Melodyne in Ableton Live.

No. Ableton Live 12 doesn't host ARA plug-ins, so Melodyne and VocAlign can't read your clips directly the way they do in Cubase, Studio One or REAPER. null.audio fills that gap: it runs an ARA host next to Live and connects it to your Arrangement clips. ALIGN brings VocAlign into Ableton, EDIT brings Melodyne, SpectraLayers, RePitch, Vovious and VoiceAssist. More on ARA in Ableton Live.

Yes. EDIT opens a selected clip in Melodyne from Ableton Live, plays your edit in the Live mix in real time, and Commits the finished audio back to Arrangement View. You need your own Melodyne licence.

EDIT also works with SpectraLayers, RePitch, Vovious and NoiseWorks VoiceAssist. See null.audio EDIT.

No. null.audio connects Ableton Live to ARA plug-ins you already own. ALIGN needs VocAlign Pro or Standard. EDIT needs an ARA editor such as Melodyne, SpectraLayers, RePitch, Vovious or NoiseWorks VoiceAssist. Neither is included.

Ableton Live doesn't support ARA. null.audio runs an ARA host in the background and connects it to your clips in Live. With EDIT, select a clip and press EDIT: it opens in Melodyne, SpectraLayers, RePitch, Vovious or NoiseWorks VoiceAssist. The editor follows Live's transport, and the EDIT Bridge plays your edit in the Live mix in real time. Commit returns the finished audio to Arrangement View.

Live itself isn't changed: the null.audio app hosts the editor. What gets installed.

You can. Set Melodyne as Live's sample editor, or use a tool that sends the clip out and brings it back, and the clip opens with nothing to record in. But the editor works outside the Live mix: you hear the clip by itself while you edit, and you hear it with the rest of the song only once it's back in Live.

EDIT also opens the clip straight away, and the EDIT Bridge plays every edit in the Live mix in real time. You decide on pitch and timing while you hear the vocal against the track, and Commit only when it sounds right.

No. The EDIT Bridge plays your edit only where that clip sits. Everything else on the track, and in the rest of your Set, plays as normal. Your original clip stays unchanged until you press Commit.

Not yet. EDIT opens one clip at a time. Editing several clips together, the way Cubase and Studio One do it in Melodyne, is what I'm building next. See the roadmap.

Yes. Choose the editor from the EDITOR menu on the EDIT panel. Close the current session first, then open the next clip in the editor you want.

It may. EDIT is tested with Melodyne, SpectraLayers, RePitch, Vovious and NoiseWorks VoiceAssist, but other ARA editors (VST3) can work too. Add yours on the Plug-Ins page of the null.audio app; it shows as "untested" until we have tested it.

If you try one, email us and tell us how it went. We use those reports to decide which editors to test next.

Yes. Turn on "Auto-prepare warped clips" on the ALIGN or EDIT panel. null.audio then prepares warped, stretched and transposed clips with Live's own Consolidate and puts your clip back. The committed clip comes back with Warp off, in time with the Set. On macOS this needs the Accessibility permission.

Yes. Turn on Mappings on the null.audio device and map Set Guide, Set Dub, Add Dub, Align, Open Editor, Close Session, Commit and Revert with Live's Key Map or MIDI Map, like any other Live control.

Yes. The null.audio device and the ALIGN and EDIT panels take their colours from Live, so they look at home in Live's light and dark themes, and change with them.

Ableton Live 12.3 or later (Live 12 Suite, or Live 12 Standard with the Max for Live add-on), macOS 14 or later or Windows 11, and your own licence for an ARA editor (VST3). EDIT works with Melodyne, SpectraLayers, RePitch, Vovious and NoiseWorks VoiceAssist. It does not include an editor and does nothing without one.

You can add other ARA editors yourself. They show as "untested" until we have tested them. The exact versions we test with are under tested setups.

You need Max for Live, because the null.audio device is a Max for Live device. Max for Live comes with Live 12 Suite. With Live 12 Standard you can add it by buying Ableton's Max for Live add-on. Live Intro and Live Lite can't run Max for Live devices.

Whichever edition you have, it needs to be Live 12.3 or later. On an older Live the null.audio device says so and doesn't start.

ALIGN is €39 once, EDIT is €49 once, and ALIGN + EDIT is €69 once, €19 less than buying both. No subscription. Prices include VAT. You buy through Lemon Squeezy, which shows the tax amount at checkout.

For the first two weeks after launch there is an introductory price: €29 for ALIGN, €39 for EDIT and €55 for ALIGN + EDIT. Checkout charges it directly; there is no code to enter.

Yes. We plan a 14-day compatibility refund. Email contact@null.audio within 14 days of purchase, tell us what happened and what you are running, and let us make one reasonable support attempt.

If the product still does not work as advertised on a supported or tested setup, we will refund the purchase in full and deactivate the licence. The voluntary policy does not promise compatibility with unsupported setups. Statutory consumer rights are unaffected.

Only if you also want pitch, timing or performance editing. ALIGN and EDIT solve different problems: ALIGN matches a Dub take to a Guide take directly from the selected clips. EDIT opens a single clip in an ARA editor so you can hear changes against the mix and reshape the performance itself.

They are separate entitlements. Buying one does not give you the other. Both share the same null.audio.amxd device once installed.