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Feri G

Spectral Wobbler – Frequency-Domain Modulation with Character

 is a unique audio effect that operates in the frequency domain, creating smooth, continuous modulations across the sound spectrum. Rather than applying standard pitch or amplitude changes, it uses a Low-Frequency Oscillator (LFO) to shift frequency content by dynamically offsetting each bin’s source — effectively "wobbling" the spectrum itself.

By selectively reading from neighboring frequency bins (based on the LFO), this technique produces a rich range of sonic textures — from subtle, analog-style movement to extreme, detuned warping. Unlike conventional vibrato or chorus effects, 

 allows fine control over which parts of the spectrum are affected, with seamless crossfades between low, mid, and high frequency bands.

Additionally, setting the LFO speed to zero freezes the modulation at a fixed offset, turning the effect into a spectral frequency shifter. This can produce a surreal, metallic tone that works especially well on harsh guitars, dense pads, or experimental textures.

Spectral Wobbler – Frequency-Domain Modulation with Character

Spectral Wobbler is a unique audio effect that operates in the frequency...

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Spectral Wobbler

 is a  real-time audio manipulation device for Ableton Live, designed to bring unpredictability, movement, and rhythmic chaos to your tracks. It combines 

 into a single, intuitive interface, allowing producers and live performers to create everything from subtle tape-style imperfections to extreme, glitchy textures.

Compatible with Max 8.6.4 or later, Ableton Live 11.3.0 or later.

Drox is a  real-time audio manipulation device for Ableton Live, designed to bring unpredictability, movement, and rhythmic chaos to your...

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Drox Glitch/Stutter audio effect

Davor Branimir Vincze

 is a physical model of a hypothetical shaker. It begins with a white-noise signal, which is shaped by a bandpass filter centered around a user-defined frequency with subtle variations. The patch generates eight independent voices of this filtered noise, each with a slightly different center frequency and delay, thereby simulating the sound of multiple grains inside a shaker such as a maraca, caxixi, or egg shaker.

The duration of one cycle is set in milliseconds. Each cycle consists of two shakes: the first reaches maximum intensity, while the second is slightly softer, imitating the natural motion of a shaker with an initial action followed by a rebound as the hand moves back and forth. Within this continuous flow, the noise~ object is interrupted by the train~ object, whose constant oscillation models the chaotic behavior of many grains moving at once. A BANG button allows the process to reset to a new set of random values.

Additional realism is introduced through two cycle~ oscillators, which modulate dynamics between 0 dB and –15 dB. This recreates the small, natural fluctuations in loudness typical of a human performer.

In short, rather than searching for recordings of different shakers, 

 allows you to generate a convincing digital imitation, controllable in frequency, speed, and dynamic variation, offering a flexible and natural-sounding alternative.

!SHAKE! is a physical model of a hypothetical shaker. It begins with a white-noise signal, which is shaped by a bandpass filter centered...

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!SHAKE!

ianjojo

Spectranaut is an ambient playground - a love letter to ambient music. 

It's a metaphorical club sandwich of spectral resonators and reverbs, all tied to the global scale mode of Ableton Live 12 - allowing you to turn monophonic material into lush, evolving chords and soundscapes, or re-harmonize polyphonic material. 

The device begins with two spectral resonators. Each of these resonators can be set to a specific pitch, or, by pressing the Global Scale button, the device will cycle through notes of the current selected scale at an interval that you choose. The output of these spectral resonators is then fed into a cavernous reverb and its output is then fed into a third spectral resonator, allowing you to blend in a third pitch, or, again, allowing you to activate the scale mode to have a reverb that shifts through notes of your scale at an interval you choose. The result is moving, evolving soundscapes, drones, choral washes, harmonically rich pads, even drum loops that remain percussive while taking on melodic qualities. 

Spectranaut requires Ableton Live 12 and Max 9 - it unfortunately won't work with Live 11, as it doesn't support Max 9. If you've already upgraded to Live 12.2, Ableton has upgraded the internal Max4Live version to 9, so you're good to go. And if you're still on Live 12.0, you'll need to have manually installed Max 9. 

I'd also recommend that you have at least an M1 chip if you're on a Mac, or a powerful i7 chip if you're on Windows. This device has a lot going on and it's going to require hardware from the last ~5 years or so.

Spectranaut is an ambient playground - a love letter to ambient music. 

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Johnnyc777

An audio-reactive, motion-tracking project built entirely using Max/MSP

Soundstrokes is here and @themelodycrafters couldn't be more proud of how it has turned out. We are currently in the process of speaking to art, music therapy and educational organisations about use of this software across sectors. Soundstrokes offers users the ability to use sound as paint, and themselves as the brush and is truly captivating to use (it feels like magic).

We would love the opportunity to use this software at venues across the world, and would love artists and musicians to play, draw and perform with this very accessible music tool. If you know of any people, venues or organisations that may be interested, we would really appreciate any and all signposting!

 for any further information, booking and collaborations.

An audio-reactive, motion-tracking project built entirely using Max/MSP

Link Here = https://f.io/25jnYuuk

Soundstrokes is here and...

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SoundStrokes

Matthew Barile

Pink Pong is equal parts creative assistant, compositional tool, real-time music generator, AND old-school style Pong game all-in-one!

Unleash a playful new dimension of MIDI generation within Ableton Live with 4 Chamber Sound’s Pink Pong Generator – a revolutionary Max for Live MIDI device that, inspired by cyclical movement of the classic Pong arcade game, creates dynamic, expressive musical patterns. Dive into an intuitive world where two digital balls bounce between virtual paddles, generating notes every time they connect. The height of impact dictates pitch, while configurable “gates” between the paddles trigger rhythmic subdivisions, allowing for addictingly compelling loops, brilliantly evolving musical patterns, and everything in between.

Building on the innovative legacy of the “PinkAI Generative Composer” and “PinkAI HarmonAIzer,” Pink Pong Generator offers a fresh, interactive approach to generative music. Whether you’re seeking instant inspiration or deep sonic exploration, its unique gameplay mechanics translate directly into captivating MIDI output.

Take a quick break from your composing by starting an impromptu game of musical Pong by entering into Pink Pong Generator’s Game tab. Pick a score to play to, set your AI opponent’s difficulty level, and hear the music unfold while you use your assigned MIDI controller knob to control your paddle.

Pink Pong Generator works as a standalone MIDI device with built-in chord and scale collections, or can synchronize output to PinkAI Generative Composer’s automated chord sequencing.

You’re in control of your creative flow. Whether you prefer the immediate gratification of a standalone setup, leveraging Pink Pong Generator’s extensive built-in chord and scale collections for instant harmonic context, or crave the deeper integration with the PinkAI ecosystem, the choice is yours. Seamlessly synchronize Pink Pong Generator’s dynamic output to the sophisticated automated chord sequencing of PinkAI Generative Composer, unlocking a powerful synergy that transforms playful pong ball physics into complex, evolving harmonic landscapes. This intelligent connectivity allows for unparalleled exploration, letting you focus on playing while PinkAI handles the underlying harmonic progression.

Pink Pong Generator blends nostalgic visuals with cutting-edge MIDI generation. From evolving melodic lines and lush harmonies to deep bass riffs, complex polyrhythms, and even unpredictable chaotic textures, discover how this unique device offers an intuitive and inspiring approach to music creation. Whether you’re crafting repetitive loops or exploring generative soundscapes, Pink Pong Generator offers a wide range of controls and features to fine-tune your musical creations and hear the results in real-time.

 The device comes with 8 different quick-change preset banks, totaling 94 presets, which can be cycled through instantaneously without gaps in playback.

Use Pink Pong Generator with the Generative Composer’s Conductor module to unlock new levels of generative creativity and pure fun than accessible from any other MIDI Device: 

Use Pink Pong Generator’s Chord and Scale dropdowns to output your MIDI patterns into any of the following tonal colors, in any of the 12 musical keys:

Reimagine what it means to "play music"

A novel MIDI plugin for Ableton Live

Pink Pong is equal parts creative assistant, compositional...

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Pink Pong Generator

axers fall

Instead of normal waveshaping process in time domain(mapping volume from input range to output range), this plugin shapes the amplitude information for each spectral bin. "waveshaping" each bin's amplitude individually. (kinda like spectral filter)

I'd love to insert this plugin into a pad track to help me shape its tone, change original pad to another timbre.

Please check out my youtube channel for more Max/MSP ambient sound design videos!!!

A "waveshaper" distortion plugin but with spectral prcoess. and IT"S FREE TO DOWNLOAD!!!!!!

Instead of normal waveshaping process in time...

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spectral ease

Celestine is best described as a realtime granular processor, or, perhaps, a granular delay device.  It hosts a rolling buffer that is constantly listening to what you play, replenishing itself, and then spitting out grains and glitches based on what you feed it, making the device equally useful for live use, studio sound design, and even just finding happy accidents while you twist knobs.  It doesn't store audio for later.  It's all about the fleeting moments - the moment happening right now.  The present.

The device was inspired by boutique guitar pedals - the immediacy of instant sonic gratification.  While many granular devices rely on dropping a sample into a buffer, I wanted something that would feel more organic, more live.  Celestine is always listening, Celestine is hungry for audio. As I built this device, I was trying to imagine, "What would Chase Bliss do?".  I'm a big fan of their devices and they're a huge inspiration to me.

Celestine actually has two separate engines.  One, we'll call the grain engine, and the second we'll call the glitch engine.  The grain engine is what you might expect - a granular processor that turns the sounds fed into the device into tiny, micro grains, tiny shards of audio, then spits them out in clouds.  While granular processing is all about micro chunks of audio, you can think of the glitch engine as macro chunks.  It's also always listening, but spits out larger chunks of audio, which can then be processed by one of three algorithms (macro, up and down).

Rounding out the device, Celestine offers a hearty FX section featuring wave-folding distortion for rich harmonics, a bitcrusher that can go from subtle to digital decimation, a dreamy reverb complete with a freeze function, and the Magic effects panel seen in some of my other devices - a one stop shop to quickly alter the tone and timbre of a sound with one of seven artisanal multi-FX algorithms.

The device lends itself to melodics - vocals, keys, guitars and the like - but I've also had some nice results with percussive material.  It can be used both as an insert effect on a track, setting a nice balance between dry and wet, or as a send with the device set to fully wet, sending bits and pieces of various tracks to it.

I've put a lot of time into this one.  The development process took me about four months.  I'm asking $15 for it - I feel I could possibly ask for more, but I'm trying to be reasonable and treat this lovely community of musicians with respect - I know your money is hard-earned and I know that everyone is struggling in some way.  Your support will not only go towards the continued development of this, past devices and new ones, but also, more importantly, it'll go towards my family - putting food on the table for myself, my wife and our delightful obsessed-with-tractors toddler.  I feel very lucky to be here in this position, working from home, creating things to spark joy and inspiration for musicians.  It feels like my true calling.

Thanks for your time, for your support, and I hope you're having a very nice day. ✌️

Celestine is best described as a realtime granular processor, or, perhaps, a granular delay device.  It hosts a rolling buffer that is...