Soon: Ableton Live 12.3: Stem Separation & Push 3 Upgrades

Calling all electronic music producers and live performers! Ableton has just dropped a game-changing update with Live 12.3, packed with features designed to ignite your creativity and streamline your workflow. Get ready to dive into enhanced remixing possibilities and significant upgrades for your Push 3 hardware.

Unleash Remix Potential with Stem Separation

The headline feature for many will undoubtedly be the native stem separation. Imagine effortlessly isolating vocals, drums, bass, and other elements from any audio track directly within Live. This opens up a world of creative remixing, sampling, and sound design opportunities. Whether you’re pulling acapellas, extracting drum grooves, or crafting unique instrumentals, Live 12.3 empowers you to deconstruct and reconstruct audio with unprecedented ease. The separation process runs locally on your machine, ensuring privacy and control, with options for both high-speed and high-quality results.

Push 3 Gets a Power Boost

For those wielding the mighty Push 3, Live 12.3 delivers a suite of impressive enhancements. Experience a new level of expressive control with the XYZ layout, transforming your pads into a dynamic touch surface for nuanced performance and sound manipulation. Additionally, a new rhythm generator layout is built directly into drum racks, offering fresh ways to create intricate beats. Touch-sensitive step editing allows you to adjust note velocities by simply sliding your finger, making beat humanization more intuitive than ever. Furthermore, Push 3 Standalone now supports class-compliant audio interfaces, significantly expanding your input and output options for studio and live setups.

“From built-in stem separation and deep Splice integration to Push 3’s expressive XYZ layout, this update is packed with workflow upgrades and creative tools for sampling, sound design, and live performance.”

More Workflow Wonders

Beyond the major highlights, Live 12.3 introduces several other valuable improvements:

Deep Splice Integration: Now you can browse, audition, and download Splice samples directly from Live’s browser, synced to your project’s tempo and key. This is a massive time-saver for finding the perfect sound.
Enhanced Group Bouncing: You now have two new ways to bounce entire group tracks: ‘bounce group in place’ or ‘bounce group to new track’, making it faster to commit ideas and organize your sessions.
Redesigned Auto Pan Tremolo: The classic Auto Pan device has been completely overhauled and renamed Auto Pan Tremolo, featuring a cleaner tabbed layout and deeper modulation controls for creating intricate movement in your sounds.

This update is a testament to Ableton’s commitment to refining the Live experience for both studio production and electrifying live performances. It’s time to update your DAW and unlock these powerful new tools.

For a quick overview of these new features, check out this video: