
Audio Devices
In this section we cover the wide breadth of demands from the modern producer using Ableton Live.
We’ve got innovative MaxforLive Audio Devices & FX from the likes of Strangelines, Ned RUSH & NOISS COKO to name just a few.
Whether you’re looking for automated glitchyness to mimic the Breakcore style or want to add depth, warmth or grit to your productions there’s a device expertly suited for it.
We pride ourselves on how simple our MaxforLive devices are to use, from installation to mastering in a few simple steps.
Need to ask a question before buying? No problem, there’s a Pre-Sale Queries link at the bottom of the page.
Our Individual MaxforLive Audio Devices can just be saved to your hard drive and then navigated to from within your browser, drag and drop them on any Audio track in Live or place them after a MIDI Instrument and start effecting your audio straight away!
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Ableton Live 9.6 & MaxforLive 7
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
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
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
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
data.train by Dillon Bastan
Want to sample and mangle?
data.train is a sampler mangler of sorts that can be used as an audio effect or instrument (works with dropped samples or live audio input).
It centers around the modulation of sample playback and FX through a grid of math operators. Each playback and FX parameter has its own modulation source/value and each frame that value changes based on its selected math operator.
By changing the operators in a chain of events and the source of their right-hand operand, you can create complex to harmonic oscillations that can be evolving over time or repeating rhythms.
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
PIASTRONE by AVAL
MaxforLive Plate Reverb
Piastrone is a Max4Live device for Ableton Live, a plate reverb dedicated to the italian composer Gino Marinuzzi Jr., who in 1963 defined with this term the reverb technique.
It’s based on the famous Dattorro (1997) digital plate reverb design, which returns a dry and, at the same time, deep and spacious sound, with the possibility, through modulations, to obtain more metallic and spicy sound.
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
DISCO by Alessandro aylesim Miracapillo
Rated 5.00 out of 5Spinning Delay!
Disco is a circular Euclidian delay, where every delay line can rotate around making interesting delay artifacts!
The signal is split into different delay lines that can rotate together or independently, speeding and slowing down the audio signal.
Use it as a simple Euclidian delay, spin it for crazy effects or just add a little bit of movement to your sound! Possibilities are many, so have fun!
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
AS D-DELAY by SABROI
AS D-Delay is a diverse multi-tap MaxforLive Audio device that morphs between various delay-based effects, blurring the line between a filter, flanger, chorus, resonator, reverb, and even a granulator
Developer: SABROI | Compatibility: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | OS: OSX 10.11.6+ Windows 8+ | Minimum Requirements: Live 10.1.42+ MaxforLive is Essential - Version 8.2.2 or above
GMaudio TransD 2.0
Transient Shaping Reimagined
Add or remove punch, layer and control sounds, apply dynamic effects and more with this one-of-a-kind transient shaping tool.
Developer: Fixation Studios | Compatibility: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive | OS: OSX 10.11.6+ Windows 8+ | Minimum Requirements: Live 10.1.42+ MaxforLive is Essential - Version 8.2.2 or above
Grain Forest by Dillon Bastan
Rated 5.00 out of 5Granular synth and effect driven by an evolving forest simulation
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.
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
GrainLoop by NOISS COKO
Rated 5.00 out of 5Granular looping & layering device
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.
Developer: Noiss COKO | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live Suite 10.1.43 or Ableton Live Standard 10.1.43 with MaxforLive 8.3.1 installed