Since Ableton did add some nice new ideas to Live 12, i thought its maybe a good idea to share some tricks here.

i will start:

1) Hide Push and Cloud, go into Preferences --> Library: set Off Show Push, Cloud and All Downloadable Packs.
2) Live 12 does autohide Scrollbars: Preferences --> Display & Input: set Show Scroll Bars to Always (found by dhlaudio )
3) Live 12 Plugin browser still sucks, there is no way to get a folder structure like we had before. So my idea is the following, I created for every Plugin a rack with Pitch, Velocity, Random devices and set in the Plugin a default preset and created automation aswell. This rack i will save to a folder called Synth or for FX Plugins a folder with FX, this folder i can color-tag - so i can use Collections, inside the folder i can set Vendor/Company folders, which are picked up by Live 12, so i could recreate the beloved folder structure. No need for Live 12 overcomplicated plugin tagging system.
4) Make two different User Libraries if you run Live 11 and Live 12 on the same system. Otherwise you get problems with missing items in the browser. Go Preferences --> Library --> Location of Library.
5) ... now you

 

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Okay i guess in 2024 nobody uses a HDD anymore, atleast i used the last time a HDD in 2014 or so ... but maybe its a good reminder, when people with older system complain about Live scanning 100 years.

Another one: Remove empty Collections, Hover over the Collections Text, an Edit button will appear and you can remove the Empty Collections you want.
Described here: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000268570-Using-Collections
Finally was able to remove Samples, Clips, All, Drums and Sounds. Saved up for much Space for me.

 

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i wont use the browser simply, im using Collections. browser to overcomplicated and to slow ...

like i wrote in 3) I will use racks and put them into collections. lets hope Ableton improves the browser, its nicely meant, but nothing for me ...

 

i know its offtopic, but i would simply backup the HDD somewhere, so you can copy stuff afterwards and simply start fresh on a new SSD.

i have around 30k samples, which were indexed in 5mins together with scanning around 250 plugins, very quickly. I think Ableton has improved this a bit atleast.

Well you still have to cancel the plugin scan, there is still no way to kick it off manual, without being started automatically or pause it or stop it.

just had a look at the plugin browser again, such a mess, you have to click so much to find even with 250 plugins something. the folder were so much better, but well i use collections for the most used plugins, for the others i can search simply if i need them really.

Another one, which is really new to Live12: Looks like you can force key and a scale on a whole project. There is the scale icon (b/#), which you need to activate in the menu area and in devices like Pitch, Scale.
You can actually then swap scales and keys with one click for the whole project, which is massive.
I then past i did it with having a pitch plugin on my master to pitch the audio, which worked semi okay for me. But this is what i was looking for me.
here is more about that: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/11425083250972-Keys-and-Scales-in-Live-12-FAQ

 

but then you have to click so much, im fine with collections, its like 2 clicks and i find what i need. anyway going for the same plugins, samples.

ofc if you have 5000 plugins and 1 mio samples and all ALPs installed then the browser can come in handy, but then you maybe have to question yourself, why you have so much stuff?

hmm hope i can find more tips to make myself at home in Live12, so far i like it a lot better than Live 11.

 

Last edited: Mar 6, 2024

okay, look i mean the following, i usually have sorted into FX and Synth in folders. now i need to click and scroll again, since it lists now plugins i have installed, but dont really use as VST3, before it sorted also in VST3 and VST2.

I hate that VST3 never let me sort stuff in folders, like we did for decades with VST2 plugins in Live. It worked fine.

But maybe you are having a solution i dont see at the moment.

As it stands now, i really hate this browser and want Live 11 browser back with all its flaws, which i got used to.

for example i cant hide "Filters" ...
i could use Search and enter something, but before i didnt need that, i scrolled a few lines and found a plugins, which i barely used, now its all cramped into one list, thank you, very productive ...

 

i have it like this:


its quick for me.

i did make racks, which already have linked the scale stuff to the project scale, so i dont need to add pitch devices and link.
i noticed i have only 25 synths.