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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.

Grain Forest by Dillon Bastan

Granular synth and effect driven by an evolving forest simulation

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£26.00

Grain Forest is a maxforlive granular synth and effect. The granular playback and FX are driven by a simulation of a forest that evolves through DNA mixing and mutations over generations.

MIDI WAVES by Ned RUSH

Midi note generator and modulator

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£19.00

Midi Waves is an experimental midi note generator and modulator.

LFO Generated MIDI Messages – pitch, velocity, duration and gate
Each element has its own LFO so they can be offset from each other
All snapped to a musical scale
Export the MIDI to record on another track to capture your awesome accidents!

GrainLoop by NOISS COKO

Granular looping & layering device

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 / 12 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 / 12 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£23.00

GrainLoop is a real time audio looping device that uses granular synthesis as an alternative for the old classic and traditional linear playback. This sample based technique triggers a continuous stream of sound particles, that rearranged in time, reflect a rather mangled and often fractured version of the original loop.

Real time audio recording and unlimited overdubbing.
Up to four grains playing audio simultaneously.
Random and LFO modulation for Point, Speed, Density, Detune, Pan and Level.
Push integration allows remote control and automation of all parameters.
Automatically save and recall recorded loops within your Ableton Live projects.

Chance Pack THREE by LDM Design

Utilize the power of probability to add some creative controlled chaos to your music!

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£19.00

This is the 3rd pack in the popular Chance series from LDM Design. Designed with a modular approach, you can mix and match various devices from any Chance pack to expand the probablistic possibilities of your Live Set. This pack adds some more control to reign in the chaos, utilizing weighted probability & round robin playback of samples or instruments. The pack contains 6 devices, which also includes devices specifically targeting elements of Live’s instruments.

Tritonet V2 by Tolga Zafer

Musical Calculator

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£50.00

Tritonet is a musical abacus which provides an innovative way of learning and applying music harmony. It makes learning music theory much more accessible by focusing on building the intuition behind harmony.

600+ Scales, +200 Chords
Based on Circle of Fifths and sense of direction.
Harmonic Network inside Ableton Live Set
One-Note Dynamic Chord Creation
Harmony Tracking for keyboard players
Dynamic Pitch Mapping
Design, Redesign and Perform harmony
Full Automation
Let your MIDI clips play your chords
Play always in tune with your MIDI equipment
Control Resonators to give harmonic tail to your audio
Push integration

Scale Breaker by Chaos Culture

Break out of Scale, with Scale Breaker!

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£10.00

Adaptive Just Intonation with latency compensated synchronization across instruments.
MPE as well as non-MPE, both polyphonically.
Scala .scl and .kbm file support and editor.
Morphing between 32 tunings and 32 mappings for every note individually.
Complete Pitch Bend translation and intelligent remapping of notes.

Scene Setlist by Ableton Drummer

Navigating and monitoring in Ableton Live's Session View made easy!

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£23.00

All (song) starting Scenes in one view and quick and easy to navigate through.
Count-down and visual-grid for current playing scenes is provided and lets you monitor change to next Scene, song or song-part. Set the display of the
“Scene Setlist Monitor” pop-up window in your desired size and customize colours and transparency.
Add custom text notes to be shown – chord charts, lyric key words or other important info can be quickly set up via MIDI clips.
iPad compatible version included which will display all infos on an iPad. (Requires iPad App “Mira”)
Perfect in combination with Scene Follow functions introduced in Ableton Live 11 to run full live shows in Ableton Live Session View.
Count-down and visual-grid for current playing scenes.
Perfect for combining with Scene Follow functions introduced in Ableton Live 11.

Song Sketch 2 (Pro Pack) by XY Studio Tools

A workflow tool that lets you quickly turn your song idea into a full arrangement.

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 11 / 12 Suite or Ableton Live 11 / 12 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£45.00

Song Sketch 2 is a Max for Live tool for working with song arrangement in Ableton Live. In Song Sketch 2, you can load, import, edit and create different arrangement patterns and apply them to your loops. In this way, you can quickly draft an arrangement, experiment with different options and evaluate arrangement ideas for the music that you are composing.The Pro edition includes a total of 172 arrangement templates in 14 genres. Song Sketch 2 is also available in a Starter edition (72 templates in 12 genres). More templates are available in expansion packs.

Song Sketch 2 (Starter Pack) by XY Studio Tools

A workflow tool that lets you quickly turn your song idea into a full arrangement.

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 11 / 12 Suite or Ableton Live 11 / 12 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£27.00

Song Sketch 2 is a Max for Live tool for working with song arrangement in Ableton Live. In Song Sketch 2, you can load, import, edit and create different arrangement patterns and apply them to your loops. In this way, you can quickly draft an arrangement, experiment with different options and evaluate arrangement ideas for the music that you are composing.The Starter edition includes a total of 72 arrangement templates in 12 genres. Song Sketch 2 is also available in a Pro edition (172 templates in 14 genres). More templates are available in expansion packs.

NedFX – Lucky 16 by Ned RUSH

16 magnificent maxforlive devices to add variation to any sound!

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£24.00

NedFX Lucky 16 by Ned Rush is a collection of MaxforLive Audio Effects processor for sound design both in the studio and on the stage.Mixing probability and hands on performance in a simple interface, sounds can quickly be repeated, reversed, scratched, stretched, crushed, modulated and turned in strange spaces.You can tweak them live, automate them in the sequencer, or resample what they do and make new sounds.Compatible with Push 3 Standalone

Pathways by Dillon Bastan

Sample Based Spectorgram

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

£20.00

If you’ve sampled the delights of the Inspired by Nature devices within Live 11 you already know the work of Dillon Bastan.From the creator of IOTA, Ecosystem & Samsara, Pathways is a sample-based Max for Live instrument that allows users to draw paths (made of small points) for sample playback over a spectrogram interface.The playback path is based on which points were drawn first to last, allowing for all kinds of linear and nonlinear playback possibilities. It offers two playback modes that support a variable rate of playback (and freezing) without altering the pitch.

Maze by NOISS COKO

Inspired by the Time Lag Accumulator system

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 / 12 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 / 12 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Maze is a simple Max for Live looping device, inspired by the Time Lag Accumulator system developed by electronic music composer Terry Riley.

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Grain Forest by Dillon Bastan

Granular synth and effect driven by an evolving forest simulation

MIDI WAVES by Ned RUSH

Midi note generator and modulator

GrainLoop by NOISS COKO

Granular looping & layering device

Chance Pack THREE by LDM Design

Utilize the power of probability to add some creative controlled chaos to your music!

Tritonet V2 by Tolga Zafer

Musical Calculator

Scale Breaker by Chaos Culture

Break out of Scale, with Scale Breaker!

Scene Setlist by Ableton Drummer

Navigating and monitoring in Ableton Live's Session View made easy!

Song Sketch 2 (Pro Pack) by XY Studio Tools

A workflow tool that lets you quickly turn your song idea into a full arrangement.

Song Sketch 2 (Starter Pack) by XY Studio Tools

A workflow tool that lets you quickly turn your song idea into a full arrangement.

NedFX – Lucky 16 by Ned RUSH

16 magnificent maxforlive devices to add variation to any sound!

Pathways by Dillon Bastan

Sample Based Spectorgram

Maze by NOISS COKO

Inspired by the Time Lag Accumulator system

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