Most of us never have enough time to make music. So it’s vitally important that when we have some, we don’t spend it on things that we could do a whole lot faster. Here are 5 videos helping you to
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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