When I started the Oblique Strategies here on Sonic Bloom, a commenter reminded me of a Max for Live device displaying the original oblique strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. By now, there are two available for free, L.ObliqueStrategies
I’ve written about a few chord plug-ins before. Xeno – Chord Explorer, a Max for Live MIDI effect, strikes me as the most musical I’ve encountered so far. It offers the 7 diatonic scales, has quite an extensive set of
Want to know how long it takes you to finish a track? Drop in ‘Work Timer’ before you begin. It keeps track of how long you’ve been working on your project once you’ve opened it and since you got started.
Did you ever want to renumber the scenes so that the order makes sense again? Or did you ever wish the Follow button would just stay on despite you making changes? Well, if so, you’re in luck, thanks to two
Using Live’s Tap Tempo can be quite clunky and it’s also not what most singer/songwriters have in mind. What if you want Live to follow your tempo, not vice versa? This is where “Relative Tap Tempo” comes in.
This Max for Live instrument is a replication of the famous Skinner 2049 drum synth. It comes with six drum synth modules you can add to Drum Racks. Don’t let the name fool you. You don’t need Ableton Push for
Looking for some pumping side-chained sweeps for your drums that are also sync-able? Try “DopeySidekick”. Did I mention that it’s mappable to any parameter in Live?
For me, actually making the beats I heard in my head was the hardest part when I got started with producing. Liquid Rhythm, a beat generator made by WaveDNA, makes building beats and adding variations and breaks very simple.
If you’re a drummer who wants to play electronic beats or just feel like a bass drum needs to be played with the foot, check out “Sustain Pedal Kick Drum”. This simple Max for Live MIDI effect allows you to
“Chord Machine” comes in a variety of two Max for Live devices. The original one is a chord sequencer with 4 different parameters made for the Monome 256. “Chord Machine Midi” is a MIDI effect version for everyone who doesn’t
Here’s a handy little Max for Live effect by Tom Cosm. ‘Metronope’ lets you set the numbers of bars after which the metronome will turn itself off.
Fabrizio Poce is well known under his moniker J74 in the Max for Live scene and I’ve written about some of his devices before. While most do cost a little, they’re really fantastic (check them out) and must have taken
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