MIDI Bounce
Speed up your workflow
Capture MIDI Effects into a new MIDI clip with only one mouse click!
Demo + Tutorial
Speed up workflow
One click will automatically:
1. Create a New Adjacent MIDI Track
2. Route New Track MIDI From Original Track
3. Start Recording to a New Track at the Right Length in 999BPM
4. Auto-Disable/Delete the MIDI Effects on original track
Session View Additions
Additional Features for Live’s Session View:
– Copy clip back to original Track
– If “Delete Temp?” is Selected – Auto Delete Temp Track
Features
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Place on any track (even the Main Track to include in your template)
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One mappable Button for MIDI Bounce
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Auto Routing
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Quick Real-Time Bounce in 999BPM
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Auto-Disable/Delete MIDI Effects on Original Track
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Auto Length Recording for both Session & Arrangement Views
- Support for MIDI Plugins like Cthulhu, Scaler Etc.
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Automatic Deletion of Temporary Track (Session View)
Video Manual
INSTALLATION & REQUIREMENTS
Place the device under User Library -> Presets -> MIDI Effects -> Max MIDI Effect
* Ableton Suite 10 or newer
CHANGELOG
1.6
Session View
- Bounced clips now appear in the first available slot below the source clip.
- Automatically creates a new scene if no lower clip slot is available.
- Added a safety tail to reliably capture final notes and note-offs.
- Physically crops the safety tail, preventing notes beyond the original loop boundaries.
- Fixed bounces capturing only the first note or cutting off later notes.
- Removed the delay before transferring the finished clip back.
- Added optional automatic playback of the bounced clip.
- Added open-ended recording when no Session clip is selected. Press Bounce again to stop.
Arrangement View
- Bounces now begin at the selected clip’s actual Arrangement position instead of bar 1.
- Uses the selected clip’s precise start and end times.
- Fixed playback occasionally jumping to bar 1 and stopping after one beat.
- Automatically stops recording and transport at the end of the selected clip.
- Returns the bounced clip to the source clip’s original timeline position.
- Places the playhead at the bounced clip’s beginning after completion.
- Added Replace Original and Keep Original Backup modes.
- Keep Original Backup duplicates and mutes the complete original track, preserving its clips, devices, routing, and automation.
- Made Delete Capture Track available for Arrangement cleanup.
- Automatically selects the finished Arrangement clip.
- Preserves the source clip’s color.
- Restores Arrangement loop, punch, recording, and transport settings afterward.
General and Reliability
- Improved source-track and focused-clip detection.
- Verifies that the bounced clip was copied successfully before deleting the capture track.
- Preserves a completed capture track if copy-back cannot be confirmed.
- Restores original track-arm states after bouncing.
- Restores the original tempo and Global Quantization after 999 BPM bouncing.
- Improved cleanup of temporary scenes after failed or incomplete bounces.
- Prevented repeated names such as
MIDI Bounce MIDI Bounce MIDI Bounce. - Updated the device and JavaScript version identification to 1.6
1.5
- Added a Settings section
- Added 999 BPM toggle
- Added Auto-Play of bounced clip (Session View)
- MIDI Effects are now automatically disabled
1.4
- New MIDI Plugin mode to bounce MIDI from plugins like Cthulhu, Scaler etc.
1.3
- Added the option to auto-delete all midi effects on original track
- Fixed an issue where the device didn’t work properly when loaded on an individual track and not on the Main Track
- Minor visual Improvements
1.2
- You can now place the device on any track, MIDI/KEY map the bounce button and bounce the currently focused clip.
- Added PUSH Control
1.1
- During Bounce project jumps to 999 BPM to speed up the bounce process



