MaxforLive

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.

METAPATH

Create winding melodies that traverse a slope of pitches over a given distance in current grid or per-note intervals. Notes are generated within the current scale and key, and within your specified range. Note tie, velocity, and pattern density add additional variation, but it’s the randomization that makes longer patterns more interesting: distance, slope, and note base can be randomized at each pivot point to generate less predictable patterns that find ways to surprise you at every turn.

PRICE

£7.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 12 & MaxforLive is Essential

MIDI Toolset 001 MaxforLive MIDI Tools for Ableton Live 12 by Manifest Audio

METAFLUX

Harness seven unique randomization algorithms to generate melodies and coherent chords within a range of notes — scale aware in Live’s current Scale and Key. Use density to control the busy-ness of the pattern randomly, or use the unique Euclidean rhythm and count masking options to ensure your randomized notes fall on specific rhythmic intervals. Add up to 8 voices of polyphony to generate randomized chords, with all notes on a rhythmic step inheriting the same length and velocity.

PRICE

£7.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 12 & MaxforLive is Essential

MIDI Toolset 001 MaxforLive MIDI Tools for Ableton Live 12 by Manifest Audio

METARHYTHM

Combine potent Euclidean programming with fully polyrhythmic and polymetric pulse rates to generate intricate rhythms. Count masking, Euclidean direction control, and rhythmic inversion instantly power new patterns. Use velocity, accent, deviation, chance, and note length to inject even more life into any rhythm. Engage optional scale awareness for melodic use.

PRICE

£7.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 12 & MaxforLive is Essential

MIDI Toolset 001 MaxforLive MIDI Tools for Ableton Live 12 by Manifest Audio

data.mod by Dillon Bastan

data.mod is a max for live audio effect that is a series of modulators which can be mapped to various parameters in Live. It modulates the parameters via an ever changing array of values in the “data” section. Each frame, these values are changed via a selection of operations.

Depending on the initial values and the selected operations, these values can produce various types of oscillations, from simple to complex.

PRICE

£12.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

data.mod MaxforLive device for Ableton Live by Dillon Bastan

Alexkid – Beat Shaker – Micro House Flavour

As part of the Beat Shaker collection from Alexkid, each pack is a collection of drum racks in a particular flavour, powered by the Beat Shaker MaxforLive sequencer.

Beat Shaker Micro House, the first volume of a collection of drum recordings tailored to produce exciting Micro House and “Rominimal” grooves.

PRICE

£17.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Micro House Flavour Beat Shaker by Alexxkid

Alexkid – Beat Shaker – Electro Flavor Vol 1

As part of the Beat Shaker collection from Alexkid, each pack is a collection of drum racks in a particular flavour, powered by the Beat Shaker MaxforLive sequencer.

This flavour delivers on those authentic Electro beats!

PRICE

£17.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Electro House Flavour Beat Shaker by Alexxkid

Alexkid – Beat Shaker – 808 & 909 Flavor

As part of the Beat Shaker collection from Alexkid, each pack is a collection of drum racks in a particular flavour, powered by the Beat Shaker MaxforLive sequencer.

Get your grooves going with this introduction pack themed around the 808 and 909 drum kits!

PRICE

£13.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

808 & 809 Flavour Beat Shaker by Alexxkid

SICU by LDM Design

Sicu is a boutique physically modelled MPE Pan Flute instrument. Minimalist controls make way for simple and effective hands-on play which responds to Aftertouch / Channel Pressure and MPE pitch bends. Although optimised for a realistic pan flute sound, the instrument also allows for a much longer envelope to create breathing pad sounds.

PRICE

£16.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Sicu MaxforLive Instrument for Ableton Live by LDM Design

Rename Clip Names to Track Name by Elisabeth Homeland

You can decide if you want to rename all clips to its tracks name on All tracks, or only on the selected.

And where should it rename them: In Arrangement, in Session view, or both.

The rename button is key or midi mappable, and every parameter is accessible from Push.

PRICE

FREE / PAY WHAT YOU WANT

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Rename Clip Name to Track Name MaxforLive Device for Ableton Live by Elisabeth Homeland

Live Scratcher by Andrew Norris

Experience the art of DJ scratching with Live Scratcher for Ableton Live. This intuitive tool allows you to create authentic scratch sounds without the need for a turntable and mixer. Emulating the techniques of a scratch DJ, Live Scratcher controls the playhead position and sound activation with MIDI, offering flexibility and precision.

With classic scratch sounds included and customizable LFO shapes, you can unleash your creativity and explore various scratch techniques. Plus, features like ‘humanize’ and ‘drag’ add natural variation to your scratches for a realistic touch.

PRICE

FREE / PAY WHAT YOU WANT

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Live Scratcher MaxforLive Device for Ableton Live by Andrew Norris

Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 4 customer ratings

(4 customer reviews)

Modulat by Chaos Culture – Live 12

UPDATED FOR LIVE 12: with new Modulate Module!

Modulat is a MaxforLive Toolkit of prebuilt modules that you can use to effect parameters, output audio and generally be awesome.

Spawn a module from the menu and connect it up using patch cords, this is MaxforLive without the coding!

PRICE

Original price was: £95.00.Current price is: £60.00.

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 Suite or Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive (Version 8.0.2 and above)

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Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 12 customer ratings

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ADD by LDM Design

Build on the idea of instability, this MPE compatible sequencer creates constantly changing patterns of notes with modulated note parameters. Each time the sequence reaches the end, the sequence length itself grows or shrinks, within predefined limitations, creating unpredictable rhythmic patterns. The changes in length can also be mapped to velocity level, note length, and MPE slide and pressure parameter values.

The device consists of 8 note sequencers with individual controls for grow mode, step size, minimum and maximum sequence length, growth amount, hold, and probability. It also includes the option to freeze specific sequences to prevent changes. Global controls allow us to set swing amount to loosen up midi timing and note pitches can be set using a scale selection.

PRICE

£20.00

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

ADD MaxforLive Sequencer for Ableton Live by LDM Design

Neuraloot by Sonus Dept.

NEURALOOT is a suite of Max for Live devices built around the neural oscillator, which is a wavetable oscillator whose shape is generated by a neural network (the decoder section of an autoencoder, if you want to get more technical).

This in house neural network was trained on thousands of waveforms, and it learnt how to encode in the most exact way any shape in just eight parameters, that make up the latent space of the network. Each combination of these parameters is able to reconstruct a waveform, and changing gradually one or more components of the latent space lets you seamlessly morph a shape into another one.

The complexity and the properties of the generated shapes makes them perfect to be used as modulators, sequencers and drone generators. NEURALOOT takes advantage of the neural oscillator to create all this nice stuff.

PRICE

£21.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Neuraloot MaxforLive Devices for Ableton Live by Sonus Dept.

FUNCTION SUITE by Ned RUSH

Functions are a suite of “sound transformers” that use a breakpoint function editor to apply modulation to the sound.

Different from many standard audio effects with built in modulation capabilities like LFO’s or envelope generators, the Function allows you to draw in complex custom modulation shapes or multi-stage envelopes, which can then be indexed using a variety of signals, producing linear and non-linear modulations, designed to create interesting forms of movement.

PRICE

£36.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live Standard with MaxforLive

Function Suite MaxforLive Devices for Ableton Live by Ned RUSH

Rated 4.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating

(1 customer review)

FREE BUNDLE by DILLON BASTAN

This is the bumper pack of all of Dillon Bastans Free MaxforLive Devices for Ableton Live in one easy self installing pack!

PRICE

FREE / PAY WHAT YOU WANT

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 11 & MaxforLive is Essential

Dillon Bastans Free Bundle of MaxforLive Devices for Ableton Live

Steps by Rainbow Circuit

NEW VERSION NOW AVAILABLE

Steps is a Max for Live step sequencer modulator device. Inspired by Eurorack modules, Steps sequenced modulation signal can be mapped to any of Lives parameters. Dial in step count and sequencer rate, or randomize step values to add interesting rhythmic modulation.

Steps can not only add a layer of rhythm to your tracks, but the step sequencer itself can be a powerful engine of musical development. Automate Steps parameters to let the modulation play a key role in your tracks, and encounter happy accidents along the way.

PRICE

£17.00

Minimum Requirements: Ableton Live 10 Suite or Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive Installed

Steps 1.2 MaxforLive Device for Ableton Live by Rainbow Circuit