Learning Max for Live

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Overview

Expand Ableton Live's music-production and live-performance capabilities with the collection of instruments, effects, and tools in Max for Live.

Max for Live is a collection of instruments, effects, and tools to expand Ableton Live's music-production and live-performance capabilities, as well as a platform for building your own DIY devices. In this short course, author Yeuda Ben-Atar, aka Sidebrain, walks you through Max for Live Essentials (the free download for Ableton Suite 9 users), covering the Buffer Shuffler and Convolution Reverb, the LFO and Envelope Follower, and drum synths, and then shares some of his favorite third-party Max for Live devices. Yeuda also shows how to turn Ableton Live into a VJ station and program your own devices, like the patch he creates to turn the PlayStation 3 controller into a MIDI controller, with Max for Live.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Exploring Max for Live
  • What is Max for Live?
  • Installing Max for Live
  • Using the Buffer Shuffler
  • Sound design with Convolution Reverb
  • Ableton Live as a modular environment
  • Using control devices
  • Synthesizing drums
  • Sequencing using the Mono Sequencer
  • Third-party devices
  • VJing in Ableton Live
  • Learning how to program Max for Live
  • Programming a PlayStation 3 (PS3) game controller

Taught by

Yeuda Ben-Atar