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Max for Live puts the power and potential of Max/MSP inside Ableton Live. Create all the instruments, effects and extensions you've ever wanted. Go beyond the common and predictable, and transcend the limits that conventional tools impose. Build completely unique synths and effects, create algorithmic composition tools, or fuse Live and controller hardware into radical, new music machines. 

Max creations appear as Ableton Live devices and the Max editor can be launched from Ableton Live.

Max is an interactive visual programming environment for music, audio, and media In use for over twenty years by performers, composers, artists, scientists, teachers, and students, Max is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams.

The audio processing part of Max is called MSP.

The video processing part of Max is called Jitter.

Ableton Live is an audio creation tool that provides audio sampling, generation, processing, editing, and mixing capabilities within a cohesive interface.

Effect processing can be chained, routed, tweaked, resampled, and manipulated in live performances.

Performance data can be recorded, generated, triggered, edited, and automated.