Learning Max for Live
1h 15mBeginner2014-11-14
Authors
Yeuda Ben-Atar
Produces and performs electronic music and teaches Ableton Live
Course details
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.
Skills covered
Max for LiveCycling74Audio EquipmentAudio and MusicLearning
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Exploring Max for Live
- 03 - What is Max for Live
- 04 - Installing Max for Live
- 05 - Using the Buffer Shuffler
- 06 - Sound design with Convolution Reverb
- 07 - Ableton Live as a modular environment
- 08 - Using control devices
- 09 - Synthesizing drums
- 10 - Sequencing using the Mono Sequencer
- 11 - Third-party devices
- 12 - VJing in Ableton Live
- 13 - Learning how to program Max for Live
- 14 - Programming a PlayStation 3 (PS3) game controller