Tools I built for myself that were too good not to share.
Edit any clip in Melodyne, Revoice Pro, VocAlign or RX without leaving Ableton.
Ableton announced Live 13 on 10 November 2026. It opens Melodyne and other ARA 2 plug-ins inside Live on its own, and Live 13 Suite includes Melodyne Essential. It is in beta now, with the full release due in early 2027.
What Live 13 does not do is hand a clip to an application. ARA 2 covers ARA plug-ins — it does not open iZotope RX, WaveLab, Ozone or anything else that saves a WAV on a key you mapped yourself, with your original kept on a take lane. That part is unchanged.
You can still buy it for the multi-editor workflow. If Melodyne inside Live was the only reason you were here, wait for Live 13.
Built in — nothing to insert, locate or configure. Select a clip and go.
AudioSuite style workflow now in Ableton! Controls live in a floating window over Live, and VocAlign is hosted inside the device. Works with Revoice Pro 4 and 5, and VocAlign 6 Standard.
Hand any clip to iZotope RX, WaveLab, or anything that saves a WAV. And back.
Same track, same place, same clip gain. No resampling. Your original stays on a take lane.
Tempo changes, ramps and time-signature changes reach the editor correctly, and clips land where they belong. Save the set after changing tempo — the map is read from the file.
Map every button to a key. Slots 3 and 4 also get a floating window.
Ableton Live 12.0.5 or newer with Max for Live, macOS only. No third-party licenses are included — own and activate your editors first, or one can stop on its own licensing window and look like AbleSuite Pro hanging.
Please watch this video before purchasing
AbleSuite Pro — the device, and its Melodyne & Revoice Pro windows
Uses outboard hardware as an insert on a DAW track, time-aligned.
Measures the round trip through your hardware and aligns the return automatically. Trim it by hand down to the single sample.
Send and return drawn over each other on a live scope. Freeze a snapshot, drag and zoom it, and nudge the trim a sample at a time.
LTGC listens for ten seconds and offsets the output, so switching the hardware in and out compares tone rather than level. RTGC keeps it matched as you work.
Polarity invert and Stereo, Mid/Side or Mono modes on the return.
Blend against a delay-matched dry copy of the signal.
Send and return gain in dB, level meters on both, and saveable named presets.
Hardware Insert — AU, VST3 and AAX (Pro Tools)
Reads SMPTE timecoded files or live timecode inputs.
Load stereo files carrying LTC on one channel. Each lands at the timecode it actually carries — filenames are never consulted, so a mislabeled file still lands right. A file holding more than one run of timecode comes apart into its pieces.
All loaded files show up in the playlist, and there is a 24 hour timeline where you can see all the files placed in their striped places. Add markers to the timeline and type in timecodes to jump around the session.
Timecode and the reference mix go to any outputs — or timecode to a different device entirely, for a hardware reader. It starts muted. A TimeCode Bridge driver is installed too — hidden until you switch it on under TIMECODE BRIDGE in Config.
Writes the set and a copy of every file it plays into one folder, everything inside pointing at the copies. Move it to another drive or hand it to someone else. Sessions find audio that has moved, so a collected folder someone relocated still opens.
TimeCode Player — Standalone
Writes chords into Live — triads, 7ths, sus and borrowed — named and color-coded to the key.
Pick a root and Major/Minor. The seven buttons relabel and recolor to that key.
The whole set — triads, sus2, sus4, 7ths and borrowed chords, all in your key.
Drop chords at the Arrangement playhead, or write them into a selected Session clip slot.
Each chord advances the insert point by one clip length. Click I–V–vi–IV and it lands in a row.
1/4, 1/2, whole, 2 or 4 bars. Note values are fixed, so they stay signature-independent.
Five palettes: Pink Purple, Autumn, Sunset, Ocher Blue and Terracotta Teal.
Chord Chart — the expanded palette, and the device
Exports a MIDI clip with the tempo that was playing under it.
Live's own Export MIDI Clip writes notes and nothing else — no tempo, no time signature. This writes the tempo and meter changes that were sounding under the clip, read from your saved Set.
MIDI has no ramp event, so a ramp is written as a staircase of half-BPM steps. On a test Set the clock stayed within a third of a millisecond of Live's own tempo map.
MidiExport+ — the controls window
Generates SMPTE LTC (Linear Timecode) as WAV files.
23.976, 24, 25, 30, and 29.97 drop-frame and non-drop.
8, 16, 24 or 32-bit PCM at 44.1, 48, 88.2 or 96 kHz.
Set the start timecode and file length as HH:MM:SS.
Render multiple files at once by count, length and start-time interval.
Adjustable output level, default −10 dBFS.
LTC WAV Generator — Standalone
