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Early access · Selbri Mixing for Ableton Live 12

Hear what your
mix needs.

Selbri Mixing is a Max for Live device. It sits on any track in your Live set, measures what every device is really doing, explains it in plain musical terms and suggests changes with EQ Eight, Compressor and the rest of Live’s own devices. You keep the final say.

See how it works
  • Live 12.2+
  • Max 9
  • 18 tools
  • 10 native devices
  • 0 third-party plug-ins
BassAudio · 4 devices
Ready
What do you want to improve on Bass?
Kick and bass fight in the low end
Does the bass hold up in mono?
Listen and tell me what to fix first
Chain
EQ Eight
−2.1
Compressor
+3.8
Saturator
+1.2
Utility
Off
Why does the bass disappear when the kick hits?

01The problem

Youknowwhatyouwant,butnotwheretostartorwhattotouchfirst.

That isn’t a talent problem. Too many choices at once is where a lot of tracks stall. Selbri Mixing suggests where to start and shows you why, with the numbers behind it.

02How it works

From “what’s wrong?” to a better mix.

01

Ask in your own words

Drop Selbri Mixing on a track and ask, in any language: “why does the bass disappear when the kick hits?” It reads the track’s role, its devices, its group and your genre before it says a word.

KickAudio · 3 devices
Ready
What do you want to improve on Kick?
The kick needs more punch
Kick and bass fight in the low end
Listen to this channel and tell me what to improve first
Is it loud enough for Spotify?
Make the whole mix glue together
Kick and bass fight in the low end
role: kick
group: Drums
genre: minimal
3 devices
02

It listens after every device

Hit play. It measures the signal after each device in the chain, so you see what every EQ and compressor is actually doing to your sound, whatever its settings say.

BassAudio · 3 devices
Listening
Measuring after each device
Input
−9.6 dB
EQ Eight
—
Compressor
—
Saturator
—
Loudness
−14.2 LUFS
True peak
−3.1 dBTP
Crest
5.8 dB
03

It explains, then suggests

The answer comes in musical terms, with the numbers to back it. Every suggestion is a change to a device you already have, like “Compressor › Threshold −18 dB → −15 dB”, with the reason next to it.

BassAudio · 3 devices
Ready
Suggested changes · 2
Apply all
Compressor›Threshold
−18.0 dB→−15.0 dB
Less compression, so the bass keeps its attack.
Compressor›Attack
2.00 ms→10.0 ms
A slower attack lets the first hit through before the compressor reacts.
Only devices you already have. Hear each one A/B before you apply it.
04

Try it. Keep what helps.

Hear any change A/B and apply the ones you like, or have it build a tool from Live’s own devices. It listens to two bars without the tool, two with it and two without it again, and leaves it on only if the track measured better, volume-matched. You can still open it, change it or delete it.

DrumsGroup · 4 tracks
Testing tool
Selbri · Bus Glue
Ready
Without · 2 bars
With · 2 bars
Without · 2 bars
Kept
It helped. Volume-matched and left on.
Softened
It helped, but too much. Dialled back.
Removed
It didn’t help. Gone, nothing left behind.

03Chain X-ray

See what every device is really doing.

Open the chain and Selbri Mixing shows how each device changes level, dynamics, peaks, stereo width and tonal balance. Change something, measure again, and compare.

Chain
OK
Total +2.9 dB · Crest −6.6 dB
Input
−9.6 dB
RMS −21.4 dB
Crest 11.8 dB
subair
EQ Eight
−2.1 dB
−2.6 dB peak
Low end cut
subair
Compressor
+3.8 dB
+4.8 dB peak
Crest −6.3 dB
subair
Saturator
+1.2 dB
+1.5 dB peak
Crest −0.6 dB
subair
Utility
Off
subair
The Compressor takes 6.3 dB of crest: it’s flattening the bass’s attack.
0

tonal bands per device, from sub to air

0

third-octave bands from 25 Hz

0×

oversampled true-peak reading

0 s

between readings, averaged over 16 s

04Selbri tools

Eighteen tools. Built from Live’s own devices.

Each tool is an Audio Effect Rack named after the job it does, like “Selbri · Punch”. Open it, tweak it, delete it. If you edit it in Live, Selbri Mixing stops writing to it.

  • EQ Eight
  • Compressor
  • Glue Compressor
  • Multiband Dynamics
  • Saturator
  • Drum Buss
  • Utility
  • Limiter
  • Reverb
  • Delay
01

Tone EQ

low endthinharshdull
02

Low End Control

low endmudmono
03

Peak Control

peaks
04

Low Booster

low endpunch
05

Body Booster

thin
06

Air Booster

dull
07

Exciter

dull
08

Stereo Imager

widthmono
09

Space

space
10

Punch

punch
11

Bus Glue

glue
12

Master Chain

loudnessglue
13

Sidechain Duck

masking
14

Vocal Leveler

dynamics
15

De-Esser

sibilance
16

Clipper

loudnesspeaks
17

Bass Harmonics

translation
18

Parallel Drums

punchthin

05The whole mix

It hears the track and the song around it.

Reads your groups and master

It won’t stack compression your drum group already applies, and when two tracks share a problem, it suggests fixing it once, on the group.

Guides your grouping

Not grouped yet? It tells you which tracks belong together, then proposes glue for the new group.

Proposes a fader balance

From the master, one card proposes a level for every measured part against the kick, for your genre. Apply it or undo it. No fader ends above 0 dB.

Balance: 6 faders
genre: minimal · against the kick
−4.5
Kick
+1.5
Bass
−3.0
Hats
−14.0
Perc
+2.5
Lead
−2.0
Pad
−3.5
Master
0 dBBass and lead are pushed past 0 dB, and the master is pulled down to compensate.

06How it behaves

Nothing happens behind your back.

Every move explained

Each suggestion names the device, the parameter, the value and the reason. If it doesn’t have enough to go on, it says so instead of guessing.

Fair comparisons

Louder always sounds better, so every with-and-without test is volume-matched. What you hear is the change itself.

Your session stays yours

Nothing but Live’s own devices, in racks you can open. Edit one and Selbri Mixing stops touching it until you hand it back.

Nothing unconfirmed

It only writes what Live confirms it can set, reads every value back, and removes any tool that fails its test.

07The family

Mixing comes first. More is coming.

The same listening engine, carried into new tools for producers.

Early access

Max for Live device

Selbri Mixing

A second pair of ears inside Ableton Live. It measures every device on a track and tells you what to touch first.

In development

Sound design

Effects

Effects that measure the track they sit on and start from there. Where they go from that point is up to you.

Later

Production

What’s next

More tools that help you finish tracks, shaped by what early-access producers ask for.

08Pricing

You pay for the questions you ask.

Every plan of Selbri Mixing gets all 18 tools, the chain X-ray and the fader balance. What changes is how many questions you ask a month, on how many computers, and whether Selbri Mixing can go through your whole set in one run.

Free

Try it on your own tracks, one question at a time.

US$0
Free, no card

  • 20 questions a month

  • On 1 computer

  • All 18 tools, the chain X-ray and the fader balance

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Pro

14-day trial

For finishing tracks: every channel, and the whole set in one run.

US$24/ month
Billed monthly

  • 200 questions a month

  • On up to 2 computers

  • Everything in Free

  • The Conductor

    Selbri Mixing on the master goes through your set track by track (channels, faders, group buses, returns, master), then measures the result against your genre. You can hear every step, and one click undoes the whole run.

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Studio

Coming soon

Pro, steered toward the record you’re chasing.

US$49/ month
Billed monthly

  • 500 questions a month

  • On up to 3 computers

  • Everything in Pro

  • Suggestions steered toward a reference track you upload

    20 reference analyses a month. The audio is deleted once it’s measured.

Hear when it opens

Every new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial: the Conductor included, no card, with Free’s 20 questions.

Founding members The first 300 Pro subscribers get their first year for US$149.

Billing isn’t open yet: Selbri Mixing is in early access and nothing is charged. These are the prices when it opens.

Each answer from Selbri Mixing counts as one question. Telling it your genre, or being asked to press play, doesn’t.

A computer is one connected copy of Live. Inside a set, put Selbri Mixing on as many tracks as you like.

09FAQ

Questions before you try it.

Selbri Mixing needs Ableton Live 12.2 or later with Max for Live (Max 9). The Selbri tools that build racks need Live 12.3 or later. It works on audio, MIDI, group, return and master tracks.

Only what you ask it to. On a channel it tries at most two tools at a time, and from the master it proposes a level for every fader. On Pro it can go through the whole set, track by track. You can hear every change, and one click undoes the whole run. The taste and the last call stay with you.

No. Everything Selbri Mixing adds is built from Live’s own devices (EQ Eight, Compressor, Glue Compressor, Multiband Dynamics, Saturator, Drum Buss, Utility, Limiter, Reverb, and Delay), so your project opens on any Live 12 setup.

Selbri Mixing has targets for 24 styles, from minimal, house and techno to hip-hop, pop, rock, jazz and ambient, and recognises dozens of genre names in English and Spanish. Four were tuned by ear in Live: minimal, house, tech house, and commercial. The other 20 start from research (published measurements and engineers’ settings) and haven’t been tuned in Live yet.

It answers in the language you write in. The interface comes in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.

Free: 20 questions a month on 1 computer. Pro: US$24 a month or US$239 a year, for 200 questions, 2 computers and the Conductor. Studio, coming soon: US$49 a month or US$489 a year, for 500 questions, 3 computers and suggestions steered toward a reference track. Every new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial, no card. Billing isn’t open yet, so nothing is charged during early access.

10Early access

Finish more
of your tracks.

Selbri Mixing is opening to a small group of Ableton Live producers. Leave your email and we’ll send you the device when your spot opens.

Sign-ups open soon.