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Varispeed 4 by Elisabeth Homeland

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USER GUIDE: Varispeed 4 Documentation
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MaxforLive

Audio Devices, Control Devices

Ableton Live Compatibility

Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 10 Suite, Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 11 Suite, Ableton Live 12 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 12 Suite

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October 25, 2025
Ed Blomquist
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Fantastic! Absolutely recommend this!

Varispeed 4 is some kind of crazy magic! I never imagined being able to change the speed and related pitch of an entire Live set in real time. Totally awesome…

It takes me back to my original Tascam 144 Portastudio four track cassette days in the early 80s!

None that I can see.

I recommend this product
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July 22, 2025
Bigdrum
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Varispeed is simply amazing

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December 16, 2024
Gianni Rabillon
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I was a former user of Logic Pro X that has the varispeed parameter. When I switched to ableton I was confused there wasn’t any similar parameter. Luckily for me I discovered varispeed 4 that is quite more accurate than the one from logic. I recommend this product !

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Varispeed 4 by Elisabeth Homeland

Varispeed 4 is a MaxForLive device that allows you to transpose your entire Live set, similar to the Varispeed option in other DAWs like Logic and analog tape machines.

It transposes all Audio/MIDI clips in both Session and Arrangement View by up to -24/+24 semitones while accurately changing the Live Set’s tempo.
It can also automatically transpose:

·      The Root Note of individual MIDI and Audio clips, and your Live Set..

·      Simpler devices in Slicing mode,  and Serato Sample plugins

·      AutoTune plugins (Antares, Waves, Nectar, MetaTune, Melda, Melodyne, and AutoTuna)

·      And of course it works with Lives Auto Shift too

·      Certain Antares effects/Instruments. (EFX, Slice, Harmony Engine, Vocodist)

·      A few other built in Ableton Live and M4L devices. (Like Shifter, Corpus, and Resonators)

·      You can also Transpose MIDI information after leaving clips such as sequencer and chord generator outputs or individual Drum Rack cells (see VPitch section for details).

Exclude specific tracks like drums, or DrumRacks. by adding a keyword or symbol to their names, keeping their MIDI and audio clips untouched in your Live Set (See Exclude section for Details).

This gives you the ability to explore your song in a different key, and record parts in different speed and pitch with one click.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Important Information

Varispeed 4.4.0 – Released November 2025

  • Added support for Auto-Tune 2026 (Set the device to “Autotune A” mode)
  • Fixed support for the AU version of Auto-Tune Slice, and Vocalist. (Vst3 version works too of course!)
  • Updated the “update checker” to the new 2.0 version. it should inform you about updates more reliably in the future.

Varispeed 4.3.2 – Released October 2025

  • Fixed a text display issue under the Exclude sign box that was present in some Windows systems.

Varispeed 4.3.1 – 2025.02.11.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the transposing of the clips in Live 11 session view.
  • Fixed the update notification in older versions of Live 11.

Varispeed 4.3 – 2025.01.01.

  • New: If there’s an update available, you’ll see a small message (Update available: *version* ) on top of the ElisabethHomeland logo. If you click on it’ll open my website where you can download the latest release.
  • The exclude signs feature now works properly if you delete all the keywords, or only have one in the box.

Varispeed 4.2.1 – 2024.10.15.

  • Fixed an issue that caused Varispeed to stop working on Windows in Live 12.1 when it had to work with large Live Sets.
  • Changed the default state of all the extra functionality to be turned off by default. (Plugins, devices and the Root Note feature)

Varispeed 4.2 – 2024.10.15.

  • Varispeed can now change the “root note” of Audio clips too to use them with scale aware audio effects like AutoShift.
  • Added support for the Xpitch auto tune plugin.

Varispeed 4.1 – 2024.06.07.

  • fixed a bug that prevented the exclude box’s content to be saved with the LiveSet

Varispeed 4.0 – 2024.05.14.

  • you can now transpose the Live set’s and individual Midi clips “Root_Note” to take advantage of the new features in Live 12.
  • Transpose all major Auto-Tune plugins
    • Antares Auto-Tune Pro, Artist, Access
    • Waves Tune Real-Time
    • Nectar 3, 4, and Pitch
    • Meta Tune
    • MAutoPitch
    • Autotuna
    • Melodyne
  • Transpose certain Antares effects, instruments:
    • EFX+
    • Slice
    • Harmony Engine
    • Vocodist
  • Use unlimited amount of Exclude signs/words to exclude tracks from the transposition.
  • Complete internal overhaul.
  • Updated user interface.
  • Varispeed 4 is compatible with push3 standalone. (Previously there were 2 versions. One for Push3, and a standard one.)

Varispeed 3.1 – 2024.02.13.

  • Live 12 support
  • Undo history related fixes.

Varispeed 3.0 – 2023.06.06.

  • Ability to Transpose Simpler devices in slicing mode.
  • Ability to Transpose certain Pitch/coarse parameters for experimental use cases.
    (Shifter, SpectralResonator, Resonators, Corpus, PitchHack, PitchLoop89)
  • Varispeed is now compatible with Push 3 standalone.
  • Varispeed now should work a lot faster even with larger projects with a lot of clips. 🙂
  • Updated GUI.
  • Updated documentation.

Varispeed 2.0 – 2022.12.13.

  • transpose midi clips without using Pitch devices.
  • added support for VPitch MIDI Effect to transpose individual drum rack cells, or sequencer outputs.
  • You can turn off every circuit off the device.
  • The button, and the Dial version is now merged into a single device.
  • Some useful information show’s up in certain cases (more info in the documentation)

Vaispeed 1.2 – 2022.08.17.

  • Added knob version
  • Some internal cleanup

Varispeed 1.1 – 2022.07.03.

  • Added new device pair for Live 10 support. (No longer supported.)

Varispeed for Live 1.1 – 2022.07.16.

  • Fixed a bug that caused mixed behaviour in larger projects.
  • Some UI Elements were shifted in Windows.
  • The Tempo button is now Initially enabled.

Varispeed 1.0 – 2022.06.19.

  • Initial Release

Our Products are generally provided as Zip file downloads which in all cases will need to be extracted and saved to your hard drive prior to installation. Details on the different file type provided and what to do with them are below.

.alp Files – These are Ableton Live Packs and will either install directly into the Packs Section of the browser of Ableton Live or ask you to save them to your hard drive. For packs that install to the library, when you double click on them you will see a pop up window asking you to confirm that installation is ok as the files are described as “Legacy”. This is fine and you are ok to proceed, the packs are created using the format for an earlier version of Live and so remain compatible with the current version.

.amxd files – These are individual MaxforLive Devices and can be stored anywhere on your hard drive. We’d advise creating a folder for them and then adding that folder as a location within the Places section of Lives Browser.

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