Instruments
Instruments is such a wide description for a category, it’s a challenge to pick which products to include so of course we’ve only picked the best & most Innovative.
Showing 1–12 of 14 results
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
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
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
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
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
Mouth Play by Dillon Bastan
Unconventional Vocal Tract Shaper
Mouth Play is a maxforlive instrument that offers unconventional shaping of a vocal tract together with a simulated glottis (brass model) or FM oscillator as a source.
This offers a large variety of sonic possibilities: from voice-like sounds (animal, human, monster), breathy sounds, glitchy, harsh, rich/pretty, droney or rhythmic synth sounds. The tract filter has a variety of modulation sources allowing for various qualities and movements.
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
Noizebox by LDM Design
Vinyl Crackle to full ripping noise generator
Another simple but extremely effective MaxforLive device from the developer behind Strumroll. The Noizebox app can create unique and creative sounds from a simple idea. It uses a noise source with a density control to allow sounds from vinyl crackles to ripping sounds to full noise.
Developer: LDM Design | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10/11 Suite or Ableton Live 10/11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Mac & WIndows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Pathways by Dillon Bastan
Rated 5.00 out of 5Sample Based Spectorgram
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.
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
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Density & Pulsaret II
Rated 3.00 out of 5Only for the Hardcore Granularists!
THIS PRODUCT IS CURRENTLY ON PRE-RELEASE
Developer: apeSoft | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive Installed | OS: Intel Based Macs & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLiveforLive is Essential
Sempler PRO by NOISS COKO
Rated 5.00 out of 5MASTER YOUR SAMPLE MAINPULATION
Sempler PRO is a polyphonic sample playback instrument, designed to create complex patterns by performing simple actions. The whole device is exclusively driven by its integrated sequencer, which among other parameters allows to set a different starting point, size, pitch, level and delay amount for every single step.
Each configuration will then produce a continuous stream of fragments, played one after the other to generate a unique arrangement that results from the combination of these little pieces and bits of audio.
Developer: Noiss COKO | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10.1.4+ or Live 11 | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 10.1.4 or Live 11 & MaxforLive 8.1.0
Pulsor Suite
Pulsor and Pulsor 2 are two monophonic synths that produce glitching/pulsing sounds and complex rhythmic soundscapes thanks to their unique circuitry.
Developer: Amazing Noises | Compatibility: Ableton Live 10+ or Live 11 | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Samsara by Dillon Bastan
Rated 5.00 out of 5Customized Granular Looping
samsara – sʌmˈsɑːrə – noun – the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound.From the creator of IOTA & Ecosystem, Samsara is a Max for Live granular looping device geared towards live performance, soundscapes and textures. Samsara gives you access to individual grain parameters and the ability to record audio input.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
