Defective Records Software has announced Major Malfunction version 1.5, a new version of its Mac OS X realtime audio plugin for Ableton Live. Major Malfunction is designed to let you “mangle, glitch and FSU”.

You can preview what MM’s FSU sounds like below; more examples at the Defective site.

Major Malfunction is US $15; a demo version is available.

New Features in version 1.5:

• New effects: distortion, vocoder, slow down, & silence
• New enhancements to gate effect
• New master multipass filter
• New click reduction
• New “effect gapping”
• New clock multiplier
• New randomize and evolve functions for effects
• Grid state & all parameters now saved with Live session
• Improved preset management
• Improved automation support
• New ability to turn hints on/off
• New undo feature
• Now works correctly with Novation automap controllers
• Now supports multiple instances of plugin in one Live session
• Efficiency improvements “under the hood”
  Small bug fixes

System Requirements:

• Mac G4 667 MHz or better; both PowerPC and Intel architectures supported (Universal Binary)
• Mac OS 10.3.9 or greater
• Ableton Live, v4 or greater (earlier versions may work fine, but not tested)
• Cycling ‘74 Pluggo, Pluggo Jr, or Pluggo Runtime, v3.6.1 or greater (Pluggo Runtime provided free if required)
  Major Malfunction v1.5 costs $15 (USD) and is available now; it is a free update to registered v1.0 users. A free demo is also available.

 

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