Having assembled my MidiVox, I set about trying to use it in ableton with sequenced midi control and automation of the CC controls.

I hate dealing with native midi in abelton, the automation is never user friendly with a giant list of everything, and control isn’t exposed in the UI, so the only place to change the values is in the envelope part of the workflow. So I thought I’d delve into Max4Live and make a nice simple front end midi controller that can be added in front of the external instrument and contains all the default Live dials and is specific to MidiVox.

Attached is a zip that contains this first pass as an ableton instrument, as an ableton instrument rack including the external instrument and as the plain max patch. I have no idea if it will work on other peoples systems, as this is my first patch shared, let me know if you can get it working, or if there are issues. I have a ton of ideas for making it better, but for now it works and serves the purpose.

midvox_for_Max4Live.zip (0.1 release)

thresh_hold_toggle.maxpat

I needed this functionality for one of my arduino midi projects that’s on my to do list, this was a quick 15 minute blast through. I’m sure the max isn’t awesome and probably very ugly, but it works.