The Covert Operators

Dug up from our old archives, we bring you the MusicBox Rack. This Rack is a Round-Robin sequencer. You can program up to 16 steps that are consecutively played by triggering C1. This means you can play a whole sequence with a single note. The Rack has been used in the past for things like playing melodies from drum pads, foot pedals and buttons.

- Click here to download the Rack

This is a M4L tutorial on how to store, load and morph a list of values.
The pattr and pattrstorage objects may seem daunting to newcomers to the Max world, but those objects are very useful for managing data like multiple presets that you wish to store with your set.

I have an example device that allows you to work with the values of a multislider object and lets you store those values with your Live Set.
The multislider object is a Max object without special support for Max for Live, therefore it doesn't remember values like M4L objects such as live.dial and live.numbox do.

- Click here to download the Multislider Pattrstorage Example device

If you are familiar with Max, this example may be all you need to get started. But for the newcomers or in case you need a refresher, let me show you how to set up your own preset system.

In this video I illustrate how to make custom names for notes or ranges of notes appear in the MIDI editor.
The second trick shows a quick way to double the output of your computer keyboard.

The Little Things in Live: Part 3 from Bjorn Vayner on Vimeo.

In this video you will see how you can create the Reversed Reverb effect in Live.

Reverse Reverb from Bjorn Vayner on Vimeo.

This video illustrates how you can use a MIDI Keyboard to transpose your clips in Session View.

Transposing Clips from Bjorn Vayner on Vimeo.

This Video is an hour long workshop with Tom Cosm and Pitch Black about Ableton Live, shot in London 2008.

Ableton Live On Stage with Tom Cosm and Pitch Black from Bjorn Vayner on Vimeo.

In this video, I show how to make a simple 4 step sequencer using Clips and Ableton's devices and how it can be extended to have as many steps as you desire.

The technique shown in this video could also be useful if you want to try out new ways of coming up with sequences. It can be fully MIDI controlled and you can save the devices you came up with.

Making a Step Sequencer in Ableton Live. from Bjorn Vayner on Vimeo.

In this second part we see how you can change the tempo and/or time signature by triggering a scene, how you can expand the Mixer View and how to capture and insert a scene.

The Little Things in Live: Part 2 from Bjorn Vayner on Vimeo.