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. By now, there are
While the Simpler now offers pad slicing, you still can’t record into it, but need to drop samples in. This is where SlicR by Benjamin Van Esser comes in. It’s a simple slicing device, great for some quick and dirty
This free granular delay is very versatile. It’s great for simple or very complex delay effects as well as creating textures. This is because you can have up to 15 voices, each voice with individual filtering, re-pitching, envelope and panning.
These five free Max for Live devices are a colourful bunch of helper tools for all kinds of applications in Ableton Live. I’m sure you’ll find at least one of them will enhance the way you work.
Ableton Live 9.5 just came out last week, giving us lots of new features. These three Max for Live devices enhance these new functions. And all of them are free.
Not only Ableton Live and Push got an update this week, but so did the Live Library and the Max for Live Essentials Pack. Not all of the devices in it are new, but the ones that are deserve to
If you’re looking for a quick way to colourise clips in Ableton Live, have a look at the Max for Live device Colorizer. Drop it anywhere in your Live Set, set the colour of your track and activate it. Any
The Starter Kit 2 PeRColate by Maxology gives you the possiblity to explore the new physical modeling capabilities in Max 7. The PeRColate objects stem from the Synthesis Toolkit by Perry R. Cook and Gary Scavone, including physical modeling, modal,
A Max for Live user has created a huge collection of Ableton Live presets for the Max for Live instrument Opfour by Katsuhiro Chiba, a fantastic emulation of the classic FM synth TX81Z from Yamaha. It contains a total of
Freezer and BrownStutter are two free audio effects Riccardo Marogna aka argoman that I found immensely fun and useful. Freezer is a polyphonic spectral freeze effect, BrownStutter a stutter and beat repeater effect driven by a brownian rhythm.
BOOM, like LOOPO made by rbrt23, is a distortion audio effect with an attached feedback-circuitry that can do anything from not too bad sounding drive to total destruction. You can get rather interesting sounds and sound textures out of this
In July I had introduced the Max for Live devices which are available in Max 7. As suspected, Ableton has now released a free Live Pack for precisely these devices.
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