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About the Book
Written by Julien Bayle, artist, both Ableton Certified Trainer and Max Certified Trainer, and founder of one of the few Ableton Certified Training Centers in France, this guide is the most comprehensive guide ever published on Max for Live.
It will enable you to:
- ✅ Dive deeply into Max environment.
- ✅ Master the fundamental concepts of Max for Live — from patching to deployment in Live.
- ✅ Create your own instruments and sound generators, with concrete examples and professional techniques.
- ✅ Design custom MIDI and audio effects, exploring processing architectures, side-chaining, multichannel and advanced interactions.
- ✅ Build sophisticated interfaces, integrating interactive controls and dynamic visual feedback, with the [live.xxx] object families.
- ✅ Gain an in-depth understanding of the Live Object Model (LOM) and learn how to interact with Live via patching and JavaScript.
- ✅ Go further with JavaScript (and V8) scripting, to control Live, automate, observe, modulate and manipulate the internal structure of your Live projects in real time.
- ✅ Create your own Live MIDI Tools, thanks to the new features of Ableton Live 12, and open the door to advanced algorithmic manipulations in the Clip view.
But above all, this book is also the perfect excuse to learn Max in its own right. As the chapters progress, you will discover the richness of the Max environment: its logics, its paradigms, its essential objects, its subtleties. Even if you have never used it before, you will become capable of designing complex, generative, interactive systems - far beyond Live.
This book is the result of more than 15 years of practice and teaching, designed for creators, artists, musicians, researchers and makers. It will guide you step by step, from a reminder of the fundamentals of digital audio and MIDI to the creation of professional Max for Live devices.
Whatever your starting point - curious beginner or advanced Live user - this guide will enable you to push the boundaries of your creativity and transform your Live environment into a true custom-made laboratory.
A reference manual, demanding, comprehensive and designed for practice... and for exploring the immensity of Max itself.
About the Author
Julien Bayle is an artist, trainer, and consultant specializing in the design of interactive audiovisual systems.
He is the only French instructor to hold both Ableton Certified Trainer and Max Certified Trainer certifications, recognized for his expertise in algorithmic creation, sound generation, spatialization, and real-time interaction.
Through his studio Structure Void, a QUALIOPI-certified training center and Ableton Certified Training Center based in Marseille (France), he supports artists, researchers, and creators in mastering Ableton Live, Max, Max for Live, and advanced prototyping environments such as Arduino and RNBO.
His approach combines technical rigor, experimentation, and complex systems exploration.