For those of you interested in OSCiLLOT that weren’t quite sure if it is the right thing, I’ve got good news. Max for Cats have just released a free Lite version of it. As the name suggests, it doesn’t come
LOOPO is a MIDI effect to make recording and layering MIDI clips in Ableton Live’s Session View much simpler and more intuitive. This makes it especially useful for improvisation.
FlutterStereo is a Max for Live audio effect that emulates tape flutter, but can be more exaggerated to add drama. It’s a simple device that lets you adjust four parameters: Frequency, Random, Periodic as well as the Dry/Wet setting.
bcResonCtrl is not only lots of fun to use, it’s also extremely useful to generate harmonics from melodies or even strange hybrid melodies out of beats and percussion. It achieves this by hooking into the Live API of a selected
For all users of CatStretch we have great news. Version 2 with lots of new features is out now and it’s free for everyone who had purchased version 1. And if you bought the Stochastic Delay and happen to own
Live 9.2 is fully compatible with Max 7, which means that we can now make use of the new real-time intonation, pitch and time correction technology it offers. While there aren’t any new Max for Live presets (yet), my former
Here’s an interesting Max for Live audio effect that makes use of sidechaining in a clever way. AM Bird uses the sidebands from amplitude/ring modulation to harmonise with any signal via pitch tracking. It can create rich harmonics for any
Recently, someone asked about a crossfader that could be automated in clips and used for several submixes independently. Christian Kleine a.k.a. Max for Cats quickly whipped up the code and I took care of the interface. We thought this might
Simple Simon Sampler is a Max for Live MIDI instrument that allows for a sample to be sliced into 8 pieces that can be triggered via MIDI at various speeds forwards or reversed. There’s also a button to randomise everything.
SESDevices, the programmer of the Max for Live effect Crap Cassette, put it so well, let me just quote: “Emulating the sound of a good old C90 playing back on a less than perfect deck, Crap Cassette attempts to take
This Max for Live effect isn’t brand new, but certainly worth mentioning. One thing you can easily do on drum machines, but not so much natively in Live is tuning individual drum sounds on the fly. This is where Keypitcher
Recently I’ve been reviewing quite a few touchscreen controllers for Ableton Live. LTC-1, a new and free controller for Live comprised of a Max for Live device and a Lemur project by DSRT Sound, takes a decidedly different approach. There
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