Ableton Live 12.4 has landed, bringing a number of new creative and workflow improvements, as well as new features for Ableton’s Push, Move and Note.

Importantly, Ableton Live 12.4 arrives as a complete free update for existing Live 12 users, so let’s take a closer look at everything that’s new.

Link Audio

Heading up the new features in Ableton Live 12.4 is Link Audio, providing the ability to stream audio between compatible devices on a local network in real time. In other words, within Live and Push, audio from other musicians can appear directly as an input, meaning you can monitor and record external devices without the need for additional hardware, cables or manual latency compensation.

Stem separation improvements

Ableton Live 12.4 also brings a number of improvements to stem separation, which is now described as “more flexible and intuitive” than ever.

Now, in Live’s Arrangement View, producers can separate a specific time selection of an audio clip, rather than having to process an entire clip each time. This is a convenient upgrade, and will no doubt lead to shorter processing time and therefore faster workflows when working with stem separation.

Additionally, there’s now the ability to selectively combine specific stems in a way that best suits your workflow. For example, if you wish, you can combine everything except the vocals in a single stem, and then have the vocals in a separate stem. Finally, there’s now a unified progress bar showing the progress of the entire operation, rather than per stem.

Upgrades to Ableton stock effects

Ableton’s built-in Erosion effect now lets you blend continuously between sine and noise modulation and mono and stereo noise, and offers real-time spectrum visualisation, too.

Meanwhile, Chorus-Ensemble now offers great control over delay time and structure, while Delay gets new LFT time modes and waveforms that offer a “wider range of modulation possibilities”.

Learn View

Your ability to learn how to use Ableton Live in-depth while within the DAW has also been improved, with Learn View – the successor to Help View – offering short video lessons and written explanations on basic workflows and the core concepts of Live.

Updates to Ableton Push

Along with Link Audio, Push now comes with MIDI Mapping, making it easier than ever to control your external gear. You can now create and modify MIDI controller mappings with Push Standalone, customise which control scripts your connected MIDI device uses, and deactivate control scripts entirely to make space for your own custom mappings.

Updates to Move and Note

Producers can now add audio tracks to Move and Note, add audio clips from the library, record directly via microphone – or line-in or USB-C on Move – and warp the resulting sound with an algorithm which maintains the original pitch while altering the tempo, or vice versa.

Additionally, Auto Shift and Erosion – two effects from Live – are now available on Move and Note.

Pricing & availability

Ableton Live 12.4 is free for all existing Live 12 users. Otherwise, Live 12.4 comes in three tiers:

• Live 12 Intro – $99 / €79 / £69
• Live 12 Standard – $439 / €279 / £259
• Live 12 Suite – $749 / €599 / £599

Pricing for Push Move, and Note is as follows:

• Push – $999 / €949 / £879
• Push Standalone – $1,799 / €1,899 / £1,299
• Move – $499 / €499 / £419
• Note – $6.99 / €7.99 / £6.99

Learn more at Ableton.

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