r/abletonlive

I've had an APC40 mkII for years and I love it for launching clips and mixing, but every time I wanted to play a melody or program a beat I ended up back on the mouse. So I started writing my own remote script for it, and it got a bit out of hand.

What it does now, roughly: on a Drum Rack track, User turns the grid into drum pads plus a 16-step sequencer, with velocity on the scene buttons. On other MIDI tracks the 40 pads play in whatever scale the clip view is set to, and picking a scale on the pads changes it in Live too. There's a Circuit-style melodic sequencer (steps on top, a keyboard below), and on audio tracks you can hold a pad to loop a slice of the clip, then let go and it drops back in time. Clip launching, the mixer and the device knobs work like before. And many more features.

What it can't do: the pads only send full velocity (that's the hardware), there's no screen, and it needs Live 12.3 or newer.

The fiddliest part was the audio chopping. Live carries out a clip jump about 0.2 s after you ask for it and quietly drops a jump if another one is still waiting, so getting a released pad to land back in time took about twenty rounds of logging on the unit.

If you want to see how it behaves without installing anything, there's a playable APC40 in the browser (sound on);

apc40x.com

Also for some demo videos;
https://youtube.com/shorts/kvGX9i1oVEQ
https://youtube.com/shorts/OvXlSutkvyY

Full disclosure: I'm a developer, and it's a paid script, APC40X MkII on Gumroad(unofficial, nothing to do with Akai or Ableton). Mostly I'd love to hear from other APC40 owners: what's the one thing you wish yours did?

Ive been producing for 8 Months now and this is my latest release.

will upload it once im ready to

Hi all, I’ve been working with a small team on a new MIDI instrument that uses Max and we’re looking for some early beta testers if anyone would be interested.

It’s a standalone app that connects to Ableton via our Max for Live device and let's you explore the space between two MIDI clips in real time. If you drop the device on a track, the app will detect the MIDI clips in your session and you can select two of them to use as inputs. You can then steer between them and it outputs new rhythmic / melodic variations based on those inputs directly into a clip in your set. If you find a new pattern you like you can then save it as a new clip on the track directly from the app.

The algorithm is built on research into rhythmic anticipation, so instead of randomising or generating from a seed or scale, it works out new possible rhythms between two MIDI patterns that you already have, which means the output always remains linked to the inputs.

There's some more info on our site and also a link to join the testing list. Thanks! https://www.coordn8.io/

And I have only scratched the surface.

the idea is that an oscillator based on wave terrain synthesis modulates the incoming signal according to a polar pattern determined by the superformula (heavily inspired by the csound wterrain opcode).

the result is a ring mod that can maintain some tonality, or sound incredibly nasty (especially when paired with the included distortion).

i'm very excited i've finally been able to do something with this awesome synthesis method :)

you can read more info and get it here: https://store.mote.moe/l/terrakh

The workflow is relatively unfamiliar to me, and I adjust the signal chain each day, so you may observe moments when I feel somewhat overwhelmed 😅