r/ableton • u/artsciencenature • 2d ago

[Max for Live] New Free M4L Util: Variation Octave

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Drop before a MIDI or Instrument Rack and assign an unused octave of MIDI notes to select your rack Variations. Optionally trigger randomizing Macros with the last note in the octave.

This device is in the spirit of keeping you in the moment and away from the mouse when making music. It opens new performance possibilities...

https://plugins.steinkamp.us/m4l-VariationOctave

Live 12 w/ Max for Live required.

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u/-sashimix- 1d ago

Very nice idea 👏

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u/artsciencenature 1d ago

Curious to hear what you do with it!

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u/-sashimix- 1d ago

I will dig tomorrow, first idea comes “arp rate macro knob switch between 16 32 whit key 🔑

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u/artsciencenature 1d ago

This morning I put together a MIDI rack prior to the Variation Octave. The MIDI rack has two chains -- one is mapped to the Variation Octave key range and has an arpeggiator. The other chain covers the rest of the keys and has nothing in it. So you can hold a bunch of notes in the Variation Octave range, and the arpeggiator in that chain will arpeggiate those notes, so you get variations being selected at the arpeggiator's rate...

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u/-sashimix- 1d ago

I send you a link yt here I have only 16 notes and 8 notes on my macro preset i switch which one knob but I can’t make the 3 macro because it jumps between 8 and 16 before 32 https://youtu.be/jWYrXdyLfos?feature=shared

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u/artsciencenature 1d ago

v2 published today with an important bugfix. Sorry about that in v1!

https://plugins.steinkamp.us/m4l-VariationOctave

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u/Daru925 1d ago

Thank you for this! macro variation automation of sort was on my wishlist!