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

  • Place on any track (even the Main Track to include in your template)

  • One mappable Button for MIDI Bounce

  • Auto Routing

  • Quick Real-Time Bounce in 999BPM

  • Auto-Disable/Delete MIDI Effects on Original Track

  • Auto Length Recording for both Session & Arrangement Views

  • Support for MIDI Plugins like Cthulhu, Scaler Etc.
  • 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

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