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Hi Ableton Team,

I’d love to see native support for multitrack WAV files in Ableton Live. Many recording systems generate a single WAV file containing multiple embedded tracks, but Live currently doesn’t recognize them. This forces users to extract the individual tracks manually before importing them into Live.

Proposed Feature:
• When dragging a multitrack WAV into Live, it should automatically split into separate audio tracks.
• Option to place tracks in parallel (take lanes) or as separate tracks in the session.

Why This Matters:
• Faster workflow for users working with live recordings and multitrack stems.
• Other DAWs like Logic Pro and Pro Tools handle this natively. Adding this feature would make Live a better tool for musicians and engineers working with multitrack recordings.

Would love to see this in a future update! Anyone else needs this?

I need this too. Currently I create multichannel files with Plogue Bidule and edit them with Reaper. It would be nice, to have this in Live.

Yes, Ableton please we need this!!!!!

+1

Please Ableton : Take a step forward towards multichannel work

+1 because multichannels workarounds are... well, just workarounds.