The Max For Live package comes bundled with three sophisticated devices - Step Sequencer (a MIDI effect), Buffer Shuffler (an audio effect) and Loop Shifter (an instrument, albeit a rather bizarre one) - and also includes Pluggo For Live, a set of devices derived from the now-discontinued Pluggo plug‑in collection. In addition, there is a programming interface that allows Max For Live to control Live itself, for example by manipulating tracks, Scenes and Clips, or controlling a mix, or interacting with one of Live's supported control surfaces. Max For Live allows MaxMSP to be used to create Live MIDI effects (which process MIDI data exclusively), audio effects (which process audio), and instruments (which take MIDI performance data and transform it into audio). MaxMSP appears inside Live, manifesting itself as Live instruments and effects, and Live is effectively made open‑ended, because Max For Live devices can be modified in real time in MaxMSP, even while Live is running, as Live's audio, MIDI and automation data are dynamically diverted through MaxMSP. Max For Live (reviewed in the February 2010 issue of SOS) is an Ableton product that interfaces Live with Cycling 74's MaxMSP graphical programming environment for digital media. Look out for the follow‑up article, where we'll be going further down the rabbit hole and taking our first steps from the familiarity of Ableton Live into the curious world of MaxMSP, exploring simple MIDI and audio processing, automation and presets, with worked examples. In this, the first of our articles on Max For Live, we'll be looking at what has been done with it in the developer community so far, and how it might be starting to change the Ableton landscape. Novation's step sequencer for the Launchpad in Max For Live. We take a look at what's already been created in the three months since its release. The introduction of MaxMSP adds an entirely new dimension to Live.
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