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Tutorial: Ableton Live Workflow – Using the Max For Live Step Divider to Generate Rhythm & Melody Ideas

It’s holiday season and you’ve got some free time to start working on some tracks. You open up Live hoping some inspiration will hit, but nope – you got nothin’, zero, nadda.

If you’re using Live 10 Suite, here’s a sure fire way to get things rolling using the Max For Live Step Divider, released last year in the free Probability Pack.  

The Probability Pack is a bundle of ‘innovative step sequencers and idea generators’ that use randomisation and probability to help you generate dynamic rhythms and melodies. The pack consist of 5 devices, but it’s the Step Divider in particular that I’ve found super fun to use for creating basslines, melodies and even drum arrangements.  

Check out the video below to see how you might find it useful for kick starting track idea’s and creating music.   

The Probability Pack is free for users of Live 10 Suite.  

Noisegate

  • Hi
    Can anyone help me?
    I wanted to use the Step Divider today but when I click on a step it only gives me a step already subdivided into five parts. I cannot get it to input an unbroken whole step.
    Have you any ideas on how to stop this glitch?
    Thanks
    Jon

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