HyperSplash is glitchy hyperactive fun – $3 Max for Live from MIRA新伝統

If you don’t know the hyperfuturist post-anthropocene duo* MIRA新伝統 aka Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, you need to. But now for three bucks – $3!! – you can drop their absolutely addictive Max for Live mayhem into your Ableton Live set. Should you? You should.

Ableton Note 1.3 adds MIDI editor in free update – an ideal Move companion

Ableton Note 1.3 for iOS adds the ability to sequence beats, drums, and chords in a compact MIDI editor. And while oddly Ableton doesn’t talk about it, the combination of Note and Ableton’s Move hardware is an appealing one-two mobile punch.

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2025

Whatever the Weather II: Loraine James talks about the alias and the album

Just as reality seems ready to blow off in a gale, Whatever the Weather II is here on Ghostly to pull you back to earth and the grace of the everyday. Loraine James – or I should say, the artist, Whatever the Weather – talks to CDM about how this full-length came to life.

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2025

maxess screenshots overlaid on one another, showing help pages: maxess.element, maxess.file, maxess.keyboard, and maxess.speech running in Max with help commentary.

Maxess, free externals for Max and Max for Live accessibility, available now

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025

Live 12.2: hands-on guide to Meld, Roar, Auto Filter, workflow updates, more

Peter Kirn - March 12, 2025

This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2025

Flufs metering running in real-time in two display modes, one with vertical meters and histogram, one with a spectral view, gold on black background.

Flufs, powerful loudness analysis tool, is designed for accessibility

Peter Kirn - March 5, 2025

Ableton Move 1.3: sample from USB-C, polyphonic expression over MIDI

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2025

Sonification Tools for Ableton Live now has a synth that plays data

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2025

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