Certified Course Complete Guide to Max for Live: Professional Device Design
Crafting your unique sonic tools to use in live performance or music production
Master the art of creating distinctive devices in Max For Live under the guidance of dual-certified expert, Phelan Kane.
Course overview
Learn Max For Live is a 6-week course of 12 live online classes, taught by Music Hackspace tutor, Ableton & Max Certified Trainer Phelan Kane.
The course provides the necessary latest skills, techniques and first-hand industry insight into the methodology, workflow and tips and tricks to create unique devices and patches in Max For Live. With these tools you can create novel devices / plug-ins that no one else has access to which will empower you to create unique electronic music and create a novel artistic voice.
The online course will consist of:
- 12 x 2hr live online classes
- All classes recorded for student use (during the course only)
- Interactive group challenges & exercises
- Music Hackspace Graduate Certificate of Excellence
- 50% discount on your first year subscription to Music Hackspace
What Will I Get From This Course?
- To provide a solid understanding of the basic concepts of using Max For Live for electronic music production
- To exercise musical creativity via self built software devices
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this course a successful student will be able to:
- Build unique devices within Max For Live, with an emphasis on musical creativity
- Showcase a basic understanding of software device development with Max For Live
Who is this course for?
- Musicians wanting to integrate custom interactive effects in Ableton Live
- Interactive artists working with Max and Live
- Max users looking to build and sell Max for Live devices
Course content
- What Is Possible In M4L?
- M4L Landscape Case Study
- Beginning To Build A M4L Device
- Exercise: Make a basic M4L device
- Patching
- The Inspector
- Object Properties
- Exercise: Working in Max for Live
- Logic Control
- Presentation Mode
- Encapsulation
- Exercise: Managing Patches in Max for Live
- MIDI in Max for Live
- Max MIDI Effects
- Example Devices
- Exercise: Building a MIDI FX in M4L
- Oscillators
- Envelope Generators
- Basic Filters
- Exercise: Building Max Synthesis Instruments
- Subtractive Poly Synth Build Methodology
- Additive Osc Bank Build Methodology
- Classic Wavetable Build Methodology
- Exercise: Building Max Synthesis Instruments 2
- Samplers in Max
- Triggering Wave Samplers
- Triggering Groove Samplers
- Exercise: Building Max Sampling Instruments
- Audio FX in M4L
- Dub Delay Build Methodology
- Chorus Build Methodology
- Exercise: Building Max Audio Effects
- BPatchers
- Styles
- Help and Info View
- Exercise: Deliverables
- Native Live Device Styles
- Arranging Objects
- Using Tabs
- Exercise: Interface Design
- Intro to The Live Object Model
- Live Object Properties
- Live Object Functions
- Exercise: Using the LOM
- Finalising devices
- Distributing devices
- Exercise: Student work presentation
- Exercise: Peer feedback on student work
Requirements
- A computer and internet connection
- A web cam and mic
- A Zoom account
- Access to a copy of Ableton Live Suite (i.e. trial or full license. Max For Live is included in Suite)
Course schedule
Meet your instructor
Phelan Kane is a Berlin & London based music producer, engineer, artist, developer and educator. He is currently running the electronic music record label Meta Junction Recordings and the audio software development company Meta Function. He has released the Max for Live device synth Wave Junction in partnership with Sonicstate. http://metafunction.co.uk/ http://phelankane.com/bio/
Testimonials
Plese Tomislav
Phelan communicates the ideas flawlessly, the examples are fun and completing the tasks makes you feel the progress you are making.
Darren Wright
Wonderfully explained throughout the classes, helping to understand MAX 8 interface patch cord routing for audio devices utilising plugins & effects.
Sacha Alexander Haber
As deep as it should be. The next steps in thinking in small blocks doing big things in GEN~. All the references to the literature and code you can recreate are a goldmine, very cool.
Way too expensive.