The free update introduces wireless audio streaming between devices, revamped classic effects, and faster stem separation for all Live 12 users.
Ableton Live’s latest update is now available in public beta, and it’s bringing a bunch useful features that address real studio pain points – starting with the ability to ditch a few cables from your setup.
Live 12.4 introduces Link Audio, a feature that lets you stream audio between compatible devices on a local network in real time. This means audio from other players appears directly as an input in Live, allowing you to monitor and record external devices and apps without additional hardware, manual latency compensation, or the inevitable cable mess. On Push Standalone, you can both receive and share audio with other compatible devices, while Move and Note can send audio to Live or other Link Audio-enabled devices on your network.
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Several classic Live devices have received updates, too. Erosion, the signal degradation effect, now features real-time spectrum visualisation and the ability to smoothly blend between sine and noise modulation, plus mono and stereo noise options. The device is now available on Move and Note for the first time, with the original version remaining accessible as Erosion Legacy in older sets. Chorus-Ensemble gets more control over delay time and structure for smoother, more musical chorus sounds – particularly useful on guitar and bass – while Delay adds new LFO time modes and waveforms for expanded modulation possibilities.
Stem Separation, which arrived in Live Suite 12.3, is now considerably more practical. You can separate a selected portion of a clip in Arrangement View rather than processing entire clips every time, and separated stems can be merged onto a single track instead of generating individual tracks. A unified progress bar now tracks the entire operation rather than monitoring each stem separately.
Live’s Help View has been replaced with an embedded Learn View, offering structured tutorials that combine short videos with written explanations. Videos can be watched in Live’s top-right corner or opened in a floating window, with progress tracked by checking off completed lessons.
Push users also gain the ability to create and modify MIDI Controller mappings directly from the hardware, whilst Move 2.0 and Note 2.0 can now add audio tracks, load samples from the library, and record directly via microphone.
Live 12 users can access the public beta now through Ableton’s beta program. For full release notes, head here.
