Live 10 Beta Release Notes

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where Live hangs when zooming in Arrangement View in some case.

New features and improvements:

• 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:

• 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 features and improvements:

• 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:

• Fixed a crash that could occur when running certain plug-in devices.

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 8.1.9.
  For the changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_9.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.

Bugfixes:

• 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 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.

Bugfixes:

• Metal support is disabled on OS X 10.11 ("El Capitan") due to issues with certain hardware setups.

Bugfixes:

• In the Look/Feel Preferences, the Language chooser is no longer empty, and all languages now appear in their native name.
• 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 features and improvements:

• Updated various info texts, and improved some info text translations for Spanish and French languages.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chinese and Japanese are now displayed in their native languages in the Language chooser in the Look/Feel Preferences tab.

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.

New features and improvements:

• Downgraded the bundled Max build to version 8.1.3 due to issues when hot-swapping presets.

New features and improvements:

• Updated various info texts.
• Updated various info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.5.
  For a complete Max 8.1.5 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_5.html

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused Live's GUI to turn black after clicking in the MIDI Note Editor (Windows only).
• Fixed a bug that prevented HiDPI support from working on Windows 10 (version 2004).
• Fixed a bug in the implementation of Steinberg::Vst::IAttributeList::getString.
• DS Kick updated to fix issue with intermittent dropouts
• Fixed an issue where clip colours were not following track colour
• DS HH updated so that only the correct instance is triggered when running multiple instances in a Drum Rack
• Aeolian Mode Natural Minor preset for Scale device fixed to play scale correctly

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• It is no longer possible to change parameter values in a Max for Live device, if the track containing that device is frozen.
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.4.
  For a complete Max 8.1.4 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_4.html

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• Reduced GPU power usage when Live is idle on Windows.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when loading Live Sets, under certain circumstances.
• When Live is set to Japanese, the formatting of lesson texts in the Help View is once again displayed correctly.
• Fixed a bug that created unintended fade-ins, under certain circumstances.
• Previously, Live would not respond to mouse clicks if a dialog opened while another application was in focus (macOS only).
• Fixed the display and editing of continuous parameters in VST3 plug-in devices. Where supported, VST3 plug-ins now use a linear knob mode.
• Previously in the Echo and Delay devices, the first repeats of the audio signal were repitched, under certain circumstances.
• 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.

New features and improvements:

• Updated various Chinese info text translations.
• Fixed some Chinese info text translations.

Bugfixes:

• The End User License Agreement displayed during installation is now up to date.

New features and improvements:

• The "Absolute 14bit" MIDI mapping mode can now be used with MIDI Remote Scripts that appear in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab.
• Help View lessons now have Chinese translations.

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• All settings in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab are now correctly recalled.
• 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.

New features and improvements:

• It is now possible to set Live’s language to Chinese via the Look/Feel Preferences tab. Info texts now have Chinese translations.
• 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

Bugfixes:

• When Push 1 is power-cycled or turned on while Live is running, the touch strip will now be correctly updated in Note Mode.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after unfreezing a track containing Wavetable, and then deleting the Wavetable device.

New features and improvements:

• Default Max for Live devices now use live.comment instead of live.text.
• 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.
• Improved the contrast of the text in the dialog that appears after choosing the Slice to New MIDI Track command.

• It is now possible to create a "Remote Scripts" folder in the User Library, where MIDI Remote Scripts can be added for use as Control Surfaces. 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.
• It is now possible to select parameter banks of Max for Live and plug-in devices via the Novation Launchkey MKII control surface.
• 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.
• Updated info texts and added info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.3 RC.
  For a complete Max 8.1.2 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_2.html
  For a complete Max 8.1.3 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_1_3.html

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some bugs that affected consolidating MIDI clips.
• Previously when dragging a velocity marker, the mouse cursor would jump back to its initial position.
• 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.
• Parameter banks in the Wavetable device will now be correctly mapped to control surfaces.
• Previously, after cropping an audio file in Live, a flat line might appear on Push 2's display.
• Older Live Sets with missing components will now be correctly opened in Live.
• 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.
• 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.
• Max for Live devices that are not visible are now correctly notified of active state changes.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Rolled back the reversed zoom direction that occurred when zooming the MIDI Editor and Arrangement tracks (macOS only).
• Previously, zoom-adaptive grid lines would shift off position when their width was adjusted in the Arrangement or Detail View.

New features and improvements:

• 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.

New features and improvements:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• When Link is enabled, the tempo of the second Link-enabled app now adjusts to match the first Link-enabled app.

New features and improvements:

• On the Novation Launchpad X, while in Note Mode, the Record button will now flash to indicate that recording has been triggered to stop. On the Novation Launchkey Mini MK3, the correct device parameters will now be assigned to the knobs in Device Mode.
• On the Launchpad Mini MK3 and Launchpad X, it is now possible to access session overview functionality via a quick double tap on the Session button.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented certain plug-in devices and track controllability from working as expected.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when pasting Group Tracks, in certain circumstances.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• On the Novation SL MkII, track names and other text will now appear on the display after pressing the Options button while in "InControl" mode.
• 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 redoing stretching or skewing automation envelopes.
• Fixed a bug that prevented VST3 plug-in parameters from updating correctly.
• eLicenser protected plug-ins are working again on Mojave/Catalina.

New features and improvements:

• The translations for the Show Link Toggle and Start Stop Sync buttons is now consistent with other buttons in the Preferences.
• Group Tracks can now be collapsed and expanded by holding down the corresponding select button on the Akai Force MPC.
• When toggling between Width and Mid/Side Mode in the Utility device, the layout positions and size no longer change.
• MIDI Remote Scripts that utilize the SessionOverviewComponent will now enable navigating to tracks that exist outside of the current bank.
• Devices that are not explicitly defined in _Generic/Devices.py will still be controllable with control surfaces that rely on the previous method of device control, such as the Novation Launchkey Mini MK3.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Bugfixes:

• On Windows, dialogs are now always centered on top of Live, even if Live is maximised.
• Fixed a bug which prevented the Novation Launchpad MK2 from being automatically detected on Windows. Also fixed a bug where the Launchpad MK2 would not work or would partially crash if the Live Set contained no sends or all of its sends were deleted.
• Fixed a bug where pressing the Record button on the Novation Launchpad X while a return track or the Master Track was selected could result in an error. Also fixed a bug where Button Faders on the Launchpad X that were assigned to an unavailable Send would be erroneously illuminated.
  Previously on the Launchkey Mini MK3, MIDI messages from the Pots in Device Mode that had no parameter to control could leak into armed MIDI tracks.
• Previously, fades would flicker when the cursor moved over fade handles.
• Live no longer crashes when pressing the Tab key while dragging MIDI notes.
• Live no longer allows freezing tracks while recording. This prevents any possible loss of the recorded audio.
• Live no longer crashes when running unlicensed Waves plug-in devices.
• Previously, duplicating a Rack chain would not result in duplicated automation.
• 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 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 unwanted behaviors that occurred when a track's Arm or Solo buttons were mapped to MIDI CCs.
• 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.
• Fixed a bug which prevented automation in the Wavetable device from playing.
• 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.
• Using a pinch gesture to vertically zoom the MIDI Editor and Arrangement tracks now works as expected on Windows.
• Fixed some crashes related to automation envelopes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the HALion 6 VST3 plug-in device from enabling multiple outputs.
• 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 features and improvements:

• Improved Live's stability when trying to load an outdated plugin. See also this Knowledge Base article.

New features and improvements:

• Updated some translations

New features and improvements:

• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.0

New features and improvements:

• Improved support for MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)
• Added support for the Novation Launchkey Mini Mk3 control surface (as in 10.1.1)
  
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.0 Beta 3
  • thispatcher: can get path of .amxd
    Fixed Bugs:
  • jweb: works in Max for Live
  • live.drop: fixed issues with recalling large files
  • live.text: fixed crash with changing picture attributes
  • Max for Live Device: border color follows Live theme 
  • Max for Live: fixed errors with floating point arguments like in sprintf
  • Parameters: fixed crash when automating a parameter via another parameter

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where very short notes arriving from external MIDI controllers were not always recorded.
  

New features and improvements:

• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.0 Beta 2:

  • CEF in M4L: support using CEF in a M4L device

  • CEF: jweb onscreen renders in M4L hide/show device (Win)

  • CEF: AMXD device position tracks Live position correctly (Win)

  • Patching: rendering speed improvements

  • Performance: fixed heavy CPU usage after waking from sleep (and other situations)
    Fixed Bugs:

  • M4L phasor~: @lock 1 does not degrade

  • M4L: fixed issues when changing scale factor on secondary monitor (Win)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where a set could become corrupt if the MIDI note selection changes during an interactive operation in the MIDI editor, in some cases.

New features and improvements:

• Improved support for MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)
• 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.
  
• Improved support for the Akai Professional Force, MPC X, and MPC Live:
  • It is now possible to launch up to 16 scenes from the MPC Live and MPC X’s rubber pads.
  • The Master Track volume meter now has the same color as the Master Track itself in the Akai Professional Force, MPC Live and MPC X TUI.
  • It is now possible to display longer strings correctly in the Akai Professional Force, MPC Live and MPC X TUI
• Updated some info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.

Bugfixes:

• VST3 plug-in DLL unloading has been disabled again since it caused crashes under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a problem which made Push 1 and Akai APC 40 not work as expected.

New features and improvements:

• 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 such as FabFilter Pro-Q 3 will show Live's track names in their Mixer section.
• VST3 plug-in DLL files and bundles are unloaded from Live when the last plug-in instance is removed from the Set, if the plug-in supports it. This unloading can be disabled with the debug option "-Vst3DontUnloadModules".
• 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.
• Frame rates of 25 and 50 FPS are now available in the Export Audio/Video dialog.
• The clip name matrix on the Akai Force, Akai MPC X and Akai MPC Live now updates faster when navigating the Session.
  
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.1.0 Beta:
  • Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina) compatibility
  • live.comment: new object - text color follows live interface colors
  • Max for Live devices: can get path of .amxd
  • live.banks window: fixes and improvements
  • Max for Live: fixed crash when editing a device while a large number of files are open
  • Parameter window: fixes and improvements

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• When hovering over the Computer MIDI Keyboard switch, the info texts now display the correct values for adjusting the octave range and note velocity, depending on the current keyboard layout.
• Improved the appearance of the Wavetable and Impulse devices, as well as Live's plug-in device panel.
• Fixed rendering in certain VST3 plug-ins when running Live in HiDPI mode on Windows.
• 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.

New features and improvements:

• Added support for the Akai Professional Force, MPC X, and MPC Live.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where steps in MIDI CC envelopes were incorrectly imported from MIDI files.
• Fixed a bug where under certain circumstances, a control surface session matrix would end up launching the wrong clip slots.
• 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.
• Fixed a bug where Live would crash when stopping recording within the latency period, under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where the Master track would not be folded/unfolded when Arrangement content was selected.

New features and improvements:

• On Mac, 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).

Bugfixes:

• Previously, when Shift-clicking to select multiple Arrangement tracks, and editing a parameter for all tracks, the selection focus was erroneously invisible.
• 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.
• The Novation SL MkIII control surface script now works correctly again.
• 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 crash that occurred when undoing/redoing adding Max devices with routing choosers.
• On Windows, MIDI CC, Channel Pressure, and Pitch Bend events are now sent out smoothly via MIDI at buffer sizes of 128 and below.
• Previously, the blue LED that indicates clip modulation would appear on slider controls that were not modulated.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when undoing/redoing adding Max devices with particular routing settings.
• 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.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Wavetable device to output +100 dB when changing the range of a mapped Macro, under certain circumstances.
  

New features and improvements:

• It is now possible to open the "Emoji & Symbols" chooser in Live.
• Added support for combined emoji characters.
• Added support for emoji characters in all text fields on the following systems:
  • Windows 10 1803 and later 
  • macOS 10.11.6 and later
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.0.6. For a complete Max 8.0.6 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_0_6.html

Bugfixes:

• 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 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 when switching between stretching and skewing automation.
• Fixed a bug that caused an index error and incorrect LED states when using the Launchpad MK2 in Mixer Mode, under certain circumstances. 
• Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging a multi-selection of Session clips past the first scene.
• Live no longer crashes when recording into a Session slot after a device with latency has been deleted.
• Fixes a crash that occurred when undoing adding a default Max instrument or a Rack containing a Max instrument.
• Previously, plug-in parameters would disappear from their Live panel if they were edited using automation shapes.

New features and 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 Toggle Automation/Modulation buttons now appear grayed out for unwarped clips.
• When dragging or transforming automation or when changing the curve of a segment, pressing the ESC key now resets the automation to its original state.
• The "Freeze Track" command is now available in the context menu of automation lanes.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Preferences dialog window is properly centered when Live's zoom level is not at 100%.
• In the Multiband Dynamics device, the Shift modifier is now used to fine-tune the bands, and the CMD/CTRL modifier is used to adjust all bands simultaneously.
• Text in the Redux device is now correctly displayed.
• Made minor refinement to the Channel EQ device's UI.

Bugfixes:

• When selecting time and dragging the mouse above the last visible track, all currently invisible tracks above are now correctly selected as well.
• On Push 2, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters are now displayed in the same font used in Live.
• Previously, clip fades could be reset when performing a copy/duplicate command.
• 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, thehe mouse cursor now reverts to the correct position when opening a context menu.
• 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.
• On Windows, exporting audio would not work as expected and could cause Live to crash, under certain circumstances.
• Previously, tracks contained within certain Live Sets created by third-party software could not be unfolded in the browser.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when importing an empty MIDI clip.
• 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.
• 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.
• Improved keyboard event handling in VST3 plug-ins.
• Previously, scrolling through a context menu using arrow keys could erroneously select the context menu item positioned underneath the mouse cursor.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dragging a time selection of a discrete automation would cause the mouse to jump erratically.

Changes for Push:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• When using the automation stretch feature, Live sets might become corrupt.

New features and improvements:

• Updated some German info text translations.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused certain VST-3 plug-in devices to crash, under certain circumstances.
• Live Sets no longer become corrupt when replacing selected notes in a MIDI clip via controllers such as Push, or via Max for Live.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when deleting a device after stretching or skewing an automation envelope.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug which prevented VST3 plug-in devices from retaining their last saved state.
• Previously, certain VST3 plug-in devices would not restore their correct state when loading their presets.

New features and improvements

• Updated some info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.

Bugfixes

• Removing parameters from the device panel in a VST3 plug-in no longer causes unwanted parameter changes.
• Previously, the Channel EQ device would steal the focus whenever it was visible.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when zooming into an automation envelope while adding a new breakpoint via the "Add Value" command.

New features and improvements:

• Added the following changes for Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol and Novation SL control surfaces:
  • Added support for the Komplete Kontrol S Mk2 keyboard controllers
  • Added support for the Komplete Kontrol M32 keyboard controller
  • Fixed a bug where the pink Arm button would remain active after disconnecting Komplete Kontrol A series keyboards
  • Fixed a bug where unselecting the Komplete Kontrol A script in Live's Preferences, or disconnecting the Novation SL MkIII, would disable the pink Arm button, even while Push was connected.
  • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the Komplete Kontrol A display to flicker when navigating tracks
  • Activating Session Record on Komplete Kontrol keyboards now also starts the Live's transport
  • Pressing the Play button on the Komplete Kontrol keyboards while Live's transport is running now restarts its playback
  • Pressing Shift + Play on the Komplete Kontrol A now behaves the same as simply pressing Play (this is closer to the way the old Native Instruments script worked)
  • Please note that it is necessary to update the Komplete Kontrol software to the latest available version in order for the Live integration to work. You can update Komplete Kontrol via Native Instruments' Native Access application.
• Updated the Reverb device's preset in the default Live Set.
• Updated several info texts and added info text translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.
• Updated the bundled Max build to version 8.0.4, which addresses the following Max for Live issues:
  • parameters: improved bpatcher support
  • parameter: the initial value is retained when duplicating
  • parameter: any attribute in an abstraction can be edited
  • Max For Live: pasting into an edited device no longer changes the device name
  • Max For Live: fixed "Clang" crashes
  • Max For Live: breakpoint editing works in the Arrangement
  • live.step: random direction now works properly with the next message
  • For a complete Max 8.0.4 changelog, visit: http://cycling74.s3.amazonaws.com/support/version_8_0_4.html

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred when moving curved breakpoint segments within a time selection.
• Added support for VST3 plug-in parameters that have a reversed value range.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening certain VST3 plug-in devices.
• Previously, restoring a Live Set after a crash could cause that Live Set to become corrupt, under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain VST3 plug-in presets from loading in Live.
• Parameter values in saved VST3 plug-in presets are now properly reinstated.

New features and feature improvements:

• Improved the performance of VST3 plug-in devices, in cases where they do not process any audio.

Bugfixes:

• Live would crash when opening a context menu, if the zoom level was not set at 100%.

New features and improvements:

• Replaced the "Sidechain On/Off" button in plug-in devices with a "Mute" button.

Bugfixes:

• Push 2 might stop responding when selecting a track, if this contained a Delay device where the delay lines were not lnked and Push2 was in Device mode.
• When Live's zoom was not 100%, the preferences window opened at an incorrect place on the screen.
• Fixed a bug where track activator automation was ignored when exporting a track with return and master effects enabled.
• The track header is now once again displaying the original track color even when selected.
• Renaming a folder in Live's Browser could break sample references under certain circumstances.
• Temporary audio files would not be deleted when a track arm button was turned off without any recording having actually occurred.
• Certain VST3 plugins might cause Live to freeze when loading new presets or changing a number of parameters.
• Live would crash when attempting to instantiate a plugin with a channel configuration which is not supported by Live.
• Certain third party plug-ins might steal keyboard focus when used inside Live.

New features and improvements:

• Live now supports internal MIDI routing for VST3 plug-ins.
• 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.
• Removed the MME/DirectMusic switch in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab on Windows.
• On Push, the "Messiaen" scale is now spelled correctly, and the "8-Tone Spanish" scale now appears after "Super Locrian".
• 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.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging and dropping a Simpler or Sampler device onto itself.
• Fixed a bug which caused text to shift one pixel to the left, under certain circumstances.
• Live no longer crashes when moving a sidechained VST3 plug-in to the track that is routed into the plug-in's sidechain input.
• When there is no active selection, the "S" key will toggle the Solo switch of the highlighted track.
• In the Detail View, zooming with the "Z" and "X" keys is no longer available when there is no visible foreground clip.
• Fixed a bug that affected the windows size of some VST3 plug-ins.
• Previously, the Cache Folder settings in the Preferences were not saved, and changing the Cache Folder was not possible.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a Live Set to become corrupted after undoing the deletion of a MIDI clip.
• Previously, sidechains sourced from a return track's Post FX output could become silent, under certain circumtances.
• Previously, it was sometimes possible to move unwarped clips to the left in the Arrangement View, when trying to drag the clip's left edge past the sample start.
• On Windows, inputting Korean now behaves as expected. Previously, some characters could not be deleted.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when running certain VST3 plug-ins.
• Previously, an AU plug-in editor window would not close after the plug-in device was deleted.
• Previously, when dragging the center handles on the right or left edge of the Automation Transform tool, the Shift modifier was ignored if pressed after dragging the mouse.
• When pressing the Shift modifier before or while transforming time with the Automation Transform tool, the cursor now changes to indicate that dragging will stretch time.
• Fixed a bug which caused the indexer to start scanning folders outside of the set of registered user folders and automatically registered folders.
• Clip length is now correctly preserved when duplicating several adjacent unwarped clips after increasing the song tempo.
• Added minor refinements to the layout of the Delay and Channel EQ devices.
• Fixed truncated channel radio buttons in the Spectrum device.
• Fixed a bug which caused a MIDI track to be stuck in an armed state when the Novation SL MkIII keyboard was disconnected.
• Fixed a bug which prevented auto-scrolling when moving automation into negative time.
• Fixed a crash which could occur when deleting an instance of certain VST3 plug-ins.

New features and improvements:

• On Windows, entering Chinese, Korean or Japanese now works correctly.
• Improved the performance of drag and undo commands on interactions with automation envelopes.

Bugfixes:

• Previously, trying to change the zoom level of clips that lay entirely in negative time would jump erratically. This is now fixed.
• When editing a breakpoint value via the "Add Value" or "Edit Value" context menu item, and the new value is outside the visible area, the view now scrolls to the edited event.
• Fixed a bug where shortening the fade-out end of unwarped clips could unnecessarily shorten the fade-in.
• Deleting parts of a curved line segment within a clip now results in a straight line. This now also occurs when nudging a curved segment in the Arrangement with the arrow keys, or moving a curved segment with the Transform Tool handles to a target time range that does not intersect the source time range.
• Previously, when selecting time in an automation lane or a clip from a later to a earlier time, and then hovering over the time selection, the left and right edge of the automation transform tool frame would not be visible.
• Fixed a bug where Live would auto-select unwanted control surface scripts in the Link/MIDI Preferences tab, even if a custom script was already set up.
• Previously, Live could crash at shutdown when samples were still decoding.
• Fixed text glitches that appeared when a selection was made inside a line of text and Live's zoom level was not at 100%.
• On Windows, pressing the Tab key after consolidating a time selection to a new scene will now switch between the Session and Arrangement Views, as expected. When Live is set to German, the File/Folder Preferences tab no longer shows clipped text for "Aktuelles Set als Standard[sic] sichern".
• In the Detail View, the "Zoom to Clip Selection" and "Zoom to Clip Completely" commands now allow zooming back out to previous steps instead of just zooming to the immediate previous step, and then all the way out.
• Fixed a crash that occurred on macOS when closing a window while simultaneously lifting the fingers from the trackpad after scrolling.
• Fixed a bug that caused the waveform of unwarped clips to jump erratically when resizing the left clip edge, under certain circumstances.
• The "S" and "U" keyboard shortcuts for soloing/unsoloing tracks now work in Session View, even if no slots are selected.
• Previously in Automation Mode, the grid would unnecesarily toggle when holding the ALT (Windows) / CMD (Mac) grid modifier key, while transforming values with the Transform Tool. Also, the grid would toggle when pressing the ALT curve modifier key while editing the curvature of an automation segment on Windows. These bugs have now been fixed.
• Live could crash when a drag-and-dropped device had a MIDI routing referring to a non-existent track.
• Fixed a crash that occured when reopening a plug-in window for certain plug-in devices.
• Fixed a number of crashes related to VST3 plugins.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when loading certain VST3 plug-ins.
• Under certain circumstances, automation transform handles could appear at the wrong location.
• Previously, resizing Arrangement tracks with the keyboard while an automation lane was unfolded sometimes had no effect.
• Previously, VST3 plug-ins might cause the scanning process to hang.

New features and improvements:

• When the Automation Transform handles are visible, they can now be moved without limits inside the automation lane when the ALT/OPTION (Mac) / CTRL (PC) symmetric modifier is held.
• When dragging an Automation Transform handle, breakpoints within the time selection are now hidden.
• 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.
• Added an info text to the Raw button in the Wavetable device.
• Updated info texts for the Delay and Channel EQ devices.
• The dry/wet knob in Delay features a context menu to switch to the power-complementary dry/wet mixing.
• New scales are visible on Push, and some existing scales have different names.
• When closing a Live Set that contains a VST3 plug-in that was modified since the last time the Live Set was saved, Live now always prompts the user to save the Live Set.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug which caused the bottom Automation Transform handles to lose their correct position when the view was scrolling, or when it was temporarily covered by another view (e.g. the Detail View.)
• Previously, when beginning to drag an Automation Transform handle while a clip header was selected, the Automation Transform tool frame would disappear and the dragged handle would not appear highlighted. In addition, the Automation Transform handles would not be drawn when an Automation Transform operation started on a lane that did not yet have automation. These bugs have now been fixed.
• Previously, transforming a curved segment with the Automation Transform handles could change it into a straight line, under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where the Automation Transform tool frame was missing a half pixel at the top left edge.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Automation Transform handles from appearing in the Detail View until Live was restarted.
• Fixed a bug that allowed time to be selected outside the content range of an audio clip in the Detail View.
• Fixed a bug where jittering would occur when automation was dragged and negative time was created in the Detail View.
• Previously, when a user entered a tempo value that is outside of the visible tempo range, the changed event would not be visible. Now, the visible tempo range gets adjusted. This also works when editing a time selection containing multiple events.
• Deleting a time selection would always create a breakpoint at its edges, even if no events were actually deleted.
• It is now possible to create a small crossfade by moving the mouse past the minimum distance required to create a crossfade and then back.  Previously, moving the mouse back past the minimum distance would not allow creating crossfading anymore.
• It is no longer possible to perform Paste, Duplicate, Delete or "Simplify Envelope" commands when only frozen automation lanes are selected. It is also no longer possible to edit automation in frozen lanes, except when moving or duplicating clips.
• Fixed a bug which prevented clip borders being correctly drawn for video clips.
• Dialogs are now precisely centered, whereas previously they were off-center by a small amount. Also, when a dialog appears, it is now centered in relation to its parent window, instead of the screen.
• In the Arrangement, both the "H" and "W" buttons have been moved up by one pixel, and the "H" button has been moved one pixel to the right.
• When Live's langauge is set to Japanese, the font now looks more crisp than before.
• The mouse cursor is now updated when toggling between stretching and resizing arrangement clips during a mouse gesture.
• When zooming in the Arrangement, Live no longer forces the zoom to occur around a clip edge or a grid line, and will rather simply zooms around the mouse cursor if there's no such thing nearby.
• Fixed a crash which occurred when saving presets of Max devices using patchers (.amxd files) located outside of the User Library.
• Fixed truncated text for Wavetable's FM Amount parameter in the Matrix and MIDI tabs.
• The mouse pointer would disappear when clicking on the Channel EQ device LCD display.
• Only PCM audio files (.wav, .aiff) can be utilized as user wavetables.
• In Wavetable, the random modulation source amount can now be adjusted from Push 2.
• Previously, in a Live Set with many tracks, renaming one track while Push 2 was running could freeze Live for several minutes.
• Fixed a bug which caused the Roland System-1 VST3 plug-in to crash on Windows.
• Fixed a bug which prevented AU plug-ins presets (.aupreset files) from being displayed in the browser. Additionally, fixed a bug which caused the Current Project folder to appear empty in the browser.
• Fixed a bug which caused some VST3 plug-ins to crash Live.
• Certain VST3 plugins might crash Live, if a parameter change was sent from specific interaction, such as loading a new device preset.
• Parameter values might not be recalled properly when loading new VST3 presets.
• Automation breakpoint values can now be also edited for VST3 plugins.
• Presets from the "Sounds" category which contained either Simple or Ping Pong Delay could not be loaded in Live Lite, Intro or Standard editions, in case they also referenced Suite only devices.

New features and improvements
Bugfixes

New features and improvements

Arrangement Editing
Automation
Browser
Interface Improvements
Max for Live Improvements
New Devices and Device Improvements
VST3

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.
• 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. 

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.

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 "-".
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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 features and improvements

• Updated translations for various Help View built-in lessons, Table of Contents and Info Texts.

Bugfixes:

• Live would crash when zooming into an unwarped clip in the detail view with the '+' key.

New features and improvements

• 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.

Bugfixes

• 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.

New features and improvements:

• When a Komplete Kontrol A device is connected, it is now automatically selected in the Preferences.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Under certain conditions, zooming on certain audio waveforms would cause the Arrangement View to jump around.
• Live would crash when clicking the Driver Error Compensation toggle in the Preferences on Windows.

New features and improvements:

• Improved the speed of text rendering on HiDPI/Retina screens.

Bugfixes:

• Dropouts would occur when playing sample-based instruments.
• 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.

New features and improvements:

• Added minor graphics improvements for device chains.

Bugfixes:

• Live could crash when clicking within proximity of an Arrangement locator.
• A crash might occur when undoing inserting (e.g. duplicating) a device that was locked to a script.
• Previously, loading sample-based intruments might take longer than expected.
• 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.

Push Bugfixes:

• 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. Only the choke group and tuning settings for the drum chain should be visible in that view.

New features and improvements
Bugfixes

New features and improvements

• Arrangement Editing
• Automation
• Interface Improvements
• New devices and device improvements
• Setup

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.

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.
• 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"

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.

Bugfixes

• Arrangement Editing
• Automation
• Browser
• Control Surfaces
• File Handling
• Interface Improvements
• Max for Live improvements
• New devices and device improvements
• Setup

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.

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

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

New features and improvements:

• Introduced Control Surface support for Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol A-Series keyboards.

New features and improvements:

• Introduced Control Surface support for Novation SL MkIII.

Bugfixes:

• In combination with older GPUs, Live's splash screen and GUI might appear completely blank on Windows.

New features and improvements:

• Reintroduced the ability of defining a custom path for the Max application in Live's Preferences.

New features and improvements:

• Added minor updates to a number of Core Library presets.

Bugfixes:

• A bug caused Demo Mode to time out after 30 minutes in release builds.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed glitches that would occur when using VST/AU plugins with OpenGL, such as Softube's Tape.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when operating the Looper device's transport buttons via key mapping.

New features and improvements:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Custom audio input/output names would not be copied from the Preferences in previous Live versions.
• On Windows, if Live is closed while minimized, it will now be restored in a minimized state. Furthermore, Live no longer crashes if it cannot restore the previous window position. Additionally, crashes no longer occur on Windows in situations where the graphics driver is suddenly disconnected.
• On Windows, Live would hang when loading a Set containing certain VST plug-ins (e.g. NI Kontakt).
• On Windows, if a VST plug-in is created on a non-primary screen with a pixel density that differs from the primary screen, HiDPI plug-ins will now be created at the right size.
• Text drawing glitches would appear when selecting or dragging parts of a deactivated clip.

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• Introduced Control Surface support for Arturia KeyLab MkII.
• Improve Live's performance at zoom levels other than 100%.
• Added and updated translations for various Help View lessons.
• Updated built-in lessons in the Help View.

Bugfixes:

• Parameters that have no effect on the current Warp Mode are now correctly displayed as disabled in the Clip Envelope Control chooser.
• 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.
• Various font improvements:
  • 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 during launch in cases where it failed to position itself on the screen.
• The playhead was not shown in the browser preview field anymore.
• Further improved the UI performance on Windows in cases where Live runs on monitors with a high refresh rate.
• Live could crash when duplicating a track containing a Wavetable instance.
• A bug prevented Echo's modulation waveform from being displayed.
• Live would not support ASIO interfaces with a single mono input channel.

Push bugfixes:

• 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.

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• Improved Wavetable's performance when playing simple sounds (e.g. one or two voices).

Bugfixes:

• Autoscrolling will now always occur when dragging the loop marker to the right or the left outside the Arrangement.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when closing Live while listed samples were selected in the File Manager.
• Recent changes to the Ableton Sans font caused info texts to overflow the panel's boundaries.
• Live could crash when loading a Set, if a Max for Live device was mapped to a macro control.

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• 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.
• Improved the optimal loop detection for clips created with Capture MIDI.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• "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.
• 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.
• Previously, fade handles could be edited using the mouse or keyboard, even after switching to Automation Mode, where the fade handles were not visible.
• 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.
• Previously, significant note overlaps were prevented when Capture MIDI detected the loop.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when deleting a track while changing a parameter of that track via MIDI mapping.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• With some graphics cards running on Windows, the Push 2 display process might frequently run into crashes with certain GPUs.
• 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.
• Update various info text translations.
• Live could crash when dragging a clip, if that clip's Master/Slave switch was set to "Master".

Changes for Push:

• It is now possible to fine-tune Wavetable oscillators on Push 1.

Push bugfixes:

• Improved the performance of Push 2's display process.

New features and improvements:

• Reverted the addition of the flat symbol in the MIDI Editor.

Bugfixes:

• On Windows 10 (version 1803) with HiDPI enabled, drag and drop now works as expected between Live, plug-ins and Max and the Explorer.

Push bugfixes:

• Fixed a scenario where Push 2's display could crash when hot-swapping AU plug-in presets.

New features and improvements:

• When connected, the Novation Launchpad S and Launchpad Mini control surfaces are now automatically selected in the Preferences.
• Fades no longer snap to the Arrangement View grid.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a problem which might prevent AU presets from recalling correctly.

Changes for Max for Live:

• 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: mgraphics: deletion of temp file is now ensured when reading an .svg from a Max for Live device.

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• Improved playhead smoothness on Windows.

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• Positioning fade handles with arrow keys was not working correctly.
• .M4A audio files were no longer showing up in Live's browser.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mapping Device Rack Macros to a live.remote would break under certain conditions after reloading the Set.
• 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.

Changes for Push:

• Fixed parameter sensitivities for Analog and Impulse devices on Push 2.
• Added missing parameters and icons for Operator and Analog's parameter banks on Push 2.

New features and 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• A crash would occur when editing the crossfade between two very short clips.
• Live could crash on Windows when clicking on a breakpoint while holding the grid modifier.
• On Windows, if a plug-in showed a modal dialog, the main window could not be closed while that dialog was being shown.
• Live would crash when dragging a Live device on top of a Max for Live device.
• 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.
• 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.
• Changing the MTC Start Offset in the Preferences would have no effect.

Push bugfixes:

• Improved the touch-strip latency when working with MIDI tracks in Clip Mode on Push 2.

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.
• Loading a Live Set which contained an instance of Kontakt 5 on Windows would cause Live to hang.
• Previously, the time selection status display would not get updated when selecting a clip in the Arrangement.
• Simpler's settings would not be recalled correctly, if the device was set to Slice by Beat and its playback was not warped.
• Live was not able to prevent entering Sleep mode or turning off the display on Windows.
• It was no longer possible to change the number of Unison voices in Wavetable.

Changes for Push:

• It is now possible to select wavetables in the Wavetable device on Push 1.

New features and improvements:

• 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.
• 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".
• The computer MIDI keyboard on/off toggle is now remembered across Live runs.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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 CC or Mixer modulation envelopes would not be taken over when dragging a clip from Arrangement to Session view.
• File types unsupported in certain editions and when run as a ReWire slave (e.g., .amxd and .aupresets) erroneously appeared in Live's browser.
• 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 enabled, dragging a file from Live into Explorer works again.
• 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).
• Performing an Undo after Macro-mapping a Max parameter would leave that parameter unmapped and unusable.
• 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
• Previously, the adaptive grid size of a newly created clip could sometimes be incorrectly calculated when multi-clip editing.
• It was erroneously possible to tweak parameters in the expanded view of certain devices, even if the track was frozen.
• Under certain circumstances, moving Wavetable and Echo parameters would not respond smoothly.
• On certain Windows machines, attempting to authorize Live 10 would fail.
• While running, Live would fail to update the availability of MIDI ports.
• The animated sliders beneath the modulation target names were occasionally not showing up in Wavetable.

Changes for Push:

• Updated the Push 2 firmware to version 1.0.63  This version contains the updated color palette for Live 10.

Max for Live changes:

• 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.
• Multicore rendering in Live is now supported also if a set contains Max for Live devices.

New features and improvements:

• Improved Wavetable's impact on CPU under certain circumstances.

Bugfixes:

• Previously it was not possible to adjust the loop start position in unwarped audio clips without quantization.
• 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.
• Fixed a crash that occurred if a Live Set contained "{}" characters in its name.
• 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.
• Fixed a minor inconsistency in the height of Arrangement Clips and Clip preview notes.
• Improved UI performance on Windows when resizing Arrangement clips.
• 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.
• The Arpeggiator device could lead to crashes under certain circumstances.
• Changing the control values of quantizing parameters (like Chord device's Shift parameters and Simpler/Sampler's transpose parameters) by key up or down would stop working at certain values.
• AU plugin parameters might behave erratically when being controlled with the mouse, under certain circumstances.

Push bugfixes:

• Fixed envelope slope visualizations in Wavetable on Push 2.

Max for Live changes:

• 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.

New features and improvements

• Fade handles now snap to the nearest grid position, unless the "ALT" (PC) / "CMD" (Mac) grid modifier key is used. Fade handles also snap to time signature changes. Note that grid snapping does not apply to fade curve handles.
• When nudging a time selection in an automation lane, the automation outside the selection remains unchanged.
• Added support for IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O.
• Live now uses real musical symbols to display sharp and flat pitches.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.

• The "Select Track Content" context menu command would not work on multiple selected tracks.

• Previously it was not possible to delete files or directories with names containing slashes.

• Previously, toggling Automation Mode would create an Undo step.

• 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 added 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.

• 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 mouse wheel was not possible.

• Tracks in the Arrangement View would scroll out of view completely when toggling Automation Mode, if the currently selected track was not visible.

• 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.

• 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.

Changes for Push

• Added bank definitions to Wavetable for third-party control surfaces.

• Improved the display of Live's color palette on third-party control surfaces.

• Added bank definitions to Pedal, Drum Buss, and Echo for third-party control surfaces.

• Envelope visualizations are now available for Wavetable on Push 2.

Push bugfixes

• 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.
• 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 Operator on Push 2.