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K-Devices has announced the availability of EXT, a free Max For Live device for modulate anything in Ableton Live, including other devices, any third-party plugins and Live’s user interface.

EXT is very easy to use : click on “select” toggle, then click on a parameter in your Ableton Live set to modulate it. Target’s name is displayed in EXT’s UI, and you can refine modulation scaling outcoming values to a specific range, and applying interpolation time between steps.

It is possible to choose between two play modes : steps and trig. In steps mode, multislider steps are triggered in sync with Live ; in trig mode, steps are manually triggered via MIDI messages.

EXT features

• Quick and easy target selection.
• Two play modes (steps / trig).
• Drunkwalk function for unpredictable results.
• Walker function for never ending variations.

EXT is a free download. It requires Ableton Live 8 or higher, and Max For Live 2.2. No external Max objects are used in this device.

The EXT pack contains a 25% discount code for the K-Devices granulation suite Kflux Bundle for 25% less. In addition to the standard 33% off offer available on the K-Devices shop, the owner can get Kflux Bundle for 14.99 EUR instead of 29.97 EUR. This offer is valid until October 31st, 2012.

More information: K-Devices / ETX

Ableton has announced two groundbreaking new music-making products: Live 9, the music creation software with inspiring new possibilities, and Push – Ableton’s first hardware instrument for Live.

Ableton Live 9 coming Q1 2013.

The upgrade to version 9 greatly expands the creative possibilities of Ableton’s popular Live software.

Changes in Live 9

• Session automation: In Session View, automation can now be recorded in real time directly within clips. Automation can move together with clips between Arrangement and Session View.
• Find sounds fast: Live’s new browser puts all instruments, effects, samples, and plug-ins in one easy-to-navigate view. Drag and drop folders from anywhere on your computer, search as you type and navigate from the keyboard to find everything quickly.
• Discover new sounds: Live comes with a large selection (3,500 in the Suite edition) of production-ready sounds, which were carefully crafted with the help of over 40 artists, sound designers and engineers. All sounds feature Macro controls for fast access to their most meaningful, musical parameters.
• Get your sound right: Live’s studio effects have all been reworked for even better sound and usability. The Glue Compressor is a new effect – an authentic model of a legendary 1980s console bus compressor. EQ Eight has an audition mode for isolating frequencies and an expandable spectrum display. The Gate and Compressor effects feature a Gain Reduction view which shows changes in signal level over time.
• Extract music from samples: Live’s new Harmony, Melody and Drums to MIDI tools extract natural-feeling MIDI directly from the favorite parts of your music collection. You can also sing, tap a rhythm, play any solo instrument, then use Melody or Drums to MIDI to turn your recordings into MIDI clips that you can edit and reuse with any sound.
• Edit the details: Transpose, reverse and stretch MIDI notes or warp clip automation and add curves to automation envelopes. New tools and an improved workflow allow fast and flexible editing of musical ideas.
• Max for Live – now in Suite: The Suite edition of Live 9 comes with Max for Live and its many unique instruments, effects and tools. Max for Live itself includes 24 new devices such as a convolution reverb, new drum synthesizer instruments, MIDI echo as well as reworked versions of classics such as Step Sequencer and Buffer Shuffler 2.

Ableton Live 9 will be available in the first quarter of 2013. Prices start at $99 USD/79 EUR (Live 9 Intro download version), $449 USD/349 EUR (Live 9 Standard download version) and $749 USD/599 EUR (Live 9 Suite download version). Upgrades to Live 9 Standard / Live 9 Suite vary in price depending on the Ableton products you already own.

With Push, Ableton presents a new hardware instrument designed to solve an old problem: how to make a song from scratch.

Ableton Push: Improvise and play with loops.

Push provides direct, hands-on control of melody and harmony, beats, sounds and structure, powered by Ableton Live running on your computer. High-quality, dynamic pads, buttons, encoders and display combined with an innovative workflow allow you to play and compose musical ideas without the need to look at or touch your computer, and more importantly, without interrupting the musical flow.

Push features

• Play and sequence beats: Push’s 64 velocity- and pressure-sensitive multi-color pads can be used to play, step sequence, and navigate within rhythm patterns – all at the same time. The 11 touch-sensitive endless encoders can control device parameters, adjust velocity, nudge timing and more.
• Play melodies and chords in a new way: Push “folds” a keyboard’s worth of notes into its 64 pads, with different pad colors showing the key center and other notes in the key. This allows you to play in every key using the same finger patterns, move between keys at the touch of a button, and explore new harmonies and phrases.
• Improvise with song structure: Push expands the scope of creation with its unique workflow. Using just a few buttons to trigger clips, overdub notes, move between song materials and variations lets Ableton Live itself become an intuitively playable instrument.
• Move smoothly from creation to arrangement: Push offers both the inspiring instrument to start creating music, and the full-featured software to finish off a track. Everything created with Push is laid out in Ableton Live on your computer – ready for fine-tuning, arrangement and export.
• Includes Ableton Live 9: Push includes Ableton Live 9 Intro and works with any edition of Ableton Live 9 (Intro, Standard, Suite). All the included instruments, effects and sounds, as well as your own libraries, are ready to be played, tweaked, and personalized.
• Designed by Ableton, built by Akai Professional: Utilizing Akai Pro’s long-standing expertise in the field of pad controllers, Push features 64 pressure and velocity-sensitive RGB (multi-colored) pads with an adaptive layout and a touch strip with 24 LEDs for pitch bending or navigating through a Drum Rack. The 11 touch-sensitive encoders and LCD display adapt dynamically to control and show active parameters.
• Fits inside a backpack alongside a laptop: Push is 370 mm / 14.57 inches wide, 293 mm / 11.54 inches deep and is 46 mm / 1.81 inches in height (including encoders) and weighs 2990g / 6.59 pounds. Backside connections are a USB port, power adaptor input and two assignable footswitch inputs. (Push is USB-powered, the brightness of the display and LEDs can be increased by using the included power supply).
• Push cover: An optional steel cover doubles as a sturdy, angled stand for performance.

Push will be available in the first quarter of 2013 for $599 USD/499 EUR. Push includes Ableton Live 9 Intro and works with any edition of Ableton Live 9 (Intro, Standard, Suite). Bundle upgrade discounts will be available for owners of previous versions of Live.

More information: Ableton

Percussa has announced the release of SOUNDOR, a free and open source FM Synthesizer for Max for Live, the visual programming environment in Ableton Live based on Cycling 74′s Max/MSP.

SOUNDOR allows users to explore FM Synthesis using hand and finger gestures, through AudioCubes’ high speed and low latency sensors, requiring no MIDI mapping or programming.

SOUNDOR features 4 oscillators each with their own waveform mixers, allowing the user to mix sine, square, sawtooth, triangle and noise waveforms to create totally new kinds of waveforms. Each oscillator section also features a state variable filter (SVF), and can modulate any other oscillator in pitch and/or amplitude. Each oscillator’s output can also be sent via its own ADSR to a master out, for lots of sound possibilities. Oscillators can overdrive each other through the built in waveform mixer, and can be controlled through the MIDI Keyboard as well as manual settings.

SOUNDOR integrates seamlessly with AudioCubes: rather than having to MIDI map the AudioCubes onto parameters in SOUNDOR, the moment an AudioCube is plugged in, it is automatically connected to any of the waveform mixer parameters and filter sections, through an easy to use connection matrix in the synthesizer. The 4 high speed low latency sensors of AudioCubes can control multiple parameters simultaneously and can even be inverted. A pedal input allows the user to keep the sensors values in place, while the hands are near the sensor, allowing exploration of the parameter space of the FM synthesizer while at the same time allowing rigid locking of parameters to keep the sound steady once an interesting combination of parameters has been found. SOUNDOR supports the well known preset system of Ableton Live and Max4Live, so presets can be saved and recalled just as for other Max4Live devices.

SOUNDOR is available as a free download from Percussa.

Percussa has also announced that its AudioCubes will be featured at the Electro-Music Festival 2012, New York.

Mark Mosher performing live with AudioCubes at Electro-Music 2011 festival (picture by Hong Waltzer, visuals by Project Rouri).

The festival organized by electro-music.com takes place in Huguenot, New York at the Greenkill Retreat Center.

Last year over 60 artists performed live at the festival, and this year’s edition is expected to be even greater. The event will span 3 days in September (7-9), and alongside the musical performances, workshops, jam sessions, laptop battles will take place.

The Electro-Music festival is also called “the Woodstock of electronic music” by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Jeremy dePrisco aka Shivasongster (picture taken during live performance with Explorophonic).

It is an annual event festival organized by electro-music.com, a “cooperative community where
artists and enthusiasts participate and benefit together” as they describe on electro-music.com.
One of the highlights of this event will be the live performances with Percussa AudioCubes.

John Morley aka Lux Seeker.

Electronic musicians Mark Mosher, Jeremy dePrisco aka Shivasongster, and John Morley aka Lux Seeker, will bring their AudioCubes to the festival to perform live with the cubes.

In addition, Jeremy will demonstrate the AudioCubes during a workshop he’s organizing about Reason 6.

More information: Percussa / SOUNDOR

Ableton has announced version 8.4 beta of Live, bringing native 64-bit support to the music production software for Windows and Mac.

The 64-bit version of Live allows the use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This means that Live users can now work with Live Sets (including Sets using third-party plug-ins and ReWire configurations) that are much larger and more memory intensive than in the 32-bit version.

The 64-bit version of Live works with PCs running Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit) and with Intel-Macs running OS X 10.5 and up. The 64-bit version of Live 8 does not support Max for Live, video, or The Bridge. Ableton is currently working with its partners to add support for these features.

The update is available to all registered owners of Live 8, free of charge.

More information: Ableton / Live 8.4 Beta

K-Devices has released the Kflux Bundle, a collection of devices for granular processing of sound in Max for Live.

K-Devices Kflux bundle for granular sound processing with Ableton’s Max for Live.

Kflux bundle is the complete Max For Live suite for granulation of sound.

Kflux bundle contains three amazing devices:
- Kflux : Max For Live instrument device for granulation of sound
- Kfluxin : Max For Live audio effect device for granulation of sound
- Kfluxsy : Max For Live granulator synthesizer

Kflux Bundle features

• Easy of use: each device has a friendly user interface and detailed descriptions for each function/parameter.
• Max For Live total integration: each parameter is fully automatable in Live’s timeline.
• Unlocked devices: Owners can open, edit, and re-use parts of these devices as they prefer.
• No external Max objects are used.

The Kflux bundle is available to purchase for 19.99 EUR. Individual devices are 9.99 EUR each.

More information: K-Devices / Kflux Bundle

Ableton has released Radio Slave for Live, a new New Partner Instrument by Sample Magic.

Get the unique sounds of legendary techno DJ and producer Radio Slave, perfectly integrated into Ableton Live.

This techno toolkit includes over 500 MB of synth, bass and drum loops, as well as customized Instrument, Drum, and Effect Racks. Combine, edit, and personalize the sounds to build your own tracks.

Radio Slave for Live features

• 133 Drum Loops – divided into three styles called “Heavy,” “Lite,” and “Thrash.”
• 98 Top Loops – drum grooves without low frequencies; perfect for layering and adding texture to your own beats.
• 87 Synth Loops – chords, melodies, and sound effects. Clip names include the key, making it easy to mix and match various loops.
• 53 Bass Loops – synth bass loops in a variety of styles, from punchy to ultra-low. As with the synths, clip names include the key.
• 1 Drum Rack and 14 Instrument Racks featuring 295 Drum Hits – make your own loops using exclusive sounds from Radio Slave. Convenient controls let you quickly select from the range of samples.

The sound library is currently available to purchase for 40 EUR (regular 59 EUR), as part of a limited time 33% OFF sale.

From now until June 15th, all Ableton products in the webshop are 33% off.

33% Off Sale

• Ableton Suite 8, Live 8, Live Intro, as well as all upgrades to Ableton Suite 8 and Live 8.
• Max for Live, all Ableton Instruments, all Partner Instruments as well as crossgrades from Max for Live to Max 6 and crossgrades from Max to Max for Live.
• Not valid for purchases of educational versions, not-for-resale versions (NFRs) and institutional site licenses.
• Not valid for purchases of Ableton merchandise.
• Purchases must be made between June 13 and June 15, 2012 from the Ableton web shop.

More information: Ableton