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Jun12
Max for Live in Hungary This summer, an academy in the south of Hungary is hosting an interesting session about Max for Live that focuses on "software design and signal processing needed for creation of advanced digital instruments for music performance. Hardware interfaces are available, however participants are encouraged to design their own. After 5 days of tuition and workshops a concert will be organised to present the built instruments."
South of Hungary is a sunny and cheap place that allows us to offer low prices for the participation:
- Workshops, studio time, equipment, accommodation & food – 400 EUR
- Workshops studio time, equipment – 200 EUR
- Online participation – 50 EUR
Facilities of electronic music course that are made available to the participants:
- 1 x Recording studio and 5.1 control room
- 1 x Seminar room
- 4 x Production studio
- 1 x Workshop
Studios are equipped with iMac computers and Genelec speakers.
Number of participants: 5-20
Tutor: Dr Zlatko Baracskai & Dr Balazs Kovacs
Place are limited, therefore we ask you to write us a brief motivation letter discussing your experience in your field by the 15th of July to Kovács Balázs, kovacs.balazs@art.pte.hu
May25
Max for Live Tutorials for Beginners Maxforlive.com user joshuacasper posted a series of entry level tutorials that new users should fine useful that walk you through making your first Audio Effects Device and stereo field reverser in Max for Live.
T-Shirts Sold Out All of the "LFO 1" design T-Shirts are sold out. Overall the T-Shirt sale brought in enough money to fund a full year of maxforlive.com hosting costs (at current bandwidth usage)!!!
Thank you again for coming together as a community to show your support to keep this resource funded. As promised, I removed the Google Ads and now this site is 100% ad free. :)
Mar19
Max for Live in Live 9 Suite is now here Ableton Live 9 is finally shipping! Of the many new and cool features, the inclusion of Max for Live into Live 9 Suite is a welcome addition that is driving many new users to the world of Max for Live and our community at maxforlive.com. The fact that M4L is now free if you own the Suite is not the only new thing though. Check out a full list of new things in Max for Live in Live 9! (Note M4L in Live 9 requires Max 6.1 or greater is installed).
A growing number of device comments seem to reflect issues with devices in the Library and Live 9 and Max 6.1. With the pending release of Live 9 coming in a few weeks, and the inclusion of M4L in Live 9 suite, it is important that we ensure as many of our devices work as expected on the latest version. Imagine being a new Live 9 Suite user, being excited about having M4L now, running over to the Maxforlive.com library, and half the stuff you download does not work. That would suck!
Therefor I would like to ask the following of everyone in the community:
1) If you have access to the Live 9 beta, please test devices you use from the library, and comment freely if you have issues with a particular device in Live 9 so developers can be notified and take action.
2) If you are a device developer, please test your devices with Live 9 and Max 6.1 and fix bugs as necessary. If you do not have access to the beta, you can still post comments on your own devices asking for beta testers, or on the Ableton Live/Cycling74 forums asking for verification your device works with Live 9 and Max 6.1
3) Continue as always noting both the Live and Max version that your device supports when you post your device. This especially important for new devices that use the Gen features of Max 6 that will never work for users who still only have Live 8 and Max 5. If your device works with Live 9 and Max 6.1, then also remember to UPDATE the supported version information for your existing devices.
Thanks all! The Maxforlive.com community is vibrant and growing and the quality of what you all build is paramount to the perceptions of users that Max for Live is a quality product. Help each other out smashing any bugs in the library so the devices work great in Live 9!
Jan22
Maxforlive.com T-Shirt Sales Thanks to all who have purchased Max for Live T-Shirts to support the site. I have just about sold enough to cover the hosting costs for a while.
A few quick things for new customers:
1) Shipping can sometimes take a while. Especially for orders outside of the U.S.. If you need this shirt by a specific date, such as when buying it as a gift for someones birthday, please note this when you checkout on PayPal in the notes to seller section. If I see that I will ship yours first and with faster shipping.
2) My local post office is not able to ship to addresses written in non-english characters such as Chinese Hanzi and Japanese Kanji. Please supply shipping addresses using only Alphanumeric characters.
3) Several sizes are almost out of stock. It is very likely I will not reorder this design. Once these are gone they are gone forever. If you planned to order one, order it now while I still have at least one of each!
Thanks again for the support.
Nov26
Max for Live video tutorials by Cycling74 A new video tutorial series titled "Programming in Max For Live: a practical guide to programming in the Max for Live environment" has been posted to YouTube by Cycling74.
Show your support for maxforlive.com and your love of Maxforlive by buying a t-shirt! Bandwidth requirements to keep maxforlive.com going continue to grow each month as the site gets more and more popular. All profits from t-shirts ultimately go back into maintaining and improving the site. (read here why this is important to this community)
Live 9 and Max for Live Ableton has announced a number of exciting things that directly impact the Max for Live community on maxforlive.com.
Primarily, Max for Live will be included in the Ableton Live 9 Suite!!! I do not know how many Suite owners there are, or will be with Live 9, but you could speculate that it is an order of magnitude more than the number of Max for Live owners. In addition, you can expect some really good new Max for Live devices to come with Live 9, including a much requested Convolution reverb!
Demystifying Max for Live at Decibel 2012Decibel 2012 hosts a unique lecture and demonstration of Abletons "Max for Live" by Clint Sand and video collaborator, Jennifer McClain. Clint is the creator and host of the largest free Max for Live device sharing platform at Maxforlive.com and is an Ableton sponsored artist (see Electronic Polymath: http://www.ableton.com/clint-sand) who performs under the name "synnack". The session will cover the basic use of Max for Live for beginners, as well as a demonstration of more advanced Max for Live integration with a custom VJ system written in Max/Jitter for more experienced users. Following the set, McClain and Sand will present a a full technical breakdown and discussion of how the audio/visual demonstration was made. Every device, every patch, exposed. More info: http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/126/synnack-at-decibel-2012. Come by and say Hi. 1:30pm. Square Stage. Broadway Performance Hall.
In preparing for this demo, I created a few new "utility devices" to demonstrate the Live API.
Ever wanted to detach the Ableton Live mixer and put it on a 2nd monitor while working in Arrangement view? well… check out Float Mixer which lets you do just that!
