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WaveFuse

WaveFuse is a free max4live designed and built by Aval.

It's a Distortion Device that uses a custom transfer function, clipping the signal exactly like it displays.

It's ready to use, just click and drag on the sine wave to drive up your sound. As you see, when the wave reach the upper or lower limit, it folds on itself, and a new limit it set up, half of the past one, then it folds again, and again, and again, and.... The distortion you'll get will work in a very unique way on transients, preserving most of the fundamental frequency! Also the Auto Gain function will re-balance the gain, also following the envelope of the original sound.

• Drive/Scope: gain amount
• Auto gain: re-balance the gain after the distortion, matching the input's envelope
• DW: dry wet

Clip-a-me

Clip-a-me is a free max4live designed and built by Aval.

It's a Soft Clip device with various clipping function to choose from.

It's ready to use, just choose a function and turn the "THS" dial down to start clipping your sound. Try to experiment with different function and listen how it will change the distortion from one to another: you’ll see your audio stream in the scope and the threshold clipping it; the two shapes bottom left are standard clipping (white) and soft clipping function in use (red).

IMPORTANT: The scope only works with Ableton 11

• THS: Clipping threshold
• Function box: Various type of clipping function
  • Digital: digital clipping with no soft clipping function
  • Tanh: hyperbolic tangent, adds a tube-like saturation
  • Sinusoid: sinusoidal clipping curve, adds a subtle saturation
  • Exponential: Exponential function based clipping function, creamy and clean
  • Cubic1: type 1 cubic clipping curve, very clean
  • Quadratic: quadratic clipping curve, even cleaner
  • Cubic2: type 2 cubic clipping curve, alternative to type 1

TranPan

TranPan is a free max4live designed and built by Aval.

It's a random panner where the movement is triggered by transient, detectable thanks to a threshold slider. The amount of pan is user settable with a custom range slider, also there is a pop up menu in which is possible to set the release between transient and how many values the random will generate. This free utility device is very helpful whenever we have a mono sound that you'd like to pan randomly on each event (the same an operator does with the random pan, or a simpler etc.) so you can get the same effect on every audio signal, even if it's an audio clip, a synthetizer etc. It also works on stereo signal, re-balancing the two channel, giving back a stereo movement effect.

IMPORTANT: The scope only works with Ableton 11

• Blue Line: set the threshold for transient detection.
• Custom Range Slider: set minimum at maximum random values (left is minimum, right is maximum). Single click will fix a value, double click is disabled.
• All: set maximum range for random.

From the Menu:

• Release: amount of release between transient, avoid avoid close triggers and too much pan movement.
• Random Values: how many values the random will generate, when set on very low values it will stretch the range to all left / center / all right; when set to 1, it will center the signal.
  

LFOlava

LFOlava is a free max4live designed and built by Aval.

It's a mappable LFO device with two oscillators, where you can set their speed using ratios and get intuitive graphic response, and map them to any (enabled) parameter inside Ableton: as you'll map them, you'll get the exact values of the chosen param directly from Ableton's API. Use it as a drag & drop double lfo, to modulate values you don't want to be exactly the same, getting intuitive ratios and meeting points from the graph.

• Ratio boxes: set the ratio of the single oscillators, they'll be 1/x where "x" is the value selected, synced to Ableton BPM.
• Cool graph that show rhythms and repetions.
• Map box: click on it and then on the value you'd like to map, a cross box will appear next to it in order to disconnect.
• Range boxes: left one for the minimum and right for the maximum, you'll get the param min and max when connecting.
  IMPORTANT: some Ableton parameters are not like they're shown but sometimes they could be 0-1 float ranges.