A new free Live tool from Robert Henke lets you grab short sounds easily

Quick! Your modular/synth/contact mic/pot-and-pan is making amazing sounds, and you want to capture them for fast 1-shots/drum racks. And you hate the tedious editing/naming admin! Robert Henke’s new Sample Capture is for you — and it’s free, for Ableton Live 12 and Max for Live.

Guide: Creating instruments with Max for Live and Ableton DSP (pt. 3)

For the final episode in this trilogy on learning Max for Live and Ableton DSP Objects, we’re going to keep the focus on working fast. We’ll learn how to use Ableton DSP to prototype instruments quickly, play expressively, and hack them with some tricks and mods beyond what the stock Live Instruments provide.

Peter Kirn - November 12, 2025

Playhead granular, Tuplet sequencer, Quantized Switches for Ableton Live

In a sea of complex Max for Live creations, sequencer.wtf is again a minimalist breath of fresh air. Playhead is an ultra-simple granular effect; Tuplet just makes tuplets. Quantized Switches flips the switch for any parameter based on Live’s current quantization level.

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2024

Performance Pack for Ableton Live 12 now has a video manual

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2024

The Biamp MR/140 reverb used by Joy Division, as IRs and Ableton Live rack

Peter Kirn - January 10, 2024

Ableton Push 3 freebie: unMute uses one button to toggle Devices

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2023

GrainyDay for Max for Live opens up elegant streams of sound

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2023

Sonification Tools for Live uses data for sound, offers educational potential

Peter Kirn - October 10, 2023

Free Mod Squad v2 adds missing modulation, envelopes, and trackers to Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - July 13, 2022

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