Category: Music Production
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Max4Live News for August 04th 2024
The Pad Synth 1.0, a product by OpOloop, is a Max4Live instrument that is tailored for Ableton Live 11 and Max 8 users. With a built-in wavetable synthesis system, it primarily generates pad sounds and audio landscapes to enhance musical compositions. The unique A/B morphing feature provides dynamic blending of two different sound states, offering…
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Eurorack News for August 04th 2024
The Intellijel Atlantix is a 42HP Eurorack module designed as a complete subtractive synthesizer voice. It’s derived from the Intellijel Atlantis and boasts influences from the legendary Roland SH-101. The module features two Triangle Core Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs). VCO A has Thru-Zero FM, and VCO B focuses on Linear FM, and both are equipped…
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Max4Live News for August 03th 2024
The Monitoring Displays for Tempo – Record and Loop 1.0 collection is an assortment of Max4Live utilities designed to provide real-time visual information during an Ableton Live session. The package consists of three individual MIDI effect devices namely the TEMPO BPM MONITOR, the RECORD MONITOR, and the LOOP ENGAGED MONITOR. The TEMPO BPM MONITOR presents…
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Max4Live News for August 01th 2024
The Super Simple Sampler 1.0 by RemoDeVico is a Max4Live device designed as an intuitive sample-player for Ableton Live users. This instrument simplifies the process of audio sampling, offering an accessible interface to both experienced producers and learning sound designers. The software supports seamless manipulation and integration of samples into music projects. In terms of…
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Eurorack News for August 01th 2024
The Noise Engineering Gamut Repetitor is a quad-random quantized voltage generator and generative CV sequencer module. It offers four channels of highly negotiable randomness, enabling users to create a diverse array of captivating sounds. With the ability to manipulate trigger patterns, quantization controls, and sequence lengths, this module provides an endless array of possible sequences.…
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Max4Live News for July 30th 2024
Divine 1.2 is a commercially licensed Max4Live device that offers an enhanced approach to harmonic creativity in Ableton Live by generating note sequences on a chosen scale and mode. Powered by intuitive MIDI engines, this software tool performs advanced calculations for chorological intervals, provides unique rhythmic consistency, and randomly adjusts notes to create a distinct…
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Eurorack News for July 30th 2024
The Endline Eurorack module is an audio processing module designed by Clank. The module, with a 10hp frame includes four stereo channels intended for receiving signals from voices, mixers, and sub-mixers and outputs a well-balanced audio result. It features dual mono or single stereo sends with two dedicated returns for the outgoing signals. This allows…
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Max4Live News for July 29th 2024
The XY-Node Mixer is a Max4Live device for Ableton Live, developed by Metamagicum. This audio effect tool functions as a macro controller, featuring four nodes within a two-dimensional space. The software calculates the distance of four different sound sources and modifies their sonic parameters based on their positions, allowing the user to blend these audio…
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Eurorack News for July 29th 2024
The Opp Ned is a compact Eurorack module developed by Noise Engineering. It functions as a four-channel arpeggiator designed for creating intricate, customizable patterns that can be finely controlled using CV. Twelve pre-loaded favoured arpeggio patterns are included – tetrads, major, pentatonic major, minor third, and pentatonic minor – but users have the freedom to…
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July 2024’s Game-Changing Eurorack and Max4Live Devices
Hello dear readers, Welcome back to The Metal Vortex! Today, we’re thrilled to bring you some exciting new content from the LAME Music Production Eurorack and Max4live blog. From innovative Eurorack modules to cutting-edge Max4Live devices, we’ve curated the best of the best to inspire your music production journey. Without further ado, here are our…
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Max4Live News for July 28th 2024
The MIDI S-H Pro 1.0, crafted by Manifest Audio LLC, is an Ableton Live Max4Live device designed to introduce controlled randomness in musical compositions. This sophisticated MIDI-triggered randomizer generates diverse parameters according to user-defined limits with each note-on event, bringing a unique character to your music through evolving modulations. Equipped with six new random algorithms,…
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Eurorack News for July 28th 2024
The NLC Razor’s Black Panel is a dual voltage-controlled Eurorack Module that provides a unique approach to sound manipulation, focusing predominantly on harmonic generation and frequency tripling. This module offers compatibility with Sine and Triangle waves, and employs a rough frequency tripler circuit to transform a sine wave into three unique spikes of varying amplitudes…
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Max4Live News for July 13th 2024
The gd-mindblown 1.0 is a Max for Live audio device, designed by asteriskVT, that offers extensive audio modulation capabilities to users of Ableton Live. Initially conceptualized in the Max/MSP Pluggo environment in 2003, the device was updated in 2024 for the Max for Live platform. Its unique combination of a formant shifter and a spectral…
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Max4Live News for July 12th 2024
The Macbook 1.0 Max4Live device, developed by tapchidecorcom, is a unique audio manipulation and sound processing software designed for Ableton Live. Its primary function is to create customized soundscapes inspired by diverse global interior design trends. These sound textures range from modern to classic and rustic styles, which offer producers a creative technique for enhancing…
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Eurorack News for July 11th 2024
The Bizarre Jezabel Mimosa MK2 is a dual-channel tube saturator module designed for the Eurorack system. It uses dual triode 12AU7 tubes that provide a full, warm sound, offering the user significant latitude in signal processing from mild tonal coloration to more aggressive, harmonically rich saturation. The module includes two distinct channels, enabling simultaneous processing…
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Max4Live News for July 10th 2024
LoopMaker 1.0 is a Max for Live audio software plugin, developed by Loukas. It’s designed to enhance creative loop integration within Ableton Live, version 12.0.5. It’s also MacOS compatible up to version 13.5.2. LoopMaker 1.0 excels in efficient organization of sound folders through keyword use, facilitating easy and quick locating of specific sounds. It exhibits…
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Eurorack News for July 10th 2024
The TLM Audio Matt Shades Clone module is a versatile and robust Eurorack module, designed as a 1:1 clone of the renowned Mutable Instruments Shades module. Its primary functions include signal attenuation, offset generation, and mixing, allowing a broad spectrum of sonic manipulations. Its high input impedance of 100k and DC-coupled inputs support seamless integration…
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Max4Live News for July 09th 2024
gd-grantastic 1.0 is an innovative Max for Live software device designed for granular synthesis in Ableton Live. Engineered by asteriskVT, this device can efficiently fragment audio into small “grains” and rearrange them for creative sound design. It was originally developed in the Max/MSP Pluggo environment in 2003 and got revitalized for the Max4Live platform in…
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Eurorack News for July 09th 2024
The Endorphin.es AutoPilot 1U is an analog oscillator autotuner for Eurorack setups. It possesses the smallest autotuner size available for analog oscillators, ensuring efficient space use. The module syncs with your oscillator’s pitch control voltage and reference waveform to process and adjust audio pitches optimally. Originally offered as a dual version in a 3U format…
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Max4Live News for July 08th 2024
The gd-bonger 1.0 is a unique audio effect tool for Max for Live, creating distinctive, pulsating, metallic sounds. Originally developed in the Max/MSP Pluggo environment, it was updated for Max for Live in 2024. This tool doesn’t require any control to operate and treats all incoming audio with a distinct spectral warping effect once added…
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Max4Live News for July 07th 2024
The gd-cluster 1.0 by asteriskVT is an audio effect device designed specifically for the Ableton Live suite and operated in the Max4Live environment. Built on the Pluggo framework, gd-cluster generates dissonant tone clusters surrounding incoming audio to deliver a distinctive soundscape. It works autonomously, with no requirements for user intervention, thus establishing a seamless plug-and-listen…