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

Max 8 – and by extension the latest Max for Live – offers some serious powers to build your own sonic and visual stuff. So let’s tune in some videos to learn more.

Generate wavetables for free, for Ableton Live 10.1 and other synths

Wavetables are capable of a vast array of sounds. But just dumping arbitrary audio content into a wavetable is unlikely to get the results you want. And that’s why Wave Weld looks invaluable: it makes it easy to generate useful wavetables, in an add-on that’s free for Max for Live.

Peter Kirn - February 26, 2019

Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download

The mysterious, murky, glitchy-future sounds you hear from, AYRTBH, Shanghai’s Wang Changcun, emerges from an algorithm. That software can make this album over and over again without sounding the same. The artist explains – and shares a specially generated exclusive for CDM readers.

David Abravanel - December 17, 2018

Max 8: Multichannel, mappable, faster patching is here

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Ableton Live 10 arrives: how you’ll use it, what it means for Max for Live

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2018

Ableton Live 10 now in public beta; here’s what you need to know

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2018

Export to hardware, virtual pedals – this could be the future of effects

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2017

Exclusive: Ableton acquires Max maker Cycling ’74; what you need to know

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2017

A conversation with David Zicarelli and Gerhard Behles

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2017

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