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IN cubase I have a Midi panic button. Cubase is not purpose built for LIVE MUSIC but ABLETON LIVE is.

The fact that there's no actual TRUE MIDI PANIC BUTTON is horrendous.

Apparently you can mute all channels inside live with a click on the CPU but you really should be able to cause all sound to STOP including all midi stuff, and not have those stuck notes RESUME LATER when you click on the CPU again.

When you want the SOUND TO STOP YOU WANT THE SOUND TO STOP, and stopping the sound engine does not do the same thing as midi panic does. When you restart the sound engine, your stuck notes are back. Kontakt, I'm looking at you.

Midi panic tells all your vsts, plugins, and devices to be quiet and not to start another thing until they are sent a midi note or a midi start signal.

I mean yay, Live 11 is getting MPE, nice advanced feature. How about the BASIC THINGS that even a keys player in 1985 would have wanted.

It's 2021 folks, MIDI PANIC BUTTON IN LIVE now.

Apparently people having Max4Live do have some little gadgets to do this. THIS IS NOT A MINOR MISSING FEATURE, it's massive oversight on the part of Ableton.

Ha.

I keep rediscovering this as time passes - going through the menus looking for "turn off stuck notes" or similar because it just seems like an obvious thing. Didn't event think to toggle the audio engine, so thank you for that! I do agree that this is by no means a proper substitute as it means you are totally out of luck in a Live performance situation.

So bump! I imagine this is not a hard feature to implement, either. Let the intern do it !

I was recording today. Continuously a pad sound I use from the iPad Korg M1 app kept sounding because I hit stop after the sustain pedal is pressed but before the pedal release. Please Ableton! Sent at least CC64 - 0 to all midi outputs as soon as you hit the spacebar! This is very annoying.

Any updates on this? I haven't got any external synths to test but I've just discovered a triple-click on the main Stop button interrupt all audio (e.g. long reverbs and delays, etc), and I was wondering if that might also send CC123 or whatever the MIDI panic CC number is.

Unfortunately, even if the triple-click trick worked, it'd still be very annoying because it forces the song position back to 1.1.1. Wouldn't it make sense to send MIDI panic whenever Stop is clicked anyway? This way there would be no chance of stuck notes.

I'm happy to report that triple click on 'Stop' does indeed kill stuck MIDI notes!