Max for Live Ultimate Zen Guide
Max for Live Ultimate Zen Guide
Become a Max for Live Master and discover a new way of using Ableton Live
About the Book
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understand and use the Live Object Model
create your own instruments and sound generators
create your own MIDI and audio FX
Sometimes, total number of pages seems to vary => Just because I changed the global paper size of the book => I NEVER REMOVE any parts !
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Expert Reviewer, Ableton Certified Trainer, Sound design teacher at Leicester, UK
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About
- About the review & edit of the book
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FAQ
- Version
- This guide is not
- This guide is
- If you find a mistake or a typo in this guide
- If you would like to find out about courses on Ableton Live, Max6
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1 Max for Live Basics
- 1.1 What ?
- 1.2 Ableton Live Basics
- 1.3 Max for Live specific objects
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2 Live Object Model
- 2.1 What is LOM ?
- 2.2 LOM’s Objects
- 2.3 How to read the documentation
- 2.4 Children, Properties & functions
- 2.5 Path, ID & navigation
- 2.6 One shot request with get and live.object
- 2.7 Observing properties in Live with live.observer
- 2.8 Calling objects’ functions with live.object
- 2.9 Changing properties’ values by using set & live.object
- 2.10 Controlling continuous parameters in Live with live.remote~
- 2.11 List and use objects’ children
- 2.12 live.thisdevice tool
- 2.13 Mode Preview & performances
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3 JavaScript in Max for Live
- 3.1 How to use Javascript in Max for Live ?
- 3.2 Controlling Live API through JavaScript
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4 Creating your own Max for Live devices
- 4.1 preset & pattr
- 4.2 Freezing Max for Live’s devices
- 4.3 Presentation mode
- 4.4 Limitations of Max for Live compared to Max
- 4.5 MIDI & audio specific objects for Live connection
- 4.6 An example of MIDI instrument
- 4.7 Example of a sound generator
- 4.8 MIDI FX example
- 4.9 Audio FX example
- Conclusions & perspectives
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