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News RSS URL changed If you were following the maxforlive.com news via the RSS feed, the URL has been changed and you will need to update your reader.

New URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MaxForLiveComNews

Advertise on maxforlive.com Do you have a band, website, or project that is maxforlive related? I am offering up free banner ads on maxforlive.com to any regular users of the site. You can see the example I put up on the main page for reference.

Ads can be png, jpg, or gif files. NO flash. All images must be 360px by 100px to fit in the space I reserved for this.

Got something to advertise? Shoot me a note at info(at)maxforlive.com

Maxforlive.com artist compilation to help recover from BP Spill I am thinking of releasing a digital compilation on my label (Force of Nature) of all Maxforlive artists.

All profit from the compilation will be donated to charities that support the oil cleanup, families no longer able to pay bills due to the economic impact of the spill, and restoration of the Gulf Coast as an environmental habitat.

Anyone interested? I am looking for artists to submit tracks (must have used maxforlive in some way, must be provided free of licensing restrictions) and people to volunteer to help promote the release and do artwork and flyers and so on.

Depending on the responses I get, I may not be able to include EVERY submission, but if that happens I will likely just bust them up into "volume 1", "volume 2" and so on.

If you are interested in helping, shoot me an email at "info at maxforlive.com". You probably already have tons of cool tracks yet to be released anyway right? This is a chance for you to leverage the attention and traffic Maxforlive.com (the release will be "Brought to you by Maxforlive.com") gets to promote your own music, while easily helping some people in need.

Anyone in?

Max for Live Workshop in Amsterdam Later this month, STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is hosting a workshop focused on Max For Live in Amsterdam.

This workshop consists of 2 parts: 4 days of in-depth classes on Max for Live by Dutch composer and Max expert Danny de Graan and a 5th day with Robert Henke (aka Monolake) talking about some of the M4L devices he has built for personal use and discussing why it could make sense - or not - to create personal patches in M4L.

More details on the STEIM site here: http://www.steim.org/steim/events.php?event=273

STEIM is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. The foundations artistic and technical departments support an international community of performers and musicians, and a growing group of visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work. STEIM invites these people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment in which concepts can be given concrete form. It catalyzes their ideas by providing critical feedback grounded in professional experience. These new creations are then exposed to a receptive responsive niche public at STEIM before being groomed for a larger audience.

maxforlive.com sponsors b-vision event Maxforlive.com and Ableton are sponsoring an event tonight in the Boston area featuring Max for Live front and center!

b/vision is a boston-based collective of local artists, musicians, students, and supporters focused on combining art, music and technology. Their events are sponsored by Ableton and feature live musical performance, visual art, projection mapping, and installation sculpture (often using Max for Live/Jitter).

Tonight will feature performances by synnack, tom&kate, Dice Motion, Ricardo Galvan, Jinku Kim, Brite Lite Brite, Javier Cruz, Evan Sutton, Sid Lees, and Guilty Gunn with live projections by Aaron Kovalscik and art installation by Christina Watka.

Get details and rsvp at http://www.b-vision.org

Max for Live workshop in Germany, summer 2010 A workshop focused on Max for Live is being planned for an Experimental Art Festival Aug 27-29th 2010 in Crimmitschau, Saxony. The organizers are looking for experienced people that can give the max for live lessons. Food, accommodation, and travel for instructors coming from parts of europe will be covered by the event. If the instructors are musicians it may be possible to perform at the festival depending on the final program.

If you are interested, contact the organizers here:

Facebook group: Facebook group

Twitter: @atomino2010

Web: www.atomino.eu

RSS Update I changed some things about the RSS feed that seems to be fixing issues people had when using Safari and Firefox as an RSS reader. If anyone still gets a "failed to load" type message on one of the feeds, shoot me a note: info at maxforlive.com

Device downloads and Windows 7 Hi all.

Many users have brought to my attention an issue with IE on Windows 7. You can login fine but when you go to download a device, you get an error that you are not logged in.

If you use any other browser like Chrome or Firefox on Windows 7 it works fine. It seems to be a problem only with IE on Windows 7.

So until I can hunt that down, please use something other than IE on Windows 7 to download devices.

UPDATE: Seems like this is not a Windows 7 issue but an IE 8 one. Any time someone reports this, I tell them to use a different browser and it works fine for them. Not sure what they did to IE in 8...

Live 8.1.1 released Hi all.

Live 8.1.1 is released which is now what you should be using if you updated Max to 5.1.1.

Max for Live is only supported with Max 5.1.1 when using Live 8.1.1b3 and up so when you post a new device, or update one of your existing devices, please make sure you update your "Ableton Version Used" field to 8.1.1 if that is what you have installed.

Soon I will add a field so you can specify which Max version you had installed too.

Happy New Year.

New RSS feeds for updated devices I added yet another RSS feed which lets you track updates to existing devices.

Subscribe to the feed in your RSS reader using this url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MaxForLiveComUpdatedDevices.

Don't know what RSS is? See RSS Feeds.

Enjoy!