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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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
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 9.7.5+ | Live 10 | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Iota by Dillon Bastan
Rated 5.00 out of 5Granular Looper
Aimed at electronic musicians, sound designers and installation artists, Iota is a Max For Live granular looping instrument that wrings endless creative potential out of even the simplest samples, via an inspiring graphically-driven interface.
Iota features a spectrogram of a sample in which you can draw individual loops or voices for playback. Loops appear as rectangles designating their audio filtering, start position and window size. Each loop’s parameters can be customized and recorded in an internal automation system. Loops can either playback simultaneously or be triggered individually by assigned MIDI note messages.
Developer: Dillon Bastan | Compatibility: Ableton Live 9.7.5+ | Live 10 | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
Ecosystem by Dillon Bastan
Rated 4.00 out of 5SemiModular MaxforLive Device
Ecosystem is both a Max for Live Instrument and Audio Effect (2 devices). Ecosystem provides you with 3 different types of modules: Sound generators, basic audio effects, and controllers. Modules can connect together, sending audio or control signals to each other. Within its environment you can create soundscapes, textures, experimental synthesizers/effects and looping. It is a semi-modular device, and may be used however you imagine!
Developer: Dillon Bastan | Compatibility: Ableton Live 9.7.5+ | Live 10 | OS: Mac & Windows | Minimum Requirements: MaxforLive is Essential
