There is a hands-free live performance OSX app called ALK by Zen Audio which just impressed me as it allows a performer to easily automate the process of recording and playing back separate instruments and parts in a song in a live performance situation as Elise Trauw does - but in a kludgy way
Check out the article and the youtube channel for ZEN audio. Given Ableton is a live-performance app this sort of functionality should be part of Ableton
https://ask.audio/articles/3-ways-to-ge ... lise-trouw
( i've posted this on CentreCode too )