MIDI Toolset 003 by Manifest Audio

Automatically detecting and adopting your MIDI clip length, selection, and quantization settings, each voice can even be expressed through a particular rhythm, generating on — or avoiding — specific beats using the count settings. Density determines how talkative each voice can be, while the central weight dial controls which voice dominates — and if so, by how much.

Base velocity combines with randomization and global deviation to make each voice more lively, while length control and randomization express your voices even more distinctively — with note probability to provide even more dynamic results.

Ideal for bass lines, melodic developments, percussive patterns, or any musical opportunity for call and response, Converser is designed to help your music speak. Scale aware, theme adaptive, and Info View annotated, this creative MIDI Tool Generator is designed to seamlessly enhance your creativity.

Hexaline generates patterns based on up to six available note choices which never overlap to produce linear drums or unique melodies at the current grid count. Each note line gets a pitch, velocity, length, and probability, along with a mute key. Velocity, deviation, length, and chance of all steps can be set globally. In the default Rest mode, muted lines result in rest gaps in the pattern; toggle into Fill mode to instead generate a full new pattern based on the new count total voice count. Finally, generation modes offer two random styles – along with forward, reverse, and elliptical generation with optional hold duration.

Explore geometric melodies with Metagraph, plotting points on a grid to optionally be scaled between a variety of pitches, velocities, lengths, or probabilities. Globally control deviation, and randomize new patterns for scratch with an optional density control to reduce the number of grid points that to be filled. Clear the pattern, or unlock the grid to enter to enter notes freehand. Set the number of vertical grid intervals to explore new note distributions with the lock activated, multiply the number of notes generated per interval with the division control, and reduce note output density to taste. Enter Manual grid mode to create a horizontally tupletted note entry grid of any division. Zoom in on either axis, hold Shift and click to remove a breakpoint – or hold Alt/Option to impose curves on the line.

Inspired by our real-time Pulse Engine generator, Metapulse probabilistically generates new note pulses at the specified interval of the current grid setting, with a random division within the maximum selected each interval to generate complex note patterns. Pitch, velocity, and length can all be randomized each interval, have positive or negative decay imposed each interval, and have the amount of that decay randomized each interval as well. Explore different quantization restrictions – and enter the advanced mode to explore minimum and maximum limits on each pitch, velocity, or length decay, and decide on a behavior when those limits are reached: Clip at the obtained limit value, Wrap back to the upper limit, or Fold to reflect back in the opposite direction.

Navigator enables intuitive exploration of an endless pool of possible MIDI patterns via a simple XY field. The vertical axis controls the variety of note pitches and velocities explored within the ranges defined at right, with increasing variety at higher values, while the horizontal axis controls the density of the pattern and the variety of note lengths as specified by the sliders at bottom. Density always increases going right, pitch range always expands going up – but horizontal note length and vertical velocity ranges can be inverted. Velocity deviation and overall note probability can be set for all output globally. Increase the number slider below the scale awareness toggle to add up to six polyphonic voices within the note range. At bottom left, patterns will be more simple and sparse, at upper right they will be busiest and most complex.

Create unconventional unquantized rhythms by setting a destination note pitch, velocity, and arbitrary number of beats within a selected timespan. For more conventional patterns, enable quantization. Either way, explore the unique Nudge control to shift the focus of the pattern forward or backward in time. Set the probability and deviation for all generated notes globally.

Typewriter converts the ASCII values of typed or pasted text to generate unique MIDI patterns by remapping those values to a range of pitch, velocity, length, or probability values. You can also use them to control the rhythmic rate of generated notes – or gate notes above or below a specified ASCII value threshold. You can also skew the curve of how those values are interpreted. Up top you can set whether spaces are interpreted as rests, and whether individual characters are translated to MIDI – or whether entire words are averaged as discrete musical units instead.

Take a repetitive pattern and imbue with a narrative by randomizing note transposition by a chance amount within a specified range at an interval of the current Grid count – or in raw note count interval, with Optional offset either way. Be advised the graphical display is for reference purposes only.

Remap (and invert) selected notes to pitches in the current scale and key, new lengths, velocities, or probabilities. Up top, set the probability notes will be remapped, or apply an exponential curve to the remapping applied.

Apply syncopation to selected notes via note activation, using a random algorithm to interpolate down to no syncopation. Invert to mute even note count values instead of odd note count values.

Use the same Draw mode as Metasketch to intuitively apply dynamic MIDI transformations to polyphonic pitch, velocity, length, or chance within specified ranges. Prefer the linear function of Metagraph? No problem – flip into Grid mode to apply dynamic breakpoint editing to the same ranges instead, easily applying extended contours to any note selection. In either mode, easily randomize a starting point by clicking the dice, governed by the slider beneath for added randomization control too.

Apply deterministic count-based velocity, pitch, and length modulation at a specified interval (with optional inversion and offset), within specified ranges along with Clip, Wrap, or Fold limiting styles.

A: MFA MIDI Toolset 003 is a collection of twelve MaxforLive MIDI devices (4 generators, 8 transformers) that run within Ableton Live 12’s MIDI clip editor for MIDI creation, manipulation, and transformation.

A: Yes.

A: MaxforLive extends Ableton Live with the creative power of Max, letting you craft and perform with custom MIDI, audio, and modulation tools directly inside your workflow.

A: You can explore more of Manifest Audio’s tools and devices here:
Manifest Audio

A: To use this product, ensure the following requirements are met:

• Ableton Live 12.2 or higher
• MaxforLive installed (Max 9.0.7 or higher)
• Windows or macOS system capable of running Live 12
• Internet connection for download and updates

V1.0.51 – Released March 2026

Typewriter now adapts loop length to include generated notes, rounded to the nearest bar.

V1.0.5 – Released January 2026

Minor bug fixes, improvements, Scantron length-rate gating, Global Hub 2.0 and improved X-Relay bundled with Utility Boost

v1.0.4 – Released September 2025

Updated with new rate divisor option in fixed rate mode and Repeat/Unique toggle option to reduce repeated note pitches in Scantron

V1.0.0 – Initial Release – February 2025

To install MIDI Tools, first double-click to decompress the ZIP archive it arrived in. !

In Live’s Browser, navigate to the User Library in Places

Then find the MIDI Tools folder located there (2). If you don’t see a folder called MIDI Tools in your User Library, simply create it yourself.

We’d advice adding two subfolders for Generators and Transformers for neatness.

Finally, drag our Generators to the Generators subfolder and our Transformers to the Transformers subfolder

Live should automatically detect them and within the next few minutes, they should appear in the dropdown chooser of Live’s Generators or Transformers in the corresponding tab of any MIDI Clip’s Note Editor.

PLEASE NOTE: Once installed MIDI Tools, since they are not Max MIDI Effects, cannot be dragged and dropped onto MIDI tracks: they can only be loaded by the Generator and Transformer tabs of the MIDI clip editor.

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