Max 9: new coding and livecoding, new visuals, and Ableton’s sound tools

Max 9 is available today, bringing benefits for casual tinkerers and hardcore devs alike. There’s more code, more performance, more livecoding, more visual powers, and – one more thing: you get the building blocks Ableton uses for sound.

monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch

The iconic monome grid just got native support from Cycling ’74’s RNBO, the patching tool for exporting Max sounds on other hardware and software environments. There’s a fun, free example patch to get you started, too.

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024

Free SoundHack tools: now plug-ins and Max and Pd, Apple Silicon native

You’ve got choices for how to delay, distort, mangle, spectrally transform, and meddle with audio. But Tom Erbe’s legendary SoundHack stands out – and it’s free. And now it’s Apple Silicon ready.

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2024

Leafcutter John takes you deeper into the strange, wonderful tool Forester

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2024

Add a notation view to Ableton Live Clips, for free: FPB Clip To Score

Peter Kirn - July 15, 2024

Learn to make animated Max and Max for Live UIs: jsui, Figma

Peter Kirn - July 9, 2024

Add a free video player to your Ableton Live set with modulation, FX

Peter Kirn - June 4, 2024

Playhead granular, Tuplet sequencer, Quantized Switches for Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2024

RNBO 1.3.0, now a powerful RasPi raw MIDI tool – plus, chats with Max artists

Peter Kirn - May 18, 2024

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