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Remember when a joint venture between Ableton & Cycling 74 was announced just a few years ago? Well with Ableton now owning wholly Cycling 74, we’re looking forward to an even tighter integration between these two powerful platforms and we fully intend to be at the forefront of developing new & innovative products for them both.
Max4Live accesses the Ableton Live API at a deeper level than allowed by simple MIDI mapping alone we have managed to solve some of the most popular feature requests seen on the Audio Production forums around the world wide web, you’ll find the results of our moments of inspiration with the MaxforLive Control Devices category.
Additionally, within this section of our catalogue you find MaxforLive devices dedicated to enhancing and indeed destroying your audio (or adding just a touch of glitch), creating and rearranging your MIDI and finally producing visuals out of the resulting inspiration.
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Ableton Live 9.6 & MaxforLive 7
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Arturia Wrappers by Elisabeth Homeland
Use the amazing Arturia plugins like native Ableton Live devices!
Use the Artruria effect plugins like native Ableton Live devices!
See the whole GUI in the device view, and manipulate the plugin’s parameters without the need to ever open up the plugins floating window.Developer: Elisabeth Homeland | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10/11 Suite or Ableton Live 10/11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & WIndows | Minimum Requirements: These MaxForLive devices are not recreations of the original plugins. you still have to have the actual Arturia plugins installed! - It’s just a top layer for them. - These are MaxForLive devices so you’re gonna need either Live suite, or live standard with MaxForLive.
Key Arranger by XY Studio Tools
Arrange your clips in real time with your Midi Keyboard
Key Arranger is a Max for Live device for arranging songs in Live’s Arranging view just by pressing keys on a Midi Keyboard. The Key Arranger workflow makes it easy to try out different combinations of parts and progress at your own pace. In that way, it merges the intuitive experience of the Session View with the linear workflow of the Arrangement View.
Developer: XY StudioTools | Compatibility: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive | OS: Mac (Sierra and later) & Windows 10+ | Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive 8 - Minimum 8GB RAM, recommended 8GB+
Iridescence by Dillon Bastan
Arppegiated delay trails with a markov chord system
Iridescence is a MaxForLive delay effect with arpeggiated note trails via a polyphonic real-time pitch shifting and delay system.
You can select how many notes are in an arpeggiated “chord” created off of the audio input.
Additionally, you can create up to 16 different chords that can transition via a Markov Chain (a probabilistic transition from chord to chord). This device can create beautiful harmonies off of a single note!
Developer: Dillon Bastan | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Rabbit Hole by Culto
CAN YOU ESCAPE THE RABBIT HOLE?
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice as she gazed into the Rabbit Hole. Take a journey through this wonder tunnel and your sound will meet a new reality, unlike any other.
Rabbit Hole is the ultimate chaos modulation delay by Culto, where parallel modulators driven by a random function warp its delay lines into creating weird sonic events. It fills empty spaces in your samples, creating additional rhythmical layers and thick, swirling textures.
With Rabbit Hole, you can reverse the delay sound, filter it, loop portions of the random function, apply gentle modulation for chorusing effects, and add quirky jumps for bubbly streams of sound.
So, if you need unheard sounds, enter the wonder tunnel and let Rabbit Hole take you on a wild ride of sonic discovery.
Developer: CULTO | Compatibility: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | OS: Mac: Intel: 10.14 Mojave or later Silicon: OS 11.0 or later / Windows Windows: 10 (64-bit) or later | Minimum Requirements: Live 10.1.42+ MaxforLive is Essential - Version 8.2.2 or above
BigSky Wrapper by Udo R. Bräuna
Use the Strymon BigSky plugin like an Ableton native one!
Use the Strymon BigSky VST without opening the plugin window every time you want to change a parameter. Midi-map and automate every parameter just by clicking on it, like an Ableton native device.Developer: Udo R. Bräuna | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Pianerb by AVAL
Portable Piano Soundboard
A realistic and usable piano soundboard that can be adjusted as desired, thanks to the few but very useful controls available that can be used as a creative and unique reverb system.
Developer: AVAL | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10/11 Suite or Ableton Live 10/11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
AbleSet 2 by Leolabs
Setlists for Ableton Made Easy
AbleSet is the easiest way to manage and control your Ableton setlist.
Control your Ableton set from any device.
Reorder songs as you please.
AbleSet lets you focus on delivering fantastic shows.
Time Limited Demo Version – AVAILABLE HEREDeveloper: Leolabs | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 & 11 (11 is required for some features) | OS: macOS Catalina (10.15.7) & newer, Windows 10 & newer | Minimum Requirements: Live 10.1.42+ Max for Live is required for some features - Version 8.2.2 or above
Songbird by Dillon Bastan
Bird flock simulator and more!
Songbird is a MaxForLive audio instrument featuring a simulation of a flock of birds, each bird having its own model of a syrinx (a bird vocal organ) as well as a model of a simple birdbrain that controls the syrinx to create different syllables.
Each bird’s position, speed, angle, etc in the flock can be mapped to various parameters as modulation sources.
This device yields anything from textures, drones, rhythms, harsh/haunting/noisy/pretty tones, generative soundscapes, odd melodies, and of course different sounding bird calls!
Developer: Dillon Bastan | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
AbleSet 2 by Leolabs (DEMO)
Setlists for Ableton Made Easy
This time limited demo has no feature restrictions, it requires a restart of Live after 15 minutes of use
AbleSet is the easiest way to manage and control your Ableton setlist.
Control your Ableton set from any device.
Reorder songs as you please.
AbleSet lets you focus on delivering fantastic shows.
Developer: Leolabs | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 & 11 (11 is required for some features) | OS: macOS Catalina (10.15.7) & newer, Windows 10 & newer | Minimum Requirements: Live 10.1.42+ Max for Live is required for some features - Version 8.2.2 or above
Freesound4Live by Alessandro aylesim Miracapillo
Freesound4live is a Max for Live instrument that enables users to search, browse, listen, and download sounds from Freesound.org, one of the largest collaborative sound libraries in the world, without having to leave Ableton Live.
With Freesound4live, users can easily find and preview a wide variety of sounds, including field recordings, musical samples, and sound effects, directly within the Ableton Live interface. The instrument provides a streamlined workflow for integrating external sounds into your projects, making it an powerful tool for music producers, sound designers, and multimedia artists.
Developer: Alessandro aylesim Miracapillo | Compatibility: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | OS: Mac: Intel: 10.14 Mojave or later Silicon: OS 11.0 or later / Windows Windows: 10 (64-bit) or later | Minimum Requirements: Live 10.1.42+ MaxforLive is Essential - Version 8.2.2 or above
Whistle Two by Babumas Devices
Banded Waveguide Physical Modeling Synth
Whistle is a physical modelling synthesizer with a banded waveguide as a resonator, disturbed with a granulated noise exciter source.
Developer: Babumas Devices | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: OS 11.0 OR LATER / WINDOWS WINDOWS: 10 (64-BIT) OR LATER | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Native Instrument Wrappers by Elisabeth Homeland
Use the amazing Native Instruments plugins like native Ableton Live devices!
Use the Native Instruments effect plugins like native Ableton Live devices! See the whole GUI in the device view, and manipulate the plugin’s parameters without the need to ever open up the plugins floating window.
Developer: Elisabeth Homeland | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10/11 Suite or Ableton Live 10/11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & WIndows | Minimum Requirements: These MaxForLive devices are not recreations of the original plugins. you still have to have the actual Kilohearts plugins installed! - It’s just a top layer for them. - These are MaxForLive devices so you’re gonna need either Live suite, or live standard with MaxForLive.
