio file onto Wavetable's Oscillator tabs, and use it as a wavetable. By default, the wavetable is processed and smoothed. However, Wavetable also provides a "Raw" decoding option. Please note that at this time encoded files (e.g. *.mp3) are not supported, unless they have already been decoded by Live.
Added a Loop Mode chooser, Loop Time slider and Beat Sync/Rate slider to the Volume Envelope in Simpler's Classic Playback Mode. Previously, these controls were exclusively available in Sampler.
In the Echo device, the Dry/Wet knob now features a context menu to switch to "Equal-Loudness". When enabled, a 50/50 mix will sound equally loud for most signals, instead of being attenuated. In the Delay device, the maximum delay time offset is now consistent with the Simple Delay and Ping Pong Delay devices.
Added a new "Rand" modulation source to Wavetable's MIDI tab, which generates a random value when a note starts.
When mapping a parameter to an empty macro, the macro assumes the full range of the target parameter, and will be set to the current value of the target parameter.
Push 2:
New scales are visible on Push, and some existing scales have been renamed.
Setup:
Improved the performance of drag and undo commands on interactions with automation envelopes.
Removed the MME/DirectMusic switch in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab on Windows.
VST 3:
Introduced support for VST3.
All plugin settings now appear in a dedicated "Plugins" tab in the Preferences.
Introduced system folders for VST3 plug-in scanning. Also added a button to the "Plugins" Preferences tab to enable and disable system folders.
VST3 plug-ins are now scanned via a separate background process. Plug-ins that crashed during scanning no longer cause Live to crash. In addition, Live will not need to wait for the plug-in scan to finish in order to launch.
VST3 plug-in scanning now supports symlinks.
For VST3 plug-ins with less than 65 parameters, the parameters are now auto-assigned after instantiation. Also, when copying a VST3 plug-in or loading a Set with VST3 plug-ins, the parameter assignment (and value) is retained.
Sidechain routings, Gain and Mix parameters are now displayed in third-party plug-ins in the Device View.
Additional audio input and output buses from VST3 plug-ins can be used from track "Audio To" and "Audio From" routing choosers, as with VST2 and AU plug-ins.
Bugfixes:
Arrangement Editing
Automation
File Handling
Interface Improvements
New Devices and Device Improvements
Arrangement Editing
Previously, when unfreezing a track that had frozen tail clips, the clips were still draggable.
Breakpoint values would erroneously be displayed behind insert markers.
When using the smallest adaptive grid possible (i.e. zooming in until the grid size is displayed as 1/16384 in the lower right corner), moving the insert marker or nudging a selection using the cursor keys would sometimes stop working.
Automation:
Previously, CC messages received in a track input might erroneously affect a clip that is playing back on a different track, even if that track was not armed. Also, Live no longer filters out "duplicate" CC messages.
Automation segments and breakpoints would appear highlighted on frozen tracks, although automation cannot be edited in such cases.
In automation envelopes, the automation value display will no longer disappear after opening a context menu and moving the mouse above it.
It was erroneously possible to set the insert marker or select time on a frozen automation lane.
File Handling:
If the template Set was saved showing the Clip View, Live would re-open the Set with the Clip View closed.
A crash could occur when loading a new Set after remote-mapping a Macro control in another track.
Live Sets could become corrupt after duplicating a clip (or a track containing a clip) and then adding additional notes to one of the clips.
Interface Improvements:
Creating a looping Arrangement clip containing MIDI notes and zooming out far enough would cause the clip content to suddenly appear as a black block.
Previously, when selecting all editable text within a field, a gap would appear to the left side of text.
The mouse cursor would not change when attempting to resize clips in the Arrangement, if the Session View was playing back a clip on the same track.
Fixed a text glitch that occurred when displaying sample time values in Sampler or Simpler.
Previously, when Live's interface was zoomed above 100%, text or track headers might be cut off. Additionally, the Reverb device's Reflect and Diffuse parameter texts were cut off. Both bugs have been fixed.
Fixed some minor graphic / layout bugs.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Fixed a bug which prevented Group Tracks from being un-soloed when the Solo switch was mapped.
Fixed a bug which prevented existing Macros from connecting when grouping devices within a chain of an existing group device.
Live would crash when using the "Delete Device" context menu item, while the device was being renamed.
Fixed a number of inconsistencies that would occur when an AU plug-in's parameter list changed, which could potentially leave a Live Set in a partially broken state.

New in Ableton Live 10.0.6 (Jan 31, 2019)

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Arrangement Editing:
Added "Clear All Envelopes" to the context menu of the Clip View’s Envelope Editor.
Automation:
When hovering over automation, the cursor now indicates that a mouse click would create a new breakpoint.
Modulation envelopes of disabled warper parameter envelopes now appear grayed out.
The state of the Lock Envelopes switch is now ignored when pasting track content to a frozen track, and when pasting automation. This ensures that clips will sound the same when the track is unfrozen.
Control Surfaces:
Users of the "Komplete_Kontrol_A" script no longer need to use wrapper Instrument Racks in order to control Komplete Kontrol plug-in instances. Also, the last auto-armed track will no longer remain armed upon the "Komplete_Kontrol_A" and "SL_MkIII" scripts being disconnected.
When a Komplete Kontrol A device is connected, it is now automatically selected in the Preferences.
Interface Improvements:
Improved Live's drawing performance.
Previously for macro-mapped parameters, the modulation envelope would appear grayed out. Now, the automation envelope appears grayed out instead, since the modulation still has an effect on the mapped value, whereas the automation has not.
Unified the off-grid color indication for the vertical automation guide line and markers in the Arrangement and Detail View.
Improved the speed of text rendering on HiDPI/Retina screens.
Added minor graphics improvements for device chains.
Replaced "Master/Slave" references:
"ReWire Master/Slave" is now "ReWire Host/Device"
"Tempo Master/Slave" is now "Tempo Leader/Follower"
Analog’s Filter 2 "Slave" switch is now called "Follow"
Max for Live:
Updated the bundled Max application to Max 8.0.2. For a complete list of changes, please see: https://cycling74.com/forums/max-8-0-2-released
Updated various info texts and replaced all references to "Max/MSP" with "Max" for consistency.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Removed a feature which required Shift-clicking to open an AU plug-in editor.
Setup:
Added support for ASIO drivers with a single mono input channel.
Updated the Help View's table of contents and various info texts.
Updated some info text translations.
Updated translations for various Help View built-in lessons, Table of Contents and Info Texts.
BUGFIXES:
Arrangement Editing:
Previously, the Envelope Control Chooser in the Clip View would not reflect Warp Mode's enabled state when switching clips or when clicking the clip's Warp Mode switch.
Fixed a crash that occurred when zooming to a time selection, deleting a track and zooming back.
Previously, the Edit menu's "Cut Time", "Duplicate Time", and "Delete Time" commands would be incorrectly enabled when there was no time selection.
A MIDI track would not be monitored during an Arrangement recording, after a clip's playback was stopped on the same track in the Session View.
Previously, unwarped samples dragged from the browser on top of other audio clips in the Arrangement would sometimes be arbitrarily shortened.
Live could crash when clicking within proximity of an Arrangement locator.
Automation:
Dragging the automation lane selection start to a negative time would change the selection to a content lane selection.
Fixed a crash that would occur when pressing the "+" key to zoom into a MIDI clip's Envelope Editor, after double-clicking in the Clip View and making the Envelope Editor visible by clicking on the Show/Hide Envelopes Box control.
Fixed broken clip envelopes created by the step automation feature on Push.
When deleted via a parameter's context menu, a clip automation envelope's value line was displayed in the wrong color.
Fixed a bug which prevented dragging an automation breakpoint to 1.1.1 under certain circumstances.
Previously, splitting and moving an automation envelope's left-most line segment would shift the segment to the right.
Browser:
When a Collections label was assigned to a project folder, it would appear twice in the respective browser Collection.
Fixed a bug which prevented drag-selecting a range of entries in the browser side bar.
Control Surfaces:
When using Drum Racks, nested devices would still display their visualization after the drum pad was selected in the device navigation area via the top row of buttons, on Push 2. Only the choke group and tuning settings for the drum chain should be visible in that view.
Fixed a bug where the message "Parameter... is awaiting pick-up" would sit in the Status Bar indefinitely instead of disappearing after a few seconds.
The "Komplete Kontrol A" remote script will now be auto-selected on Windows even when the port name is prepended with a number.
Selecting the master track will now move the track bank of the "Komplete_Kontrol_A" script.
Fixed two bugs in the Novation SL MkIII script:
Deleting all return tracks no longer results in a "hanging" send/return display on the SL MkIII.
The pad grid on the SL MkIII no longer sends notes to Live's tracks when there's no Drum Rack available.
A crash might occur when undoing inserting (e.g. duplicating) a device that was locked to a script.
File Handling:
In the File Manager, an Arrangement clip would be displayed multiple times under the same reference file.
When video output failed to render, a pop-up would appear with the message "Do you want to delete the rendered audio?", and the rendered audio would always be deleted, regardless of whether "Yes" or "No" was clicked.
Previously, Live Sets could become corrupted after a MIDI clip was created by converting audio to MIDI, by pasting an audio clip with a groove that was not present in the new Live Set.
Live could crash when using the Manage User Library feature, under certain circumstances.
On Windows, if Live fails to overwrite a file during rendering, it will no longer crash. Instead, it will use a different file name.
In a scenario where the user selects one or more MIDI tracks without an instrument, opens the Export Audio/Video dialog and selects "Selected Tracks Only", clicking "Export" no longer leads to a hanging progress dialog. Instead, the "Export" button is now grayed out.
Fixed a crash that occurred when decoding an Ogg Vorbis file with more than two channels. Now, instead of crashing, Live will decode the first two channels as stereo, and ignore the other channels.
The File Manager could fail to display anything after exiting the Manage Project tab without saving.
Interface Improvements:
Users of Apple's Magic Mouse would struggle to delete automation events with a single click.
Added a minor UI fix for misaligned controls in plug-in racks in the Device View.
Fixed truncated text in Wavetable's Modulation Matrix.
Fixed misaligned text at high zoom levels.
On dial controls, the gap now appears where the needle is, instead of the current value point.
Previously, the Envelope Control Chooser in the Clip View would remain grayed out when switching from an unwarped audio clip to a MIDI clip. In addition, a crash would occur when deleting a modulation envelope that was initially visible after loading a Live Set.
"Added the following changes on Windows, where at least one HiDPI screen is in use:
If the pixel density of the current screen changes, VST windows will resize properly. This applies to shown and hidden VST windows.
If multiple VST windows are being opened on a non-primary screen, they will be positioned in a cascaded way instead of in a seemingly random fashion. This matches the behavior on the primary screen.
The distance of cascaded VST windows' title bars is increased so that the whole title bar is visible.
VST windows are positioned consistently when opening HiDPI and non-HiDPI plug-in windows after one another.
Fixed a bug which caused text to bleed from the browser into the Info View, as well as other similar glitches, when using the Zoom Display feature.
Fixed truncated text in the Saturator and Resonators devices.
Fixed a bug which caused drawing to be sluggish on macOS when resizing Arrangement clips in Sets with many automation envelopes, duplicating clips in rapid succession (by holding CMD+D), or quickly repeating other certain actions.
On macOS, the color of modifier icons and text in context menus now match.
Live would crash when zooming into an unwarped clip in the detail view with the '+' key.
Under certain conditions, zooming on certain audio waveforms would cause the Arrangement View to jump around.
Max for Live improvements:
Changes to root_note and scale_name properties on Push are now observable in Max for Live devices, and changes triggered in Max for Live devices are now correctly relayed to Push.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Fixed truncated modulation target names in Wavetable's Modulation Matrix.
AU plug-ins would not recognize the "Multiple Plug-In Windows" preference.
Fixed a bug where the Arpeggiator device would play notes at half the set rate, when its Gate parameter was set to 100 by entering the value with the keyboard.
Live could crash when loading certain Wavetable presets.
Fixed a crash that might occur when the FL Studio VST was running.
ReWire:
Updated ReWire libraries to version 1.8.7 build 145. This fixes a problem where starting Live on macOS 10.14 Mojave would prompt a request to access Contacts.
Setup:
Fixed a bug where the list of input/output channel names would be lost if an ASIO device changed its number of inputs or outputs.
Fixed a crash that occurred after closing the error dialog informing about an unusable ASIO driver clock signal.
On Windows, Live would sometimes crash while shutting down.
Fixed a bug which caused Live to trigger security warnings on macOS Mojave (version 10.14).
Fixes a bug which prevented Live from being completely 64-bit compliant.
Live would crash when clicking the Driver Error Compensation toggle in the Preferences on Windows.

New in Ableton Live 10.0.5 (Oct 23, 2018)

New in Ableton Live 10.0.4 (Oct 23, 2018)

New in Ableton Live 10.0.3 (Sep 3, 2018)

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Arrangement Editing:
When a time selection stretches across multiple tracks, ALT+CMD+F (Mac) / ALT+CTRL+F (PC) will apply the "Create Fade" / "Create Crossfade" command to all selected clips.
Edit commands for cutting, duplicating and deleting time work regardless of the current Arrangement content selection. These commands are also available if a selection exists exclusively in an automation lane.
Added a "Create Fades" command to the context menu of Arrangement tracks.
Automation:
Added a "Create Fades" command to the context menu of Arrangement tracks.
It is now possible to create and reset fades when clip content is selected in Automation Mode. The shortcut for resetting fades is "CMD+ALT+Delete" (Mac) / "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" (PC).
Pressing CMD+Delete now deletes the envelope of the selected automation lane in the Arrangement View (or the clip envelope in the Detail View).
Added "Clear Envelope" to the automation lane context menu and "Clear All Envelopes" to the Arrangement track header context menu.
The horizontal movement of automation breakpoints creates horizontal gaps when dragging clips or nudging content or automation within a time selection.
Introduced the "Snap Automation to Grid" menu option. When enabled, automation breakpoints and segments snap to the global grid. When "Snap Automation to Grid" is disabled, the grid snapping modifier works intuitively, and a light blue vertical line indicates when the dragged breakpoint snaps to the next or previous gridline or breakpoint.
Browser:
Color labels are now stored in the same file system folder as the files they are attached to, which makes it easier to manage browser items and their assigned colors across different Live installations.
Capture:
Improved the optimal loop detection for clips created with Capture MIDI.
Control Surfaces:
Introduced Control Surface support for Arturia KeyLab MkII.
Interface Improvements:
Font rendering is now more crisp at all zoom levels.
Improved the speed at which the Live interface updates.
Introduced the Ableton Sans Small font, which is more readable at small sizes. This change generally increases readability of all text in Live.
On Windows, Live uses the keyboard's repeat settings to determine the scroll speed of scroll bars.
Improve Live's performance at zoom levels other than 100%.
On Windows, the automatic HiDPI mode for VST plug-ins is now disabled. To enable HiDPI support for HiDPI-capable plugins, users must toggle the "Auto-Scale Plugin Window" via the plug-in device's context menu.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
On Windows 10 with HiDPI enabled, plug-ins that support DPI-awareness will be displayed at the native resolution instead of being scaled. This means that Live now officially supports HiDPI plug-ins.
Wavetable's FM FX Mode is now less CPU-intensive.
Increased the contrast of the spectrum in EQ Eight across all Themes.
Improved Wavetable's performance when playing simple sounds (e.g. one or two voices).
Setup:
Live Intro now supports the Complex and Complex Pro warp modes. Additionally, it now supports a maximum of eight audio I/O channels instead of four.
Added the Audio I/O and Driver Error Compensation lessons to the Help View.
Added Groove Pool info text translations.
Added translations for the "Audio IO" lesson in the Help View, and renamed "Capture" to "Capture MIDI" in info texts and the Help View.
Added the "Connecting MIDI Controllers" and "Control Surface Reference" lessons to the Help View. Updated the "Creating Manual MIDI Mappings" lesson.
Added and updated translations for various Help View lessons.
Updated built-in lessons in the Help View.
BUG FIXES:
Arrangement Editing:
Track content selection would not be restored on redo when the track was converted from audio to MIDI or vice versa during an edit operation.
Creating fades on multiple tracks would result in one undo step per fade instead of a single undo step.
Zooming by scrolling now works independently from the scroll direction set in the System Preferences (macOS only).
Live no longer enforces a minimum length when resizing Arrangement clips. Additionally, fixed the following bugs which occurred when freezing a track containing muted clips: The frozen track would be silent in the area of the frozen clips, even if something should have been audible there; Freeze tail clips could overlap with the muted clips.
The message "Warp Marker segment BPM limit reached" would sometimes appear in the status bar when stretching Arrangement clips, even though the limit had not been reached.
Previously, erratic scrolling would occur when there was only one Warp Marker set after "0" beat time. Also, jittering would occur when dragging and holding a Warp Marker while the grid was disabled.
Live could crash when dragging a clip, if that clip's Master/Slave switch was set to "Master".
Autoscrolling will now always occur when dragging the loop marker to the right or the left outside the Arrangement.
Parameters that have no effect on the current Warp Mode are now correctly displayed as disabled in the Clip Envelope Control chooser.
"Reset Fade" is now applied to all fades in the current time selection. Before, it was only applied when either the fade-in end time or the fade-out start time were within the current time selection.
Automation:
Deleting a breakpoint by clicking on it would accidentally move the breakpoint instead, when using a graphics tablet.
The content selection of automation lanes is now restored after undo and redo operations. Until now, only the content selection of the content lane was restored.
Breakpoints can no longer be moved into negative time.
Fixed some issues with VST and AU plug-in parameters, particularly where unconfigured parameters were heavily adjusted within the plug-in.
Fade handles could be edited using the mouse or keyboard, even after switching to Automation Mode, where the fade handles are not visible.
Browser:
The Live browser would fail to see files from OneDrive folders.
When installing factory packs the contained "Ableton Folder Info" folder would not be hidden until the next startup.
Fixed a crash that occurred when .amxd files appeared in the Sounds category.
Capture:
Previously, significant note overlaps were prevented when Capture MIDI detected the loop.
Control Surfaces:
Fixed a crash that occurred when deleting a track while changing a parameter of that track via MIDI mapping.
File Handling:
Fixed a bug where Live would incorrectly use a previous freeze sample instead of producing a new freeze sample after changing a device parameter.
Fixed a bug which prevented AU presets from recalling parameters correctly.
Live no longer runs out of memory when loading Live sets with large plug-in data (> 500 MB).
Fixed a crash that might occur when trying to recover from a crash.
Fixed a crash that occurred when closing Live while listed samples were selected in the File Manager.
Interface Improvements:
Live could crash when displaying a modal plug-in dialog.
Fixed a visual glitch in the Multiband Dynamics device which caused the frames of the ”T,” ”B” and ”A” buttons to appear broken.
Previously when clicking the drop area of the Arrangement, the track highlight would either move back to where the time selection was last, or not move at all.
When shutting down Live on Windows, Live's UI would become glitchy in some cases.
On Windows 10 with HiDPI enabled, the menu bar now works as expected if the main and second window are on screens with differing pixel densities.
Waveform drawing would not work properly at certain zoom levels.
On Windows, Live no longer crashes if the file dialog is shown for a long time.
Fixed a strange looking grey blob that appeared in the Glue device's VU meter when the display zoom was not at 100%.
In MIDI Map Mode, the Status Bar’s "mode” chooser is now wider, to accomodate the text of its options.
Live would freeze at startup when running on monitors with refresh rates above 60 Hz.
Previously, the text "Drop Clips or Grooves Here" appeared wrapped over two lines in the Groove Pool.
Previously, "Show Modulation" would appear in the context menu of an Envelope Editor, if a Max for Live parameter with no modulation was selected in the Clip Envelope Control chooser.
In German, the text of the Export and Cancel buttons no longer overflows in the Render dialog.
In the browser, the search field now has the right text color in the Dark theme.
In the Input/Output Channel Configuration window, labels now have the right text color in the Dark theme.
In the Groove Pool, the drop message is no longer split onto two lines.
In other places, text that appeared blurry in some buttons is now crisp again.
On Windows, if you clicked a separator, the cursor would erroneously change back to a pointing cursor.
On Windows, if using a screen with a refresh rate above 60 Hz, Live's UI would not draw smoothly and potentially lock up when loading certain plug-ins.
Under certain circumstances, a Live Set could become corrupt due to an invalid Group Track structure.
On Windows, Live could crash while launching in cases where it failed to position itself on the screen.
The playhead was no longer shown in the browser's Preview Tab.
Added further improvements to the UI performance on Windows in cases where Live runs on monitors with a high refresh rate.
Max for Live:
Live could crash when loading a Set, if a Max for Live device was mapped to a macro control.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
EQ Eight's noise level is now significantly reduced when filter parameters (i.e. Frequency, Gain and Q) are automated or modulated.
Adjusting Wavetable's envelope slopes could cause the audio engine to become silent under certain conditions.
Live could crash when duplicating a track containing a Wavetable instance.
Setup:
Fixed a bug which affected the way invalid denominator values in time signature changes were corrected once the "Enter" key was pressed.
Previously, tracks created in Map Mode were not mappable.
Live would not support ASIO interfaces with a single mono input channel.
Update various info text translations.
CHANGES FOR PUSH:
It is now possible to fine-tune Wavetable oscillators on Push 1.
Improved the performance of Push 2's display process.
PUSH BUG FIXES:
Fixed a bug which caused the Filter 1 Envelope On/Off value to control the Filter 2 Envelope On/Off value on both Push 1 and 2.
With some graphics cards running on Windows, the Push 2 display process might frequently run into crashes with certain GPUs.

New in Ableton Live 10.0.2 (May 29, 2018)

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Arrangement Editing:
When copying a time selection inside an automation lane, this can now be pasted upon the content lane. The copied automation will always land in the correct lane.
Automation:
When nudging a time selection in an automation lane, the automation outside the selection remains unchanged.
Enabled vertical auto-scrolling when dragging an automation lane.
Reintroduced the toggle button for showing/hiding additional automation lanes.
Additional automation lanes are now unfolded by default.
Improved the horizontal movement of a range of automation segments. Ramps are no longer created when a time selected range of automation is moved (by nudging or dragging) horizontally and is still partially within the original time range.
Fades no longer snap to the Arrangement View grid.
Control Surfaces:
Added support for IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O.
When connected, the Novation Launchpad S and Launchpad Mini control surfaces are now automatically selected in the Preferences.
Interface Improvements:
Improved Live's perfomance when resizing audio clips in the Arrangement.
Added a gap between the handle and the track of the scrollbar in the Arrangement and Session View.
Sharpened the appearance of the triangle that appears above bipolar knobs.
Adjusted spacing between devices and meters in device chains.
Adjusted the color of the Arrangement Overview frame to increase visibility in dark Themes.
Changed the color of Drum Rack label to increase visibility in the Dark Theme.
Adjusted the spacing below Session View's horizontal scrollbar so that it is centered.
Adjusted the selection frame in device groups and corrected inconsistencies in the look and behaviour of the Sampler device.
A track created by dropping a single clip into the Session or Arrangement View's Drop Area now inherits the clip color instead of the source track color. When dropping several clips at the same time, the new track still inherits the source track color, as before.
Improved the playhead smoothness on Windows.
Max for Live improvements:
Max 7 license owners can edit gen~ patchers in Live 10's Max for Live editor.
Fixed permissions issues on macOS for non-Admin accounts.
Updated documentation for the Live Object Model.
Improved UI repainting and Live queue processing with many Max for Live devices.
Multi-core rendering in Live is now supported if a Set contains Max for Live devices.
MIDI editor:
MIDI note chasing now works when:
scrubbing in the Arrangement View.
restarting transport using "Shift" + "Space" in the Arrangement View.
scrubbing in the Detail View of an Arrangement clip.
scrubbing in the Detail View of a Session clip.
Previously, there was a possibility that all MIDI notes in a key could disappear when stretched to an extremely small size (e.g., when using the ":2" button). This has now changed, and further stretching is not possible once notes reach a very small size.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Filter curve visualisations in Wavetable are updated in real time in cases where e.g. an LFO or Envelope is mapped to the filter cutoff frequency.
Setup:
On Windows, Live now cleanly shuts down when a user logs out, shuts the computer down or reboots it. It also displays a message explaining why it is preventing the computer shutting down, giving the user 30 seconds to abort shutting down and save the Set.
Updated various info texts.
Added translations for the following lessons: "A Tour of Live", "Recording Audio", "Creating Beats", "Playing Software Instruments" and "Max for Live Devices".
When re-opening Live, the state of the Computer MIDI Keyboard on/off toggle is now remembered.
Wavetable:
In Wavetable's Mod Matrix, the left column containing target names now features bars that indicate the unmodulated and modulated value of the respective parameter. Additive modulation is indicated by a bipolar bar starting from the unmodulated value, while multiplicative modulation is indicated by a unipolar bar starting from the left.
When Live's transport is started or if there is a jump in beat time, Echo and Wavetable LFOs now update their phase if they are beat-synced.
BUG FIXES:
Arrangement Editing:
Previously, when freezing a track, the hatched pattern that indicates frozen tails would also erroneously appear in the track's clip headers.
Previously, start and end markers for unwarped audio clips were erroneously quantized to the grid.
Creating a warp marker could trigger scrolling of the selected clip under certain circumstances.
Previously it was not possible to adjust the loop start position in unwarped audio clips without quantization.
A crash would occur when editing the crossfade between two very short clips.
Fixed a crash when removing a device that showed a parameter in an additional automation lane while the mouse is hovering over the parameter's automation.
The "Select Track Content" context menu command would not work on multiple selected tracks.
Automation:
Previously, when copying an Arrangement clip with existing automation to another track, automation would not be copied even if the target track and source track contained identical devices. Also, if a track is created by dragging a clip into the Arrangement drop area, all automation is now copied over and set to the the correct time.
Copying and pasting automation might lead to unexpected results, if the copied selection extended across multiple tracks.
The Show/Hide Additional Automation Lanes button is now always visible when unfolding a track that has been folded by resizing.
When pressing the Option (Alt) key and clicking on a track's Unfold Track button, the position of that track does not change.
MIDI Ctrl or Mixer modulation envelopes would be lost when dragging a clip from Arrangement to Session View.
Live could crash on Windows when clicking on a breakpoint while holding the grid modifier.
Positioning fade handles with arrow keys was not working correctly.
Browser:
AU plug-in default presets (.aupreset files) were no longer shown in the Live 10 browser.
Files from the "Current Project" label might fail to appear in the browser under certain circumstances.
File types unsupported in certain editions and when run as a ReWire slave (e.g., .amxd and .aupresets) erroneously appeared in Live's browser.
.M4A audio files would not show up in Live's browser anymore.
Control Surfaces:
Added bank definitions to Wavetable for third-party control surfaces.
File Handling:
Previously it was not possible to delete files or directories with names containing slashes.
Previously, toggling Automation Mode would create an Undo step.
Fixed a crash that occurred if a Live Set contained "{}" characters in its name.
Plug-ins and Sets that are saved in directory junctions on Windows work again.
Live would crash when launching the program by double-clicking a Live Set, in cases where the Live Set was corrupted.
Fixed a problem which might prevent AU presets from recalling correctly.
Interface Improvements:
Improved CPU usage by reducing the amount of graphic updates for the Detail View.
Live's window contents no longer briefly flicker after changes to a hardware display setup.
Depending on the language used in Live, the progress of the crash recovery wasn't visible on the splash screen because the text was clipped.
Improved the drag and drop handling on HiDPI screens. Previously, dragging a file from Explorer into Live would show the file at the wrong position in Live (Windows only).
Fixed a bug which caused text to overflow on top of the frame containing the browser's search field.
Fixed a bug which caused clips to be incorrectly colored when readded to a Live Set, if an .asd file was previously created.
On Windows 10 with HiDPI displays, dragging and dropping within Live, into Live, and within scaled plug-ins now works as expected. Please note that dragging and dropping from Live to other programs or to HiDPI-aware plug-ins may still cause issues when HiDPI Mode is active.
Fixed a bug where sequences of visually short borderless notes would be nearly invisible if crowded into overlapping pixel areas.
Fixed a minor visual issue affecting corners in grouped devices.
Fixed a minor inconsistency in the height of notes in Arrangement clips and clip previews.
Upon loading a Live Set, the clip envelope parameter selection would not be restored in the Detail View.
When double-clicking and dragging a slider control, the mouse cursor would not be hidden as expected, if Pen Tablet Mode was disabled.
Meters in Live's mixer would appear as stuck when loading a Set.
Improved UI performance on Windows when resizing Arrangement clips.
Fixed a bug which incorrectly applied bold formatting to chunks of text in the Help View.
If HiDPI was enabled on a Windows 10 machine, the preview of a dragged object (either dragged within Live or into Live) would appear offset.
If multiple audio clips were selected, changing a selection in the Detail View would create a wrong time selection in the Arrangement.
Removed inconsistent extra spacing from the context menu entry "Add Lane for Each Automated Envelope" in automation lane headers.
Previously, some radio buttons in certain devices displayed unreadable text.
On Windows with a HiDPI screen and HiDPI Mode enabled, it is once again possible to drag a file from Live into Explorer.
On Windows, dropping files from Addictive Drums 2 into Live works again.
When renaming Arrangement clips, the wrong mouse cursor would be displayed, making it difficult to insert the cursor at the desired position.
The grayed out text "Open Groove Pool..." in a clip's Groove Pool dropdown menu is now more visible in the Dark theme.
On Windows, if a plug-in showed a modal dialog, the main window could not be closed while that dialog was being shown.
When running Windows on a computer with a 4K screen and HiDPI Mode enabled, Live's UI would temporarily stop updating if the mouse hovered over an instance of the Spectrum device's breakout view.
On Windows 10 (version 1803) with HiDPI enabled, drag and drop now works as expected between Live, plug-ins and Max and the Explorer.
Horizontal sliders are now black instead of white in the Dark Theme (this is particularly noticeable for plug-in device parameters in the Detail View).
Max for Live:
Added the following changes to Max for Live:
File copying is now faster (this affects building standalones and Max For Live devices).
Restored Hints functionality.
live.gain~: height no longer changes when changing font.
Live could crash when deleting a Max for Live device which had a fullscreen window.
Live's main window can no longer obscure all other windows when using Max for Live devices.
Previously, Live might fail to access MIDI ports if the Max editor was open in the background at program launch.
The Max patcher window is now correctly sized on Windows.
Text in message boxes would sometimes appear cut off.
Various nodesnames attribute improvements.
Fixed issues with adding new objects to presentation mode.
poly~: fixed a crash which might occur when muting messages in nested poly~ patchers.
Seq object now properly records MIDI.
umenu and live.menu would block the Max scheduler while the drop-down list was displayed.
Firewall permissions dialog is appropriately suppressed in the Max for Live editor.
HiDPI: improved drawing when changing Windows display settings.
JS: sketch methods are no longer called on non-UI js objects in js_calljsfun().
Max Authorization Window: improved wording and user options.
mgraphics: deletion of temp file is now ensured when reading an .svg from a Max for Live device.
Performing an Undo after Macro-mapping a Max parameter would leave that parameter unmapped and unusable.
Live would crash when dragging a Live device on top of a Max for Live device.
Mapping Device Rack Macros to a live.remote would break under certain conditions after reloading the Set.
MIDI editor:
When folding an empty MIDI clip in a Drum Rack that contained at least one chain receiving all notes, the clip would fold to that chain only, whereas now the clip will not fold at all. Also, when switching between audio clips while a warp marker was selected, the Seg. BPM box would erroneously show the tempo of the previously selected marker. This would also lead to jumps in the displayed waveform visualization when the tempo was adjusted.
The Note Ruler in the MIDI Editor can now be double-clicked to vertically zoom to all used key tracks. In a multi-clip editing scenario, notes of all clips are taken into account, whereas previously only the notes of the foreground clip were considered. Additionally, fixed a bug which prevented the vertical zoom state from initializing correctly under certain circumstances.
Fixed a few minor bugs in the MIDI Editor:
when selecting one out of many selected notes, the selection would not revert to the selected note
when opening the context menu while hovering over a background note, and then clicking outside of the context menu, the background note would remain in a hovered state
when hovering over a background note, it was possible to highlight a momentarily invisible foreground note.
Multi Clip Editing:
Previously, the adaptive grid size of a newly created clip could sometimes be incorrectly calculated when multi-clip editing.
Navigation:
Tracks in the Arrangement View would scroll out of view completely when toggling Automation Mode if the highlighted track was not visible.
When resizing an Arrangement track, only tracks whose header is selected will be resized. Previously, a track might be erroneously resized if a content selection existed on that track.
When scrolling up and down in the Arrangement View using a mousewheel, the view would only move in very small increments.
Previously, when extracting a Drum Rack chain to a new track, the zoom level and time selection were erroneously applied to the newly created clip.
When undoing the deletion of a note while in Arrangement View, the Clip View zoom level unexpectedly zoomed in to that note.
Previously, scrolling the Arrangement's mixer section with a mousewheel was not possible.
Previously, the time selection status display would not get updated when selecting a clip in the Arrangement.
The grid modifier would not toggle the grid when changing the time selection or moving the insert marker with the arrow keys.
Dragging a device over a Session return track header that overlapped a group device chain header would cause erratic scrolling in Session View.
On macOS, grid snapping would erroneously toggle when setting the Arrangement loop start/stop marker position by clicking inside the Arrangement View scrub area while holding the [CMD] modifier.
Nested Groups:
Fixed a crash that occurred when duplicating a nested Group Track containing a plug-in with an active modal dialog while Live's second window was open.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
The Arpeggiator device could lead to crashes under certain circumstances.
AU plug-in parameters might behave erratically when being controlled with the mouse, under certain circumstances.
It was erroneously possible to tweak parameters in the expanded view of certain devices, even if the track was frozen.
Under certain circumstances, some Wavetable and Echo parameters would not respond smoothly.
Simpler's settings would not be recalled correctly, if the device was set to Slice by Beat and its playback was not warped.
Echo's timing would change when exporting audio at a different sample rate than the one currently in use.
Under certain circumstances, Wavetable's polyphonic voice stealing would cause certain notes to get stuck.
A crash might occur when trying to preview a Live Clip in Live's browser, if this referenced a Wavetable device.
The switches on the left side of the Glue Compressor device are now centered.
Certain parameter names would be truncated in the left column of Wavetable's Modulation Matrix.
Dropping many samples onto a Simpler or a Drum Rack would take much longer in Live 10 than it did in Live 9.
Live could crash when loading certain Wavetable presets from the Core Library.
Setup:
Fixed a bug which caused a "Preferences.cfg corrupt" error when importing Preferences from 32-bit Live versions.
Fixed a crash which occurred on startup under certain circumstances.
Added info texts translations for Drum Buss, Echo, Pedal and Wavetable devices.
On certain Windows machines, attempting to authorize Live 10 would fail.
While running, Live would fail to update the availability of MIDI ports.
Live was not able to prevent entering Sleep mode or turning off the display on Windows.
Changing the MTC Start Offset in the Preferences would have no effect.
Wavetable:
The animated sliders beneath the modulation target names would occasionally not appear in Wavetable.
Improved Wavetable's impact on CPU under certain circumstances.
CHANGES FOR PUSH:
Push:
Improved the display of Live's color palette on third-party control surfaces.
Updated Push 2's firmware to version 1.0.63. This version contains the updated color palette for Live 10.
Push Device Visualization:
Added bank definitions to Pedal, Drum Buss, and Echo for third-party control surfaces.
Envelope visualizations are now available for Wavetable on Push 2.
It is now possible to select wavetables in the Wavetable device on Push 1.
PUSH BUG FIXES:
Push:
The clip color palette for Push 1 was updated to match the Live 10 color palette.
The Push 1 browser would not display entries correctly if Live's language was set to Japanese.
Improved the touch-strip latency when working with MIDI tracks in Clip Mode on Push 2.
Fixed parameter sensitivities for Analog and Impulse devices on Push 2.
Push Device Visualization:
Wavetable's filter visualization on Push 2 might be displayed incorrectly after the Control Surface script was reinitialized.
A device's color would not update correctly on Push 2 when moving the device to a new track.
Push 2's display failed to indicate that an automation existed for certain Wavetable filter parameters.
The On/Off icon was missing for the Pitch envelope in the Operator device on Push 2.
Fixed envelope slope visualizations in Wavetable on Push 2.
Added missing parameters and icons for Operator and Analog's parameter banks on Push 2.
Fixed a scenario where Push 2's display could crash when hot-swapping AU plug-in presets.
Push MIDI Clip Mode:
After redoing a clip recording on Push 2, the wrong zoom state would be displayed.
The Note Settings view would close after touching an encoder, if all notes were being edited (Push 1 and Push 2).

New in Ableton Live 10.0.1 (Feb 7, 2018)

NEW FEATURES:
Arrangement Editing:
The "Shift" key is the new global fine-tune modifier for editing breakpoint values on Mac and Windows.
It is now possible to copy, paste, duplicate and nudge a time selection that spans across automation lanes in multiple tracks.
When an Arrangement selection resides on an automation lane, the text for nudging changes from "Nudge Clip(s)" to "Nudge Envelope(s)".
While dragging MIDI clips, notes are drawn in the range of the target track. This enables seeing the content of the clips in the context of the target track.
Automation:
It is now possible to extend a selection from an automation lane to the content lane of the same track.
Introduced a "micro-snapping" behavior: clips, loop markers and warp markers snap to a grid line even if the grid is off, if the distance to that grid line does not exceed 1 pixel.
Browser:
It is now possible to add Factory Packs content to Collections.
Capture:
Capture can now change the Set tempo, if a preferable interpretation is found.
When overdubbing a loop in the Session View, Capture will choose the loop iteration with a significant amount of new material in it.
File Handling:
It is only possible to export video if "Encode PCM" is enabled in the Export Audio/Video dialog.
Interface Improvements:
On Windows, HiDPI is now enabled by default for new users of Live 10. Additionally, VST plug-ins previously affected by UI issues on HiDPI screens now work as expected, when the default scaled mode is active. Please note that certain HiDPI plug-ins may require manually disabled scaling (via the context menu) in order to use them on HiDPI screens.
On Windows, it is now possible to decide on a per plug-in basis how its GUI is scaled on HiDPI screens. This is achieved via a context menu by right-clicking on the plug-in device either in the browser or in the Detail View. By default, provided HiDPI is enabled in the Preferences, the plug-in window is scaled so that it has the proper size on HiDPI screens. If the setting is disabled, the plug-in will appear much smaller in size, but this helps in cases where the mouse would behave erratically when trying to interact with the plug-in UI.
Improved the handling of graphics rendering in Live, in order to reduce the CPU and GPU load of Live on macOS.
Improved the zoom cursor design to increase its visibility with all Themes.
When dropping a sample on a Drum Rack pad, its border now appears in black or white (instead of orange), depending on the Theme in use.
Improved the 'Live 9' Theme.
When editing multiple clips while zoomed out of the MIDI Editor, notes are now displayed in a shaded version of their clip color, so it is easier to identify to which clip they belong to. The color of the little ticks that indicate a boundary between two very small notes has also been adjusted to improve readability. Finally, in order to make high-precision note editing easier, notes are no longer displayed as selected when they are being controlled by the mouse (e.g. while being dragged).
Level meter ticks now match the color of the dB labels beside them.
Changed the width of tracks created by dragging and dropping something into Live.
Updated the Mid-Dark and Dark Themes.
Added minor color changes to Automation Mode.
Changed parameter values for toggles from lowercase "on/off" to title case "On/Off".
The Solo buttons have been updated to fit the new font.
Improved the appearance of the Solo button icons.
"Show Preset Name" defaults to "On" for all devices. Previously, this was only the case for some devices like Instrument / Effect Racks and sample-based instruments, while most of the others defaulted to "Off", so that only the device name was shown.
Minor improvements to the title bar of the multi-clip editor.
Updated Ableton Sans Font: enabled use of additional diacritical marks, and correctly positioned them at the height of lower-case characters.
Changed the fill color of expand/collapse arrows in the File Manager, and everywhere else they appear.
Increased the opacity of the clip content in Automation Mode.
A few more Control Bar items are now hoverable: Time Signature, Arrangement Position, Loop Start/Punch-In Point, and Loop/Punch-Region Length.
Link:
It is now possible to control Live's play / stop transport controls via Link.
Max for Live improvements:
SysEx messages are now passed through a MIDI track's device chain.
Live support exchanging SysEx messages with Max.
Updated the Max for Live Drum Synths and Control Devices UI. These now follow Theme colors and active / inactive states.
Introduced a new MIDI Monitor device to Max for Live.
LFO, Envelope Follower, Shaper and Envelope devices in Max for Live now can be mapped to multiple sources.
Mixing:
The number of audio-in buses for plug-ins has been increased to a total of eight inputs.
Multi Clip Editing:
Improved the behavior of the Fold button when editing multiple clips at the same time.
Scrubbing in MIDI Clips now works when multi-clip editing:
Scrubbing in the Session View will play the clips as if they had been started at the same time, i.e. as they are being displayed. If the current selection contains several clips from the same track, clips will be chosen from each track in the following order: foreground clip, playing clip, triggered clip, first clip of the track. Scrubbing is currently disabled if one of the clips is frozen.
Note: the trigger line that shows where the clip(s) would start during the trigger state does not yet support multiple clips. This will be addressed in the future.
Additional bugfixes:
Previously, the freeze layer on top of the scrub area was not shown for frozen MIDI clips.
The multi-clip playhead was not shown when triggering a playing clip.
Scrubbing before the first event (sample/note/loop) sometimes started with an offset.
The scrub start position of a Session clip failed to respect the song time signature at the current song position.
Improved the behavior of the Fold button when editing multiple clips at the same time.
Navigation:
Audio tracks will be automatically named by the clips that are added onto them. If there is a single session or arrangement clip in a track, then the name of the track will follow the name of that clip. If more clips are added, the track will stick with whatever name it got when there was only one clip. If all clips are removed from the track, the track will return to its default name.
Refined zooming behavior in the Arrangement, to avoid scenarios where the view would jump to the middle of a selection if only one edge of the selection was currently visible.
Follow is now paused while breakpoints are created.
Mousewheel zoom events now can resize all the highlighted content tracks in the Arrangement View. Previously, this exclusively worked for tracks whose headers where selected.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
When loading a short sample into an empty Simpler instance, Warp and Loop are now deactivated. Additionally, when replacing a sample already loaded into Simpler, the new sample will retain all the Warp and Loop settings.
Added performance improvements to Wavetable and Echo.
Real-time modulation signals are now visible at the top of Wavetable's Modulation Matrix.
Reduced the memory footprint of Wavetable. Also reduced occurrences of clicks in the audio when stealing voices.
Improved the performance of Unison Amount, Envelope Time and Glide modulation in Wavetable.
Echo's and Wavetable's random LFOs look slightly different in the LFO display.
Macro-mapped controls in Wavetable now appear in the Modulation Matrix.
Improved Wavetable's LFO display to make the visualization smoother and more consistent.
Wavetable's Modulation Matrix headers are now clickable, allowing to jump to the respective modulation source panel.
Setup:
Live no longer forces macOS to use the discrete graphics card in Multi-GPU machines such as MacBook Pros. This reduces energy use and heat, and improves battery life.
Updated the ‘Creating Beats’ lesson in Live’s Help View.
Updated the ‘Playing Software Instruments’ lesson in Live’s Help View.
The 'Tour of Live' and 'Recording Audio' Live Lessons have been updated and are now available in the Help View again.
Added a Max for Live Devices lesson in the Help View.
BUG FIXES:
Arrangement Editing:
Quantizing audio clips might lead to unexpected results, under certain circumstances.
Copying an Arrangement clip in Session View could create additional unwanted Session clips, under certain circumstances.
Live would crash when loading a Live Set, if one of the tracks contained very short clips, and at least one clip was set to "Master" tempo in the Arrangement.
The Segment BPM box is now only editable when a single warp marker is selected. Also, when an audio clip's Warp switch is activated, or when an audio clip is selected, the first warp marker is now selected and the box is consequently editable.
Nudging selected material in the Arrangement might lead to unexpected results, when entering or exiting Automation Mode after creating a selection.
When deleting part of a clip within a fade-in, the fade-in no longer spans the empty space.
Fixed a crash that occurred when copying a time selection on a track containing Send automation, under certain circumstances.
Nudging clips in the Arrangement was not possible when the time selection was made by dragging from right to left.
When nudging a selection on an automation lane, the automation would be copied instead than moved.
When dragging transient markers with the Shift modifier pressed, the transient markers would be deleted instead of moved.
Live would crash when moving at least three clips under certain circumstances.
Fixed a crash which would occur after using Freeze Track/Flatten commands, under certain circumstances.
Bugfixes for time selection in Detail View for MIDI clips:
when clicking the time selection header with an expanded time selection, the time selection would be lost.
when the time selection was on standby, clicking the time selection header would not reactivate the time selection.
when editing multiple clips at the same time in the Arrangement, a standby time selection could become collapsed when clicked.
Fixed a bug which prevented nudging Arrangement clips correctly, under certain conditions. Additionally, undoing the deletion of a clip could prevent the time selection from being restored.
Live could crash when copying a frozen clip from Arrangement View to Session View. Additionally, it is now possible to drag frozen clips from Arrangement View to Session View.
Live could crash when extending the Arrangement Loop to very large time values.
The clip content of the content lane and the main automation lane would visually "jump" by a small amount when toggling Automation Mode.
Moving a non-quantized Warp Marker via arrow keys did not work at certain zoom levels.
Immediately dragging a Warp Marker after its creation would not work, if the Warp Marker was not created on the top of a transient marker.
The grid modifier was not working when dragging immediately after the creation of a Warp marker.
Adjusting multiple clip Gain settings at once would take an unusually long time.
The "D" key command would no longer toggle between a Drum Rack selection and Drum Pads.
Automation:
Live would crash when importing a track with Send automation into a Set containing no return tracks.
Fixed a bug that affected content selection behavior in the Arrangement, in cases where a previously existing parameter was removed by e.g. deleting a device.
Arrangement automation is no longer lost when duplicating a device using the Duplicate command.
Arrangement automation would become lost when copying devices within a track or to a different track, or when moving devices to a different track, both when using drag and drop and when using cut/copy and paste.
Clips no longer lose their MIDI controller or warping parameter modulation envelopes when dragged to a different track in the Arrangement.
Copying, pasting and nudging a non-contiguous selection in automation lanes for multiple tracks could lead to erratic results.
Fixed the shape of the right-most automation segment's active mouse area.
On Windows, automation curve editing is now only possible if the modifier was already pressed at the time of the mouse-down, to avoid disabling the grid instead.
When moving the fade-in end past the fade-out start and then back within the same mouse gesture, the fade-out start would not be restored to its prior length.
Moving the fade-in start could affect the fade-out start even though they were not touching.
An unexpected fade-in would erroneously appear after removing a crossfade from two crossfading clips.
Unwanted time signature automation would be created when duplicating time, if the time selection was not aligned to bar boundaries.
The Automation Mode "A" shortcut key toggle was not mentioned in the respective menu entry.
A wrong grid quantization was applied when creating breakpoints in proximity of a breakpoint segment while the grid was set to "Off".
Added various improvements for adding and editing automation breakpoints.
Resizing a track with the Option (Alt) key + mousewheel would not work when the mouse was hovering on a scrollable automation lane (e.g. Glue Compressor's "Release" parameter.)
Automation lanes would not be deselected after folding a track and creating a selection in a different track.
When selecting the automation lane in a nested track, the Group Track's automation lane would erroneously retain the selection, if this previously existed.
It is now possible to drag an automation lane time selection to the content lane of any track. Previously, this was restricted to the same track.
Browser:
When one of the the Packs folders was favored, browsing its sub-folders via Collections might display the wrong content.
It was erroneously possible to activate the "RAW" button for previewing MIDI Clips, which would then lead to a crash.
Fixed a crash which would occur when applying a Groove to a MIDI clip, if the Groove was added to one of the Collections labels.
Live would crash when trying to relocate a missing user folder in the browser, if the user folder was the root of a drive.
When selecting an audio file in the browser, the wrong file would be previewed if a sample with the same name was previously selected.
Using CMD+F (OS X) or CTRL+F(WIN) would not revert the focus to the search field under certain circumstances.
Folders listed under Collections labels could exclusively be sorted by name.
The browser's Preview switch would not be triggered when navigating via Page Up/Down keys.
The browser color labels would not update correctly in some situations.
When displaying the second browser column, this appeared empty until its label was clicked once.
Capture:
When overdubbing in Session View, only one loop iteration is created before the new captured material.
Control Surfaces:
A bug prevented Launchpad MK2's Mixer Mode from functioning.
File Handling:
Live would crash when restoring a Live Set after a crash, in cases where the Live set had been saved after undoing a manoeuvre.
A crash would occur when adding a folder to Places, if the folder name contained an emoji character. Additionally, Live could not open Live Sets if their name contained UTF-8 characters.
Under certain circumstances, recovering a Live Set after a crash was not possible.
Live could crash when pasting text into a clip/track renaming field, if the text contained composite characters.
Live could crash during a crash recovery under certain circumstances.
It was not possible to move an item to the trash if its filename contained the "/" symbol.
Live could crash when loading a clip under certain circumstances.
Changes to the Global Launch Quantization were not undoable when applied via the 'Options' menu.
Live would crash when an AU plug-in instance which couldn't be loaded was removed from a Set.
The indexer process could crash on OS X when saving songs,if their filename contained slashes. Also, fixed a bug that caused the loading of a lesson accompanying a Live Set to fail, if the song had a slash in its file name.
Live would crash during a Live Set recovery, if the original file name contained certain caracters.
Improved the logic in the mechanism for importing MIDI files in Live, which previously could lead to unexpected results.
If an audio file's name contained certain characters, those characters would not be correctly displayed when importing the file in Live.
When undoing an action after Saving a set, saving the Set again was not possible.
Increased the preloaded sample file regions for warped samples in Simpler, in order to prevent sporadic drop-outs.
The Undo history would be compromised in cases where the Max installation could not be found, or Max could not be started. Furthermore, Live would endlessly attempt to load referenced patches, when Max was not available.
Interface Improvements:
It was not possible to close plug-in windows via the "ESC" key.
Solved an issue where drop-down menus might appear misplaced on Windows, in multi-monitor configurations.
Items in the Global Quantization drop-down menu would not be highlighted when hovering with the mouse.
Improved the handling of multiple program windows on Windows. Previously, Live occasionally prevented bringing other programs to the foreground.
Improved the responsiveness of interactions in the Arrangement UI (e.g. resizing clips).
In the Session View, clip envelope modulation was displayed in the wrong color.
FIxed a bug which, under certain circumstances, might cause certain UI elements to disappear.
Adjusted a visual inconsistency in the gap between the meters and devices.
Previously, Live 10 did not convert the colors of devices in the Drum Rack and Instrument Rack presets from Live 9.
Changed the scrollbar color in the Chain List and return chain for Drum Rack and Instrument Rack devices.
Previously, the cursor would inadvertently move away when clicking in the beat-time ruler, if Follow was active.
Improved the readability of the text that appears in a plug-in device when the device is not available, when the Mid-Dark and Dark Themes are in use.
When performing a drag and drop of a track into a Group Track in the Session View, the vertical drop indicator would not be displayed correctly.
The resize mouse cursor would not be shown in the Arrangement Overview, under certain conditions.
Scrolling in the Arrangement might lag severely on Windows, under certain circumstances.
Animations and meters would temporarily freeze during mouse movements, under certain conditions.
Applied a lighter color to the Electric device so that the parameter labels are readable in all Themes.
It was not possible to input alternate characters from the character candidate window on OS X, when renaming items in Live.
The height of default MIDI and audio tracks and tracks created by dropping devices is now the same.
Added minor visual improvements to the Mapping Browser.
Fixed an undesired change in the UI of the Loop Position and Loop Length fields in the MIDI Note Editor. Also, narrowed the hover frame around the Time Signature fields in the Control Bar by 1 pixel
When Live was running on OS X 10.11 and 10.12, graphic artifacts might occur in conjunction with certain hardware configurations.
The background color of the "Arrangement Position" field in the Control Bar was displayed incorrectly when Link or the Metronome count-in were enabled.
The text for the Tension device's toggle buttons would fail to appear when using a Dark Theme.
When a Dark Theme was in use, selected Rack Chains might fail to display certain icons.
When a non-contiguous selection exists in the Arrangement, no selection color is visible in the gaps between two non-selected tracks anymore.
Adjusted the width of the clip preview in Session View while performing a drag and drop action.
Improved how the color of the Velocity Editor View Split button adapts to the current Theme.
Fixed a bug which could cause the text in the Help View to be truncated by the scrollbar.
The values of small parameter dials would change color upon selection, if the Dark Theme was in use.
The Group Track icon would clash with the track name in Session View, if the track was resized to the smallest possible width.
The track title text in Session View would change its color automatically when resized to the shortest width, if the Mid Dark Theme was in use.
On Windows, users with Turkish and other keyboards with non-Central/Western European diacritic characters can now enter these characters into Live via the keyboard.
The color of the CPU Load Meter text now changes when the meter's value is above 100%, instead of above 50%.
Adjusted the text color in the Preferences, so that it looks correct in all Themes.
On Windows, the size and position of the second window would not be remembered when closing and opening it again.
On Windows, Live's windows and dialogs would occasionally flash briefly when appearing on screen.
Fixed the selection color for rows within the 'Groove Pool'.
Corrected the text color for minimized track headers.
The color of a Default Track set in Live 9 now correctly translates in Live 10.
When dragging a clip with a long name containing a Rack into an empty track, or when pasting it into an empty track, the track title in the Session View would overlap with the Chain Mixer 'Fold' button.
The Arrangement Group Track header drop marker was drawn one pixel too far to the left.
When the peak meter is lit, the peak meter text is now visible in the Dark Theme.
Active Grooves displayed a wrong text color in the first field of the Groove Pool, if the Dark Theme was in use.
UI interactions could become laggy when scrolling / zooming, under certain conditions.
Changed the text color for all status bar alerts, to increase its readability when using the Dark Theme.
Max for Live improvements:
Fixed a bug in the Drum Synths which prevented the correct decay value from being used, if this updated at the same time that a note message was sent.
It is now possible to finely adjust Max for Live device parameters using the "Shift" modifier, as for all other Live devices.
Max for Live devices would steal the keyboard focus from Live's UI.
live.tab: fixed text color logic when remapsvgcolors is set to 1.
live.tab would have the wrong margin size when livemode was active.
Removed the "defaults" (Object Defaults) menu from the Options menu on Windows.
live.numbox: now has a background color in LCD mode.
Fixed a bug which caused focus rectangles to go missing.
Fixed adjusting sizes of boxes upon loading.
live.gain~: no longer attempts to resize the object until the object is ready.
nodes: fixed wrong initialization of nodenum.
live.dial: fixed mousing on number display to change value
live.menu / live.tab / live.text: new SVG rendering attributes
live.tab / live.toggle / live.text: new LCD modes
live.text / live.toggle: new outputmode attribute
Max For Live: fixed SysEx communication in MFL devices
Max For Live: added startup improvements (may fix some crashes on load with Windows)
nodes: new nodesname attribute
Parameters: fixed crash when enabling parameter mode in the inspector
Patching: removed fade when setting an object's @hidden attribute
Paths: files and folders are now listed alphabetically in umenu, folder, etc
Max Toolbar: audio power button now works as expected:
Multi Clip Editing:
Live would crash when a user attempted to paste a MIDI clip in an audio track's clip slot.
When multi-clip editing, it was erroneously possible to select and edit notes in a frozen background clip.
Navigation:
When renaming an item in Live, the cursor would end in the wrong position if the text was selected and one of the arrow keys was pressed.
Auto-zoom no longer occurs in the Detail View when moving the clip loop using the arrow keys.
Follow is temporarily disabled during scrubbing. This also fixes a bug where, if Follow was active, changing the clip's play position might lead to unexpected results.
Follow would not be paused when adjusting fade handles.
After a user interaction paused Follow, it was necessary to click the Follow button twice in order to re-enable it.
Live could crash when using CMD+Option+drag (OS X) or CTRL+ALT+drag (WIN) to scroll Arrangement, if the Arrangement was completely zoomed out.
Live would crash when dragging an Arrangement MIDI clip on a Group Track, return track or the Master track.
Nested Groups:
Moving Arrangement clips in folded Group Tracks could lead to a crash.
Live would crash when a Group Track was duplicated, if it contained a VST plug-in which opens a dialog whenever duplicated (e.g., Kontakt 5).
Dragging older uncolored Sets from the browser into an existing Session might lead to a crash.
Coping and pasting multiple clips at once could lead to unexpected results if some of the clips originated from nested Group Tracks.
In some cases, pasted clips would end up in the wrong target track, if the copied selection was across nested Group Tracks.
New Devices and Device Improvements:
Live would crash when moving or grouping a track containing Wavetable, if Push 2 was in use and Device Mode was displayed.
The Pulse Width LFO label was not visible in the Analog device's display.
The LFO curve was grayed out in Wavetabe or Echo, when one of its parameters was macro-mapped or mapped to a Max for Live Control Device such as LFO. In addition, fixed a crash caused by Wavetable's LFO visualization on Push 2.
Moving parameters in a device could lead to some tiny noise bursts if the device was processed by Drum Buss.
The text in the Reverb device's Decay Time field would not fit in some cases.
Improved the readability of buttons in Simpler's LCD, when the Dark Theme is in use.
Audio artefacts would affect Wavetable when modulating its parameters via Aftertouch or Mod Wheel.
Previously, it was not possible to map Wavetable parameters to Macros from the device's expanded view.
In Wavetable's Matrix and MIDI tabs, the Pitch modulation is now displayed in semitones.
Wavetable now supports sustain pedals.
Added various UI improvements to Wavetable.
Under certain circumstances, the Wavetable's Filter Drive slider would have no effect. Addtionally, Wavetable's 'Glide' parameter would not work as expected.
Live could crash when hot-swapping the Wavetable device, if the device was inside an Instrument Rack.
Setup:
Fixed some minor ypos in the ‘Tour of Live’ Help View lesson.
On macOS, the character accent menu might appear when playing MIDI via the computer keyboard. Additionally, when using a Japanese input method, the computer MIDI keyboard would not work.
After changing the language in the Preferences and changing it back to the initial language, Live would revert to the first language chosen upon program launch, instead of the last language chosen.
Added a debug option to Live 10 which allows restricting the maximum number of real-time audio threads when Live is running in ReWire slave mode, to prevent performance issues when Live is running as ReWire slave with certain DAWs on Windows, if a CPU with 16 or more cores is in use. This can be enabled via the following debug option in the Options.txt for Live: 'ReWireSlaveModeMaxAudioThreads=0'. This will force Live to run its audio engine in single-threaded mode when running as a ReWire slave. If Live is running standalone (i.e. as ReWire master), the number of threads will not be limited, so performance in standalone mode shouldn't be affected by this option.
The computer MIDI keyboard would not work on macOS when a plug-in window had the focus.
Fixed a regression which caused number input boxes to steal all keyboard input (once touched), and thus preventing the MIDI keyboard, normal single letter shortcuts, etc. to work. Numbers typed into number input boxes would not overwrite existing values, but only insert new digits, and it was possible to edit unsupported characters into number boxes.
Fixed minor typos in info text translations.
Updated various info texts.
A memory leak might occur when certain previously available plug-ins were not allowed to launch (e.g., due to a missing authorization).
An unusually high CPU usage would occur if a Live Set made use of several plug-ins whose parameters were configured in Live.
The name of the undo action when importing MIDI and audio files was wrong. Additionally, it is now possible to import MIDI and audio files when the selection is on an automation lane.
CHANGES FOR PUSH:
Push:
Enabled the Push 2 display process to run on the integrated GPU on dual-GPU hardware on macOS.
Push Device Visualization:
Filter curves are now available for Simpler on Push 2.
Added a filter visualization for Auto Filter on Push 2.
Added a visualization to Operator's Filter bank on Push 2.
Introduced additional icons to the Global bank for Wavetable on Push 2.
Updated Wavetable's Unison Mode icons on Push 2.
Updated the Push 2 color palette.
Added icons for Wavetable's Filter Routing and Unison parameters, and updated Oscillator and Filter icons on Push 2.
On Push 2's display, "On" and "Off" values now appear in title case instead of uppercase.
It is now possible to control Wavetable's Poly Voices parameter from Push. If Wavetable's Poly/Mono is set to Poly, Poly Voices will be shown instead of the Glide control.
Improved the look of Operator's 'Algorithm' icons on Push 2.
Improved the way filter curves appear on Push, by drawing an opaque background.
Push Note Layouts:
On Push 2, the state of a track (e.g., current Layout in use) can now be saved when saving a default track.
Improved the chord selection for Push 1 and 2's new Melodic Sequencer + 32 Notes layout: it is no longer required to press the pads at the very same time, and the selected notes will always correspond to the currently held (or most recently released) notes.
PUSH BUGFIXES:
Push:
If a routing target or channel had unicode characters in its name, the routing behavior might malfunction on Push 2.
The routing position chooser on Push 2 would not indicate the correct position.
Deleting a track in a nested Group Track from Push would not work under certain circumstances.
It was not possible to add a track with Push, if the currently selected track was frozen.
Occasionally, it was not possible to leave note settings or step automation modes on Push 2.
It was not possible to delete a device from a track containing an Instrument / Drum Rack, if one of the Rack's chains was selected from the inline chains in Session View.
Push Device Visualization:
Wavetable's Pitch parameter would not display as automated on Push. Additionally, it was not possible to step-automate the Semi parameter from Push.
The Push display process would use an unusual high amount of CPU when idling, which could occasionally lead to the laptop fan to kick in as soon as Push 2 initialized.
When switching from Filter 1 to Filter 2 in Wavetable's Filter bank from Push 2, Filter 1's filter circuit would still be shown if the highpass filter type was selected.
Previously on Push 2, the LFO Rate in Wavetable's Modulation Matrix would only appear when the LFO Sync Switch was set to Sync.
Under certain circumstances, a device might erroneously appear disabled on Push 2.
It was previously not possible to reset Wavetable's Oscillator Transpose parameters to their default value by holding the Delete button and tapping the encoder on Push 2.
Under certain conditions, it was difficult to adjust Simpler's start/end markers when zoomed in completely on Push 2.
It was not possible to reset Wavetable's modulation amounts from Push.
Push MIDI Clip Mode:
Live would crash when quickly moving a MIDI clip's Loop Position and Loop Length in Push 2's Clip Mode.
Note Settings view was exited when switching between Device, Mix and Clip Modes on Push 1 and 2.
When a clip's loop position was changed from Push, the change was not reflected in Live's UI.
While in Clip Mode on Push 2, moving a MIDI clip's loop position or end marker would zoom out completely, when previously zoomed in.
Notes in a track containing a Drum Rack were displayed in the wrong color on Push 2's display.
On Push 2, Clip Mode's zoom overview occasionally did not include the entire region, and the playhead would fail to appear when an audio clip contained a section without any sample content.
Push Note Layouts:
The "Accent" button was not available in the 64 Pads layout on Push 1 and 2.
It was not possible to use the pads to set the note length for all notes in a step in the Melodic Sequencer + 32 Notes layout on Push 1 and 2.
It was not possible to delete the notes of a sequencer page in Slicing Mode on Push 1 and 2.
It was not possible to use the Up button in the 1/4 note resolution on Push 2.
Accent' wasn't available for the Melodic Sequencer + 32 Notes layout on Push1 and 2.
The sequencer or loop selector pads would erroneously send mono-aftertouch (or poly pressure) messages.

New in Ableton Live 9.7.5 (Oct 23, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.5 Beta 2 (Oct 10, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.5 Beta 1 (Sep 28, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.4 (Aug 30, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.4 Beta 3 (Aug 29, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.4 Beta 2 (Jul 21, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.4 Beta 1 (Jul 12, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.3 (Jul 6, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.3 Beta 2 (Jun 22, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.3 Beta 1 (May 10, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.2 (Apr 20, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.2 Beta 4 (Mar 30, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.2 Beta 3 (Mar 24, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.2 Beta 2 (Mar 16, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.2 Beta 1 (Feb 16, 2017)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.1 (Dec 7, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
Improved sound and timing of Complex and Complex Pro warp modes.
Added Control Surface support for M-Audio Code and CTRL49.
Bug fixes:
Live would crash at launch on OS X if the permissions for the system temporary folder were set to read only.
Live would crash when performing 'Undo' after grouping chains in a Rack.
Fixed a bug where the output of multiple audio tracks added to a Group Track via drag-and-drop would not be correctly set to the Group Track's input.
Fixed a bug which caused folded Group Tracks containing six or more tracks to unfold when moved, and Group Tracks containing five tracks to unfold when a sixth track was moved into them.
Link usage is now only possible with supported audio drivers. If Direct X/MME is in use, Link will be automatically disabled.
Launching playback in Live right after enabling Link would force all other apps to adjust their tempo.
The 64 bit Live version would fail to recall VST parameters when loading certain .fxp preset files on OSX. In addition to that, loading certain .fxb bank preset files could lead to crashes.
A visual glitch would affect folded Group tracks in arrangement, under certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug where unavailable routings were not grayed out.
Fixed a bug that prevented certain units (e.g "ms") from being displayed in an Audio Unit's parameter value text.
Fixed an error in the software text for the Spanish language.
Changes for Push:
It is now possible to convert an audio clip to a Simpler or Drum Rack pad in Arrangement from Push.
Pressing Record on Push would stop a clip if the clip's Launch Mode was set to "Toggle".
Clip parameters on Push 2 were unresponsive after a Clip recording.
Live could crash when duplicating a track containing Simpler instances, if Push 2 was in use.
Live's CPU usage would jump to an unexpected high value on MacOS Sierra, if the Push 2 script was enabled but no Push 2 device was connected to the computer.
Frozen tracks no longer appear as a target when routing via Push 2.
When there was no device in a track, Push would display a device from a different track, if that track was being played by another track or a Control Surface.
When creating a clip by adding a step from Push, the clip length was always two bars by default, until the Fixed Length value was changed once after loading a set.
Push would not initialize when recovering a Set after a crash.
Choosing a scale on Push would pollute the Undo history.
The monitoring state would not be displayed when the routing target was set to "No Input", even if a signal was routed to this track's input from a different track.

New in Ableton Live 9.7.1 Beta 4 (Nov 22, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.1 Beta 3 (Nov 2, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.1 Beta 2 (Oct 28, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7.1 Beta 1 (Oct 19, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 (Oct 11, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
New Simpler Slicing modes (Beat, Region, Manual) are now available.
As a consequence of the new Simpler features, Live Sets created with this version cannot be opened with previous versions anymore.
The beat time of connected apps in a Link session will be aligned when starting Live’s playback with Tap Tempo or via Looper.
Updated manual, lessons and info text translations.
Bug fixes:
Live would crash when canceling a freeze action, if this was performed on a previously frozen and flattened Clip.
Live would crash at startup if the preferences were corrupted.
Fixed a crash that could occur when using the 'x2', ':2', or "Warp As" controls in Simpler, if there was no sample present.
Fixed a crash which might occur when creating a time selection on Group tracks in Arrangement View.
Live would crash when exporting a MIDI file on Windows.
Live would crash when converting a Simpler to a Drum Rack if certain Control Surfaces were enabled.
When resizing the left edge of a frozen Clip to the left, audio would still begin playback from the Clip’s former start position.
When converting Simpler to Sampler, the Sample Start marker would be visually misplaced.
The signal of send for grouped tracks would be doubled (+6dB), if the track's output was routed to Master and the respective Return track ‘Pre/Post’ toggle was set to Pre.
When dragging unwarped Clips over the section of a song where the tempo was automated from a low value to a higher one, Clips stored in the clipboard would appear after the dragged Clip.
When running Live as a ReWire slave on a Mac, it would consume 100% of the CPU load after launching Live as a slave for the second time.
Converting an Audio Clip from Looper to MIDI would cause the Clip to assume a grey color.
When resizing a Clip past its limit, the dragged edge would behave erratically when it was not on a grid position or when the grid was disabled with a modifier.
When resizing Live horizontally, the positioning of Max Device windows would not adjust correctly.
When exporting audio from Looper, the resulting Clips would inherit the wrong color.
Live might run into issues when writing files to disk on Windows, if the file path contained non standard unicode characters.
Using 3 APC 40 units in ‘Combination Mode’ would cause LEDs on the APCs to flash erratically.
Some audio clips from the Core Library would open in the wrong tempo.
Changes for Push:
The new Simpler Slicing modes are available on Push 1 and 2.
It is now possible to set the color for Tracks, Clips and Drum Rack pads from Push 2.
It is now possible to adjust the Input and Output routing and the Monitoring state from Push 2. This is accessible via Track Mix Mode, where a dedicated ‘Input & Output’ button is added.
Introduced a third layout for Drum Racks and Simpler’s Slicing mode, which enables triggering the currently selected pad / Slice with 16 pre-defined velocities. This is a Push 2 only feature.
When transport is active, a progress bar on the Push 2 display indicates the playback phase for each of the currently playing Clips.
Added a visual feedback for the count-in on the Push 2 display.
The Push Record button now takes into account Live’s focus on Arrangement and Session View. If the focus is on Arrangement View, the Session Record button will trigger Global Recording, while the Shift + Record button will trigger / stop Session Recording. The logic is reversed when focused on Session View.
Session Record and Arrangement Record are now independent from each other.
By default, Fixed Length now respects the Launch Quantization setting. Its previous behavior can be toggled on via the ‘Phrase Sync’ option in the Fixed Length menu. This works with Push 1 and 2.
Different sensitivities are in place for the Push 2 pad matrix, depending on the function of the pads in the current layout. This is specifically aimed at avoiding inadvertently changing the loop selector while playing Drum Rack pads.
It is now possible to delete the currently selected Clip in Arrangement via Push.
It is now possible to duplicate Clips in Arrangement from Push.
When the focus is set to Arrangement View, 'New' is not available on Push anymore.
Improved the matching between pad and display colors on Push 2.
Improved the matching between Live and Push 2 colors.
On Push 2, the color white in Live is translated as yellow, since white is used to indicate selection.
The intensity of the LEDs on in the lower display buttons has been dimmed for Push 2, to create more contrast against the currently selected track.
Improved the performance when moving the Session Ring horizontally with Push.
Minor visual improvement for the ‘Cancel’ button in the ‘Convert’ menu or when entering the browser via ‘Add Track’. Additionally, the ‘Close’ button has been removed from the ‘Scales’ menu. Push 2 only.
On Push 2 display, Simpler’s playhead and loop markers are now the same height as the loop indicator.
Flag markers for Simpler and Audio Clips are now properly outlined on the Push 2 display.
The fade-in and fade-out visuals on Simpler are now represented differently from Loops on Push 2.
Page Left/Right buttons are now available in the Step Sequencer for Simpler in Slice mode.
The Push 2 firmware has been updated to 1.0.60. This version allows to automatically adjusts the LED white balance for units produced in the factory from November 2015. Also, this delivers a new pad algorithm that improves the sensitivity of Push pads when playing with wrist pressure. It also contains a fix for cases where Push 2 buttons might double-trigger, and improves the stability of the MIDI data sent from the Push encoders.
Push bug fixes:
When recording multiple clips at the same time, triggering one clip would cause also the other ones to stop recording.
Live would crash when enabling the Push 2 Control Surface script on some systems. As a result of the fix, some display functions of Push 2 still won't work. Improved the error logging to find out more about this issue.
The Push 2 display process would not start on Windows, if non-standard unicode characters were contained in the user profile name.
When muting or unmuting a track while in Mix Mode with Push 2, the state color of the track's meters would only update if its peak level changed.
Pressing Record on Push would stop a Clip if the Clip Launch Mode was set to "Toggle".
When changing Layout, the Step Sequencer page would reset.
The step sequencers might malfunction when odd time signatures were in use.
When step-sequencing a Clip in Arrangement View, the playhead would not be shown on Push 2.
When a Drum Rack or Instrument Rack was frozen, it was still possible to edit the Chain's mix parameters.
If the selected Clip was in Arrangement View, Push 2 would not display its content in Clip View.
The Clip length would not be displayed in Clip View, when performing a recording with Fixed Length.

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 9 (Sep 30, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 8 (Sep 22, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 7 (Sep 14, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 6 (Sep 2, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 5 (Aug 22, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 4 (Aug 12, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 3 (Aug 4, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 2 (Jul 28, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.7 Beta 1 (Jul 21, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
The Link beat time will be realigned when starting Live’s playback with Tap Tempo or via Looper.
New Simpler Slicing modes (Beat, Region, Manual) are now available.
As a consequence of the new Simpler features, Live Sets created with this version cannot be opened with previous versions anymore.
Bug fixes:
When resizing the left edge of a frozen Clip to the left, audio would still begin playback from the Clip’s former start position.
Live would crash when canceling a freeze action, if this was performed on a previously frozen and flattened Clip.
Changes for Push:
The new Simpler Slicing modes are available on Push.
It is now possible to set the color for Tracks, Clips and Drum Rack pads from Push 2.
It is now possible to adjust the Input and Output audio routing and the Monitoring state from Push 2. This is accessible via Track Mix Mode, where a dedicated ‘Input & Output’ button is added.
Introduced a third layout for Drum Racks and Simpler’s Slicing mode, which enables triggering the currently selected pad / Slice with 16 pre-defined velocities.
When transport is active, a progress bar on the display indicates the playback phase for each of the currently playing Clips.
Added a visual feedback for the count-in on the Push 2 display.
The Push 2 Firmware has been updated to version 0.59. This delivers a new pad algorithm that improves the sensitivity of Push pads when playing with wrist pressure. It also contains a fix for cases where Push 2 buttons might double-trigger, and improves the stability of the MIDI data sent from the Push encoders.
Improved the matching between pad and display colors on Push 2.
Improved the matching between Live and Push 2 colors.
On Push 2, the color white in Live is translated as yellow, since white is used to indicate selection.
The intensity of the LEDs in the lower display buttons has been dimmed to create more contrast against the currently selected track.
Improved the performance when moving the Session Ring horizontally with Push.
When routing via Push 2, Pre FX, Post FX and Post Mixer routings are available in a separate list, in order to reduce the amount of routing sources.
When the focus is set to Arrangement View, 'New' is not available on Push anymore.
The Push Record button now takes into account Live’s focus on Arrangement and Session View. If the focus is on Arrangement View, the Session Record button will trigger Global Recording, while the Shift + Record button will trigger / stop Session Recording. The logic is reversed when focused on Session View.
Session Record and Arrangement Record are now independent from each other.
Different sensitivities are in place for the Push 2 pad matrix, depending on the function of the pads in the current layout. This is specifically aimed at avoiding inadvertently changing the loop selector while playing Drum Rack pads.
It is now possible to delete the currently selected Clip in Arrangement via Push 2.
If the selected Clip was in Arrangement View, Push 2 would not display its content in Clip View.
When step-sequencing a Clip in Arrangement View, the playhead would not be shown on Push 2.
When a Drum Rack or Instrument Rack was frozen, it was still possible to edit the Chain's mix parameters.
The Clip length would not be displayed in Clip View, when performing a recording with Fixed Length.

New in Ableton Live 9.6.2 (Jul 7, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
The ‘Link’ icon in Live's main UI now behaves like a button, toggling the Link feature on and off. This button only appears if Link is enabled in the Preferences.
The ‘EXT’ button is no longer hidden when the Link button is shown.
Enabling the ‘Link’ toggle disables ‘EXT’ and vice versa. Loading a new Set disables Link.
Improved the responsiveness of the Tuner device.
Updated the Live manual and a number of lessons and info texts.
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug which caused Live to hang when loading certain Live Sets.
When duplicating a track, Clip modulation would not play back for the newly created track.
When triggering a recording with count-in enabled, Simpler could start playing back Warped samples from the wrong position.
Live could crash when loading a Live Set where the 'EXT' button is saved as active, if Link was enabled in the preferences.
Fixed a rare crash which could occur when using Complex or Pro Warp modes.
If the End Marker of a Clip preceded the Loop End Marker and Clip Loop was on, recording this Clip in arrangement could lead to a wrong result.
Operator's 'Shaper Drive' and 'Shaper Dry/Wet' would expose the wrong parameter name when mapped to Macros.
Vinyl Distortion would not report its latency to Live, thus would not be correctly compensated.
Fixed a bug in Max for Live which prevented 'fold_state' and devices in Drum Rack Chains from being declared.
The APC 40 Session Ring would reset to the top left of Live's Session View when adding or removing another Control Surface.
The Session Ring would be displayed when selecting certain Control Surfaces, even if no valid input and output MIDI ports were enabled in the respective Control Surfaces menus.
The Launchpad Pro User mode would not send MIDI notes into tracks anymore.
Changes for Push:
Push 2 Firmware update v 0.51: introduces an improvement for potentiometers, to prevent jitter due to electrical noise.
In Session mode, holding duplicate allows copying and pasting a Clip to a Clip Slot of choice.
In the melodic step sequencer, stepped automation is now linked to note length.
It is now possible to convert an audio clip to a new drum rack pad on Push 2.
When converting an audio Clip to Simpler, the device chain content is now copied from the original track to the destination track.
In the Drum Rack Step Sequencer, it is now possible to copy and paste a step into a different part of the Clip for Push 1 and 2.
It is now possible to copy and paste notes across pitches in the Melodic Step Sequencer for Push 1 and 2.
When Simpler is in One Shot mode, the ‘Gain’ parameter is now available in place of Volume.
In both the melodic and Drum Rack step sequencer, note length can now be adjusted via the pads, by holding the pad where the step exists, and one pad at its right.
When moving the Session Ring with the ‘Page’ and ‘Octave’ buttons from Push 2, an absolute offset of 8 will now be used in all cases.
Scales Layout settings are now also stored within a Live Set.
When using Simpler in Slicing mode, holding 'Delete' and pressing a Slice will remove all its steps in the currently selected Clip, if any exist.
In addition to that, holding 'Quantize' and pressing a Slice will quantize all the events for that Slice.
When cycling through Layouts with Push 2, a notification is now declaring the current mode of operation of the pads.
Count-in would be ignored when a recording was triggered via Push, in cases where a Clip was already active.
Previously, ‘Fixed Length’ would be ignored if the recording of a Clip was triggered by pressing a pad as opposed to pressing the Record button.
Under certain circumstances, the Push 2 display could go blank when selecting a track containing Simpler, if a really long sample was loaded into that device.
Disabling 'Warp' would cause the zoom in Simpler to jump to an unusual zoom level on the Push 2 display.
The master meter on Push 2 would not turn entirely red, as it does in Live, when the signal was clipping.
Display brightness settings would not be restored correctly on Push 2 after power cycling the device.
When a Group Track is selected, using 'Add Track' to add an instrument would lead to unexpected results.
If 'Accent' was enabled, changing any of the Note Settings in the step sequencer would cause the velocity for this step to jump to 127.
When dragging a sample from an audio track into Simpler from Live, Push 2 would erroneously still display the audio Clip view, even if the track containing Simpler was selected.
After a Drum Rack pad containing Simpler is selected, Device Mode would still display its controls upon selecting a different track.
When Simpler was set to Slicing mode and its Playback Mode was 'Mono', ‘Repeat’ would not behave correctly.
Under certain circumstances, the ‘Convert’ button was not available for audio Clips.
When controlling Multiband Compressor with Push 1, the 'Below Threshold' parameter would not be available anymore for the Mid Band.
When browsing the Drums category, the empty Drum Rack icon would incorrectly display as a folder.

New in Ableton Live 9.6.2 Beta 5 (Jun 23, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.2 Beta 4 (Jun 13, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.2 Beta 3 (May 26, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.2 Beta 2 (May 19, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.2 Beta 1 (May 3, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
The ‘Link’ icon in Live's main UI now behaves like a button, toggling the Link feature on and off. This button only appears if Link is enabled in the Preferences.
The ‘EXT’ button is no longer hidden when the Link button is shown.
Enabling Link disables EXT and vice versa. Loading a new Set disables Link.
Improved the responsiveness of the Tuner device.
Bug fixes:
The Session Ring would be displayed when selecting certain Control Surfaces, even if no valid input and output MIDI ports were enabled in the respective Control Surfaces menus.
If the End Marker of a Clip preceded the Loop End Marker and Clip Loop was on, recording this Clip in arrangement could lead to a wrong result.
Fixed a bug which caused Live to hang when loading certain Live Sets.
Fixed a bug in Max for Live which prevented 'fold_state' and devices in Drum Rack Chains from being declared.
The APC 40 Session Ring would reset to the top left of Live's Session View when adding or removing another Control Surface.
The Launchpad Pro User mode would not send MIDI notes into tracks anymore.
The Launchpad User mode 2 would not send MIDI notes into tracks anymore.
Changes for Push:
Push 2 Firmware update v 0.51: introduces an improvement for potentiomenters, to prevent jitter due to electrical noise.
In Session mode, holding duplicate allows copying and pasting a Clip to a Clip Slot of choice.
In the melodic step sequencer, stepped automation is now linked to note length.
It is now possible to convert an audio clip to a new drum rack pad.
In the Drum Rack Step Sequencer, it is now possible to copy and paste a step into a different part of the Clip for Push 1 and 2.
When converting an audio Clip to Simpler, the device chain content is now copied from the original track to the destination track.
It is now possible to copy and paste notes across pitches in the melodic step sequencer for Push 1 and 2.
When Simpler is in One Shot mode, the Gain parameter is now available in place of Volume.
In both the melodic and Drum Rack step sequencer, note length can now be adjusted via the pads, by holding the pad where the step exists, and one pad at its right.
When moving the Session Ring with the Page and Octave buttons from Push 2, an absolute offset of 8 will now be used in all cases.
When browsing the Drums category, the empty Drum Rack icon would incorrectly display as a folder.
Previously, Fixed Length would be ignored if the recording of a Clip was triggered by pressing a pad as opposed to pressing the Record button.
The master meter on Push 2 would not turn entirely red, as it does in Live, when the signal was clipping.
Display brightness settings would not be restored correctly on Push 2 after power cycling the device.
When dragging a sample from an audio track into Simpler from Live, Push 2 would erroneously still display the audio Clip view, even if the track containing Simpler was selected.
When a Group Track is selected, using 'Add Track' to add an instrument would lead to unexpected results.
If 'Accent' was enabled, changing any of the Note Settings in the step sequencer would cause the velocity for this step to jump to127.
After a Drum Rack pad containing Simpler is selected, Device Mode would still display its controls upon selecting a different track.
When Simpler was set to Slicing mode and its Playback Mode was 'Mono', Repeat would not behave correctly.
Under certain circumstances, the Convert button was not available for audio Clips.

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 (Apr 13, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
Reduced CPU peak loads when launching, stopping or scrubbing clips, when clicking the "Back to Arrangement" button, when editing a running clip.
Improved CPU spikes caused by external MIDI inputs on OSX.
Improved the reliability and priority of the audio thread when using ASIO drivers. This contributes a noticeable performance improvement and fixes a few cases where Live would drop out when using certain audio interfaces.
Improved the performance of Ableton Devices on Windows.
Bug fixes:
Live could crash when exporting audio or freezing, if Simpler contained a very long audio file.
Live would crash when performing 'Undo' after dragging a sample onto Simpler's breakout view.
Occasionally, the grid lines for certain devices (e.g the Frequency Display in EQ Eight, the Bandpass Display in Overdrive) would not be drawn under the 64-bit version on Windows
Reversing an audio Clip twice before the sample analysis completed caused the sample to be greyed out.
Certain Audio Unit parameters would show the wrong value in the Device View after instantiation.
With audio buffer sizes larger than 512 Samples, values sent by the APC40 and APC40 Mk2 encoders would cause the mapped Live parameters to behave erratically.
Device selection would stop working when using Control Surfaces based on User Remote Scripts.
Touching the Mod Wheel would stop transport when using the Arturia Keylab Control Surfaces.
Under certain circumstances, the Launchpad Pro might not initialize correctly.
Fixed a bug which prevented Max for Live devices from grabbing the Launchpad Pro matrix in the available User modes.
Fixed a bug which prevented Max for Live devices from grabbing the Launchpad matrix in the available User modes.
Changes for Push:
In Drum Racks, it is now possible to transpose the note played by a pad on Push 2.
On Push 2, playing clips now pulse in their assigned clip color, instead of green. Recording clips pulse between clip color and red.
Device selection is now remembered on a per-pad basis on Push 2.
In Mix mode, the track meters now change in color to reflect the state of the track routing / monitoring, as they do in Live on Push 2.
Improved the waveform zooming behavior on Push 2 for both Simpler and audio Clip mode.
If fades are enabled in Simpler, these will be displayed also on Push 2.
The zoom level is now represented graphically, whereas before a numeric value was used.
On Push, the active sample region for Simpler would not match the one in Live if ‘Snap’ was enabled.
Waveform updates are faster when switching between different Simpler instances.
When duplicating an Audio Clip or a Drum Rack pad based on Simpler, the waveform visualization of the copied item would not be preserved.
Improved performance when scrolling vertically in Session View with Push 2.
In a context of hotswapping presets, the "Load" feature in the Push 2 browser is set by default on "Load Next". In the former case, all drum pads will start pulsing white as long as the browser is open, whereas for hot-swapping a single pad, that pad is pulsing.
Added a "Load previous" in the Push 2 browser.
It is now possible to load a device faster from Push 2, without needing to enter its folder.
Previously, 'Press Browse to load a sample' would be erroneously displayed also when focused on Return or Master tracks.
It is now possible to use "Warp as x bars" also while the sample is not warped yet.
In Simpler, Waveform Slice points and Start, End flags displayed the wrong color when switching between tracks of different color.
Scale Layouts are now available for Push 2 as well. Furthermore, the 'Sequent^' and 'Sequent>' Scale Layouts have been improved.
The Push 2 Firmware is upgraded to version 1.0.49. This is a maintenance update.
When switching from Live mode to User mode, the LED state for mapped pads/buttons would not be recalled properly.
Push would display a wrong Clip length when using time signatures other than 4/4.
Under certain circumstances the channel meters would not be displayed when switching between Track Mix Mode and Global Mix Mode on Push
Previously, it was not possible to delete Return tracks from Push 1 and 2.
Push 1 would become unresponsive after performing 'Slice to Drum Rack'.
Device selection would not be remembered by Push 2 for Effect Racks.
Added the missing parameters for Analog 'Amp 2’ under the ‘Amp’ device bank, and 'AEG2 < VEL' under the ‘Amp 2 Envelope’ bank.
Vib Delay’ appeared twice under the Tension 'Vibrato' bank.
On Push, a number of toggle buttons across devices would display ‘0’,’1’ instead ‘On’, ‘Off’.
When switching to Clip mode with Push, Live would keep displaying device mode.
When selecting devices with Push in a long chain, Device View in Live would not auto-scroll anymore.
When adding plug-in parameters to the parameter list in Device View via 'Configure', the device bank in Push Device mode would only update after switching back from a different mode or track.
The Push Display could go blank when loading certain plugin presets or when switching through device banks with Push 2.
The Push 2 display would crash when browsing plug-ins, if the plug-in folder contained a number of devices which exposed the exact same name to Live.
“Lock to Control Surface" would not work anymore with Push 1 or 2.
Collapsing the Inline Mixer of a Drum Rack from Arrangement view would cause a visual glitch in Session View.
Adjusted the timing a notification is displayed on Push 2, which now is in relation to the length of the text.

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 Beta 7 (Apr 1, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 Beta 6 (Mar 23, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 Beta 5 (Mar 3, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 Beta 4 (Feb 26, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 Beta 2 (Feb 16, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6.1 Beta 1 (Feb 11, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
Complex and Pro Warp algorithms have been updated and optimized in order to reduce CPU spikes following the start of a Clip or Simpler voice, especially when transposing or stretching a lot. The update also fixes a number of scenarios where timing issues or artefacts could have taken place.
Reduced CPU peak loads when launching, stopping or scrubbing clips, when clicking the "back to arrangement" button, when editing a running clip.
Improved CPU spikes caused by external MIDI input on OSX.
Improved the reliability and priority of the audio thread when using ASIO drivers. This contributes a noticeable performance improvement and fixes a few cases where Live would drop out when using certain audio interfaces.
Bug fixes:
Certain Audio Unit parameters would show the wrong value in the Device View after instantiation.
Touching the Mod Wheel would stop transport when using the Arturia Keylab Control Surfaces.
Under certain circumstances, the Launchpad Pro might not initialize correctly.
Fixed a bug which prevented to grab the Launchpad matrix in the available User modes from Max for Live devices.
Changes for Push:
On Push 2, playing clips now pulse in their assigned clip color, instead of green. Recording clips pulse between clip color and red.
In a context of hotswapping presets, the "Load" feature in the Push 2 browser is set by default on "Load Next".
Device selection is now remembered on a per-pad basis on Push 2.
An additional visual feedback is introduced to help distinguish hot-swapping an entire drum rack vs. hot-swapping only a single drum pad. In the former case, all drum pads will start pulsing white as long as the browser is open, whereas for hot-swapping a single pad, that pad is pulsing. When hot-swapping a device on a drum pad, no indication is visible. This also fixes a bug which would occur when you were holding a step in the step sequencer, where the pad would stop blinking once it was passed by the playhead.
Added a "Load previous" in the Push 2 browser.
It is now possible to load a device faster from Push 2, without needing to enter its folder.
It is now possible to use "Warp as x bars" also while the sample is not warped yet.
Device selection would not be remembered by Push 2 for Effect Racks.
Added the missing parameters for Analog 'Amp 2’ under the ‘Amp’ device bank, and 'AEG2 < VEL' under the ‘Amp 2 Envelope’ bank.
‘Vib Delay’ appeared twice under the Tension 'Vibrato' bank.
When switching to Clip mode with Push, Live would keep displaying device mode.
Previously, 'Press Browse to load a sample' would be erroneously displayed also when focused on Return or Master tracks.
The Push Display could go blank when loading certain plugin presets or when switching through device banks with Push 2.
"Lock to Control Surface" would not work anymore with Push 1 or 2.
Collapsing the Inline Mixer of a Drum Rack from Arrangement view would cause a visual glitch in Session View.
Adjusted the timing a notification is displayed on Push 2, which now is in relation to the length of the text.

New in Ableton Live 9.6 (Feb 3, 2016)

Improvements and feature changes:
Introduced Link, a technology which keeps devices in sync when connected to the same network. A 'Link' section has been added to the Link/MIDI preferences tab.
Link and The Bridge prevent each other from starting once switched on. Moreover, Link and The Bridge both switch off External sync when activated.
Link, The Bridge and External Sync are not available when Live runs as a ReWire slave.
The Python framework has been updated to support Python 2.7.
Added control surface support for the Arturia KeyLab series, Arturia BeatStep and Arturia MiniLab.
Added Control Surface support for the Alesis VX series.
When tweaking Warp mode specific parameters in Simpler (i.e. grain size, flux), these are now updated in real time. Previously, these would be only updated on a per-note basis.
Improved the time required to slice an audio sample to a Drum Rack.
Slicing visualization improvements and other minor cosmetic tweaks for Simpler and Sampler.
While samples are offline or still decoding, Slice to Drum Rack and Slice to new Midi Track from Simpler are disabled.
Add a preference to re-enable random clip colors.
Updated fonts and added a number of special characters.
The Live 8 Legacy Mode in Operator has been renamed to something more meaningful.
Performance improvements in waveform rendering.
Bug fixes:
Recovering Live sets after a crash would not succeed under certain circumstances.
Live could hang at launch while displaying the splash screen on Windows 10.
Live would crash on OSX 10.11 when a user closed the second window while it was shown in fullscreen mode.
Tracks created by dragging and dropping a Rack or Rack preset will now correctly be assigned with a new track color.
Live might become unresponsive on OSX if no Max application could be found. Furthermore, Live would not find Max 7 on its own on Windows.
Live could hang when loading sets referencing Max devices, if these were saved with Max 6.1.7 or earlier.
Audio files would not retain the color saved in the respective .asd file when dropped into a track.
Replaced one redundant color in the Live color sequence.
Simpler would cause an unusual high memory usage if the user had set 'Complex' as the default mode for Warping.
Live would crash when converting a sliced Simpler to a Drum Rack from within an Instrument Rack.
Live would crash when cropping samples in Sampler.
A crash could take place when playing back sliced samples in Simpler, if 'Snap' had previously been activated in Classic or One-Shot mode.
A crash could occur when dragging the Start Marker to the very end of a file in Simpler and playing back a warped, looped sample with 'Snap' active.
Live could crash when playing back warped samples in Simpler. The crash would occur when a new note began playing at the exact same time that another playing note was ending, if that also choked or retriggered the previous note.
When slicing an audio Clip to a Sampler based slicing preset, all slices would be assigned to the same root note.
Simpler's playhead could jump unexpectedly when starting the transport while playing back warped samples.
Dragging a selection of an arrangement clip into Simpler now sets the start and end flags according to the selection.
Snap is automatically disabled when slicing a Simpler to a Drum Rack. This ensures that the sound of playback does not change after slicing a Simpler to a Drum Rack.
Changing Simpler's playback mode via the keyboard would not be undoable.
When dragging the Simpler start flag towards the end of the sample, this would overlap with the End flag, which then could not be clicked nor dragged anymore. The same behavior occurred the other way around (the End flag might have covered the Start flag).
The text in the Simpler 'Warp As' button would not be displayed properly when running Live in a language other than English.
Fixes a crash which might happen in conjunction with Complex / Pro modes.
Improved the CPU performance of Complex and Pro when playing back short loops. Note that while Clip loops are limited to at least 1/16 note in length, simpler loops can be as small as 50 samples.
Reduced audible artifacts and improved timing for samples warped with Complex and Complex Pro.
The OSR filter might produce unwanted artefacts when used with high frequency and resonance settings.
The modulation destinations for the new legacy filters in Simpler and Operator are now hidden and updated correctly when upgrading a device.
The spread pitch control is now disabled if Simpler is using Re-Pitch as warping mode.
Changes for Push:
It is now possible to toggle the Global Record button via Push by holding Shift and pressing the Session Record button.
‘Mute', 'Solo' and 'Stop Clip' can be locked by holding the respective button. This enables muting tracks, bypassing devices, soloing tracks and stopping Clips with one single button press. To select tracks and devices even while locked mute/solo/stop mode is active, it is now necessary to hold the select button.
Improved encoder responsiveness when selecting a parameter through a list on Push 2.
Improved the Push initialization process when the unit is power cycled while Live is open.
Push 2 Firmware updated to v1.0 build 47. This fixes a problem where the hardware would sometimes fail to initialize on Windows. This Firmware update is also intended to mitigate unexpected high velocity values which might be triggered when Push pads are played softly. This is an intermediate step towards a proper fix. Please note that, depending on your pad sensitivity settings, it might now be more difficult to reach maximum velocity.
It is now possible to load and hotswap samples in audio tracks on Push 2. This is achieved by first entering Clip mode.
Sample names are now displayed in the browser while hotswapping.
When Simpler is in 64 pad slicing mode, the touch strip can work as Pitch Bend or Modulation Wheel.
Scales mode can now act as a momentary toggle if held. Furthermore, it is now possible to browse Scales also with the up/down and left/right arrows.
When an empty drum pad is selected, 'Add Device' will work like the 'Browse' button, thus it will not prompt the user to swap the entire Drum Rack anymore but rather will enable to load a device or sample inside the pad.
After converting an audio Clip to a Simpler from Push 2, device mode will be selected automatically.
Added a 12/24 dB button (filter slope) to Auto Filter, Operator and Sampler for Push 2.
When adding a new device to a previously selected pad, the added device will now always be selected.
Live would crash when converting a Clip to Simpler, if the device default for Dropping Samples on Device View consisted of a Simpler instance inside an Instrument Rack.
When loading a sample from the browser, Simpler's "Mode" would be displayed as "Classic" on Push 2, regardless of the default for "Dropping Samples on Device View".
When converting between Simpler and Sampler, Push 2 would lose device selection.
Under certain conditions, the waveform in Simpler flickered on display when zooming in on longer samples.
When zoomed out on a long sample, it is now possible to see an indication of the existing slices on the Push 2 display.
Under certain circumstances the Push pads would not reflect the selected slice when using a sliced Simpler.
Mute and Solo would not work on Push 2 if the currently selected track was outside the Session Ring.
When moving a channel towards the left while in 'Mix' mode, its channel meter would stop working on Push2.
When renaming a macro inside a Rack, the changes would not be immediately reflected on Push 1 and Push 2's display.
Introduced a short delay before showing the tempo/swing message when touching the encoders, to reduce the amount of notifications.
Push would keep showing the loop selector in sequencer mode after deleting a Clip.
The display could get stuck in User mode on Push 2. Additionally, it is now possible to momentarily enter User mode by holding the respective button.
The color mapping for Push 2's step sequencers has been improved, to better reflect different velocity ranges.
The Arrow Keys would stop working after switching between note and session mode while using the Push 2 browser.
Selecting a scene in Live would cause Clip selection from Push not to work anymore.
When hotswapping an instrument, browser selection could disappear when scrolling up/down with the Push 2 arrows.
No auto preview was available for the currently selected item when navigating to a list using an encoder.
Under certain circumstances pressing 'Add Track' and loading a new device would swap the instrument residing in the currently selected track instead.
After using 'Collect All and Save', Simpler instances would fail to display a waveform due to the changed file path.
Improved waveform rendering when switching through tracks and selecting Drum Pads.
When holding the mute/solo button, muted/soloed tracks would display their original color on the display: these now correctly display the muted/soloed state.
Previously, Push 2 would only show the left channel for stereo waveforms. As of now, the sum of both channels is shown.
Fixed a few visual inconsistencies for Push 2, where the On/Off icons might be missing for some devices and the Sawtooth waveform orientation was be inverted with respect to the one shown in Live's device choosers.
When trying to change the Start/End parameter on an empty Simpler, the parameter would stop updating its state on the Push 1 display even after adding a sample.
On Push 1, plugin parameter names would not update correctly anymore if these change dynamically e.g. when loading a new preset. In addition, Push 2 now also updates such plugin parameter names dynamically.
Push 1 can now utilize custom device banks for Simpler.
Dynamic parameter banks are in place for Push 1 as well. Parameters that don't have an effect due to some other parameter being disabled will now be hidden. In addition, Simpler, Sampler, Operator and Auto Filter now have the 'Filter Slope' parameter in their banks.
Added control for further Simpler parameters on Push 1: Warp mode, Warp On/Off, Voices, Gain.
The encoder resolution for Push 1 was significantly different as of Live 9.5 when compared to previous versions. This has now been rectified.
Fractions were not shown correctly for Simpler on the Push1 display.
Quantized parameters were not displayed correctly on Push1's bar graph.

New in Ableton Live 9.6 Beta 2 (Jan 27, 2016)

New in Ableton Live 9.6 Beta 1 (Jan 18, 2016)

Bug fixes:
When dragging the Simpler start flag towards the end of the sample, this would overlap with the End flag, which then could not be clicked nor dragged anymore. The same behavior occurred the other way around (the End flag might have covered the Start flag).
Live could crash when playing back audio files with sample rate below 44.100Hz, if these were warped with Complex or Pro.
Changes for Push:
The Push 2 Firmware has been updated to version 1.0.47. This is a maintenance update and does not introduce any user facing changes.
When an empty drum pad is selected, 'Add Device' will work like the 'Browse' button, thus it will not prompt the user to swap the entire Drum Rack anymore but rather will enable to load a device or sample inside the pad.
When adding a new device to a previously selected pad, the added device will now always be selected.
It is now possible to select tracks and devices even while locked mute/solo/stop mode is active. This is achieved by holding the select button.
When renaming a macro inside a Rack, the changes would not be immediately reflected on Push 1 and Push 2's display.
After using 'Collect All and Save', Simpler instances would fail to display a waveform due to the changed file path.
Fixed a few visual inconsistencies for Push 2, where the On/Off icons might be missing for some devices and the Sawtooth waveform orientation was be inverted with respect to the one shown in Live's device choosers.
Muting or soloing a Drum Pad or muting a step in the step sequencer while in locked mute/solo mode would mute the currently selected track instead.
Under certain circumstances pressing 'Add Track' and loading a new device would swap the instrument residing in the currently selected track instead.
Fractions were not shown correctly for Simpler on the Push1 display.
Quantized parameters were not displayed correctly on Push1's bar graph.
Previously, Push 2 would only show the left channel for stereo waveforms. As of now, the sum of both channels is shown.
The encoder resolution for Push 1 was significantly different as of Live 9.5 when compared to previous versions. This has now been rectified.
When trying to change the Start/End parameter on an empty Simpler, the parameter would stop updating its state on the Push 1 display even after adding a sample.
When moving a channel towards the left while in 'Mix' mode, its channel meter would stop working on Push2.

New in Ableton Live 9.5.1 Beta 6 (Dec 22, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.5.1 Beta 5 (Dec 16, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.5.1 Beta 4 (Dec 8, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.5.1 Beta 3 (Dec 1, 2015)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added control surface support for the Arturia KeyLab series, Arturia BeatStep and Arturia MiniLab.
When tweaking Warp mode specific parameters in Simpler (i.e. grain size, flux), these are now updated in real time. Previously, these would be only updated on a per-note basis.
Add a preference to re-enable random clip colors.
When joined a Link session, dropping a sample or clip into a blank/default live set will not change the set tempo.
Updated various info texts.
Bug fixes:
The OSR filter might produce unwanted artefacts when used with high frequency and resonance settings.
Audio files would not retain the color saved in the respective .asd file when dropped into a track.
Simpler's playhead could jump unexpectedly when starting the transport while playing back warped samples.
Fixed an issue which might cause incorrect timing for samples warped with Complex.
A crash could take place when playing back sliced samples in Simpler, if 'Snap' had previously been activated in Classic or One-Shot mode.
Changes for Push:
Push 2 Firmware updated to v1.0 build 45. This fixes a problem where the hardware would sometimes fail to initialize on Windows.
Push 1 can now utilize custom device banks for Simpler.
Dynamic parameter banks are in place for Push 1 as well. Parameters that don't have an effect due to some other parameter being disabled will now be hidden. In addition, Simpler, Sampler, Operator and Auto Filter now have the 'Filter Slope' parameter in their banks.
Added a 12/24 dB button (filter slope) to Auto Filter, Operator and Sampler for Push 2.
Improved encoder responsiveness when selecting a parameter through a list on Push 2.
Improve waveform rendering when switching through tracks and selecting Drum Pads.
Under certain conditions, the waveform in Simpler flickered on display when zooming in on longer samples.
No auto preview was available for the currently selected item when navigating to a list using an encoder.
Improved the Push initialization process when the unit is power cycled while Live is open.

New in Ableton Live 9.5.1 Beta 2 (Nov 18, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.5.1 Beta 1 (Nov 9, 2015)

Improvements and feature changes:
The Python framework has been updated to support Python 2.7.
Improved the time required to slice an audio sample to a Drum Rack.
Updated fonts and added a number of special characters.
The Live 8 Legacy Mode in Operator has been renamed to something more meaningful.
Performance improvements in waveform rendering.
Slicing visualization improvements and other minor cosmetic tweaks for Simpler and Sampler.
While samples are offline or still decoding, Slice to Drum Rack and Slice to new Midi Track from Simpler are disabled.
Bug fixes:
Live might become unresponsive on OSX if no Max application can be found. Furthermore, Live would not find Max 7 on its own on Windows.
Tracks created by dragging and dropping a rack or rack preset will now correctly be assigned with a new track color.
Fixes a crash which might happen in conjunction with Complex / Pro modes.
Live could hang at launch while displaying the splash screen on Windows 10
The modulation destinations for the new legacy filters in Sinmpler and Operator are now hidden and updated correctly when upgrading a device.
Improved the CPU performance of Complex and Pro when playing back short loops. Note that while clip loops are limited to at least 1/16 note in length, simpler loops can be as small as 50 samples.
Live would crash when cropping samples in Sampler.
Live could hang when loading sets referencing Max devices, if these were saved with Max 6.1.7 or earlier.
Changes for Push:
The color mapping for Push 2's step sequencers has been improved, to better reflect different velocity ranges.
Scales mode can now act as a momentary toggle if held.
When simpler is in 64 pad slicing mode, the touch strip can work as Pitch Bend or Modulation Wheel.
It is now possible to load and hotswap samples in audio tracks.
It is now possible to toggle the Global Record button via Push by holding Shift and pressing the Session Record button.
Sample names are now displayed in the browser while hotswapping.
Introduced a short delay before showing the tempo/swing message when touching the encoders, to reduce the amount of notifications.
When zoomed out on a long sample, it is now possible to see an indication of the existing slices on the Push display.
Push would keep showing the loop selector in sequencer mode after deleting a Clip.
After converting an audio clip to a Simpler from Push, device mode will be selected automatically.
When converting between Simpler and Sampler, Push 2 would lose device selection.
The display could get stuck showing in User mode. Additionally, it is now possible to momentarily enter user mode by holding the respective button.
Mute and Solo would not work if the currently selected track were outside the Session Ring
When loading a sample from the browser, Simpler's "Mode" always would "Classic" on Push display regardless of the default for "dropping samples on Device View".
The arrow keys would stop working in the browser after switching between note and session mode while using the Push browser.
Selecting a scene in Live would cause Clip selection from Push not to work anymore.

New in Ableton Live 9.5 (Nov 2, 2015)

Improvements and feature changes:
Improved Waveforms: these now look smooth during zoom operations as well as during recording.
Improved meters: the track volume meters now show both peak and RMS levels.
Improved colouring: tracks are now automatically coloured, and new Clips take their track’s color.
The ‘Auto assign Clip Color’ preference is replaced by ‘Auto assign Track Color’, which determines if a newly created track gets a color from the song's color sequence assigned or a fixed color chosen by the user.
Simpler has been completely overhauled with a new interface, Warping, slicing, and new analog modelled filters build in conjunction with Cytomic.
New analog-modeled filters based on classic vintage hardware models capable of self resonating, feedback and distortion are added to Simpler/Sampler, Auto Filter and Operator.
The Core Library has been updated with new Drum Kits and new presets for Simpler, Operator, Analog, Auto Filter and Audio Effect Racks.
Audio Effect Racks now load with devices hidden.
Sets created with 9.5 will not be openable in pre-9.5 versions of Live. When trying to Save a set created with a previous version in 9.5, a dialog will appear and it will only be possible to Save under a different name.
Added the option "Preserve Warped Timing" in the Slice to new MIDI track dialog.
A breakout view is added for Simpler. The breakout view can only be displayed when Simpler has a valid sample
The Warped waveform is displayed accordingly in Simpler.
Added a button in the Simpler breakout which warps the region between the sample's start and end markers as a certain number of bars.
Added 1/2 and x2 warped length buttons in Simpler.
Added One Shot mode in Simpler.
Slicing mode has been added to Simpler. When active, all transients between start and end flags will be used for generating the slices
It is now possible to normalize a sample via a context menu option by right clicking on Simpler's waveform.
Added the possibility to slicing to a Drum Rack from Simpler.
A sample volume control (Gain) is now added to Simpler.
When loading a Simpler, Auto Filter or Operator preset created with a previous Live version, the devices will work in legacy mode, in order to preserve the original sound. An “Upgrade button” will activate the new filters. The filters will be automatically upgraded if these were not active in the preset.
Drum pads inherit Warp on/off when slicing a Simpler to Drum Rack.
If Simpler in Slicing mode is set to one voice only of if its playback mode is set to “mono”, choke is activated once converted to a Drum Rack.
Added Trigger or Gate mode for Samples in One Shot/Slice Modes
It is now possible to reverse a sample in Simpler via a context menu option.
Creating a multi selection for a number of chains in a Drum Rack enables setting the choke group for all chains at once.
When instantiating a plug-in, up to 64 parameters get configured automatically now.
A parameter configuration can now be saved as a default per AU or VST plug-in. This is done via a new context menu entry available in Live's plug-in device. The default configurations are stored in a "Plug-In Configurations" folder under "User Library/Defaults".
Improved performance when drawing waveforms for large sets with many clips.
Introduced a limitation to how many time a sample can be sped up or slowed down via ":2" or "x2" respectively, in order to save CPU power.
Improved the automation smoothing for the new filters in Simpler, Operator and Auto Filter.
Removed the limitation to the amount of transposition affecting samples when using Complex or Complex Pro.
The error dialog Live throws when users try to save a Default Device / Track while no User Library is available has been improved.
Bug fixes:
It is not possible to inadvertently save a Live Set to the Trash anymore.
The 'Warp as x bars' feature is improved so to provide more musical and predictable values.
Light blue color tones have changed to avoid being confused with the selection color when using the default Live skin.
Artifacts might be introduced when transposing samples warped with Complex / Pro.
Specific plug-ins would have triggered Live to configure non-functional parameters after a preset change.
Changes for Push:
Introduced support for Push 2.
It is now possible to preview sounds from the browser with Push 1 as well. Auto preview can be toggled on/off.
It is now possible to load Samples from Push. These will be instantiated in Simpler.
Browsing of VST and AU plugins is now available for Push 1 as well.
It is now possible to duplicate Drum Rack pads from Push 1 as well.
Clip length can be adjusted with a resolution down to 1/16th holding the Shift button.
Scales settings are now stored in Live sets.
When recording with Fixed Length: Off, pressing fixed length will now stop recording and loop the last bars of the recording according to the fixed length setting.
Fixed a bug which would cause the Clip selector in the step sequencer to be displayed after deleting a Clip.

New in Ableton Live 9.2.3 (Oct 20, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.3 Beta 4 (Oct 9, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.3 Beta 3 (Sep 17, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.3 Beta 2 (Sep 7, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.3 Beta 1 (Aug 27, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.2 (Aug 26, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.2 Beta 3 (Aug 17, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.2 Beta 2 (Aug 12, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.2 Beta 1 (Aug 4, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.1 (Aug 4, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.1 Beta 2 (Jul 22, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2.1 Beta 1 (Jul 14, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 (Jun 29, 2015)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added the Tuner Device to the Live audio effects.
Added a "Start Playback with Tap Tempo" preference to determine if Tap Tempo is going to activate playback.
Improved tempo detection for warped audio files where the tempo appears to be constant.
Improved warp downbeat detection.
The first warp marker (1.1.1) is now placed closer to the beginning of an audio Clip, even if the that portion of audio does not contain loud transients.
Improved the sound of Complex and Complex Pro Warp modes.
Added the option "Warp Selection as x-Bar Loop" in the context menu when right clicking on a time selection inside an audio clip.
Live Sets that contain Max for Live devices or third-party plug-ins now have lower latency.
The latency introduced by a device is now displayed in the status bar, when hovering over the title bar with the mouse. No latencies are shown when latency compensation is turned off.
Automation and Modulation are now fully latency compensated.
Modifying the Arrangement loop brace with mouse or keys will not affect the current track selection, while previously all tracks were selected as soon as the braces where adjusted with the mouse.
The Serato bridge is now compatible with Live 9.2
Scrub and Ram Mode are now exposed in the python API
Added support for the Roland A-PRO keyboard series
Most presets in “Sounds” and all presets in Operator have been updated to react to Aftertouch and/or Modwheel data.
Updated 808 and 909 Kits with better sounding Kicks and Snares.
New 606 & 808 Impulse presets have been added to the Core Library.
Core Library Audio Clips now load with HiQ enabled and Fade disabled.
The preferences setting "Start Transport with Record” has been renamed to "Start Playback with Record"
Updated lessons and info texts.
Dropped compatibility for Windows XP and Vista, OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
Bug fixes:
When switching between Note and Scene mode with the APC20, the pad LEDs would occasionally not update correctly.
The Session Ring would not be entirely displayed on screen anymore when navigating through tracks if the Live Set contained folded Group tracks.
Fixed a bug in the Axiom Air 25, 49 and 61 Control Surface remote script, where the Send mix mode controlled the available Sends for the currently selected channel, instead of controlling Send A for the first 8 channels.
Fixed a bug in the MPK Control Surface remote script, where the Record Arm button had to be pressed twice to be toggled, and Exclusive Arm would not work.
Fixed a bug in the Vestax VCM600 Control Surface remote script, where the Punch In and Punch Out controls would work only as momentary toggles.
Fixed a bug which caused artefacts in the waveform visualisation when increasing the Gain on low amplitude audio clips.
Live would not display bluetooth audio devices in the Input and Output device menu under Preferences-->Audio
When controlling a number of mixer or device parameters via Aftertouch, crackles could be noticed in the audio stream.
The Live browser "All Results" label would not remember the settings for the optional second column.
Fixed a rare crash which might happen on OS X with certain input sources.
Fixed a crash which might occur when deleting several Max for Live devices from a Live Set at once.
Live would crash when quitting the application while renaming a Groove in the Groove Pool.
Peak Levels in External Instrument and External Audio Effect devices would only be updated if these were displayed in Device View.
A Live Set might become corrupt when saved after a crash recovery, if the original Live Set had meanwhile been modified by a different Live instance.
Notes at the beginning of Clips would not be triggered when rendering or freezing tracks containing Max for Live devices or third party plugins.
Remote mappings via a Max for Live device would not work for toggle parameters anymore.
The mouse would behave erratically when controlling encoders and faders on OSX, if the Live GUI was zoomed-in either via OS or via the native Live zoom preference setting.
Minor adjustments to the translations of Clip context menus.
Overdrive would report a wrong latency value, thus would not correctly be compensated.
Saturator and Dynamic Tube would report a wrong latency value when operating in High Quality / Oversampling mode, thus would not correctly be compensated.
Redux would report a wrong latency value when in Soft mode, thus would not correctly be compensated.
Minor GUI bugfixes for high resolution displays.
Fixed a bug which could cause graphics glitches and crashes on OSX when using high resolution displays.
Fixed a bug where the mouse cursor would stay in stopwatch or beachball mode until the user physically moved the mouse. This would happen after loading devices, live sets, or anything else which would necessitate the use of the stopwatch cursor.
Updated the pixel font (used primarily in device LCDs like Operator) for retina displays. Also improved the aspect of envelope curves drawn in the device's LCD displays.
Fixed a glitch where the modulated value would become visible as an orange dot while dragging a slider, even if no modulation exists.
Changes for Push:
Added 64 Pad Drum Rack mode for Push. The Note button now toggles between the Drum Rack three section layout and the 64 Pad Mode.
Improved aftertouch response and added an aftertouch Threshold setting in the Push User Preferences
Added Modwheel functionality for the Push Ribbon Controller. Tapping the Ribbon Controller while holding "Select" toggles between Pitch Bend and Modwheel function.
Holding "Delete" and tapping an encoder on Push resets the respective parameter to the default setting.
Holding "Shift" while turning an encoder on Push changes the respective parameter with finer resolution.
Improved buttons readability on Push. The Repeat and Metronome buttons now blink if active.
When recording using Repeat on Push, the MIDI notes would be recorded with a negative offset with respect to the grid if the option “Reduced Latency when Monitoring” was on. This caused the very first note in the Clip not to be played back at all.
Using "Shift" + "Add Effect" or "Add Track" while in Scales mode would cause the display to show the Note Layout options even after releasing the Shift button.
When selecting a Drum Rack Pad set to Multisample mode with Push, pressing “Device In” with Push would automatically select the first device in the Chain list, and it would not be possible to go back to the enclosing Instrument Rack device.

New in Ableton Live 9.1.10 (Jun 23, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 12 (Jun 11, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 11 (Jun 4, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.1.9 (Jun 2, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 10 (May 21, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 9 (May 13, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 8 (Apr 28, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 7 (Apr 23, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 6 (Apr 21, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.1.8 (Apr 16, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 5 (Apr 9, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 4 (Mar 11, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 3 (Mar 4, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 2 (Feb 26, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.2 Beta 1 (Feb 25, 2015)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added the Tuner Device to the Live audio effects.
Added a "Start Transport with Tap Tempo" preference to determine if Tap Tempo is going to activate playback.
Improved tempo detection for warped audio files where the tempo appears to be constant.
Improved the sound of Complex and Complex Pro Warp modes.
Added the option "Warp Selection as x-Bar Loop" in the context menu when right clicking on a time selection inside an audio clip.
Live Sets that contain Max for Live devices or third-party plug-ins now have lower latency.
Automation and Modulation are now fully latency compensated.
Modifying the Arrangement loop brace with mouse or keys will not affect the current track selection, while previously all tracks were selected as soon as the braces where adjusted with the mouse.
Dropped compatibility for Windows XP and Vista, OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
Bug fixes:
When switching between Note and Scene mode with the APC20, the Pad LEDs would occasionally not update correctly.
The Session Ring would not be entirely displayed on screen anymore when navigating through tracks if the Live Set contained folded Group tracks.
Fixed a bug in the Axiom Air 25, 49 and 61 Control Surface remote script, where the Send mix mode controlled the available Sends for the currently selected channel, instead of controlling Send A for the first 8 channels.
Fixed a bug in the MPK Control Surface remote script, where the Record Arm button had to be pressed twice to be toggled, and Exclusive Arm would not work.
Fixed a bug in the Vestax VCM600 Control Surface remote script, where the Punch In and Punch Out controls would work only as momentary toggles.
Fixed a bug which caused artefacts in the waveform visualisation when increasing the Gain on low amplitude audio clips.
Live would not display bluetooth audio devices in the Input and Output device menu under Preferences-->Audio
When controlling a number of mixer or device parameters via Aftertouch, crackles could be noticed in the audio stream.
The Live browser "All Results" label would not remember the settings for the optional second column.
Fixed a rare crash which might happen on OS X with certain input sources.
Fixed a crash which might occur when deleting several Max for Live devices from a Live Set at once.
Live would crash when quitting the application while renaming a Groove in the Groove Pool.
Changes for Push:
Added 64 Pad Drum Rack mode for Push. The Note button now toggles between the Drum Rack three section layout and the 64 Pad Mode.
Improved Aftertouch response and added an Aftertouch Threshold setting in the Push User Preferences
Added Modwheel functionality for the Push Ribbon Controller. Tapping the Ribbon Controller while holding "Select" toggles between Pitch Bend and Modwheel function.
Holding "Delete" and tapping an encoder on Push resets the respective parameter to the default setting.
Holding "Shift" while turning an encoder on Push changes the respective parameter with finer resolution.
Improved buttons readability on Push. The Repeat and Metronome buttons now blink if active.
When recording using Repeat on Push, the MIDI notes would be recorded with a negative offset with respect to the grid if the option “Reduced Latency when Monitoring” was on. This caused the very first note in the Clip not to be played back at all.
Using "Shift" + "Add Effect" or "Add Track" while in Scales mode would cause the display to show the Note Layout options even after releasing the Shift button.
When selecting a Drum Rack Pad set to Multisample mode with Push, pressing “Device In” with Push would automatically select the first device in the Chain list, and it would not be possible to go back to the enclosing Instrument Rack device.

New in Ableton Live 9.1.7 (Jan 7, 2015)

New in Ableton Live 9.1.6 (Oct 29, 2014)

Improvements and feature changes:
Improved graphics for Retina displays. Note that this requires a Mac with OS X 10.7.4 “Lion” or higher.
Added native full screen support for Mac OS X. Note that this requires 10.9 Mavericks or higher and having the option "Displays have separate Spaces" enabled in OS X' Mission Control system preferences (this is the system's default). The keyboard shortcut for toggling full-screen mode has been changed accordingly to CTRL+CMD+F, which is the operating system’s default. Users with older OS X versions and Windows users are not affected by this change.
It’s now possible to export selected tracks by choosing ‘Selected Tracks Only’ in the ‘Export Audio / Video’ dialogue box. The option ‘Individual Tracks’ is still available as well, but has been renamed to ‘All Individual Tracks’.
Improved Max application chooser in Live’s ‘File Folder' preferences pane to be compatible with the folder structure of Max 7 application bundles.
Updated info texts and manuals.
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug that could cause memory leaks and an unusually high CPU load when running Live as a ReWire slave on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Some chooser controls would clip the right side of an active entry when closed, e.g. the Auto Filter’s ‘Shape’ chooser would cut off the rightmost line of the square or saw icon.
Clicking on a certain area at the bottom of a track volume slider in Live’s mixer would sometimes cause the slider to move to an unwanted position.
Changing the screen resolution while running Live in full-screen mode would not reset Live’s window to the correct size and still show the window’s title bar. This is now fixed.
Fixed a crash that could occur under certain conditions when loading Live sets containing a large amount of VST plug-ins and Max for Live devices.
Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering over an automation breakpoint or segment on the first automation lane of an Arrangement track and then forcing another automation to be shown on the same lane, e.g. by tweaking a different parameter using a MIDI controller.
Max for Live devices would not pass an “All Notes Off” message to the subsequent devices in a device chain when the Max for Live device was turned off.
VST plug-ins that have a MIDI output would not be able to output a CC 123 MIDI message ("All Notes Off").
Max for Live MIDI effect devices would not be correctly latency-compensated when the device was turned off and the device had an additional latency defined in its patcher inspector.
The “Session Zoom” feature, which allows to move Live’s Session ring by multiple tracks / scenes at once with certain MIDI control surfaces would stop working under certain conditions.

New in Ableton Live 9.1.5 (Sep 18, 2014)

New in Ableton Live 9.1.4 (Jul 24, 2014)

New in Ableton Live 9.1.3 (Jul 3, 2014)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added control surface support for AKAI MPK225, MPK249, MPK261.
Bug fixes:
Fixed an issue which caused CPU spikes when moving a MIDI note in a track containing certain Ableton devices with automated parameters while the transport is not playing.
Fixed CPU overloads and audio artifacts which might occur when moving MIDI notes in the MIDI editor, if the track contained certain third-party VST plug-ins.
Fixed a bug that caused the active Control Scripts to be loaded again when activating an additional Control Surface.
Enabling multiple tracks for recording and then triggering the Session Record button from the APC40 MKII would only record into the currently selected track instead of all armed tracks.
Fixed a bug which prevented Max for Live devices from grabbing the APC40 Clip Matrix.
Manual mappings for the APC40’s Device Bank buttons would not work anymore after pressing the device’s Shift button.
Fixed an issue on the Mackie Control Pro where the display would not show the parameter's values correctly, after previously enabling the level meters.
Fixed a graphical glitch which could occur when changing an Arrangement track's vertical zoom level via the Mackie Control or a Max for Live device. Under certain conditions, this could also lead to a crash.
Importing a Session View clip containing automation for a Max for Live device into another Live Set would create automation breakpoints in the Arrangement View.
When loop is activated in the Arrangement View, MIDI sustain messages and other CC# messages would not be recorded reliably after the first loop iteration.
Live would allocate an unusually high amount of RAM when rendering video with the 64-bit version on OSX.
When configuring plug-in parameters, some sliders in Live's plug-in panel would not match the position of the respective parameter in the plug-in GUI.
After installing a newly purchased Pack, Live would show an error message and the Pack couldn’t be used until Live was authorized manually again.
Text in deactivated clips was not readable with certain skins.
Fixed a crash that occurred when closing the plug-in window of a UAD Audio Unit by pressing the [ESC] key.
Fixed a crash which might occur when renaming a Drum Rack pad while triggering another pad.
Live could crash under certain conditions when running as a ReWire slave and creating a new Live Set without saving the previous Set.
Under certain circumstances, Live would delete send automation or modulation envelopes from clips when exporting clips or tracks to the browser. Additionally, Live could crash when using the undo feature after such an export operation.
Changes for Push:
Certain Max for Live devices which accessed the Push Touch Strip would not work properly.

New in Ableton Live 9.1.2 (Apr 9, 2014)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added control surface support for Akai APC40 MKII, APC Key 25, APC mini.
Updated control surface documentation.
Improved readability of text in clips, tracks, chains and macro controls. The text color is now automatically inverted, depending on the background color.
Bug fixes:
Live would show cryptic error messages in case it detects and repairs a corrupt database. Now it shows something more meaningful.
Looped clip envelopes could have an incorrect length after unlinking the envelope, linking it again and then moving the clip from Session View to the Arrangement View.
MIDI data from the computer MIDI keyboard or an external MIDI input could have a huge delay after plugging a cable into the computer’s headphone jack (Mac OS X only).
When overdubbing a MIDI clip in the Arrangement View, the resulting clip would not be cropped to the correct content, but would contain all other notes of the track.
A playing clip in the last scene would stop playing when deleting a scene above it.
Fixed a bug that could occur when recording automation over a loop jump in a Session View clip when the Arrangement View's loop is active.
Plug-in parameters of certain VST plug-ins would not instantly update on the custom plug-in window after changing presets.
The AU versions of UAD powered plug-ins would not release their DSP resources when turning them off in Live, even if the option "Release all UAD DSP resources on AudioUnit bypass" was enabled in the UAD control panel.
Loading a set containing many disabled UAD AU plug-ins may have resulted in a "UAD bandwidth allocation exceeded" error while loading the set.
Fixed a crash which could occur when quitting Live via the Mac OS X App Switcher (CMD+TAB).
Fixed a crash that could occur on Mac OS X when quitting the application while Live is buffering samples.
Fixed a crash which could occur in the 64-bit version when triggering multiple voices in Sampler and having the Shrink/Expand Envelopes feature enabled.
Fixed a crash which could occur in the 32-bit version of Live when loading presets containing a very large amount of devices.
Fixed a crash that could occur under certain conditions when moving scenes and then using Undo.
Live 9 Intro or Lite would crash when importing an audio clip which uses the Complex or Complex Pro warp mode (Windows only).
Changes for Push:
It wasn't possible to edit device parameters if a track's input routing was set to "No Input".
Live would record MIDI notes at the wrong position when using Push's Note Repeat function and having the track's monitoring switch set to "No Input".
Audio clip recording could be interrupted when choosing another track with Push, even if Exclusive Arm is deactivated in Live's preferences.
When selecting a track, the Melodic Step Sequencer would sometimes not select a page in the currently playing clip.

New in Ableton Live 9.1.1 (Jan 23, 2014)

Improvements and feature changes
Live will now automatically repair its database in case it gets corrupt, e.g. due to a fatal write error or a sudden power outage during a database transaction, etc.
Live would always record the last received CC value into a MIDI clip, even if it was received before the actual recording was started. Live now ignores the last value and only records MIDI CC data that are received during the actual clip recording.
Bugfixes:
Live would allow to trigger changes from notifications via the Python API. This could lead to problems with Live’s Undo history or even to crashes and is no longer allowed. Note that this change might affect compatibility with 3rd party control surface scripts, i.e. scripts that are not natively supported by Ableton. Please contact the manufacturer of the script in case you encounter any problems.
Live would cut off all currently playing notes on a MIDI clip when engaging overdub recording in the Arrangement View.
When recording clips on multiple tracks in Session View by triggering a whole scene, clip recording would sometimes be aborted too early in some slots.
Under certain conditions, the playback of a Session clip would stop when scrubbing outside of the clip’s loop boundaries.
Live would freeze when setting the loop length of an unlinked clip envelope to the minimum value.
Live's MIDI map mode could crash when sending MIDI messages while another chooser or context menu was open.
Fixed a crash that could occur when creating audio feedback routings with drum rack sends, for example when routing a return chain to itself.
Live could crash under certain conditions when flattening clips containing automation envelopes.
Live could crash after using 'Capture and Insert Scene' on the last available Session scene and then undoing that action.
Live could crash under certain conditions when using Japanese text input methods on Mac OS X.
Max for Live devices could be out of sync when exporting audio with multiprocessor support enabled.
When loading a Live set with a MIDI clip that contains modulation for Max for Live parameters of the "live.dial" type, the modulation values would sometimes not be restored correctly.
Changes for Push:
Push's display now indicates if you’re editing a clip that is not the currently playing clip. It also allows to quickly move the focus back to the playing clip by pressing the up/down arrow buttons.
Push's display now indicates if a selected track is frozen and cannot be modified.
Deleting automation for device on/off switches or track activator buttons would not work from Push.
Push’s auto-arm function would not work with certain track routing settings.
The playhead could behave erratically or completely disappear when enabling the loop in Live’s Arrangement View and setting it to an odd loop length.
Push could freeze when browsing user folders, in case a path name contained certain special characters.
Grabbing individual buttons of Push’s button matrix from Max for Live would not work anymore.
Fixed a rounding problem that could sometimes occur with the bar graph that shows up on the display when tweaking an encoder.

New in Ableton Live 9.1 (Nov 20, 2013)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added dual monitor support.
When exporting audio, sample-rate conversion is now done using the high-quality SoX Resampler Library, resulting in higher quality exports when rendering to a lower sample rate.
Live now uses multiple CPU cores when exporting audio and the normalisation process is faster than before.
When exporting audio files from Live with the option "Create Analysis File" enabled, Live will now save warp markers with the .asd file, so that information about the original tempo and tempo changes are correctly reused when re-importing the audio file into Live later on.
The 'Export Audio / Video' export dialog has been improved. - It shows the same options whether launched from Session or Arrangement View. - Some of the export settings have been regrouped to provide a better overview. - "All Tracks" has been renamed to "Individual Tracks" in the "Rendered Track" chooser. - The export dialog now shows information about the source and target sample rate.
The "Open Recent Sets" menu now has a "Clear List" and "Remove Unavailable Sets" option.
The menu item "Close Live Set" has been renamed to "Close Window". It will now close any secondary window that is open. If no secondary window is open, it does nothing.
The audio buffer size is now restricted to power-of-two values. Windows users should note that not all ASIO drivers support this and may still allow to use non power-of-two values. This can lead to a higher CPU load and higher latencies. Ableton recommends to always use power-of-two buffer sizes, i.e. 64, 128, 256, 512,... samples.
Optimised default presets for Auto Filter, EQ Eight, Saturator, Tension, Simpler, Sampler, Analog, Operator, Electric.
Added 10 new Simpler presets to the Core Library.
Updated manuals, lessons, info texts and translations.
Minor improvements for usage data reporting.
When creating a new track by dragging an instrument to the clip/device drop area, Live would keep the last selected clip stand-by-selected. Now it moves the selection to the clip slot that matches the Session View's crosshair.
Bug fixes:
The mouse and keyboard could sometimes become unresponsive after zooming, scrolling or tweaking parameters on OS X 10.9 "Mavericks".
Automatic updates could break an installation if the update process was interrupted.
Automatic updates would not work when running Live in ReWire slave mode. Therefore, automatic updates are now turned off in this case.
Live would not check if there's enough free disk space available before applying an automatic update.
Fixed a problem which could lead to a memory leak in the Ableton Index and Web Connector processes.
Loading Live Sets and presets could take longer than necessary if the file contains references to missing samples.
The metronome timing would be incorrect after reloading a Live Set with a different time signature than 4/4.
Decreasing and then increasing the audio buffer size in the Audio preferences tab could cause permanent crackling on Mac OS X 10.7 or higher.
Two crossfaded clips running in 'Complex' or 'Complex Pro' warp mode could cause crackles and dropouts if the samples were time-stretched.
Negative sample offset modulation of the Beats warp mode would not work correctly and could lead to disk overloads.
The Sampler device occasionally produced a red 'D' (harddisk warning) if the sample is played very fast (high note, low base note). The fix reduces the likelihood of such disk dropout warnings.
Audio effects or racks with a high overall latency would not be rendered correctly. The beginning of the rendered file could contain a short period of the dry signal.
Fixed a bug that could cause parts of a waveform to disappear when dragging a warp marker.
Live would select clips slots when clicking and dragging in the empty area below the clips slots.
Key presses were not correctly forwarded to Live from VST plug-in windows or the video window (PC only).
Fixed a CPU performance problem which could occur with certain VST plug-ins.
Fixed a bug which could prevent certain AU plug-in windows from closing in the 64-bit version.
Live could crash when recording automation for VST or AU plug-ins on return tracks.
Looping automation in Session View clips was not correctly disabled when touching an automated parameter with the mouse.
MIDI sustain messages would be occasionally ignored when recording over an existing MIDI clip in the Arrangement View.
Irregular audio output values from Max for Live devices (i.e. "Not a Number" signals) would break downstream signal processing in Live. Such signals are now automatically replaced with silence.
Presets containing Max for Live devices from the User Library would sometimes not be shown in the browser's "Max for Live" label.
Max for Live API: The "length" property of a looped clip would reflect the distance from the clip start to clip end marker and not the length of the loop, as specified in the API documentation.
Max for Live API: Live could return a "bad number" error message when observing the "clip_trigger_quantization" property.
Live could crash when remapping a Max for Live device after using undo.
Live could crash when adding a drum rack from the "Autobeat" pack.
Mapping a MIDI message from a ReWire master application to one of Live's parameters could crash the ReWire host and freeze Live.
Live could crash when pressing CMD/CTRL + M or CMD/CTRL + K during startup.
Kit-Core 808 Kick, Toms and Congas could produce unwanted clicks when tweaking the “Low/High Cut” macros.
The "Shaperello Pad" preset could produce unwanted clicks when tweaking the "Erosion" macro.
Removed redundant choke group in Kit-SessionDry.
Fixed wrong notes in Scale preset "Minor Pentatonic Scale".
MIDI data routed from a track output to the Launchpad would be sent on the wrong MIDI channel.
Fixed LED-update for Track On/Off button on Reloop KeyFadr/KeyPad controllers.
Changes for Push:
Updated firmware to version 1.13. Live will show a dialog box on startup if a new Push firmware is available. Detailed update instructions and a changelog are available in a separate Knowledge Base article.
Added a Melodic Step Sequencer mode.
You can now add parameter automation to the selected step in a step sequencer.
Push's display now indicates automated parameters, as well as overridden automation.
Step Sequencer mode is now also available for Drum Racks that are nested inside Instrument Racks.
Less force is required to set steps in the step sequencers and loops in the loop selector.
Improved behavior and color scheme for the loop selector in step sequencers.
Auto-follow mode is now disabled when creating new clips by setting the first step in the step sequencer.
When navigating between different clips, Push now remembers which “page” of a step sequencer was selected in each clip and returns to it when reselecting a clip.
When holding down a step in a step sequencer, you can edit the length of MIDI notes in steps (coarse) and in percent (fine). The length of the edited note is also reflected on the button matrix.
You can delete all notes on the same pitch within the current loop by holding down the delete button and then pressing the respective pad. This works in Note mode and also for playable drum pads.
The "Fixed Length" setting is now respected when creating a new clip by adding steps to an (empty) step sequencer.
When enabling 'Scales' mode, you can use the first encoder to scroll through the available scales.
Push's display now shows a short message when using the Undo / Redo button.
The second footswitch input now allows to control clip recording: A single tap triggers Push's record button. A double-tap triggers Push's "New" button.
Clips inside group tracks would not be indicated on the button grid when using Session mode.
When creating a new clip while Push is in Session mode, any update to that clip's color was not reflected on Push.
The playhead could sometimes skip the first step when auto-follow was enabled.
The playhead would sometimes be stuck for a short time or skip beats when changing the step sequencer's resolution.
If a clip's start marker was set to a negative time, e.g. -2.1.1, it wasn't possible to move the loop length into a negative time range.
Audio or MIDI tracks (with their MIDI input set to something other than Push) would be disarmed when selecting Tracks via Push, regardless of the Exclusive Arm settings.
Live could crash when overdubbing automation on a Return track using Push.
Live could crash when remapping a Max for Live device whilst touching / releasing an encoder on Push.

New in Ableton Live 9.0.6 (Sep 16, 2013)

New in Ableton Live 9.0.5 (Jul 17, 2013)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added control surface support for M-Audio Axiom Air 25, 49 and 61 keyboards.
Added new default presets for Analog, Electric, Operator, Simpler, Sampler, Tension, Auto Filter, EQ Eight and Saturator for improved compatibility with control surfaces.
The menu item 'View -> Detail -> Track' was renamed to 'View -> Detail -> Device'.
Updated lessons and info texts.
Bugfixes:
The Ableton Index process could block the GUI after launching Live.
Fixed a bug which could decrease Live's GUI performance in sets containing a very large amount of devices.
The Arpeggiator device could play too many notes under certain conditions.
MIDI velocity fades would not work in an Instrument- or MIDI Effect Rack's key zone editor.
Chains assigned to certain velocity ranges in an Instrument Rack's Velocity Zone Editor would not be triggered under certain conditions.
Using the TAB key while renaming a track would not jump to the next track name if certain control surface scripts were enabled in the MIDI / SYNC preferences.
The Launchpad could sometimes show artifacts of the Mixer mode in User Mode II after switching between the two modes.
Status updates that are sent back to a MIDI controller from a control surface script could interfere with status updates from manual MIDI mappings.
Live could crash when moving VST or AU plug-ins to a different track while the plug-in's GUI was open.
Live could crash when closing a Live set that contains AU plug-in devices with Program Change automation.
Live could crash when using 'undo' and 'redo' actions on non-configured plug-in parameters.
Live could crash under certain conditions when re-enabling the audio engine if the currently loaded Live set contains VST or AU plug-ins.
Live could crash when changing the warp mode of multiple clips at once, if one of the clips contains a .rex file.
Live could crash when loading a Live set containing a Convolution Reverb device.
Live could crash under certain conditions when moving an automation segment.
Triggering an Audio-to-MIDI conversion from the browser could corrupt the Live set, if the target track was created inside a group track.
Live could crash under certain conditions after saving a Max for Live device in the Max editor.
Improved the text of the error message which is shown after a certain type of crash on Windows systems ("HandleStageOne" class).
Under certain conditions, Live would show an error message after updating to a new version: "Can't access file database: database error, prepare statement: No such table: sqlite_stat1".
The Windows installer would sometimes not install the "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable" package correctly, which could result in a "Side-by-Side Configuration Error" when trying to launch Live.
The links to the accompanying Demo Sets in the "What's new in Live 9" Lesson would not open the correct demo set for feature-limited versions.
Changes for Push:
It's now possible to browse user folders that were added to 'Places' in Live's Browser. Note that empty folders are hidden on Push.
When 'Clip Workflow' mode is selected, the 'Duplicate' button now only affects the currently selected clip and not the entire scene. Shift + 'Duplicate' will Capture and Insert a scene.
The Scene Launch Buttons would be lit even if no scene exists.
Pressing the 'Select' button and a Scene Launch Button would fire the scene instead of just selecting it.
When using 'Undo' after duplicating a scene, the LEDs of the previously duplicated clips would remain lit.
Navigating Drum Rack banks using Shift + Octave Up / Down would not work correctly.
Holding a Track Select button to unfold a group track would not work anymore.
Under certain conditions, audio clip recording would suddenly stop when enabling the "Fixed Length" function on Push.
Live could crash after hot-swapping a Drum Rack, if Push and another control surface script was activated in Live's MIDI/SYNC preferences.
Live could freeze while working on a Drum Rack if the Push control surface script was selected twice in the MIDI / SYNC preference pane (1x with the "Live" port and 1x with the "User" port).

New in Ableton Live 9.0.5 Beta 5 (Jul 4, 2013)

New in Ableton Live 9.0.4 (May 10, 2013)

New in Ableton Live 9.0.3 (Apr 19, 2013)

Improvements and feature changes:
Added a new skin: "Disco".
Added a new option to the "Record/Warp/Launch" preferences pane: "Start Transport with Record". If activated, the transport will start immediately when clicking on the Session- or Arrangement-Record buttons. If deactivated, it prepares for recording as in Live 8, so you have to launch a clip in Session View or click the 'Play' button. You can hold down the Shift modifier key when clicking on the record buttons to invert the behavior temporarily.
When recording automation on top of an existing automation envelope, and quickly clicking on different positions in parameters like sliders, X/Y pads, etc., Live now records a latching automation envelope instead of jumping back to the previous value.
The Compressor device does not clip input signals at +20 dB anymore.
Added control surface support for Novation Launchkey series.
Added control surface support for M-Audio Axiom Air Mini 32.
Added a user satisfaction survey. After several hours of usage, Live will ask you to rate the software on the next startup. You can submit a star rating or simply dismiss the survey.
Updated manual, lessons and translations.
Bugfixes:
The Trial version of Live 9.0.2 could hang on startup.
Live would not work as a ReWire slave on Windows.
The performance of the Ableton Index process has been improved, especially on OS X.
The Ableton Index process would sometimes not scan all folders after adding them to the sidebar.
The Ableton Index process could block the GUI during saving and exporting of Live sets, presets or clips.
Scanning folders containing a huge amount of files could take longer than necessary.
The Browser would not update its content pane after a change in the file system if the selection was somewhere outside of the Browser.
Expanding the Audio Unit folder in the browser's "Plug-ins" label could be slow for users which have a lot of library content installed.
Live would not save a clip self-contained after dragging it to the Browser and confirming the name of the new clip by clicking anywhere outside of the Browser.
The Session Record button would not turn off if the recording was aborted, e.g. by stopping or deleting the currently recording clip, disarming a track, etc.
Under certain conditions, MIDI notes would not get recorded into a clip slot after deleting a previous clip.
Overdubbing into MIDI clips could unnecessarily bloat the undo history file.
Fixed a graphical glitch which could occur in the representation of the filter curve in EQ Eight's Frequency Display.
Several MIDI control surfaces would not correctly shut down after quitting Live, e.g. motorfaders on the Mackie Control would not return to zero, Axiom Pro devices would not exit Hypercontrol mode, etc.
The "Project Mix IO" control surface would not work.
The channel strip buttons on the Mackie Control XT would not work.
Fixed a bug where the key navigation in track headers would not work properly when certain control surfaces are selected.
When using control surface scripts, the blue hand would sometimes not map to any device, e.g. after creating a device and then deleting it by using undo.
Live could sometimes crash on quit in case a faulty MIDI remote script throws an exception in the Python console.
Fixed a crash which could occur in Live Intro when right-clicking on a drum rack chain.

New in Ableton Live 9.0.2 (Apr 8, 2013)

Improvements and feature changes:
The "Group to Drum Rack" option is available again in the context menu of all instrument devices, provided that the device is not yet grouped into a rack and is not a drum rack device itself.
Improved browser performance when clicking on the "Drums" label.
Improved browser performance when clicking on labels while Search is active.
Improved browser performance when hot-swapping presets in the browser's "Places" section.
When Search is activated, the selection color in the browser's content pane is now in line with the color scheme of the browser's sidebar and the frame around the search field.
Changed the factory default for dropping samples on a Drum Rack. It now activates the "Retrigger" mode in Simpler by default.
Removed the gray shade which would cover the Arrangement View's scrub area when the global Back-to-Arrangement button was on, because the controls underneath (e.g. the loop brace, locators, etc.) would look inactive although being active.
Simplified message boxes at startup when using the Trial version offline.
Updated several lessons, info texts and translations.
Bugfixes:
MIDI Mapping for Song Tempo Fine Tune would not work correctly.
When recording automation into a clip, the automation would not latch during the first iteration, but jump back to the last value.
Clip automation for VST and AU plug-in parameters could get lost after importing a track from the browser into a new Live set.
When recording clips from Session into Arrangement View, the recorded clip could have an incorrect loop length if the Arrangement's loop was enabled.
MIDI would not be recorded into Session clips when launching a scene after shift-clicking the Session Record Button.
Under certain conditions, Time Signature Changes would not be recorded correctly into the Arrangement.
Under certain conditions, the white background that indicates the active clip region would not be shown for unwarped audio clips in the Arrangement View.
The numbers in the Arrangement View's beat time ruler could disappear when zooming in.
When duplicating MIDI notes in a clip, the duplicated notes would sometimes scroll out of view.
The browser's content pane could scroll to a wrong position when enabling hot-swap, so that the selected preset would be out of view.
The velocity setting in Simpler and Sampler wasn't correctly restored from 'Slice-To-New-MIDI-Track' presets.
The file manager would sometimes not replace missing samples even though matching candidates were found.
(64-bit Windows) Exporting video at 48 kHz would not work.
(64-bit Mac) The video window could go black after toggling full-screen mode on and off.
(64-bit Mac) The content in the video window would sometimes not resize correctly when jumping in the playback position.
Max for Live: the API would return a list instead a list of symbols in certain cases, e.g. when querying a track's input / output routing targets, it would return "Sends" "Only", instead of "Sends Only".
Live could crash when trying to preview a multi-selection of files in the browser via Shift+Enter.
Live could crash during authorization when successively clicking the "Authorize with Ableton.com" button.
Fixed a crash which could occur when importing certain Live sets by dragging them to the scene drop area.
Feature-limited versions (e.g. Live Intro or Lite) could crash when opening certain context menus.
Changes for Push:
When holding the User mode button, you can now set the global pad sensitivity and velocity curve independently.
In Session Mode, there is now a higher pad sensitivity threshold, to prevent accidental clip launching.
When a Drum Rack is selected, loop selection and step sequencer pads have a higher threshold to avoid accidental triggering.
Max for Live devices are now accessible in Push's browser.
While in 'Browse' mode, you can now scroll through pages by holding Shift + up/down buttons.
File extensions have been removed when browsing for better browsing clarity.
Saved Presets now show up correctly in the top-level of instrument racks and effect racks.
When holding one of the 8 main encoders, touching the 'Swing' or 'Tempo' encoders will not take over the display, to avoid a 'flickering' LCD.
You can now see the correct values and units of VST plug-in parameters on Push (e.g. "440 Hz" or "75 %"), provided that the VST plug-in transmits these information to Live. Previously you would only see generic values ranging from 0 to 1 in Push's display, even if Live's plug-in parameter list would show the correct value and unit.
On the selected track, the 'Track Select' button now toggles the arm button for audio tracks. The track select buttons turn red if a track is armed.
When Record is on, the playhead of the step sequencer and played back notes are indicated by red LEDs.
The Record button now turns off if you change tracks via Push (in Note Mode), so that you don't accidentally keep overdubbing in the new track.
Repeat mode now turns off when moving to a different track.
The state of the accent button would remain on after accenting a step in the step sequencer.
Group tracks would automatically unfold when opening a set with Push attached.
Toggling Map mode off in Live while Push is in User Mode could crash Live.
The Push startup dialogue has been removed.
Various other technical improvements.

New in Ableton Live 9.0.1 (Mar 6, 2013)

New in Ableton Live 8.4 (Mar 2, 2013)

Improvements and feature changes:
Live 8.4 introduces native 64-bit support. The 64-bit version of Live allows the use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This means that Live users can now work with Live Sets (including Sets using third-party plug-ins and ReWire configurations) that are much larger and more memory intensive than in the 32-bit version. The 64-bit version of Live works with PCs running Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit) and with Intel-Macs running OS X 10.5 and up. For more information, please refer to our knowledge base: (https://www.ableton.com/articles/what-are-limitations-64-bit-version-live/).
Improved the authorization dialog when launching Live as a Trial version.
Improved automatic updates.
The word size of the Live application is now shown in the splash screen.
Live is now showing the email address of the currently authorized user account in the "About" window.
Bugfixes:
Live would not respond to time signature changes from a ReWire master.
Fixed a bug which could prevent VST plugins stored in the OS X system library folder to show up in Live's browser.
Fixed a bug in the 32-bit version, which could cause problems when resizing 32-Bit-Cocoa plugins.
Under certain conditions, the playback position in audio clips was incorrect after changing clip start markers in unwarped clips and then re-enabling 'warp' (regression from 8.2.7).
Deactivating a playing clip and then reactivating it would leave the clip in an incorrect state. The clip would look as if it is playing, although it was actually stopped.
Fixed a problem with the Max for Live engine, which would cause Live to freeze when setting an audio buffer size smaller than 21 samples.
Live parameters would no longer update correctly after deleting a Max for Live device which was mapped to that parameter via live.remote~.
Mappings from Max devices to VST plugin parameters could get lost after saving an instrument rack preset and then reloading it.
Fixed a graphical glitch in the Session- / Arrangement View amoeba after toggling views (mixer, crossfader, etc.).
The Session View selection frame of the APC40 or Launchpad could get stuck after deleting scenes or undoing the creation of scenes.
Under certain conditions, Live could hang when decoding MP3 files (Win only).
Fixed a bug which could cause a "memory corruption error".
Fixed a memory leak which could occur when previewing audio files in the Browser, using the "Complex" warp mode.
Live could freeze when successively sending Program Change messages to a VST or AU plug-in (Mac OS X only).
Live could freeze when using the "Insert Time" or "Insert Silence" commands.
Live would crash when deleting a clip while recording.
Live would crash when saving an Audio Effect Rack containing devices with certain side-chain routings.
Live would crash when dropping MIDI Effect Rack presets onto Drum Rack pads or an Instrument Rack chain.
Live would crash when changing the sample rate for audio interfaces with dynamically changing channel configurations (Mac OS X only).
Live would crash when using the copy / paste time commands inside a group track.
Live could crash under certain conditions when importing extremely long MP3 files into Live (several hours long files).
Live could crash under certain conditions when deleting a VST plug-in from a drum rack's return chain.
Live could crash under certain conditions when recording time signature changes.
Live could crash under certain conditions when triggering scenes containing time signature changes.
Live could crash under certain conditions when switching through rack chains (e.g. with the "Auto" select function) whilst renaming a device inside the chain.
3 other rare crashes have been fixed.

New in Ableton Live 8.3.4 (Sep 4, 2012)

New in Ableton Live 8.3.3 (Jul 10, 2012)

New in Ableton Live 8.4 Beta 1 (Jul 5, 2012)

New in Ableton Live 8.3.2 (Jul 4, 2012)

New in Ableton Live 8.3 (Apr 4, 2012)

New in Ableton Live 8.2.8 (Feb 6, 2012)

New in Ableton Live 8.2.7 (Dec 8, 2011)

New in Ableton Live 8.2.6 (Sep 15, 2011)

New in Ableton Live 8.2 (Sep 27, 2010)

New in Ableton Live 8.1.1 (Dec 30, 2009)

Bug fixes:
A very short MIDI note at the beginning of a clip would not be audible. [6130]
Recording via 'Resampling' would not properly compensate latency. [6124]
Under certain conditions, it would be possible to get 2 Arranger tracks highlighted. [6144]
Using the Launchpad as control surface and additionally for manual mappings would not always work properly.
When installing Live Packs which have dependencies to other content, Live would show the corresponding message twice. [6153]
Using a Rex file could crash Live. [6157]
'lock control surface' function would not properly work in user remote scripts. [6064]
A particular Live set could not be loaded and would lead to a 'Invalid Product ID Error' message. [6165]
In the Arranger, punch In/Out would delay notes by the 'punch in time' in beats. [6167]
Using the pads of the Akai MPD18 would not work properly.
Having a Live set with particular Drum Racks could increase the CPU usage of the main thread, which would result in very slow graphical updates. [6181]
Installing a new Library from within a second running instance of Live could crash Live. [6171]
Certain operations like sample crop/reverse/replace would remove the tempo envelope. [6179]
Using Novation's Launchpad, when switching between Automap and Live control would not work properly.
Under certain conditions, editing or creating parameter automation would not work properly. [6188]
Playing a 32-bit audio file immediately after a 16-bit audio file could cause a click in the audio. [6152]
Moving the last track out of a track group onto a closed group track in the Arranger could crash Live. [6193]
In the Auto Pan device, switching shape to random would not show the 'Width' knob. [6192]
Loading a Max device would crash if Pluggo was already active.
It would not be possible to create a new Project in the File Browser if the root is set to 'Workspace'.
Fine tuning of macro knobs would not work via key modifier. [6180]
Starting clips via the Launchpad while changing parameters via mouse could crash Live. [6143]
Moving the mouse over a certain Sampler preset could crash Live. [6207]
Loading a Live set containing not yet authorized add-ons could crash Live. [6203]
Under certain conditions, fade creation would not work properly. [6195]
An Ableton preset of a third party plug-in would not change the On/Off mapping range. [5652]
Receiving an invalid parameter index from Max could crash Live.
Inverting a macro mapping range would not work properly. [6238]
Under certain conditions, extracting an existing groove from a clip would crash Live. [6235]
Having a Max device sending many blob changes during saving could crash Live.
A malformed database file would interrupt user interactions like renaming files, saving presets, recording, etc. [6230]
Having a particular Live set loaded and searching for media files could crash Live. [6241]
On Mac OS X, under certain conditions, making Live the foreground window could lead to a crash.
The context menu of a frozen clip would have enabled audio fades commands. [6253]
In the Arranger, changing the mixer properties like volume, pan etc. would not show the changed value in the status bar. [3238]
Having a multi selection of Arranger track and use the 'Show Automation' command would destroy the selection. [6243]
Choosing a custom VST directory within the preferences would not keep this new directory until the next start of Live if the required rescan leads to a crash. [6190]
On Mac OS X, duplicating a track with Fab Filter Twin 1+2 could crash Live. [6063]
The Looper display would use the wrong colour in 'play' mode. [6234]
Holding SHIFT + Space Bar would make the transport play button flicker. [6227]
The area to click on an Arranger clip would be too small by a few pixels. [6261]
Particular Live sets, especially with a lot of transient data, could not be loaded. [6263]
Pasting 3 unstretched and crossfaded Arranger clips could crash Live [6289]

New in Ableton Live 8.0.8 (Oct 23, 2009)

Improvements:
Updated manuals
Updated Help Pages
Control Surface support for Novation Launchpad
Several improvements for the AxiomPro Controllers
Bugfixes:
Using the double/halve tempo buttons of the Looper could introduce an audible offset [5857]
Playing MIDI could crash Live when multi-core support is enabled [5608]
If the slot button below a disabled Session clip has been removed, the disabled clip would not respect this and act as stop button [5872]
In the Arranger, auto scrolling would not work properly when dragging tracks [5865]
On Mac OS X, open the application menu would not close an open context menu [5768]
On Mac OS X, using a Remote SL and loading a particular Live set with a Fab Filter Twin 2 would crash Live
On Mac OS X, the Key stroke handling for AudioUnits using Cocoa views would not work properly
On Mac OS X 10.6.x, starting Live with a template set that contains audio clips, and with another CoreAudio client running at the same time (e.g. iTunes), would freeze Live. Also, changing sample rates in Live would not work properly
Replacing a Macro mapping with a Key mapping could crash Live [5913]
Return track header selection would not work properly [5677]
On Mac OS X, Audio Units, wrapped by Novation Automap, would not appear in the right folders [5752]
Setting an MTC start offset to a negative value would not show the value properly [5456]
Grabbing and moving the left edge of an Arranger loop while the loop start is out of the view would not behave properly [5216]
In the Arranger, scrolling would not work properly when dragging or moving tracks [5139]
Under certain conditions, the LFO of the Sampler would not work properly
Switching banks via remote script would not be indicated in the status bar [5969]
Switching on track-solo would not work properly in exclusive mode when switching via the APC controller [5838]
Unsupported multi channel audio files would crash Live [5995]
When exporting an video file, the resulting video file would grow on each export instead to be replaced [5996]
On Mac OS X, when typing the name of an existing file, but without the extension, Live would overwrite the existing file without asking for confirmation

New in Ableton Live 8.0.5 (Sep 14, 2009)

New in Ableton Live 8.0.4 (Jun 17, 2009)

Improvements:
Updated manual
Improved handling of the library database
Better GUI performance when recording many automation parameters
The APC40 script remembers the last set bank for each device and restores that setting when the corresponding device is selecting again.
On Mac OS X, if the custom dialog of a plug-in would not process incoming keys Live will handle them. Depending on the plug-in, this should provide a similar work flow as in Live 7
Several improvements for the Share functionality
On Windows, support for up to 256 audio channels when using ASIO
Bugfixes:
Unquantized scrubbing would not work properly in MIDI clips
On Mac OS X, the DUY Tape AU plug-in would crash on instantiation [5429]
When the Looper is set to a fixed length recording and the song is running, the recording length of the Looper might be miscalculated
Under certain conditions, moving a MIDI clip in arrangement could crash Live [5543]
Protocol recording of audio clips in ReWire slave mode would lead to silent arranger clips [5541]
Dragging a multi selection of audio files into Live would not work properly, when the multi selection would contain .asd files too [5485]
The 'Select All' context menu command would be available by accident for an entry in the device browser [5496]
On Windows, moving Library could transform .AbletonPresetInfo files into _AbletonPresetInfo files [5506]
Quantized scrubbing would not work properly in the Arranger [5490]
Setting a tempo via scene launch would not work properly if there's a loop in the Arranger [5535]
Exporting or consolidating audio would create a fade in in the resulting audio file [5540]
After Grouping, ungrouping or re-grouping of tracks, the APC40 would not work properly anymore
Doing undo via keyboard shortcut while a modal dialog is opened could crash Live [5561]
With the APC40, stopping clips via the clip-stop buttons would not work properly
Switching device banks would not work properly when using the 'microKontrol' as Control Surface [5568]
On Mac OS X, having a plug-in opening a modal dialog and switching then to another application would crash Live [5583]
MIDI loop recording in Arranger would not work properly after the first loop iteration [5203]
Using follow actions on clips in Legato mode could crash Live [5580]
On Windows, editing the info text for an arrangement locator would not work properly [5574]
On Mac OS X, slow mouse wheel changes would not work properly [5552]
On Mac OS X, drag'n drop operation with certain key modifiers could lead to an 'unstoppable' drag'n drop operation [5564]
Restoring from the undo history after a crash could lead to another crash
In several surface controller scripts, the arm buttons would not select tracks anymore [5594]

New in Ableton Live 8.0.3 (May 20, 2009)

Improvements:
Slightly improved graphic performance on Mac OS X
Setting up a cache folder is restricted to an empty folder or previous cache folder. Root directories are not longer allowed.
Bug fixes:
On Mac OS X, "Move to trash" and "Show in finder" command would not work when particular toll are installed. (e.g. PathFinder)
The unfrozen-state of a track would not be saved properly within a Live set [4413]
Opening a particular set would crash as soon as the clip detail view of a particular clip would be opened [5454]
When committing grooves for audio clips, the created volume clip envelope could produce audio clicks [5266]
The "Auto" switch of racks would not always work properly [4568]
When moving the mouse over Macros, the the name of the corresponding macro would not always displayed in the status bar [5116]
In the Operator, the Notch filter display would not be displayed properly [5157]
MIDI note preview would not always play all notes when moving the insert marker with arrow left/right [5469]
Arranger recording of an unwarped clip could result in different playing offsets [5455]
In the file manager, the project and library link would not work [5467]
Installing a Live pack fails when one of the installed samples is already in use [3041]
MIDI step input would sometimes happen when it should not; for example when just playing a note while there's a time selection, or when pressing keys other than arrow left and arrow right. MIDI step input would also generate undo steps even if nothing happened [5486]
When scrubbing in the Arranger, sample pre-loading would not always work properly [4696]
Transport controls of certain controller surfaces would not work properly [5505]
Playing back a particular audio clip in Beats warp mode would lead to disk overloads on loop back jump [5501]
Under certain conditions, Collect and Save would copies no longer used audio files of frozen tracks [5114]
Slice to MIDI track on audio clip might crash Live [5390]
The voice stealing mechanism of the Impulse would not always work properly [573]
In the Vocoder, several parameter would appear with different names in the automation chooser compared to the names from the info text [5060]
In the Multiband Dynamics, several parameter would appear with different names in the automation chooser compared to the names from the info text [5060]
Creating a MIDI track via double click on an instrument preset in the Browser would not work when a Return or the master track is selected [3399]
The Session view scrolling with the APC40 would not always work properly
Third party plug-in offering more inputs that outputs could crash Live
Pasting a Live set from the browser into the current Live set would select and scroll to a slot in the last scene [5493]
Not quantized arranger scrubbing would not work properly [5491]
Slicing audio file using a slicing preset containing two levels of nested racks with cascading macro mappings would crash Live [5458]
Dragging a clip from a Live set in the browser to the empty arranger area would not work sometimes or even crash Live [5508]
Having an unwarped clip which spans more than the whole range of its next clip. Copying both of them are could crash Live.
In the browser, collapsing a folder while renaming contained file after exporting a clip or track into that folder could crash Live [5528]
Play through optimization would not work properly for audio monitoring and recording, resulting in high latencies [5529]

New in Ableton Live 8.0.2 (May 7, 2009)

Improvements:
Updated manuals
Updated help pages
Dragging a file from the OS into Live's file browser copies the file by default instead of moving it. When pressing the copy modifier the file will be moved [4976]
Improvements for offline authorization
Resizing tracks with ALT now only resizes tracks withing the same level of the group track hierarchy.
Unfold all (ALT-click the arrow) now works only in the same level of hierarchy - "resize all" and "unfold all" works now either on "player and group tracks", or on "return and master tracks".
In Session View, group tracks provide a “track launch” button in map mode.
The fold/unfold triangle of a group track is painted blue when a track inside is soloed.
In the file browser, the "create folder" command is available in the "parent folder" context menu.
Added an option for the Options.txt file to support Wacom Tablets. Adding the line ”-AbsoluteMouseMode” into Options.txt file switches Live into absolute mouse position mode.
Bugfixes:
Prelistening of encoded audio files could lead to hard disk overloads.
Under certain conditions, replacing files via the File Manager would not work.[5142]
Repairing the Library would not update/repair meta data of Groove files.[5156]
On Mac OS X, having the Library on an external drive and attach/detaching it while Live is running would not work properly [4529]
Loading a third party plug-in which has fewer parameters than a previous version could crash Live.
Drag & drop of a preset within the Live's browser would not keep the destination folder open.[5140]
In a particular Live set, a certain audio clip would not play properly because of misaligned transients.[5284]
Some parameters for Faderfox controllers would not be correctly named.
Macro names would not always be automatically updated in nested Racks.[4149]
Saving a preset would fail if the corresponding preset folder does not exist.[5247]
The “Collect and Save” button of the file manager would not be named properly in some cases.[5290]
Under certain conditions, the file icon for an audio file would not be updated after an .asd file is created.[5299]
Under certain conditions, Arranger crossfades would produces clicks in the audio.
Looping an audio file in 'Tones' warp mode could have audio artifacts while fading.[5269]
Horizontal lines in pitch-like envelope editors would disappear with Zoom > 100%.[5315]
As soon as a progress bar for a Live pack installation was shown for the first time, there were no 'marching ants' anymore when loading a document, for the rest of the Live run.
Under certain conditions, the loop brace vertical lines in the Arranger would not cover the whole height of the Arranger.[5316]
If no Library is selected, the Repair button would be enabled and clicking it would crash Live.[5324]
The "Show Preferences" command would check if default packages need to be installed.[5308]
Copying, deleting and then pasting a file in the file browser would freeze Live.
Pasting files into Live's browser could make the mouse cursor jump.[4422]
Under certain conditions, clip fades and device automation would be visible at the same time.[5344]
In the Arpeggiator, receiving a note-off for the current step could skip a note.
Slicing presets would be shown even if they can't be used because the required additional products are not unlocked.
The 'Configure' mode would not work for certain VST plug-ins.
Copying an Instrument over an existing instrument from one track to another would not work.[5351]
The latency when playing instruments via external input might be too high in some cases.[5355]
Recording MIDI controller events into a MIDI clip could crash Live when the clip would be deleted during the recording.
On Windows and depending on the computer hardware setup, unlocking Live would not be persistent and had to be done on each new Live start.
Playing back certain REX loops would not work properly for each the second iteration.[5345]
Playing back a sample in 'Tones' warp mode would not work properly during the waveform analyzing.[5310]
Looper pedal would be macro mappable by mistake.[5371]
The overview for a group track would not be updated when undoing a recording.[5343]
In the clip detail view, changing clip loop start time via edit boxes would not work properly when loop start time is negative.[5326]
Under certain conditions, authorize Live on Mac OS X could freeze Live. [5372]
For particular parameters, the automation view would not properly updated. [5386]
Using any XY control would let the mouse pointer jump on mouse-up and could even crash Live.[5400]
On Mac OS X, the Configure mode for Audio Units would not work.
Adding the audio file of a frozen track into the arrangement would result in an extremely long clip.[5409]
Trigger any clip in Complex or Complex Pro warp mode via MIDI Key range mapping would not pitch the clip.[5395]
Under certain conditions, opening a set would not be possible as long as the file manger is open.[5379]
Under certain conditions, when loading a new Live set it would not be possible to delete the temp directory of the current project. For example after unfreezing a track.[5408]
MIDI Mapping a parameter with identical min and max value would crash Live.[5346]
Loading a particular Live set would fail with an "Invalid Product ID" message box.[5427]
Browsing within the Japanese help pages could freeze Live [5449]

New in Ableton Live 8.0.1 (Apr 2, 2009)

New in Ableton Live 7.0.14 (Dec 19, 2008)

New in Ableton Live 7.0.12 (Nov 22, 2008)

Improvements:
MIDI surface controller support for the Alesis Master Control.
MIDI controller support for Vestax VCM 600.
Bug fixes:
Operator's voice stealing would not work properly.
Under certain conditions an empty MIDI effect Rack could lead to audio drop-outs.
The 'Rename' command for an Impulse slot would not be available via the context menu.
A copied or moved Reverb would not properly show the correct curve with Diffusion Network enabled.
After installing content packages, a dialog could show a message about a failed installation although the installation was successful.
A copied or moved Tension instrument would not show the correct filter curve.
Dragging a particular chain from a Drum Rack into 'empty' Arranger space could crash Live.
On Windows Vista, resizing the main window would heavily flicker if AERO was enabled.
On Windows Vista, locking the computer or coming back from a screen saver would temporarily disable AERO.
Moving a clip in a track with an External Instrument and routed to a multitimbral plug-in could crash Live.
Moving zones in the the Sampler could lead to hard disk dropouts.
Live's search index would not properly handle version 2.3 ID3 tags.
Dragging in a clip containing an Audio Unit plug-in could cause a message box to appear, canceling the drag.
Some memory leaks could appear under Vista when resizing windows.
Tighter MIDI timing when looping in the Arranger.
Files would incorrectly be dated as “Yesterday” during a few hours around midnight.
The macro settings of a rack containing certain third party plug-ins would not properly restored when loading the rack.
Having multiple automation lanes on an audio track and removing one lane would not properly display the audio waveform on the remaining lanes.
Doing the the Capture and Insert Scene command could create a memory leak.
When running as MIDI clock slave, Live would only display a rounded to the nearest integer tempo.
On Mac OS X, the functionality to ask the AU plug-in for its supported formats would not work properly.
If Live would run as ReWire slave but would not get called from the ReWire master for some time, a message box would appear to inform about that problem. This message box again could lead to a crash of Live and the ReWire master. Now, the the message about the inactive ReWire master is displayed on the status bar.
Sending a MIDI program change message from an external MIDI source into Live would lead to a crash.
Depending on the structure of the current Live set, arming a track could be extremely slow.
Unlock offline would not work properly.

New in Ableton Live 7.0.10 (Aug 15, 2008)

New in Ableton Live 7.0.9 (Jul 25, 2008)

Updated manuals
Updated texts
Updated lesson package
Consolidating frozen tracks could result in a silent consolidate clip.
The infotexts for the MIDI/KEY learn frame over the cross fade section were corrupted.
On Mac OS X, sending out MIDI clock would not work properly for a song loop back jump.
If the File Manager was opened, and the cursor was over it, the title of the infoview would say 'Lessons View' instead of 'File Manager'.
Previewing Live clips and MIDI files would show a cut text in the status bar.
Hotswap buttons for devices would not 'glow' when the mouse hovered over them.
Under certain conditions, hotswap for nested Drum Racks would open the wrong preset folder in the Browser.
If the fine song tempo was learned to a MIDI controller, moving that controller immediately after adding a Live clip would lead to a crash.
In Live's Browser, plugins were not sorted according to sort order when the folder was expanded.
In Live's file Browser, renaming a folder containing a recorded sample would silently fail and could set clips, used in the current Live set, offline.
Having an audio track set to external input, armed and muted; the level meter color was still green instead of grey.
Recording MIDI could lead to a crash when the first note was recorded immediately after starting a MIDI clip by clicking on a slot button of an armed track.
'Collect Samples on Export' would not work even if the corresponding Preferences option was enabled.
In Live's Browser, when sorting preset by path, the current project entry would be placed randomly within the presets.
Analog, Tension and Electric would show 16 MIDI channels although they receive MIDI only on channel 1.
If a window was opened from within the Live process that Live does not know about (for example from NI Kore), Live would crash when opening a context menu or a popup chooser.
Under certain conditions, the pads of a Drum Rack could stay permanently hidden.
Changing the name of an effect or instrument device would not be reflected in the context menu of an assigned Macro knob.
Renaming a send track would not immediately effect the parameter chooser display for that track.
In the 'External Instrument' device, changing the 'MIDI To' chooser always reset the 'Audio From' chooser.
A few OIC presets would require an unlocked EIC product.
Opening a list view from within nested Drum Racks could lead to a crash.
Depending of the current language, texts in the Trial section of the Preferences would not be displayed completely.
On Windows Vista and independent of buffer size and CPU usage, using some FW based audio interfaces would always result in clicks & pops in the audio as soon as multi-core support was enabled
In a Drum Rack, extracting a chain with a certain routing to its parent return chain would lead to a crash.
In several message boxes for Library installations, file sizes would be displayed in GB and MB.
Freezing an armed track with audio coming from 'Resampling' would crash Live.
Unfolding the Browser by dragging over its open/close button would not work.
On Mac OS X, using several Analog instances could lead to dropouts.

New in Ableton Live 7.0.7 (May 14, 2008)

New in Ableton Live 7.0.5 (Apr 25, 2008)

New in Ableton Live 7.0.3 (Mar 27, 2008)

Updated manuals.
Two new Lessons: �Compression and Sidechaining� and �Session Drums.�
Added control surface support for the Akai MPD24. The volumes of tracks 1 to 6 are mapped to the faders. The encoders are mapped to macro controls. The order of the mapping is based on the feedback of this forum poll: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82431
Support for dynamic adjustment of the plug-in buffer size for Audio Units. For technical reasons, an Audio Unit device must be instantiated for a buffer size change.
Improvements for dialog to set up a Library when starting Live without one.
On Mac OS X, Live now supports up to 256 input & output mono channels of the selected audio device.
It is now possible to drag a complete folder with presets and/or samples from the Browser onto a Drum Rack's pads.
Updated texts.
Improve the performance when loading large presets.
Support for the Record LED when using the Remote SL as a controller surface.
Bug fix: Under certain conditions, the chooser for the Library path would not update properly.
Bug fix: The message box saying that the selected Library is not available would not be displayed properly.
Bug fix: When Live is running as the MIDI clock master, the first two sent MIDI clock messages could have the same time stamp. An Options.txt entry called '-_Live6ClockOutputCompatibility' brings back the old behavior if required.
Bug fix: Analog instrument with unison enabled would always use CPU power even if it was not used.
Bug fix: Dropping an instrument on a pad or chain that has devices would not replace the chain.
Bug fix: Quitting Live because the expiration date was reached would lead to a crash on Mac OS X 10.5.x.
Bug fix: Deleting a track with a Rack in Mappping mode would crash Live.
Bug fix: Switching Sampler or Simpler presets during playback could lead to a short but heavy audio signal distortion.
Bug fix: When using more than 8 return tracks, the return track volume mixing would not work properly.
Bug fix: Under certain conditions, a song loop back jump could lead to a hard disk overload.
Bug fix: Starting up Live with a corrupt header template document would lead to a crash.
Bug fix: When using particular audio files, Live could crash for certain warp actions.
Bug fix: In the inline mixer, resizing a chain would resize all other chains too.
Bug fix: When scrubbing behind the loop within a clip, looping would not work properly after the next song start / stop.
Bug fix: On Windows, when loading a Rack that contains an AudioUnit (which is disabled on PC), Live would crash when opening or closing Rack chains, or when turning one of the other rack marbles on or off.
Bug fix: Installing a content package update could result in an imprecise success message.
Bug fix: In ReWire slave mode, sending MIDI data from the master to more than one target within Live could result in audio drop-outs.
Bug fix: Freezing of Drum Racks with chain-out routings to the top level would not work properly.
Bug fix: Changing the �Block� value in the Spectrum device would cause audio drop-outs.
Bug fix: In ReWire slave mode, clips would play from the beginning after rewinding.
Bug fix: Under certain conditions, the MIDI handling of VSTs could not work properly.
Bug fix: Undoing the creation of a time signature change would crash Live.
Bug fix: When installing several packages at once, if one contained a file that already existed and was modified locally, the question whether to replace this file was asked for each pack even when the user answered 'yes to all'.
Bug fix: Under certain conditions, a progress bar could display a value greater than 100%.
Bug fix: Under certain conditions, default content would not be installed when a certain version of Live would run for the first time.
Bug fix: On Mac OS X, changing the Library path to an empty folder would not work properly.
Bug fix: Certain texts would not fit into their corresponding button controls.
Bug fix: On Windows, Live's main view would not be updated if a certain dialog was in the foreground.
Bug fix: Under certain conditions, content packages marked as 'update' would not be automatically installed.
Bug fix: Saving a particular device chain as a preset could crash because of an invalid routing.

New in Ableton Live 7.0.2 (Feb 8, 2008)

Enhanced Audio Engine - Live 7's enhanced audio engine improves fidelity with precision 64-bit summing at all mix points throughout the program, POW-r dithering, optimized sample-rate conversion and other advances.
New Compressor - The new compressor device integrates the compression models of Compressor I and II, and offers a new model based on a feedback design commonly found in the most praised vintage compressors.
Sidechaining - Fully integrated side-chaining capability is available for the new Compressor as well as Gate and Auto Filter.
Device High-Quality Modes - Operator, Dynamic Tube and Saturator now feature optional High-Quality modes for anti-aliased processing, reducing typical "digital" artifacts.
EQ Eight�New and Improved - EQ Eight sports an improved user interface and a new 64-bit mode for increased accuracy and fidelity.
Introducing Spectrum - The new Spectrum device is an analyzer that provides real-time visual feedback for any audio signals within Live (and it looks really cool!).
Improved MIDI Timing - The MIDI engine has been reworked, and we were able to significantly reduce timing error (jitter) of recorded MIDI.
Easy Hardware Integration - Hardware integration has been streamlined with the addition of two new devices�External Instrument and External Audio Effect�allowing hardware synthesizers and effects to be inserted into device chains just like software plug-ins.
Enhanced Memory Management - New memory management technology allows users of large sample libraries, such as Ableton's new sampled instruments or third-party libraries imported via Sampler, to run an impressive number of instruments at the same time. This happens automatically, with no setup changes required.
Audio Engine Fact Sheet - The Audio Engine Fact Sheet explains exactly how signals are (or are not) being modified when performing fundamental audio operations in Live, and provides tips for achieving the highest quality results.
MIDI Engine Fact Sheet - The MIDI Engine Fact Sheet documents MIDI timing tests on both Windows and Mac platforms using various MIDI interfaces, and describes exactly what users can expect in terms of MIDI timing accuracy.