This tutorial covers two methods for setting up a drum pad in a Drum Rack to play a melody, such as a bass line, alongside beats. This tip is especially helpful for those using Ableton Live with an electronic drum kit or as a controllerist using Push or a similar MIDI controller. However, this approach can also be used creatively in music productions.
Push 2 Pedal Expression was created by Ableton developer Ralf Suckow. It allows you to calibrate one or two passive analog expression pedals plugged into Push 2, and use various MIDI control changes to control parameters in your Live Set.
SynthieCat by Max for Cats was inspired by the EMS Synthi A model, an amazing synth released in 1971 with three oscillators and a unique patch system. The Max for Live Pack is available for Live 11 Suite.
Christian Kleine aka Max for Cats is back with a free Max for Live Pack called Studio Tools. Included are three devices: a phase scope, an oscilloscope and a signal generator. The first two are visualiser tools for mixing, the
This time Christian Kleine, aka Max for Cats, has created an amazing sibling for Color. Color Digital is a novel effect for Ableton Live 10 and up, dedicated to create digital artefacts of MP3 encoding, downsampling, bit reduction and digital
This latest Max for Cats release coincides with Charlie’s birthday, my cat who inspired the name. TriComp is a Max for Live multiband compressor that allows for flexible sidechaining of the three variable frequency bands individually. This gives you more
I hadn’t realised how much time had passed since my last video in the series “With a Little Help from Max for Live”. So here’s a long overdue new one, a kind of special edition, in which I introduce you
Christian Kleine aka Max for Cats has been at it again. This time he has a fantastic granular delay processor for us. It’s called Grain Relay and unites grain delay, pitch shifting, reverb, downsampling and modulation in a one, easy
Abyss is a Max for Live device, which lets you forward any input signal into the abyss. The result is an ominous, gory and hellish version of your original input signal. Use with extrem caution and only if you have
CatStretch is an amazing sound design tool that I’ve been using for pretty much every song since it was first released. It is a 6-voice polyphonic time-stretching sample playback instrument that essentially lets you ‘freeze’ a sonic character at a
With an update following so closely on the heels of the last, you can probably guess that it’s one that doesn’t bring any new features, but merely bugfixes. The update is of course free for all current users. If you’ve
Christian Kleine aka Max for Cats is back with a free update for all current ConChord users. ConChord, the pulse driven chord step sequencer, now features 16 steps instead of just 8, which gives you a maximum of 112 pulses,
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