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Nirvana by Dillon Bastan

Simulate circuits, sculpt spaces, and feedback your way to sonic enlightenment.

$36.00
Step into Nirvana – a Max for Live sandbox that transforms feedback into a playground for sonic exploration.

Whether you're sculpting ethereal ambiences or tearing holes in the audio fabric with circuit-bent chaos, Nirvana is a feedback fantasy machine for the musically adventurous.

Built around three rich modes – Space, Material, and Circuit – this device lets you design intricate interactions between mics, speakers, materials, and more, creating beautifully broken or blissfully harmonic results.
  • Three hybrid feedback modes: Space, Material & Circuit
  • Polyphonic support with dual Systems per voice
  • Spatial 2D editor for object placement, rotation, tilt & automation
  • Built-in convolution reverb with drag-and-drop IR support
  • Circuit emulation with modular audio/math blocks
  • Modulators including LFOs, envelope & per-voice randomness
  • Perfect for ambient, noise, experimental, and genre-bending sound design
Unleash beautiful noise or harness feedback as a compositional tool. Nirvana makes it all intuitive, immersive, and inspiring.
USER GUIDE:

Nirvana User Manual

Additional information

MaxforLive

Beat Shakers, Instruments
Ableton Live Compatibility

Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 10 Suite, Ableton Live 11 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 11 Suite, Ableton Live 12 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 12 Suite
Min. Requirements

Ableton Live 10 Standard with MaxforLive Installed or Ableton Live 10 Suite
OS

Mac, Windows
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Nirvana by Dillon Bastan

OVERVIEW AND INSPIRATION

Nirvana isn’t just a Max for Live device – it’s an audio playground where physics meets synthesis. Designed for sound adventurers, this hybrid feedback system invites you to explore how microphones, speakers, materials, and circuits can interact in beautiful chaos or refined musicality. Whether you’re creating ambient atmospheres, sculpting tonal feedback, or building generative FX chains, Nirvana offers a fresh sonic dimension.

MODULATION & AUTOMATION

Modulate any parameter with two LFOs, an envelope, and a per-voice randomizer. Automate 2D object movement with a built-in position looper – perfect for generative workflows.

NIRVANA KEY FEATURES

  • Dual Systems per voice with independent routing and modulation

  • Cross-feedback between systems for evolving complexity

  • Audio source types: noise, oscillator, sample, external in, or system output

  • Built-in FX: filter, resonator, string

  • Customizable circuit paths with math operators and CV control

  • MIDI mapping for pitch-based modulation of space size, delay time, filter cutoff, and more

THREE FEEDBACK REALITIES

  • Space Mode creates a 2D environment where mics, speakers, and audio sources interact spatially – complete with convolution reverb and doppler FX.
  • Material Mode replaces air with resonating surfaces, using contact mics and transducers for unique physical modeling.
  • Circuit Mode drops you into a breadboard-style grid where audio sources, effects, and math operators become patchable building blocks.

  • 2D simulation of a room with up to 4 of each object in the room: microphones, speakers, and audio sources
  • Microhpones can have FX applied to them: filter, resonator, string model
  • Microphones feedback when pointed at speakers they feed audio to
  • Audio sources include: basic oscillators, sampler, external routed audio, and sound from the other system
  • 2D interface for positioning and rotating objects
  • Doppler effect and volume attenuation applied to all objects in the room based on their positions and size of the room
  • Ability to slect from many IR models for each microphone, speaker and the space overall
  • Various functions and other settings of the room such as changing the size, adding a pre-delay, duplicating objects, etc
  • A listener object (cat head) that can move/rotate throughout the space and also Meow if desired 🙂

  • Contains all the same features as Space mode with some differences:
  • Simulates a 2D material plane with various material (wood, metal, etc) IR files to select from
  • Allows resonation/excitation/feedback of the material
  • Instead of rotating the mics/speakers you can tilt them to simulated tilting them on a surface to get different tones

  • 2D Simulation of a circuit breadboard with up to 4 of each object in the room: audio sources, effects, and math operators
  • Columns of the breadboard are connected (summed) allowing for insane modulations!
  • Jumper cables can be made to connect columns for wild feedback
  • Objects can modulate their positions on the circuit dynamically creating new circuits throughout a voice
  • Objects take inputs and outputs allowing for various cv and modulations
  • Audio source and effect options match what are available in Space mode, except FX options include a delay line
  • Math operators include: +, -, x, /, pow, clip, tanh, sin, abs, and, interpolation

MORE FROM Dillon Bastan...

Dillon Bastan is a Los Angeles based sound artist, developer, music producer, and performer. He constructs interactive and intuitive experiences with sound as art, music, or tool. He uses a variety of programming languages, softwares, technologies, and a musical background. His passion for nature and interest in technology pulls him to blend the organic and synthetic.

Dillon draws on experiences from music, traveling, programming, meditation, and construction/carpentry for inspiration and solutions to his projects. He is constantly collaborating, learning, and exploring new possibilities in sound, art, and technology.

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