Arrangement View Improvements
You can use the left arrow key to navigate from an
automation lane or take lane to the main track, this will
fold the lanes as well. You can also use the left arrow key
to navigate from tracks in a group to the main Group Track.
The Arrow Left/Right shortcut
has been added to the Arrangement Track Title Bar
info text. The shortcut folds/unfolds the track.
The Arrow Left/Right shortcut has been
added to the Toggle Additional Automation Lanes info text.
The shortcut folds/unfolds additional automation lanes.
Browser
A new Devices icon has been added to Live’s Browser:
When viewing Sets in the browser, you
will see a Devices icon for device chains on a track that
contain at least one device.
When you expand a Live Set in the
browser, either from the Current Project folder, Templates
folder, or a folder of Sets you have added in Places, you
can unfold the tracks in the Set to reveal their device
chains. These chains can then be moved into the current open
Set using drag and drop or by double-clicking on the chain.
The Device settings from the original Set are retained but
any previously recorded automation is not.
Capture MIDI
In the first captured MIDI clip (in an empty set
with the transport stopped), if the detected loop is
eight bars or less, the first played note is
considered the start of the loop.
When only one note is played in the
first captured MIDI clip (in an empty set with the transport
stopped), the loop boundaries are set to the note start and
end, and the tempo is accordingly calculated, resulting in a
one, two, four, or eight bar loop. This is particularly
useful when playing a rhythmical sample with a single MIDI
note.
In Session View, new captured clips now
use the “Adaptive Grid: Narrow” setting instead of “Fixed
Grid: 1/16.”
Clip View
Added responsive Clip View options:
In Clip View, all clip properties are
now displayed in panels/tabs instead of separate panels.
Clip View properties can be arranged vertically by moving
the mouse cursor to the left from the Clip View panel edge
next to the Sample Editor/MIDI Note Editor.
Clip View properties can also be
arranged automatically, which switches between the
horizontal and vertical views depending on the height of the
Clip View area. Select “Arrange Clip View Panels
Automatically” from the View menu to enable this option.
When Clip View panels are arranged
vertically, the individual tabs (e.g. Clip, Audio,
Envelopes, etc) can be collapsed and expanded using the
arrow icon to the right of the tab header.
When Clip View panels are arranged
vertically, the individual tabs (e.g. Clip, Audio,
Envelopes, etc) can be folded/unfolded using the Arrow
Left/Right keys.
Sample information for audio clips (e.g.
sample name, sample rate, etc) is also displayed in the Clip
View and appears differently in the vertical/horizontal view
modes.
Clip View panels can now be accessed
using keyboard shortcuts. In MIDI clips, ALT + 1 switches to
the Notes panel, ALT + 2 switches to the Envelopes panel,
and ALT + 3 switches to the Note Expression panel. In audio
clips, ALT + 1 switches to the Audio panel and ALT + 2
switches to the Envelopes panel.
Clip View can be toggled to its
maximum height using the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+ALT+E (Win) / CMD+OPT+E (Mac) or the View menu
entry “Expand Clip Detail View.”
The chosen Responsive Clip View mode is
now saved in Live’s Preferences.cfg file.
When multiple audio clips are selected,
the sample properties (sample rate, bit depth, and channel
count) for all samples will be displayed in the Clip View.
If a value is not the same for all samples, the character
“*” will be displayed. In Clip View, you will also see the
total number of samples selected.
The Pitch dial is now smaller and the
Gain slider has been enlarged.
When switching between panels in Clip
View using the keyboard shortcuts ALT + 1/2/3, the panel
header that was switched to will be selected.
If Clip View is arranged horizontally
when Live is first opened and either the Audio or Notes tab
is selected, the corresponding panels in both audio and MIDI
clips will remain unfolded when switching to Clip View’s
vertical arrangement.
Comping
You can now duplicate selected take lanes using the keyboard
shortcuts CMD + D (Mac) / CTRL + D (Win), or by
right-clicking on the take lane header and selecting
“Duplicate.”
Changing the color of a clip in
a take lane changes the color of the corresponding
clip in the track’s main lane and vice versa. Splits
are created on the updated clips in certain cases
when the relation between other highlights on
different clips change.
The horizontal lines that separate
multiple take lanes match the color of the clips that are in
those lanes.
When renaming multiple tracks or take
lanes using the context menu option, you will see the edit
field when you right-click on a track or take lane.
Control Surfaces
When navigating between devices on a selected track with the
PreSonus ATOM SQ, you can now scroll between devices by
holding the navigation buttons down.
If an invalid CC, note, or channel value
is used in a UserConfiguration.txt file, the associated User
Remote Script can still be loaded.
Core Library
Frequency Shifter presets are still available in Core
Library/Devices/Audio Effects/Legacy/Frequency Shifter
CPU Meter
The CPU meter drop-down menu now can be customized to
display:
both the Average or Current CPU usage
levels
only the Average level, with the Current
level switched off
only the Current level, with the Average
level switched off
Alternatively, the CPU meter can also be
switched off entirely.
By default, Live will not display the
Current level; it must be enabled from the drop-down menu.
Interface
You can use the left and right arrow keys to switch
between radio buttons anywhere in Live. If you are
switching between radio buttons on a device that is
inside of a Rack with the left and right arrow keys,
you can get back to moving between devices in the
Rack using the left and right arrow keys by hitting
the ESC key.
In Session and Arrangement View, the
Monitor radio buttons now have a default state that can be
restored. When the In/Out section is expanded, you can press
the Delete key to reset the Monitor radio buttons to the
default (“Off” for audio tracks and “Auto” for MIDI tracks).
This option is also accessible via the Edit menu option
“Return to Default.”
The Quantize Settings dialog buttons in
the MIDI Note Editor now say “Apply” and “Close” instead of
“OK” and “Cancel.”
Deactivated device title bars are easily
readable in all Live Themes, even if the device is selected.
On Mac, the mouse cursor will now
display an arrow pointing in a single direction when
hovering over split views which can be resized in one
direction only.
An error message will be displayed in
the status bar if an auto-update cannot be downloaded.
Added a new "MIDI Envelope Auto-Reset"
entry to the Options menu:
When enabled, certain MIDI control
message types that are not automated for a given clip will
automatically reset at the start of a new clip.
Note: for users who intentionally work
opposite to this behavior, enabling this change will make
corresponding Live Sets behave differently.
In Live 11.0.5, "MIDI Envelope
Auto-Reset" is disabled by default.
In Live 11.1, "MIDI Envelope Auto-Reset"
is enabled by default for new Sets, and disabled by default
in older Sets.
Updated various info texts.
Updated some Help View lessons.
Added support for keyboard shortcuts on
French keyboard layouts for macOS versions 10.14 and older.
Keyboard shortcuts that have numbers can be accessed without
having to press Shift to access the number keys.
Max for Live
Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.2.1.
Link functions have been added to the
Max for Live API.
You can access the IDs of newly created
notes using the Python API or the Max for Live API.
It is possible to get a dictionary of
all the notes in a MIDI clip using the Python API or Max for
Live.
It is now possible to call
select_notes_by_id on a Clip object in Max for Live, passing
a list of note IDs. This will select only those notes that
have the provided IDs.
Users can now get and observe the
average_process_usage, peak_process_usage, and a track's
performance_impact via Max for Live.
When Max fails to load, an error message
will be displayed that contains a link to a Knowledge Base
article that explains potential causes for the issue and
steps to take to resolve it.
Error reporting in the Max Window is
more consistent.
Four new theme colors are available in
Max for Live.
amxd~: ‘realtime_params’ attr for
realtime report of parameter data from outlets
Dynamic Colors: ability to use a name
which references a dynamic color (follows Live or Max color
Themes)
live.adsr~ / live.adsrui: new objects
MPE
Added an MPE Settings dialog box to the I/O section of
Live’s mixer. You can use the settings to:
configure the MPE zone and range of note
channels used by Live when sending MPE to an external MIDI
device or plug-in
select the upper or lower zone and
number of note channels
select multi-channel mode, which sets an
arbitrary range of note channels
The above MPE settings can be used for
hardware synths that require a specific MPE configuration,
or plug-ins that do not officially support MPE but can be
used with MPE controllers due to their multi-timbral
support.
Multi-Clip Editing
Time selection interactions, note selection interactions,
and new note editing options have been added to multi-clip
editing:
Time in the MIDI Note Editor can be
selected across loop and clip boundaries.
Note editing (e.g. copy, cut, paste,
delete) can be used when working with note selections across
clips and loop boundaries.
Notes can be cut or copied from
multiple clips and inserted into the same set of
clips, as long as the clip selection/foreground clip
has not changed, or into a different clip once that
new clip has been selected.
Selected loop bars can now be duplicated
using the context menu or the CMD + D (Mac) / CTRL + D (Win)
keyboard shortcuts.
In Arrangement View, it is possible to
draw notes in background clips without first changing the
foreground clip. Notes can also be drawn continually across
clip boundaries, except in Focus Mode.
When using a pen to draw notes with
"Draw Notes with Pitch Lock" enabled, any notes that cross a
loop boundary are no longer deleted.
When more than 64 clips or eight tracks
are selected in Arrangement View, the MIDI Note Editor is no
longer available for multi-clip editing to prevent potential
performance issues.
New Devices and Device Improvements
Introduced "Shifter", a new audio effect in Live Standard
and Suite. Shifter is a multi-purpose audio effect for pitch
shifting, frequency shifting, and ring modulation. The pitch
or frequency of incoming audio can be tuned using Coarse or
Fine parameters and further adjusted with a Tone filter and
Window parameter. Shifter also has Delay, LFO, and Envelope
Follower sections for additional modulation. The Shifter
device can set pitch or frequency using its own parameters
or by incoming MIDI notes.
Introduced the Align Delay device, which
is now included in the set of Max for Live devices that come
with a Suite license, or a Standard plus Max for Live
license. Align Delay is a Max for Live device that delays
incoming signals by samples, milliseconds, or meters/feet.
Introduced the Shaper MIDI device, which
is now included in the set of Max for Live devices that come
with a Suite license, or a Standard plus Max for Live
license. Shaper MIDI is a Max for Live MIDI device that uses
multi-breakpoint envelopes to generate mappable modulation
data.
The Cytomic Filters, which are used in
the Wavetable, Echo, Simpler, Sampler, Operator, and Auto
Filter devices, have been updated and improved in stability,
sound and performance. As of 11.1, the Cytomic filters
(particularly the MS2 and SMP options) might deviate in
sound compared to previous Live versions, especially when
driven hard.
An update to the Softtube libraries may
cause subtle sound changes in the Amp and Cabinet audio
effects.
In the Sampler, Wavetable, Impulse,
Simpler, Channel EQ, Hybrid Reverb, Chorus-Ensemble,
Phaser-Flanger, Echo (output knob only), Spectral Resonator
(input send only) devices, Gain controls now
increment/decrement consistently by 1 dB when pressing the
up/down arrow key, or by 0.1 dB when pressing the [Shift]
key.
Spectral Time:
The effect order can now be reversed
using two radio buttons “Frz > Dly” or “Dly > Frz” on the
right panel of the Spectral Time device above the Dry/Wet
knob.
A “Zero Dry Signal Latency” option has
been added to the context menu in the Spectral Time device.
Enabling it reduces the latency of the dry signal to zero
instead of syncing it with the output of the effect. This
option is useful when playing a live instrument through
Spectral Time and monitoring the output.
Spectral Resonator:
In the Spectral Resonator device, the
Shift parameter will now increment/decrement by one semitone
when pressing the up or down arrow keys, or by one octave
when holding the Shift key.
Wavetable: