Maurizio Giri, co-author of “Electronic Music and Sound Design Theory and Practice with Max/MSP”, has quite a few Max for Live devices on his site Amazing Noises. Including the “Granular Stereo Faker”, a granular delay with different delays between right
Transient are high amplitude, short sounds in waveforms, most notable in percussive sounds. The Max for Live audio effect “Transient Designer” lets you shape the transients of your audio signal by tweaking the parameters of attack and release.
Whitebox Synth Makers has created a new ambient Max for Live instrument, the Pixiphone.
In a live performance situation you might want to see the play position of your session view clips to know when to start the next scene or clip. The track status in Live might be too small to use as
Live wasn’t created for DJing, yet a lot of people use it for exactly that. And it makes sense to only buy one software to produce and also DJ with. Less money to spend, only one app to learn. Isotonik
You don’t know any music theory, but would love to compose more harmonic chords in Live? If you have Max for Live, you could use the Schwarzonator or Nordmann‘s “Chord Generator”.
The Key Layouts on Ableton Push are great if you don’t know any music theory, but want to make sure you play in key. Now if you don’t have Push, but a Launchpad and Max for Live, then the Max
Announced earlier this year, Cycling ’74 has now released Mira, its iPad controller for both Max and Max for Live.
If you like glitchy effects in your music and you have Live 9 Suite, then the free Max for Live effect ‘Stutter Slider’ is for you.
Push allows you to simply switch between scales, even exotic ones. If you don’t have one, but still want to use this functionality, then you should try the Max for Live MIDI effect “16 Scales”.
Tom Cosm doesn’t really need an introduction anymore in the Ableton community. He seems to have gotten into Max for Live lately and has created a free device that allows you to toggle the routing of tracks.
Did it ever happen that you played something amazing, but you didn’t record it? Retake, by denleschae, is a Max for Live plugin that lets you “recover” your ideas.
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