There may be a time when you need to create sheet music for your own composition. Unfortunately this feature isn’t built into Ableton Live. If you have Max for Live, there is the now free LiveScore by Nick Didkovsky and Georg Hajdu, which offers music notation through a bunch of Max for Live devices. It is based on MaxScore, which is for standalone Max. LiveScore is integrated into Live makes the transcription and editing of Live MIDI clips possible.
There are two main Max for Live devices:
LiveScore.Viewer
The Max for Live MIDI effect LiveScore.Viewer displays the content of a selected MIDI clip in standard music notation on the respective track. It updates its content dynamically when a clip’s loop or section markers have been moved, when notes in Live’s Clip View are manually added or changed or when a new clip is recorded in Session View.
You can set the key signature, the clef to be used as well as the quantisation setting. The window follows the playback position of the clips in Live. There’s also the “Open Editor” button which opens the second device, the LiveScore.Editor, to allow simple editing.
LiveScore.Editor
This Max for Live MIDI effect is the actual music editor with a graphical user interface that offers a number of handy tools. These include intelligent transcription with key and clef finder, a percussion map, a set of menus and palettes for easy navigation and interactive editing as well as microtonal notation and playback via LiveScore devices.
A demo Live Set is included and documentation can be found on the website including a tutorial on the installation process.
LiveScore requires Live 9.7 and Max for Live 6.1 or up and is available at ComputerMusicNotation.
This way for heaps more Max for Live devices & tips.
4 responses
Sadly this isn’t free at all !!!
What they left out after installing is this message:
MaxScore requires a JMSL license to run, available at http://www.algomusic.com. A 30-day trial license is available for free.
Yes, it is free if you have the Suite version of Live and get LiveScore. If you had read properly you would have seen that I did not write about MaxScore.
Hi!
How to get a LiveScore for Live Suite 9 or Live Suite 10?
When I click on the link it automatically opens the page for Live Suite 11.
Thank you,
Matej
I’d suggest to get in touch with them. Seems like since they updated MaxScore and the website, they no longer offer older versions, but you can still mention this in their form. http://www.computermusicnotation.com/#Contact