It lets you instantly rearrange blocks of notes within a MIDI clip, making it incredibly powerful for resequencing drum breaks, melodic phrases, or any other MIDI content. Rather than manually dragging notes around, the device automates the whole process so you can explore new arrangements in seconds.
Phrase Shuffler Pro by Philip Meyer
PHILIP MEYER MIDI TOOLS FOR LIVE 12
BREAK MANGLER AND SO MUCH MORE
Instantly and effortlessly rearrange blocks of notes in a MIDI Clip. Absolutely incredible for resequencing your favorite breaks
This device is a collaboration with fellow Max Certified Trainer Ned Rush
USER GUIDE: Meyer Devices MIDI Tools Manual
Phrase Shuffler Pro by Philip Meyer
PHILIP MEYER MIDI TOOLS FOR LIVE 12
BREAK MANGLER AND SO MUCH MORE
Instantly and effortlessly rearrange blocks of notes in a MIDI Clip. Absolutely incredible for resequencing your favorite breaks
This device is a collaboration with fellow Max Certified Trainer Ned Rush
USER GUIDE: Meyer Devices MIDI Tools Manual
Additional information
| MaxforLive | Live 12 MIDI Tool Transformations |
|---|---|
| OS | Mac, Windows |
| Ableton Live Compatibility | Ableton Live 12 Standard with MaxforLive, Ableton Live 12 Suite |
PRICE: £7.00
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Phrase Shuffler Pro by Philip Meyer
Instantly and effortlessly rearrange blocks of notes in a MIDI Clip. Absolutely incredible for resequencing your favorite breaks (mine’s Apache, mainly because of A Made Up Sound, which is just a perfect track), but there are so many other possibilities too.
Phrase Shuffler Pro 2 This device is a collaboration with fellow Max Certified Trainer Ned Rush. Ned is a prolific maker of YouTube videos about electronic music making in Ableton Live and Max. One of the things that Ned does incredibly well in Live is chop up breaks using Live’s audio-to-MIDI feature. To get a sense for what I’m talking about, check out his A to Z of Classic Breaks series. So Ned sent me a note with the idea of making a device that would automate the resequencing of the break slices, and explained one very important detail: jungle producers very often slice breaks into groups of 3 eighth notes, and then reshuffle the order of those slices. So we made a device called Phrase Shuffler that let you create these groupings of notes and then randomize the order, and holy moly, it works amazingly well. The 3 eighth notes thing is absolutely crucial – it just simply grooves much harder when you preserve the groups of 3.
Phrase Shuffler was free and pretty rough and prototype-y. The idea was that we’d get that one out, then think a little bit harder about a more fully-featured version. And that’s what Phrase Shuffler Pro is.
A quick breakdown of the features of PS Pro:
- Create groupings of multiples of time intervals (e.g. 3 eighth notes, or 5 sixteenth notes, or whatever), then reorder those groupings.
- Randomize the order of the groupings (like the original Phrase Shuffler)
- Manually and precisely resequence the groupings (after randomizing if you like!)
- Control the randomization with a probability distribution that sets the likelihood of each grouping will appear in the output.
- A “variance” control that allows you to achieve controlled subtle variation by mixing between the randomized output and the original clip.
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely. It was designed with break resequencing in mind and works brilliantly alongside Ableton Live’s audio-to-MIDI feature, which lets you chop a break into slices that then sit in a MIDI clip ready to be shuffled. If you’re into classic breaks and beat juggling, this is a very powerful tool.
Phrase Shuffler Pro is built for Ableton Live 12, so you’ll need to be running Live 12 to use it. It is a Max for Live device, so you’ll also need Max for Live included with a Live 12 Suite licence or as an add-on.
No, you just need Max for Live installed so the device can run. You operate it entirely through its own interface within Ableton Live, and no Max patching knowledge is required.
Yes, a full user guide is available in the Meyer Devices MIDI Tools Manual, which covers how the device works and how to get the most out of it.
Definitely. While it excels at resequencing drum break slices, the device works on any MIDI clip, so it is equally useful for shuffling melodic phrases, bass lines, or chord progressions into fresh arrangements.
Phrase Shuffler Pro is a collaboration between Philip Meyer and Ned Rush, both of whom are Max Certified Trainers with strong reputations in the Ableton and Max for Live community. Ned Rush is also widely known for his in-depth YouTube series on electronic music production in Live, so this comes from serious practitioners who use these tools themselves.
Important Information
V1.0.0 – Initial Release – November 2024
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. 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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