ppooll is an audio and visual networking system created from Max/MSP and Jitter patches

POINTILLISME is a free, browser-based generative instrument built on integral serialism — the compositional technique developed at Darmstadt in the 1950s by Stockhausen, Boulez, and Berio, where not just pitch but every musical parameter (duration, dynamics, envelope, register, space, ornament) follows its own independent series.

Four oscillators run as a serial quartet. Each voice advances through seven independent series with coprime lengths, producing textures that never repeat. Ten ornament types — trill, mordent, glissando, tremolo, cluster, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, gruppetto, arpeggio — are serialized alongside the other parameters. The graphic score scrolls in real time, drawing each event as a coloured envelope shape in the style of Stockhausen's Studie II.

Hit record, then export:
— Audio (WAV or AIFF, up to 24-bit) for immediate use in any project.
— MIDI (Standard MIDI File, Type 1) with four separate tracks, one per voice. Drop it into your DAW and every voice lands on its own track, ready to be reassigned, edited, or used as a compositional skeleton for your own music.

The freeze function stops time and turns the score into a clickable instrument — tap any visible event to trigger it. Alternate between generative flow and manual triggering for live performance.

Included in the download you'll find HTML Instruments, a Max for Live device that lets you open POINTILLISME directly inside Ableton Live (requires Ableton 12 and Max 9). Alternatively, just double-click the HTML file to run it standalone in any browser and route your output to your audio interface, like any ordinary instrument.

Single file. No installation. No dependencies. Free.

Hi, I'm currently writing a 4ch tape music.

My audio samples are mono, so I'm currently using groove and outputting them to 4 channels.
But as you know, this is just 4 same signals going in to 4 channels so the spatial image isn't really there. it still sounds like mono.

So,

how do i make some lfo, or any modulating source that i could put on every signal to get something live, living modulating source..that modulates the delay, and slight pitch.

I want to just make some set of objects that modulates the delay, pitch in the range of some subtle value so i could slap that set of objects to the signals and forget about it.

Basically I want every sound to be like a real orchestra.

In orchestra if the violin section plays the note A, because all violins are slightly tuned different and don't play at the exact same time because its impossible for human we get those rich sound.

I basically want to do that for my sounds.

Little excerpt of me playing my chaotic pointcloud system for TouchDesigner, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal in real-time.

System available through Patreon, or the Store.

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my Instagram, or YouTube.

Little excerpt of me playing my chaotic pointcloud system, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal in real-time. What do you guys think?

System available through Patreon, or the Store.

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my Instagram, or YouTube.

tried to open a flac i downloaded from soulseek on my macbook and it opened with max 9. i do not ever remember downloading this application and i didn't even know what it was until it launched. i closed it the first time adn tried to open it again like 12 times but it would "launch" with no window. did i download a trojan pretending to be max or something

TIAGO MORAIS MORGADO HYPER-VIOLA FREE IMPROVISATION | ELECTROACOUSTIC VIOLA MADNESS

LOOM

An extreme time-stretch instrument for making textures and drones.

Free download: https://www.remodevicocomposer.eu/maxforlive/loom/

programmed by Remo De Vico

LOOM is a browser instrument that stretches a sound in time to build textures, pads and drones. It can make a short sample last for minutes without changing its pitch. It runs as a single HTML file, works offline, and needs no installation. 

How to use it

1. Load a sample. Click + sample. WAV, AIFF / AIF, MP3 and FLAC are supported.
2. Choose a region (optional). Drag on the source waveform to select part of the sound. This is useful, because a very large stretch of a long file produces very long output. Click once to set a start point; double-click to clear the selection.
3. Listen first. Press Audition to hear the whole sample, or only the selected region.
4. Set the controls (see below) and press Render. The work runs in the background with a progress bar, and you can Cancel.
5. Play and check. Press Play. You can click anywhere on the rendered waveform to start playback from that point — useful when you want to hear only the end of a long texture.
6. Export. Choose WAV or AIFF, choose the bit depth, and press Download.   

The controls

• Stretch — how much longer the sound becomes (time only). The slider goes very far; the number box accepts even larger values.
• Pitch — transposition in semitones, fully separate from stretch. The range is very wide, several octaves up or down.
• Weave — how many grains overlap at each moment (1 to 16). Low values sound rough and pulsing, and broken at 1. Higher values sound smooth and glassy. The strongest change is between 1 and 4.
• Scatter — how much the phase is invented (0 to 100%). At 0 the real phase is kept, so the stretch stays coherent and attacks survive. At 100% it is the full texture effect.
• Drift — the reading position wanders. Each grain reads from a slightly different, moving point in the sample. At 0 it is off. Higher values make the texture breathe and change over time, and make the higher Weave values meaningful.
• Reverb and Size — an internal reverb (amount and decay length) added after the stretch.
• Gain — output level.
• Normalize — brings the level up to a safe maximum.
• Mono → stereo — from a mono sample, builds a wide stereo texture using two independent phase passes.
• Reverse — plays the stretched sound backwards.

Stretch, pitch, weave, scatter and drift are part of the engine, so a change needs a new Render. Reverb, size, gain, normalize and reverse are applied afterwards, so you hear them at once.

Notes

Included in the download you'll find HTML INSTRUMENTS

a Max for Live device that lets you open LOOM directly inside Ableton Live.

It requires Ableton 12 and Max 9.

Alternatively, you can run it standalone (just double click on html file) and route your computer or tablet output to your audio interface, just like any ordinary instrument.

check out my works on https://www.remodevicocomposer.eu/

Full Playlist here (Watch more videos of this series)

Anybody poked around and compared the new edition vs the one for Max 8? I have a digital copy of the one for Max 8 which I worked through halfway at some point last year. Was gonna start it again and go through the entire thing. Is there any point in buying the new version over the previous? It's a significant investment in time and I don't mind spending the money if it's worth the upgrade.

We've just released MyBeeKnows for Live, a suite of four Max for Live devices that brings real-time binaural spatial audio directly into Ableton Live.

Whether you're producing, mixing or performing, MBK lets you work in immersive 3D audio without complex routing or heavy CPU usage.

The suite includes:

• MBK Pan – Real-time 3D binaural panning
• MBK Mix – Binaural monitoring for immersive and ambisonic mixes
• MBK Space – An immersive spatial reverb
• MBK Scene – Global scene control with OSC head tracking support

Built on more than 12 years of research in collaboration with École Polytechnique de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris, MyBeeKnows was designed to make spatial audio accessible to music creators.

 Watch the demo video and let us know what you think!

Video

More information: https://store.musicunit.fr
We're happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Hello all,

I wanted to try out maxmsp since I heard about Autechre using the software, but I'm hesitant to start the trial period as I don't think I'll get the most out of it

- I have about 1 1/2 years experience using bitwig studio (But I'm hopeless using their Grid format - if you're familiar with that)

- I'm laughably bad at coding - but I do want to improve

- I have tried VCV rack and that didn't really resonate with me either.

I don't know a great deal about max msp, so if anyone has any pre recommendations to enhance my experience i will happily take them on board

thank you

sound i made month ago on youtube

We've just released MyBeeKnows for Live, a suite of four Max for Live devices that brings real-time binaural spatial audio directly into Ableton Live.

Whether you're producing, mixing or performing, MBK lets you work in immersive 3D audio without complex routing or heavy CPU usage.

The suite includes:

• MBK Pan – Real-time 3D binaural panning
• MBK Mix – Binaural monitoring for immersive and ambisonic mixes
• MBK Space – An immersive spatial reverb
• MBK Scene – Global scene control with OSC head tracking support

Built on more than 12 years of research in collaboration with École Polytechnique de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris, MyBeeKnows was designed to make spatial audio accessible to music creators.

 Watch the demo video and let us know what you think!

Video

More information: https://store.musicunit.fr
We're happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Hi, I'm currently learning MaxMSP for my uni course and I've gotten the hang of the basics. For my final project, my professor wants us to make anything we want to make using what we've learnt. I wanted to make a weather based generative sound(??), which I've seen online a few times. I was wondering if anyone had tips on how to go about it or have any tutorials? Thanks!

MatrixSynth is a polyphonic synthesizer with 3 oscillators. Each of the 3 oscillators has its own dedicated envelope, which controls how the sound evolves over time. The signals from the three oscillators are then summed and sent to the filter, which shapes the tone.

The most powerful feature of MatrixSynth is the Modulation Matrix: a grid that lets you connect the oscillators to each other to create advanced effects such as:

FM (Frequency Modulation)

PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)

Oscillator Resynchronization

Hi everyone, I’ve just released a new Max for Live instrument called Dubform. It's a dub techno chord instrument for Ableton Live, designed to make it quick and easy to create deep chords, atmospheric stabs and evolving textures from a single device. It combines a built-in chord generator with filtering, modulation, delay and reverb, keeping the workflow simple while still offering plenty of scope for shaping the sound.

Link in video description and my profile!

Hi everyone,

We’ll be hosting a beginner-friendly Max/MSP workshop at Umbala in Ho Chi Minh City on July 24, 2026, led by Jack Sapienza and Matilde.

The workshop is designed for musicians, sound artists, producers, performers, students, and anyone interested in getting started with real-time sound systems, patching, synthesis, MIDI, and OSC inside Max/MSP.

The session will have a practical approach and will focus on building simple sound structures from scratch, understanding how signals and messages work, and exploring how Max/MSP can be used as a flexible environment for live performance and audiovisual projects.

Topics will include:

Understanding the Max/MSP interface and patching logic

Working with messages, signals, and basic objects

Building simple sound patches from scratch

Introduction to synthesis and sound manipulation

Using MIDI for control and interaction

Using OSC to communicate with other software and devices

Creating a first real-time sound system for live or audiovisual performance

By the end of the session, participants will have built their first Max/MSP patch and gained a practical foundation to continue developing their own real-time sound and performance systems.

This workshop is also part of a 3-day beginner-friendly series on real-time audiovisual systems taking place at Umbala from July 23 to 25, 2026.

Date: July 24, 2026
Location: Umbala, Ho Chi Minh City
Price: 750k VND

Participants should bring their own laptop.

Registration: info in DM https://www.instagram.com/___umbala___/

Hope to see some of you there.

Hi! 

am developing 2 max for live devices, one to control the video clips playback, and another to overlay pictures on top of the video of the 1st device. They both share the same open GL context name base on the track id where the device is sitting. I manage to overlay the pictures but they appear as a black square. I experiment with the depth and blend attributes but none seems to make any difference, because the black square is always there.

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