Ableton Live 12.1 for FL Studio Music Producers

Ableton Live 12.1 now includes some powerful tools for music producers. Live 12.1 includes Auto-Shift (Auto-Tune Plugin), Rhythmic Steps (Similar to FL Studio Channel Rack), and Saturator (Similar to FL Studio Soft Clipper).

Auto-Shift is Ableton's auto-tune. It's fast and accurate with little artifacts. Not only can you tune your vocals to the scale of your song, you can add formant filters to create a unique tone. For more advanced Ableton users, you can layer in harmony stacks using the midi input feature.

Rhythmic Steps is Ableton's approach to an FL Studio channel rack workflow.  While using the feature, I didn't find it very intuitive or useful. Mainly because I couldn't figure out how to make the sequence longer than 2 bars, which is sort of useless when at tempos above 120BPM. It's limited to 4 track lanes and requires a lot of work to write sequences, making it just easier to draw in notes in the piano roll. I'm not sure why they added this because it's not very intuitive in a real workflow.

Ableton Live Saturator is AMAZING. They've updated the Saturator plugin. This plugin is great for adding unique harmonic overtones to your sounds. There are so many styles of saturation to help you shape the tone of your bass, 808s, drums and melodies!

Some features I haven't tried just yet...

Drum Sampler - The drum sampler now includes built-in effects such as 8-bit , time stretch, ring modulation, Frequency Modulation, pitch envelope, and punch.

Auto-Tagging for Samples - Any samples under 60 seconds in Ableton will now be auto-tagged for easier search.

Ableton Live Limiter - Adds features like true peak, soft clip, mid/side routing, and maximize modes.

Midi Editing - Now supports MPE expression, and can filter out notes based on characteristics.

All in all, Ableton is inching its way back to glory. FL Studio has REAL competition now that A.I. is helping audio companies solve hard problems.

Thank you,

Game, BusyWorksBeats.com