Just as I was going to make a video showing off the block and the Livid Step Max for Live device, Christopher Willits made one that would have blown mine out of the water. In his “What You Talkin’ Bout Willits Episode 15 – The Block and Max for Live” he shows off the awesomeness of the block using Livid Step. Christopher started this series with XLR8R Magazine, and he cover all sorts of interesting topics centered around music making. If you haven’t seen them before there are a bunch of great topics and techniques covered. Check them out on his youtube channel.

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Real-time analysis of clips and project. Trigger: 8 tracks, unlimited scenes,unlimited clips, no midi map, no instant mapping, visual feedback of clip position….just drag n play

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Livid OHM64 v1.0 integration plugin for Ableton Live. 32×12 matrix for triggering clips a scenes. All sliders, knobs comunicate via Ableton APIs(Max4Live). No instant map, no midi learn assign. Led interaction with OHM64.

This post was submitted by Alexandr Vanek.

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Jersey Shore Ableton User Group welcomes Max4Live.info’s Michael Chenetz: Dec. 13th, Red Bank, NJ

With Max For Live on everyone’s mind the Jersey Shore User Group is gearing up for its second meeting where Michael Chenetz of max4live.info will be in town to break it all down. In Michael’s presentation you will be introduced to the basic concepts needed to program in Max For Live. What’s more, Chenetz will touch on: hardware interfacing, basic OSC and MIDI concepts, as well as going into the world of Max and MSP itself. Immediately following will be a Q&A session, so be sure to have a text file open ready to type your queries into.

After the skinny is doled out on M4L it will be time to open up the stage for members to strut their stuff. So finish up that Set you’ve been working on, pack the necessary peripherals and show us what you’ve been working on. There will be a kickin’ sound system manned by the house engineer ensuring you all sound your best—so, bring it on!

This second meeting follows a superb kickoff event hosted by Jersey Shore UG founder and Ableton evangelist Chris Buono at The Downtown in the heart of cozy, yet hip Red Bank, NJ where none other than Controllerism pioneer Moldover and his completely cool Octamasher were in the house. Check it out!

Future meeting topics will span the gamut. From Live basics all the way to juicing controllers like the Akai APC40 and Novation Launchpad. In the near future is a presentation from Jay Smith of Livid Instruments in which he will show users how to create a Live Set geared towards performance where his amazing Ohm64 will be featured and explained.

So come out and help continue creating a NJ-based digital community you can excitedly call home.

When:
Sunday, December 13th, 2009, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM

Where:
The Downtown
10 West Front St.
Red Bank, NJ 08753

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Possibly the third most important release of the year for audio and video (frankly, you’ll have to kill me to cede spots one and two for the Ohm64 and block: we work too damn hard on these to give those spaces up on our blog!) is Max For Live.
Max For Live extends the already insanely deep audio environment of Ableton Live with a (somewhat) easy-to-use programming language for making your own music, sound, and even video, plugins. Our first project for M4L integrates our block and Ohm64 controllers into Ableton Live with LiveStep.
LiveStep is an extremely rich (as in “dessert”, not “money” – this download is free) step sequencer. WIth control of up to eight sequences, each sequence can be modified with a huge variety of hands-on control. You can even play synths and drum machines on top of the sequenced insanity, and record loops of improvised melodies to play back.
You can download the devices, some sample Live sets, and of course, a bit of documentation from our downloads page.
Words fail me on the sheer joy of this device, so here’s some videos that will explain all the features. (I apologize in advance to your ears for the horrid “music” of Part 2 – I just had to crank out that extra video and release this sucker, and I wanted it extra apparent what is happening.):

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