Hurray! We’ve reached the landmark of 200 posts on Sonic Bloom with this one. And it comes packed with a little surprise for you – Verbotron made by Christian Kleine, exclusively here on Sonic Bloom. A great Max for Live
Futility is a simple, but handy utility Max for Live device that allows you to quickly mute, solo, arm or collapse the selected track. You can also unsolo, unmute and unarm any soloed, muted, or armed tracks at once.
At least in the northern hemisphere, the cold season is coming closer and closer. A great time to start a new indoors project. Like learning how to programme Push with Max for Live. The folks at Cycling ’74 have started
A lot of people use Ableton Live for DJing. If you also have Max for Live, you can now use “Pseudo Scratch” to simulate scratching. It was created by Akihiko Matsumoto, who has more interesting Max for Live devices available
Spektro String, a lovely Max for Live string synth, is based on the Karplus-Strong string synthesis method. Depending on the settings it can sound like bowed, plucked or twanged strings.
Ever wanted to transpose all clips in one scene on the fly? The Max for Live MIDI effect Scene Transposer makes it possible.
The “Tone Row Generator” Max for Live MIDI effect by Nils Nordmann generates random notes in different scales and tempi by combining composition techniques of Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage. The generative tool can be used well for interesting melodic
Ned Rush has created quite a few nice Max for Live devices. Now you can get them as one neat bundle. They’re sound design tools and performance enhancers and are used by artists like Richard Devine and Moldover.
For those who want to learn Max for Live, but to find it difficult on their own, Bit Voltage now offers a beginner’s video class. The course explains the basics of Max for Live in simple steps, with a focus
Lokua, an electronic musician from Chicago, has created quite a few nice Max for Live devices. All can be downloaded for free and he’s got more already in the works.
When you download and install Live 9 Suite, only the Core Library is included. What a lot of people don’t know is that you can download and install further individual Live Packs from Ableton for free. And not all are
What if you sometimes need a quick fade-out in your live performance, but don’t really have time to turn a fader or knob all the way to achieve it? The Max for Live device FADE allows you to trigger a
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