Merge Notes :: Adds a Live 12 feature to Live 11

Select notes in a Midi Clip and hit "Merge". All notes of the same pitch will be merged into one single note spanning from the start of the first to the end of the last note.

Demo video in the header.

After downloading the device:

You can load Max For Live devices into Ableton Live from anywhere on your computer. We recommend to be more strict to avoid confusion:

• Add a folder to your User Library and call it "Max For Live Devices" (In Ableton Live go to the Browser, select the User Folder, right-click into the second column and select "New Folder")
• Inside this folder add another folder "Discrete Devices"
• Move "Merge Notes.amxd" inside the "Discrete Devices" folder. (Drop it from the Finder onto the folder in the Live Browser.)

Why do this? You might want to add "Merge Notes.amxd" to a Template Live set. If your .amxd is not inside your User Library when saving a Live set as template the device will be copied into your User Library without notifying you possibly creating confusion with duplicates.

While you can drop the device on any track we recommend to put it onto the Master Track.

A note for curious users: Currently, if you click the Edit button of the device it opens in Max and will be "frozen" meaning you cannot see the content. When you click the "unfreeze" button you are creating a folder called "Merge Notes Project" in ~/Documents/Max 8/Max for Live Devices/. It is good behaviour to delete this folder after you closed the device (without saving the changes!). If you save the device even without changing anything and it doesn't work as before any more it is best to download it again (and delete the edited version).

Needs Live 11.0
Not compatible with Live 10 or older
Developed and tested on macOS. Might or might not work properly on Windows.