MIDI Klowd have released MIDI Tools by Philip Meyer, available at the intro price of £45.00, increasing to £70.00 after the promotion.
This is a collection of 12 devices for making rhythmic music in Ableton Live 12. They are some of the first Max for Live MIDI Tools, which is a new class of Live device that generates and transforms MIDI clips.
Philip Meyer has always liked to make complex rhythmic music, but in the past he found the piano roll in Live to be clunky and tedious to use. MIDI Tools resolve this problem by allowing him to create simple devices that automate processes that would be tedious or impossible to execute manually. Every device in this collection is designed to help you make exciting, novel rhythmic music quickly and playfully.
The “quickly and playfully” is really important to Philip. For him, making electronic music has always been about getting a pattern running, listening to it, then tweaking it with whatever knobs and sliders are available. Working this way puts you in a sort of dialog with the machine, where you’re acting, then listening, then acting, then listening, and so forth. This process works best when the cycles are fast, which means that the tools have to be fun and easy to use. They have to deliver results quickly.
MIDI Tools comprises 12 devices:
- 4 MIDI Generators:
- Blocks
- Phase Pattern
- Turing Machine
- Polyrhythm
- 8 MIDI Transformers:
- Condition Transform
- Develop
- Divs
- Draw
- Pattern Transformer
- Segment
- Shift
- Feel
MIDI Tools Volume One requires Ableton Live 12 Suite or Ableton Live 12 Standard with MaxforLive installed.
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