OO GROOVE: four Max for Live groove generators that share one key

Four Max for Live generators. One key controls them all.

OO GROOVE started as a problem in my own live sets: three generators, three key settings, and one of them always in the wrong scale. So I built OO KEY, a host device that broadcasts the root and scale to every OO device in the set. Change the key once and everything follows, quantized to the next bar, so a key change is one click in the middle of a performance.

The bundle has four MIDI devices that play any synth, software or hardware:

OO KEY: set root and scale once; an always-on-top key window lets you change key from any track, or FOLLOW LIVE SCALE locks it to the Live 12 song scale.

OO KICK: 4/4 and breakbeat kick patterns that evolve over phrases.

OO BASS: funk lines with motion, slides, ghost notes and swing, plus LOOP 1 / LOOP 2 to loop the steps under the playhead.

OO CHORD: progressions with euclid rhythms, from short stabs to ringing pads, morphing into arpeggios.

Load as many KICK, BASS and CHORD devices as you like; one OO KEY drives them all. Every device has 8 snapshots. The engines are written in v8 JavaScript inside Max 9.

Requires Ableton Live 12 with Max for Live (Max 9), macOS and Windows. USD 8 at ovotools.com/products/oo-groove