muse concrète tool M4L demo

excited to share this nutty free sketch tool with ya. muse concrete tool is great for making loopy based, ambient, drone, experimental, pads, weird beats, way out there sfx, sonic smoothies.. you name it. a sound designer's buddy.

max for live amxd***:

some demo sketches made with this thing*:

standalone application:

basic operation: drag or record samples into the 4 lanes, set loops points, play them with your midi keyboard. get jiggy with the 4 lfos. just have fun doing weird and wild things! no holds barred.

don't forget - when you record sounds into the lanes, to save your samples and drag the saved samples back into theirs slots. so when you reload your ableton project, everything will be as you left it.

to get the reverse to work, drag out the release envelop (rls) to something higher than the default of 8ms.

also dont forget to turn off the auto note generators if you want to play midi notes otherwise the note generators will play in tandem with you midi keyboard (could be fun?)

shout out to the following m4l patches that utilized to make this thing tick:
flating window code by cycling 74 max msp forum user PID

this tool was inspired somewhat by the m4l device 'quad chaos' made pheek and armando gonzalez sosto

*some samples used in this demo may be copyrighted so if you want to use them in your own creations, mangle the heck out of m'

**the osx one was built using max 7(its all i have rt now). everything works fine for the most part but some of the dials/numboxes are reverted to 0. you can select them and hit backspace on your keyboard to return them to defaul. i will build a new version as soon as i can update the mac and get 8 running on it.

***1.1 is available and contains the following new features: a step sequencer(use the play/bmp controls on the top level window), input section contains a feature that lets you route audio from the master back into the lanes for recording. a limiter and freeverb effect section

[wmayhem]

This is great. You are the coolest. Thank you.

[voidisplace]

This is amazing! I’ve been looking for a mangling looper instrument for a long time for ambient style atmospheres. I was looking to get a 1010 Blackbox sampler to do exactly what this does - actually this makes me want one even more. Looking forward to experimenting with it more! Would love to see a video with a bit more detail on how the note generator works more because I was a bit confused by it at first

[Mancheguache]

You should do a slower version for us techphobic stuck in analogue geezers....the automation section baffled me, but that's not yur prob lol. This is space age good - a right good piece of work. The possibilities are enormous as is the inspiration you provided along with it. Super well done.

[Mancheguache]

The Cardinal synth thing - how did you get it to cohere with Ableton - please talk slowly if you explain it....

[wakax]

great sketchpad! does't work here (osx) as it should ... after closing the window, the "open" won't work again. maybe it's not that hard to fix. thank you!!!