Push with Live 11 - Release Notes

Push 1.2.22 and Live 11.3.42

April 14, 2025

New Features and Improvements

• Updated the Push firmware package to version 1.4.10. This update includes the following changes:

  • Polyphonic aftertouch from Push now ramps up rather than coming in immediately.

  • Improved analog audio and CV/gate latency compensation.

  • Smoother changing of audio sample rates.

  • Fixed some errors in the MPE values generated at the top and bottom rows of pads.

  • The LED frequency correction is now permanently applied to prevent flickering when filming.

  • Better firmware flashing progress and error feedback.

  • Better handling of cases where the Push 3 standalone compute module did not start up.

  • After the update, Push now offers more informative error messages when things go wrong, particularly at startup.

• Latency compensation now works more reliably when using Push in Control mode.

Push 1.2.21 and Live 11.3.41

Febraury 10, 2025

No specific updates for Push. See Live 11 Release Notes.

Push 1.2.20 and Live 11.3.40

January 24, 2025

Bugfixes:

• While exclusive arm is disabled, selecting a MIDI track on Push 2 no longer disarms other, red-armed tracks.
• Changing Analog's Sub/Sync parameter for Oscillator 1 no longer changes the value of Oscillator 2.
• Fixed an issue where files copied from Live to Push 3 used in Standalone Mode would not immediately appear in the browser.
• Fixed a crash that occurred on Push 3 used in Standalone Mode when connecting some control surfaces.

Push 1.2.15 and Live 11.3.35

October 8, 2024

New Features:

• Added support for Move Control Surface.

Push 1.2.10 and Live 11.3.30

September 4, 2024

New features and improvements

• In Session Screen Mode, scene numbers above 99 are now displayed correctly. 
• Performing a fresh installation of Live on Windows will now also install a new Push audio driver which includes a security update. When Live is then auto-updated afterwards, a message linking to the new driver will be shown in the audio setup window when the Push audio driver is selected.

Bugifixes

• When loading a Set whose first track is MIDI, pink track Arm buttons will now always be set up correctly in Live. 
• Fixed an issue where the Swing and Tempo encoder would sometimes appear not to work when adjusting the swing amount.  
• Fixed an issue where Push in Standalone Mode would be not visible in the Push label of Live’s browser.  
• Fixed an issue that prevented Push from starting in Standalone mode if the Core Library was missing or corrupted. 
• The dedicated Swing encoder on Push and the Quantize menu entry for swing now always show the same value. 
• When scrolling away from a drum pad that is currently being hot-swapped, the swap browser is now closed when the pad is out of view.  
• In both Session Screen Mode and Session Pad Mode, a scene will blink while it is being triggered. 
• The Stop Clip button on Push 2 now constantly blinks while the stop mode is locked. 
• Fixed a bug that caused audio effects that were added to individual drum pads in a Rack to be added to the wrong pad. 
• Live no longer hangs when extracting chains from Drum Racks with Push 3 connected.  
• Updated the font on the push.local web pages. 
• Fixed a speculative issue where Push in Standalone mode could erroneously start up and ask whether or not to recover a Set.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when loading an effect onto a duplicated pad, where the effect would be added to the original pad instead of the duplicated pad.
• Reduced the possibility that Push in Standalone Mode will display an unexpected prompt about Set recovery at startup. 
• When selecting different tracks in Live while Push is connected, an armed track which is currently recording will now carry on recording. 
• Non-white text in Push's display is now bolder and clearer in some areas of the UI (e.g., in Settings, track list, Session screen, Scales menu).  
• When restarting Push in Standalone Mode, the clock source setting will now be the same as it was before the restart, provided that a valid ADAT clock is being received by Push.
• The firmware package version displayed on Push 3 now always correctly reflects the installed version. 

Push 1.2.6 and Live 11.3.26

August 29, 2024

New features and improvements

Push 3

• Added Control Surface support for Arturia KeyLab mk3, Novation Launchkey mk4 and Novation Launchkey Mini mk4.

Push 1.2.5 and Live 11.3.25

May 8, 2024

New features and improvements

Push 3

• Updated Push’s firmware to version 1.4.4. This addresses the following issues:

  • Improved analog output and headphone muting in various situations. 
  • Reduced and in some cases fully eliminated grey screen artefacts at the display's edge. 
  • Increased effective speed of quick ERP turns. 
  • Corrected ADC signal polarity. 
  • Fixed some issues with the pads' Z-axis processors.
• On Windows, when selecting Push's audio interface in Live, a message will be shown if the installed audio driver is not the latest version.
• The shutdown confirmation dialog is now shown on Push 3 in Control Mode.

• Made the following adjustments to the notifications displayed when interacting with the main volume encoder:

  • In Main out or Headphone mode, the notification showing the value now includes an icon.

  • The notification shown when touching the main volume encoder now says “Preview & Cue Volume”.

Bugfixes

Push 3

• Users will no longer experience performance degradation when changing parameter values.

• Recording can now be triggered by pressing the Session Record button once after a track has been armed via long-press.
• It is now possible to reset Simpler’s PB Range and Note PB parameters to their default values by holding the Delete button and touching the corresponding parameter encoders.
• When copying a clip onto a slot that already has a clip, Push will now show the new clip’s playing state on the pads as expected.
• In Session Screen Mode, the border around the current clip will now always be in the correct place.
• When creating a clip by adding notes in a step sequencer, that clip’s length will now be adjusted as expected when using different meter settings.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when editing per step note values in clips that contained a lot of MPE data.
• Selecting the Beats warp mode via the Loop Mode parameter in Simpler now also changes the respective setting in Live.
• If Record Quantization has been enabled before activating Note Repeat, it will be re-enabled as soon as Note Repeat is deactivated.
• Fixed a bug in the Wavetable device where changing the Pitch parameter without holding Shift would only display whole semitone values, instead of including all the values in between as well.
• Items in the Collections menu of the browser are now sorted alphabetically.
• The Load Next and Load Previous buttons are now hidden when leaving a folder or category in Hot-Swap Mode.
• When playing notes on the pads, the Delete, Duplicate, and Select buttons can be used in Session Screen Mode.
• It is no longer possible to edit an audio clip in Clip View while it is being recorded.
• Fixed a bug that caused some of Simpler’s parameters to disappear when loading a sample into the device.
• Pressing the Shift and Play buttons while Live is not playing will now set the play position to 1.1.1.
• Fixed a bug where using Push in Control Mode to remove a folder from Places in Live resulted in the contents of the folder being deleted from the User Library.
• When deleting a clip, the pads in Session Mode and the display in Session View are now updated immediately, as expected.
• Push 3 used in Control Mode will no longer show a blank display and will now work as expected even when used in some unconventional operating system setups.
• Fixed a bug which caused the display to zoom in on the waveform when using the x2 button to double an audio clip’s tempo.
• Fixed a UI glitch that caused text to overlap with other UI elements in the External Instrument device.
• When touching an encoder mapped to a chain's volume while holding the Delete button, the volume parameter is now reset to its default value as expected.
• Deleting the contents of a drum pad when in a device’s Edit Mode now updates the display correctly.
• When setting one of Collision's resonators to Pipe or Tube, the respective quality parameter is now correctly shown as disabled.
• It is now possible to power down Push when in User Mode as expected.
• Fixed an issue where the Input & Output device list was not correctly updated after unplugging / plugging in a MIDI device.
• Fixed a bug in Simpler, where the waveform would disappear when Simpler was grouped in an Instrument Rack.
• The Software tab in the Setup menu now shows the firmware package version instead of the XMOS firmware version when using Push in Control Mode.
• Wavetable's PB range is now consistent on Live and Push when mapped to OSC Pitch.
• After adjusting the main output and tempo at the same time with the Volume and Tempo encoders, touching the Volume encoder again will now result in a notification about the change being shown in the display immediately.
• A selected device inside a folded Drum Rack is now displayed correctly.
• The parameters of a device selected in a folded Drum Rack can now be step automated.
• Fixed a Live crash that occurred when adding a device to a group device chain from Push's browser when the Arrangement View was open in Live.
• When using Push after recovering a Set from a previous crash, it is now possible to add modulatable parameters of Wavetable as targets to the Modulation Matrix.
• Fixed an issue where a long sample without warp markers would be sliced into a Drum Rack.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when adding an instrument while a MIDI Effect Rack's device was selected.
• After adding a parameter to a Modulation Matrix from Push the Matrix view will now display the correct (updated) list of parameters on the left hand side.
• In Session Mode, the pads now properly reflect the state of group track clip slots when they are triggered while the playback is stopped.
• Live no longer hangs when extracting chains from Drum Racks with Push 3 connected.

Push 3 Standalone Mode Only

• When authorizing Push in Standalone Mode, the details in the Software tab of the Setup menu will now be updated immediately after the authorization process is completed.

• Fixed an issue where very large Sets would fail to load in Standalone Mode.
• Fixed an issue where Sets would not show up in Push’s browser after downgrading from Live 12 to Live 11.
• Fixed a bug in Standalone mode that caused the context menu for Sets in the browser to not appear when nudging the jog wheel to the right.
• The following Control Surfaces will now work again when using Push 3 in Standalone Mode: APC Mini, APC mini MK2, Launchkey Mini mkIII, Launchpad MK2, APC40 MK1, APC40 mk2, Launchpad Pro MK3, Push 1.
• When switching from using Push in Control Mode to Standalone Mode, any volume changes made using the macOS/Windows system controls will be reset.
• Max for Live devices that use the jstrigger object will now work on Push.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Push USB recovery from working in some cases.

Push 3 & 2

• In Analog’s LFO parameter bank on Push 3, the LFO 1/2 Retrig Off parameters now work as expected.
• Shortened some modulation parameter names in Drift’s parameter bank for easier readability.
• Push 2 and 3 should start when tethered to Live on Windows, even if the user has many other MIDI devices connected at the same time.
• In Simpler: The rightmost upper display button can now be used for toggling LFO. LFO Retrig can now be toggled using the third upper display button from the left. Added the LFO > Pan and LFO > Pitch parameters.
•  In Analog's parameter bank: Added a Velocity modulation source to the Modulation tab and exposed Amp, Filter and Env modulation in the tab. Updated the Vel > Amp Env Atk parameter to Vel > Amp1 and Vel > Amp2. Updated the Vel > Flt Env Atk parameter to Vel > Freq1 and Vel > Freq2. 
• In Collision's parameter bank: Added the Mallet and Noise Vol parameters to the Mix tab. Added a Resonator selector to the Mix tab, with parameters displayed dynamically depending on which resonator is selected. Added the Noise Freq Env Amount parameter to the Modulation tab.
• In Velocity's parameter bank: Added the Operator parameter as a three-way switch. 
• In Redux's parameter bank: Added the missing Dry/Wet control.