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Introducing Ableton Live 12 Suite

Ableton Live 12 Suite is a complete music-making environment, combining flexible recording, powerful composition tools and a world of instruments, effects and sounds. Whether you’re sketching ideas, crafting detailed arrangements or performing on stage, Live gives you a uniquely fluid and intuitive experience – one that keeps you focused on your creativity.

From its logical Session and Arrangement views to its ever-expanding suite of Max for Live devices, Live 12 puts total control at your fingertips. You can stretch, warp and rearrange audio, dive deep into MIDI transformations, or explore melodic and harmonic ideas in new and surprising ways – all while staying firmly in the flow.

With cutting-edge synthesisers, new MIDI generators, smart modulation tools and a fresh browser experience, Live 12 Suite is designed to grow with you. Whether you’re just starting out or pushing boundaries in sound design, it’s a powerful, playful platform for discovering your own voice in music.

Unleash your creativity

Whether you're writing intricate arrangements or exploring raw sonic ideas, Live’s fluid workflows, expressive devices and new creative tools empower you to make music on your terms. From reworking MIDI patterns to exploring alternative tunings, Live 12 invites you to break out of old habits and discover new ways of thinking about rhythm, melody, harmony and structure.

Shape your music in new ways

Live 12 features advanced MIDI Transformations and MIDI Generators that make it easy to rework and reimagine ideas. Apply 'humanised' timing, articulations and rhythmic strums, or spark fresh inspiration with melody, chord and rhythm generators — all of which can be guided by scale and key constraints. You can also embrace alternate tuning systems and work outside standard 12-tone equal temperament, opening up completely new musical textures and moods.

Max for Live expands what’s possible

Max for Live is a platform to build your own instruments and effects, tools for live performance and visuals, and much more. You can open up any of Live’s Max devices, see how they’re built, and change them to meet your needs. You can build your own from scratch using the same components. And you can even use Max to change the way Live works, including the properties of tracks, clips and scenes.

Powerful new instruments and effects

Live 12 introduces Meld, a bi-timbral, MPE-capable synthesiser with deep modulation options, perfect for everything from ambient textures to harmonic drones. The new Roar device offers characterful saturation and distortion with multiband, serial and parallel routing options — and a built-in feedback path for experimental sound shaping. Granulator III brings granular synthesis to life with MPE support and real-time audio capture, making it easy to create expressive, organic textures and shifting ambiences on the fly.

A rich library of creative sound content

The Suite edition includes a comprehensive collection of Sound Packs, combining meticulously crafted instruments, Drum Racks, samples and effects. Explore packs inspired by found objects, hip hop classics, trap beats, and more — all optimised for expressive play with MPE support and detailed tagging. Whether you want raw inspiration or layered, production-ready sounds, Live 12's library is full of material to shape into your own voice.

Work faster with intuitive views and navigation

Live 12 streamlines your workflow with stacked Clip and Device Views, a mixer in Arrangement View, and a cleaner visual design that keeps your focus on music. You can also toggle visibility for mixer sections to suit your workspace, whether you're arranging or performing. Improved MIDI editing tools allow you to slice, merge, and restructure notes with ease — and create curves for MPE parameters like glissando and vibrato directly in the MIDI editor.

Find sounds more intelligently

Live’s redesigned browser features improved tagging, intelligent search, and a powerful Sound Similarity Search powered by machine learning. Explore your entire library quickly, retrace your steps with browser history, and use automatic tagging to manage samples, presets and plugins. Drum Rack swapping even lets you instantly refresh your beats by replacing all drum samples with similar-sounding alternatives — just like using a drum machine with endless kits.

Designed for accessibility and performance

Live 12 includes screen reader support, new keyboard shortcuts, and customisable themes, making it more accessible to a wider range of users. For performers, the new Performance Pack lets you capture and re-deploy set snapshots, loop in Arrangement View and control your performance with expressive macros and automation.

Included with Live 12 Suite

• Full version of Live 12 with unlimited tracks, scenes and features
• Meld, Roar, Granulator III, Auto Shift, and other advanced instruments and effects
• Complete Max for Live integration
• A full collection of expressive and genre-spanning Sound Packs
• Advanced MIDI tools, generators, and sequencer devices
• Unlimited export, rendering, automation, and routing options