Some clever chap called Robert Jarvis has come up with a way to create a 5$ DIY drum pad for Ableton Live/Max for Live.
The thing works by taking the keystrokes sent out from a small silicon calculator and converts them into midi signals.
This is the second in a series of tutorials on Mu. Mu provides full integration of Max for Live and Ableton Live for the touchscreen controller Lemur. This tutorial focuses on how to change and add devices to Mu and shows you how the structure of Mu works.
Part one of the tutorial is here and focuses on the basics of Mu, how to set it up and how it works.
This video tutorial gives you an introduction to Mu for the Lemur. Mu is an app that gives the Lemur full intergration with Ableton Live and Max for Live. The tutorial shows you how to setup Mu and takes you though all the features.
Cool video showing the APC40 and iPad controlling Max for Live devices.
Max for Live tutorials
This video follows up on the basics of using objects in Max for Live and delves a bit deeper. The tutorial focuses on using chucker, objects, the live.grid objects and introduces some MSP.
Max for live tutorials
New video tutorial up. This video shows you some useful ways to use the launchpad in Max for Live. The video focuses on sending values to the launchpad from Max for Live. Should help you to start building apps for the launchpad and Max for Live.
Max for live tutorials
New video tutorial up focusing on switching modes on the launchpad in Max for Live. The tutorial shows you how to break down the modes of the launchpad and add different actions, objects and observers to each mode.
Cool little video showing a Wacom tablet working as a theremin controller. This was achieved by using Max for Live’s live.remote object and Live API. No patch as of yet…
Monome emulation in Max for Live tutorial
This video tutorial explains how to use grid based midi controllers such as the monome, Ohm64, launchpad, livid block and APC40 in Max for Live and emulate a monome using OSC. The tutorial covers how to send and recieve OSC and what coding you need to comunicate between the controller, Max for Live and Ableton Live to achieve monome emulation.
Ableton Live 8.1 trail download
Ableton Live recently updated to 8.1 bringing some bug fixes and minor improvements but the better news is Ableton are offering free trail downloads of Ableton Live, Live suite and live intro. The trail software works fully for 30 days and comes with Max for Live content too! So you can try out Max for Live for 30 days. Get busy.
