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Cycling \’74 and Ableton announced Max for Live at the 2009 Winter NAMM Show.

Max for LIve is the integration of Cycling \’74\’s Max/MSP environment into Ableton Live.

Available as an add-on product to Ableton\’s newly announced Live 8, Max for Live permits users to create devices that extend and customize Live by creating instruments, controllers, audio effects, and MIDI processors. Devices developed with Max for Live can have the same features as those created by Ableton engineers.

Friday Freebies – Free Music Software & Samples

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It’s Friday, so we thought you might want to start of the weekend right with some music-making freebies:

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Free Max for Live Instrument – SampleRider

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Little Scale, aka Sebastian Tomczak, has released SampleRider – a Max for Live instrument that uses a user-defined sample as a table for an oscillator.

Basically, a sinewave that is modulated by another sinewave sets the sample index for reading back sample points from the loaded sample. Frequency is set by incoming MIDI notes. Velocity sets volume. The user can define other parameters (e.g. modulating oscillator amount and frequency).

There are two main oscillators and two modulating oscillators. All timbral changes are created simply by reading back from the loaded sample at different points/in a different way.

SampleRider is a free download from the Little Scale site.

 

New Korg Monotribe Editor & Control Surface, MTribe

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Netherlands-based developer Fabrizio Poce has released MTribe - an editor and control surface for the Korg Monotribe.

MTribe is available as standalone for Mac and Windows as well as an Ableton Live / Max for Live device.

Note: A MIDI mod for the Monotribe is required.

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Free Max For Live Device Lets You Sequence Modular Synth Percussion From Ableton Live

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Reader Jason Job wrote us to let us know about a free Max4Live device, Note2CCGate, designed for sequencing modular drum modules from Ableton Live:

Thought your readers who are interested in modular synths, Ableton Live and Max4Live might find this post useful. In it I describe a method for controlling the new TipTop Audio 808 drum modules from Ableton using a Max4Live device and a MIDI to CV interface. This device could be used more generically for sending gates to any modular synth that has a MIDI to CV interface capable of CC to CV output.

See Job’s MusicalGeometry site for details.

Save 10% On Sonic Faction’s Instruments, Including The Hatchet For Live

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Sonic Faction has introduced The Hatchet, a new virtual analog instrument for Ableton Live.

At the Hatchet’s core is the legendary Arp Axxe synthesizer which has been multi-sampled and re-programmed in Live.

Here’s what they have to say about The Hatchet:

The Hatchet is “a truly rich and warm sounding analog instrument that will take you back to the days of retro-synth bliss.  On the surface, this synth is capable of blistering leads, smooth solos, wicked bass lines and cascading arpeggios – The Hatchet stays true to the original instrument’s parameters and capabilities.

But dig deeper and you will find a flexible and ever-changing wonder-synth that is full of sonic surprises.  Sonic Faction has upped the ante by adding a whole rack of distortion FX as well as reverb, delay, psuedo-side chaining, resonator and more.”

The Hatchet also comes with a custom made step sequencer for the Novation Launchpad.

Sonic Faction is offering a 10% discount code, through the end of April, on The Hatchet, and all their instruments. Use discount code: 04synthtopia.

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The Granulizator – Granular Synthesis Tool For Ableton Live

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Developer Julien Bayle posted this sneak preview of The Granulizator – a new granular synthesis tool for Ableton Live with Max For Live. 

Features:

  • buffer size from 1ms to 10s
  • 5 parameters to control grains (pitch, noise pitch, length, gain, stereo)
  • 2 sources possible (grab audio from input OR use a sample from your disk)

 

The Protoclidean Sequencer For Ableton Live Lets You Explore Euclidean Rhythms

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Developer Julien Bayle has announced a new sequencer for Ableton Live, The Protoclidean Sequencer.

The Protoclidean Sequencer is based on the Euclidean algorithm, one of the oldest mathematical algorithms known. The algorithm offers a simple way to distribute a particular number of objects inside a particular number of slots.

In musical terms, it lets you distribute a particular number of notes into a particular number of slots. This form of distribution is thought by some to underly many of the most fundamental rhythms across musical traditions.

For a deeper look at Euclidean algorithms & implementation into music, you can read this article: The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms, by Godfried Toussaint.

The Protoclidean Sequencer lets you easily create sequences using odd or even number of steps, without the need of creating a lot of clips with different size in your Live set. You can also play live with it, using the banks storage/load feature.

See the video, embedded above, tor a demonstration of how this works.

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The LFO 2.0 For Ableton Live

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Developer Julien Bayle has introduced The LFO 2.0 for Ableton Live.

With LFO 2.0, you can modulate each parameters of your liveset in real time. You only have to drop it in a MIDI track, click on a button then click on the parameter you want to modulate and it works. You can use built-in waveforms or draw custom ones.

Features:

  • modulation of ALL parameters including tracks’ mixers (volume, panning, sends)
  • free or synced to transport
  • classic & raw waveforms (sine, ramp up, ramp down, saw, square, noise)
  • custom waveform available with the whiteboard to draw it with your mouse
  • presets & liveset friendly (all is saved with your liveset including the custom waveform)
  • undo history safe
  • LFO can control LFO to produce rich and complex modulations
  • MIDI thru compliant (you can use it directly in your MIDI instrument track)
  • GUI remixed
  • all LFO2.0 parameters auto mappable to APC40

Requirements:

  • Ableton Live 8.2.x
  • Max for Live
The update will be free to existing users. Release date is to be announced.


Video Generator With Max & Max For Live (Sneak Preview)

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This is a sneak preview of Julien Bayle’s Video Generator for Max & Max For Live:

I’m currently designing a video generator core structure able to react to my music.

The architecture will include a basic structure (again simplicity) and will be provided with music, probably.

You can get more on the Video Generator project at Bayle’s site.

Livid + Minus Introduce Richie Hawtin’s CNTRL:R MIDI Controller

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Livid Instruments has introduced a new MIDI controller, CNTRL:R, created in collaboration with Minus and Richie Hawtin.

Here’s what they have to say about the CNTRL:R:

In December 2009 we hooked up with electronic music pioneer Richie Hawtin and started talking about designing a new controller together. The next year was spent discussing designs, uses, and prototyping a few units to actually road test in a live performance setting.

After a few redesigns and a lot of hard work, CNTRL:R was born. This is one of the most exciting and longest lasting project we’ve work on and it’s only just the beginning.

CNTRL:R features twenty four rotary knobs, twelve push button rotary encoders, eight faders, a 4×4 grid of RGB keypads, and two rows of 16 RGB light buttons. The CNTRL:R also contains expansion jacks for connecting Roland-style foot pedals and other expressive analog devices such as faders, accelerometers, sensors, rotary knobs, and Livid’s XPC expansion controllers.

The CNTRL:R is fully programmable with scripts and templates available for softwares such as Ableton Live and Native Instruments Traktor.

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