Device Details
Device Overview
| Name/Version: | Compositor Max for Live 4.0 |  |
| Author: | Ruslan | |
| Description: | Compositor 4 is a virtual hybrid synthesizer, which has the ability to choose modulation layers and change buffer values in wide boundaries independently from your audio driver setup. Compositor 4 generates melodic patterns in relation to locations in its coordinate system. Virtual synthesizer of Compositor 4 subdivisions on physical modeling, waveshaping and granular synthesis. This gives three types of synthesizers in one: the first one sounds as an organ, second has a harsh wave distortion sound and third is subtractive, analog modelling synthesizer. Two types of internal sequencers are available both working in real-time. One drives the analog modeling subtractive engine and the other drives physical modeling engine. |
Device Details
| Tags | synth, sequencer, effect, utility, other |
| Live Version Used: | 11.0.12 |
| Max Version Used: | 8.2.1 |
| Date Added: | Sep 26 2017 13:58:08 |
| Date Last Updated: | Jan 13 2022 18:31:12 |
| Device Type: | audio_device |
| Download URL (report link) | http://www.compositorsoftware.com/compositor-4/ |
| License (more info): | Commercial |
Comments
| Hi, Compositor 4 Max for Live uses the same audio engine as Compositor 4 Standalone, except it doesn't have the stochastic generator. As it can be used with Max 7 and 8 Max for Live it consumes less CPU power than Compositor 4 Standalone, which is Max 6 based. Overal, with Q9450 Quad Core CPU, which is the 2008 processor, it reaches 90% CPU usage at 44100 Hz sample rate. This could be much less on modern CPU's. Besides it is a fully auxiliary sound engine, which can be used to spectrally process your input and has MS-decoder in it. All in all you can qualify Compositor 4 Max for Live as a mastering processor to give your mix more spatial depth and give some analog overtones as in tube modelling. You can also use it to add tempo-synchronized analog synth sequences and physically modeled tones to your productions. Best regards, Ruslan |
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Has anyone tried this? How's the CPU usage?
My reservations are that, while it seems interesting, it's hard to tell how the M4L version compares to the original, and a lot of the additional effects (such as bitcrushing) seem to be superfluous additions that are already available in Ableton and introduce a degree of bloat I'm trying to cut back on.