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Curve time with Tomavatars’ MGenBend for Ableton Live Suite: hands-on

Escaping the rigid, repetitive grid helps to make gestures the way we would on instruments. I’ve been talking to Tomavatars as he developed this one, and the MGenBend Max for Live Device lets you create elegant, multi-point curves for notes, strumming, and arpeggios.

Polyfold from Manifest Audio lets you paint with polymetric patterns

A 1024-step, multilane polyphonic sequencer sounds overwhelming. But the latest Manifest Audio polymetric sequencer, Polyfold, offers a palette of various patterns and shapes that you can deploy across that vast canvas, easily and quickly. It opens up sequencing in Live 12+ Suite, free from the usual constraints. It’s a compositional playground, with full MIDI and OSC (!) support, for music and visuals alike.

Peter Kirn - February 26, 2026

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Lorenzo Colombo in live session, framed by speaker stacks, equipment from Torso and Soma on the table and metal percussive plates suspended behind him and on tables, as he strikes one plate with a hammer.

Dream with this: solenoids, percussion, and circuits in live Torso session

Here’s a perfect way to treat your ears at the start of the week. Sound artist and percussionist Lorenzo Colombo recorded this ethereal, cosmic live set at Torso Electronics in Copenhagen. The dadamachines automat toolkit and its mechanical possibilities get woven together with Torso’s T1 and S4 hardware, and the results are pure magic.