Max For Live Plugins
Track Controller
Allows you to control the volume, solo, mute, record, send 1 and 2, the first 8
controls of the currently selected track. To use it
- create a midi track (e.g. call it utility)
- load the track controller plugin into it
- midi learn all or some of the controls of the plugin to you midi controller
- select the track to control and tweak
Note: The 8 device knobs control the device parameters 2 to 9 (1 is the on/off-switch) of the first plugin of the selected channel. This is intended to be used with a rack. Wrap all plugs of the channel into a rack and map its 8 controls to your preferred controls of the individual track plugins.
The 8 Select & Record buttons allow you to switch to the specific track and enable it's record button, all other tracks record button will be disabled automatically.
OH Display
Displays a window with 128 slots if it receives a midi program change. The slot with the matching program number
is also selected. The window automatically hides itself after some seconds if it does not receive another program
change. Use this plugin to have a kind of overhead display for selecting sounds.
- Put the plugin in front of a VST plugin which reacts to program changes.
- Click the Edit Patch Names button
- Enter the names of the sound in the slots (double click a slot with the mouse to edit). This must be done by hand because the Live API does not support to read the VST patch names from a plugin (if you know of a way please tell me).
- Alternatively you can load the names from a text file (one name at per line).
Note: You can also use the OHDisplay with a rack.
- Put the OH Display plugin in front of the rack
- Put the Dial To Program Change (see below) in front of the OH Display plugin
- Wrap the 2 plugins and the rack into a new rack
- Double map a controller knob of the new rack to the Program # knob of the Dial To Program Change plugin and to the Chain selector of the rack
- Map the controller knob to your midi controller
DrumSeq
DrumSeq is a simple 8 track 16 step sequencer for the Novation Launchpad.
Usage in Ableton Live:
- Place it before a midi drum module.
- The first Launchpad found will be automatically connected. Note: Press the reconnect button if it fails.
- Select the note to play for each track. The default setting covers the main drum sound of a GM drum mapping.
- Press Play in Live.
Usage on the Launchapd:
- Switch to user 2 mode.
- The upper 4 matrix button rows display the 8 first steps and the lower 4 rows the steps 9-16.
- The green bar displays the current played step.
- Press the up (learn) button to switch between track 1-4 and 5-8.
- Press a matrix button to enable or disable the specific step on the track.
- Press both the left and right button (page) to cleear the current pattern.
- Use the upper 4 buttons on the right to mute the specific track.
- Use the lower 4 buttons on the right to create random notes on the specific track.
Note: If the time signature is set to 4/4 the 16 steps are 1 bar. You can also use time signatures which lead to less steps (e.g. 3/4 will be 12 steps) but not time signatures like 5/4.
DrumSeq V2
This is lile DrumSeq but directly works on midi clips. This has the advantage that you can use more than one clip. It still has still some squirks:- The position bar is not synchronized to the clips play position. Only an issue if you do not start the clip on the first beat of a bar.
- I only tested with 4/4 time signature.
Squaron
A squarified version of a hexagon note layout for the User Mode 2 of the Novation Launchpad.
Put in front of a midi instrument.
Dial To Program Change
The knob sends out program changes. If you midi learn the knob to a midi CC controller you can use it to convert midi
CC to program changes (useful if your midi controller does not support to send midi program changes).
The two buttons allows you to de-/increase the program change value by 1.
| Download | |
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| Track Controller |
 TrackController.zip
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| OH Display |
OHDisplay.zip
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| DrumSeq |
DrumSeq.zip
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| DrumSeq V2 |
DrumSeqV2.zip
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| Squaron |
Squaron.zip
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| Dial To Program Change |
DialToProgramChange.zip
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Copyright Note
The plugins are Freeware. Feel free to do with them whatever you like. If you modify them and add new ideas and features I'd like to see them.