Beat Box: Max For Ableton Live is Released!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 1:42AM max4live.info Tutorial: Beginning Max from max4live on Vimeo.
Announced on Ableton’s website yesterday, the highly anticipated Max For Live is now available for download! If you are unfamiliar with what this is, it’s essentially a visual-oriented programming environment developed by Cycling ‘74 that allows you to extend the capabilities of what you can do in Ableton Live by creating your own instruments and effects racks from scratch. You can also connect these devices in a completely free and modular environment, and there are even a bunch readily available right out of the box.
Although I have no intentions of utilizing Max For Live myself, if you have a highly technical background and you are looking to create instruments from scratch or finding new solutions and ways to interface with your MIDI controllers that haven’t been developed yet, this could be a worthy expansion to your Live suite. Max For Live’s integration with Ableton is promised to be seamless.
For an intro on how the Max programming environment functions, take a look at the video above.
Max For Live is a separate add-on you must purchase separately; it costs $299, or $99 if you already own the original Max package. You also need to download the Ableton Live version 8.1 update, which was also released yesterday.
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