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.

Data Knot for Max is machine learning as musicians want it: human-focused

Data Knot is the best of AI and machine learning: low-latency, optimized, performance-friendly, responsive — a set of building blocks for gestures and sounds that you customize. Built on the Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa) by composer/artist and self-described “crazy person” Rodrigo Constanzo, it’s something else musicians and artists love, too: it’s free.

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025

Massage that sound with free Spectral Shiatsu for Max for Live

We could probably all use a firm, soothing massage about now – but why not give the treatment to your sound? It’s a new, free Max for Live device for the Sensel Morph (or mouse/touchpad).

Peter Kirn - August 5, 2021

Spin abstract geometries from your music, with Ableton Live visualizers by artist Arash Azadi

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2020

Signal adds the modulation Ableton is missing – and now does steps, crossfader

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2019

Leakage is a freaky Ableton Live bass machine, Wavetable monster, from $0

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2019

Ableton release free CV Tools for integrating with analog gear, made in Max

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2019

Max TV: go inside Max 8’s wonders with these videos

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2019

This free Ableton Live device makes images into wavetables

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2019

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