Live 12.2: hands-on guide to Meld, Roar, Auto Filter, workflow updates, more

Ableton Live 12.2 is in public beta today, with some major welcome features. Bouncing is easier, Auto Filter gets its biggest update since it came out, and there are new generative harmonic features, Meld and Roar updates, Push enhancements, and more. Here’s your guide.

Here it is, a cover of Kendrick Lamar and more awesomeness for the Otamatone

What the world needs now is more unicorn chaser. And it’s hard to beat the adorable Japanese ribbon controller/squeezable mouth formant instrument, the CUBE Works/Maywa Denki Otamatone.

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025

Free Looper adds the seamless fading loops Resolume forgot

Drop a video clip into VJ/media server tools Resolume Arena or Avenue, hit loop, and now with this free add-on, get automatic crossfades for more seamless playback. Looper is the loop crossfading Resolume forgot, and it delivers perfectly.

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2025

Here’s Roger Linn with advice on developing expressive gestures

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2025

Go watch this video on Buchla, Spectraphon, and spectral animation

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2025

MeeBlip geode is finding its way into jams with Nightshade Edition

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2024

Chop, gliss, LFO, filter, select: Sonic Bloom explains Live 12.1 MIDI tools

Peter Kirn - October 21, 2024

Andrea Cichecki’s live “In Nature” series brings modular into open air

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2024

New videos, manuals for Liquid Sky V4-CO + GLITHc: 8-bit glitchy witchcraft

Peter Kirn - July 25, 2024

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