DEAFMAN TOOLS · ABLETON LIVE 12
Professional themes, precision colour design, automatic track colour management and a living platform built to make Live unmistakably yours.
01 / TRANSFORMATION
FACTORY IN. DEAFMAN OUT.
The music does not change. The hierarchy, atmosphere and visual rhythm do. Drag across the matched captures to compare every detail.
02 / PLATFORM
DEAFMAN TOOLS
A connected set of tools for shaping how Ableton Live looks, reads and behaves—from a single parameter to an entire working system.
THE APPLICATION
The world's first truly interactive theme editor for Ableton Live lets you create themes with immediate feedback. Simply click the elements you want to change in the running Live application to modify their colours. Theming Live has never been simpler.
Shape every semantic colour with precise OKLCH controls, searchable parameters and a live view of the system you are building.
Turn colour into structure. DMT::Tracks keeps busy projects manageable with automatic, repeatable track-colour logic, and matches your track colours to the theme currently loaded in Live.
Browse factory, imported and personal collections, keep favourites close, import your own custom themes and recall complete visual systems without rebuilding them.
Use DMT to deploy multiple Deafman themes into Ableton Live's temperature slots, then move between those installed themes directly inside Live.
MORE INSIDE DMT
Install three DeafTypes and 13+ Google Fonts directly into Ableton Live. Preview each family and weight, then install it without leaving DMT.
Run content updates manually or let them install automatically in the background, so your Library improves silently.
03 / THEMES
THE LUMINANCE SPECTRUM
Move from bright daylight to minimum luminance without losing the information your session depends on.
Egg-shell whites, graded greys and low visual noise for daylight studios and long sessions.
Explore the packA remastered return to the earliest Deafman releases: familiar, precise and quietly characterful.
Explore the packPurposeful workstation themes inspired by vivid computer interfaces from the 1990s.
Explore the packMuted dark themes that reduce visual fatigue without losing hierarchy, colour or legibility.
Explore the packThe lowest-light collection: focused, restrained and engineered for dark studio environments.
Explore the packTHE DIRECTOR'S CUT · COMPLETE ONLY
The cult branch of the collection: a deeper, stranger transmission of the Deafman visual language, available exclusively with Complete.
Discover Complete 12Create procedural themes through a simplified set of colour controls. AutoSetup brings advanced theme editing into a fast, focused interface—without requiring you to dive into the depths of DMT.
New themes, refinements and platform improvements arrive through the evolving DMT content system rather than a static download.
04 / MEDIA
SEE THE SYSTEM AT WORK
Start with the full collection overview, then move through the practical tutorials at your own pace.
05 / EVOLUTION
New workflows, new content and a steadily deeper visual system.
DeafManTools is the platform behind the themes: Theme Design Studio, Tracks AutoColouring, Library, Matrix and AutoSetup.
Tracks is a track colour management system that maintains coherence across your track colouring. It can colour Live tracks and clips manually, procedurally or by matching track names against rules.
AutoSetup is a simplified interface for procedural colour manipulation. It brings DMT's advanced theme engine into a focused set of controls, so you can create and refine complete themes without diving into DMT's deeper parameters.
DeafManTools requires macOS 14 or later.
Use the dedicated setup page for the recommended Live theme, colour and track settings.
View setup instructions →THE FULL DMT EXPERIENCE
Five theme packs, the CRT director's cut, DeafManTools, DMT::Tracks, custom fonts, AutoSetups and continuous updates.