Want to widen a sound? Drop in the Max for Live audio effect Stereo Imager. It works out of the box, but has some nifty extra features, too.
TapeStop does exactly what the name promises. It’s a Max for Live tape stop effect. You can set up and down time separately. Either in time or in beats. Then hit the TapeStop button (even repeatedly – try it, it’s
jo.PitchShift is a pitch shifter, which is based on the Max internal gizmo object. You can change the pitch of any audio signal within a range of four octaves in either mono (less CPU) or stereo.
In some of the audio effects in Live there is a hidden hi-quality function. What it does and where to find it is shown in this video tutorial. There is also a Crisp setting in the Chorus effect that I’m
The Analog Compressor is a simple stereo processing Max for Live audio effect. But one, that is interesting for anyone who loves sidechaining.
Do you know the oversampling function in both Glue Compressor and EQ Eight? This video tutorial explains where in the two audio effects this feature can be turned on and what it does.
StereoTool is a Max for Live audio effect which gives a broad range of controls over your stereo signal. It’s a very useful tool when mastering.
jo.Spectral Morph is a free Max for Live audio effect which is based on an FFT filter bank. Especially with its randomisable features, it’s lots of fun to use and can be great to make a repetitive part sound more
The Mk-iii a fully-featured modular drum machine built for Ableton Live and it’s best when played. Two completely independent Max for Live devices, a step sequencer and a sample playback module, make up the core of the Mk-iii drum. Both
Christian Kleine a.k.a. Max for Cats has been a busy bee, or should I say cat. Another week, another release, it seems. This time it’s the Max for Live Pack “Gratis Hits” with five devices that you can download for
Here’s another great Max for Live audio effect by Amazing Noises a.k.a. Maurizio Giri, known for his books on programming with Max and more recently the much lauded Dark Synth. The ‘Granular Mirror Maze’ is a granular modulated feedback delay/reverberator
When I started the Oblique Strategies here on Sonic Bloom, a commenter reminded me of a Max for Live device displaying the original oblique strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. By now, there are two available for free, L.ObliqueStrategies
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