- If you are an Ableton Live Suite owner, you'll definitely want to take advantage of the many unique music production and sound design tools Max for Live has to offer! Max, originally developed by Cycling'74 in the late 90's has since been renowned as one of the world's leading tools for sound designers, interactive composers and music technologists.
- Midi2themax has introduced MXL PACK, a collection of 40+ MIDI Max For Live devices for Ableton Live 10 and 11. Features: quantize melodies and chords to 400 scales – change the scale dynamically by sending notes from Live clips/tracks; chromatic, diatonic and rotating harmonizers, with different velocity, delay and target track for each.
These devices allow you to connect, control and monitor Live with a range of innovative technologies and communication protocols. Use LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3, Arduino, or littleBits™ to connect up sensors, lights or motors, open your sound world up to the web through JSON-based APIs, or convert OSC data to MIDI data. The list of input and output possibilities for music & sound creation with Live is almost endless.
Max for Live Essentials is a collection of audio and MIDI effects, synthesizers and control devices made with Max for Live – for use with Live 9. Included in Live 11 Suite. Max for Live Essentials includes 16 Instruments, 10 audio effects, and 8 MIDI effects. The Pack also features demo Live Sets that showcase the new Max for Live Synths and Drum Synths, as well as Instrument, Audio and MIDI Effect Racks. Check out more Max for Live devices in the Packs store Devices made by Ableton In addition to the devices built by the Max for Live community, you'll also find Max for Live devices in Live built by us. These devices are available right in the Live 11 Browser together with Live's native Instruments and Effects.
The Pack consists of 11 Max for Live devices: a toolkit for exploration, or to open up in Max and adapt to your own needs (Max programming knowledge is required for this!). Some devices demonstrate how you can use each protocol to capture different types of data.
You can get the pack using the download button to the right or by forking our repository on GitHub.
Here's more on how you can use each device.
Hardware
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 – Connect an EV3 Programmable Brick to Live and get access to its sensors and motors.
Arduino - Connects switches, potentiometers and other sensors to control Live parameters, or use Live to control LEDs or Servos connected to an Arduino Uno.
littleBits™ - use the littleBits Arduino with other input/sensor Bits to control Live. It also enables events in Live to control your other littleBits modules. Find out more about littleBits at littleBits.cc
Camera – fetches webcam data in order to control mappable parameters.
OSC devices
OSC Send – converts any mappable Live parameter to OSC data for sending out of Live.
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OSC TouchOSC – allows you to map any controller from any available TouchOSC layout to live elements.
OSC Monitor – a simple but useful OSC data monitor.
OSC Leap Motion – uses Leap Motion to generate midi notes with the help of the ManosOsc application.
OSC MIDI Send – sends MIDI note and velocity data as OSC messages to a Processing sketch.
JSON devices
JSON Weather – one of two examples on how to fetch JSON data from the internet, parse it through dictionaries and query specific data content from it.
This example device is powered by the Dark Sky API
JSON Video – the second example device on how to fetch web data in JSON format: uses #ableton tagged looped videos from the online video sharing service 'Vine'.
Probability Pack is a set of five creative sequencers that allow you to add controlled randomization to your composition and performance process. Each sequencer has a unique way of adding subtle or extreme randomization to patterns for unpredictable outcomes. Use these sequencers to generate new ideas, create variations of existing patterns, set up unpredictable, ever-evolving musical textures or combine them all to create complete chaos.
The sequencers were designed for hands-on use with Push, but hardware is not necessary to use them. Probability Pack also comes with custom presets designed by Sonic Faction to show off the expressiveness of each device.
Melodic Probability
A monophonic step sequencer made for melodies. Set the probability of the event, pitch and octave of each step.
Rhythmic Probability
A polyphonic sequencer made for rhythms. Set the probability of the velocity, length, and event of each step.
Step Divider
A polyphonic sequencer where each step can be divided into any number of smaller subdivisions for glitchy and chaotic results.
Dr. Chaos
A neural network that strings together notes and generates melodies in unpredictable ways.
Ableton 9 Full Max For Live Packs
Probability Arp
OSC MIDI Send – sends MIDI note and velocity data as OSC messages to a Processing sketch.
JSON devices
JSON Weather – one of two examples on how to fetch JSON data from the internet, parse it through dictionaries and query specific data content from it.
This example device is powered by the Dark Sky API
JSON Video – the second example device on how to fetch web data in JSON format: uses #ableton tagged looped videos from the online video sharing service 'Vine'.
Probability Pack is a set of five creative sequencers that allow you to add controlled randomization to your composition and performance process. Each sequencer has a unique way of adding subtle or extreme randomization to patterns for unpredictable outcomes. Use these sequencers to generate new ideas, create variations of existing patterns, set up unpredictable, ever-evolving musical textures or combine them all to create complete chaos.
The sequencers were designed for hands-on use with Push, but hardware is not necessary to use them. Probability Pack also comes with custom presets designed by Sonic Faction to show off the expressiveness of each device.
Melodic Probability
A monophonic step sequencer made for melodies. Set the probability of the event, pitch and octave of each step.
Rhythmic Probability
A polyphonic sequencer made for rhythms. Set the probability of the velocity, length, and event of each step.
Step Divider
A polyphonic sequencer where each step can be divided into any number of smaller subdivisions for glitchy and chaotic results.
Dr. Chaos
A neural network that strings together notes and generates melodies in unpredictable ways.
Ableton 9 Full Max For Live Packs
Probability Arp
An arpeggiator with a built-in chord generator. Set the probability for rate, note direction (style), length and octave.
Sounds
Over 60 Ableton synth presets, Instrument Racks and settings specifically designed for the sequencers in Probability Pack.
Probability Pack is now included with Live 10 Suite.
