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.

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Foil 2 by Rainbow Circuit

Additive Synthesizer

Foil 2 by Rainbow Circuit is a Max for Live additive synthesizer that provides unmatched sound design capabilities. With eight oscillators, users can create harmonic or inharmonic timbres, while the pitch envelope allows for complex timbral gestures.

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

£22.00

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!

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

£24.00

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!

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

£18.00

Whistle Two by Rainbow Circuit

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.

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

£22.00

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.

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

£15.00

Grain Forest by Dillon Bastan

Granular 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.

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

£20.00

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.

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

£15.00

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.

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

£10.00

Pathways by Dillon Bastan

Sample 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.

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

£15.00

Density & Pulsaret II by Apesoft

Only for the Hardcore Granularists!

THIS PRODUCT IS CURRENTLY ON PRE-RELEASE

COMPATIBILITY: Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed – Not Compatible with Apple Silicon

£30.99

Sempler PRO by NOISS COKO

MASTER 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.

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

£28.00

Pulsor Suite by Amazing Noises

Create endless variations of the weirdest and uncharted sounds you can imagine

Pulsor and Pulsor 2 are two monophonic synths that produce glitching/pulsing sounds and complex rhythmic soundscapes thanks to their unique circuitry.

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

£34.00

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Instruments

FILTER

Foil 2 by Rainbow Circuit

Additive Synthesizer

Iridescence by Dillon Bastan

Arppegiated delay trails with a markov chord system

Songbird by Dillon Bastan

Bird flock simulator and more!

Whistle Two by Rainbow Circuit

Banded Waveguide Physical Modeling Synth

data.train by Dillon Bastan

Want to sample and mangle?

Grain Forest by Dillon Bastan

Granular synth and effect driven by an evolving forest simulation

Mouth Play by Dillon Bastan

Unconventional Vocal Tract Shaper

Noizebox by LDM Design

Vinyl Crackle to full ripping noise generator

Pathways by Dillon Bastan

Sample Based Spectorgram

Density & Pulsaret II by Apesoft

Only for the Hardcore Granularists!

Sempler PRO by NOISS COKO

MASTER YOUR SAMPLE MAINPULATION

Pulsor Suite by Amazing Noises

Create endless variations of the weirdest and uncharted sounds you can imagine

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