Max Essentials 2

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Max Essentials 2

Post by kleine » Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:59 pm

:D
We're happy to share the new Max Essentials after many moons of work with you.
Grab it here:

http://www.ableton.com/en/packs/max-live-essentials

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by S-N-S » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:04 pm

do these only work with max4live 7??

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by kleine » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:13 pm

Yes.

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Post by Angstrom » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:26 pm

It's worth mentioning that Max7 (for Live) is a free update. That wasn't really clear to me until somebody explicitly stated "you can upgrade from M4L6 to M4L7 for nothing, no money"
Usually integers cost money.

Upgrading to Max7 solved quite a few of of my Live crashing problems.

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by kleine » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:35 pm

Right. As of Live 9.2 Max 7 is/was a free update...
The new Max Essentials require the latest Max.

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by D3VOUR » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:30 am

Having a little issue with loading the new instruments (Bass, Multi, Poli).

I downloaded Essentials 2 and tried to fire up Bass, but I was hit with an error mentioning I needed Max 7. So I went in my Ableton account and did the update (32 bit OS X). I installed it and updated my preferences in Ableton to point to the new Max 7 app and I restarted Ableton as instructed.

However, after I relaunched Ableton I got hit with an error when trying to load Bass. It says "The selected Max application could not be loaded. A 32-bit version is probably required".

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by stringtapper » Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:19 am

D3VOUR wrote:Having a little issue with loading the new instruments (Bass, Multi, Poli).

I downloaded Essentials 2 and tried to fire up Bass, but I was hit with an error mentioning I needed Max 7. So I went in my Ableton account and did the update (32 bit OS X). I installed it and updated my preferences in Ableton to point to the new Max 7 app and I restarted Ableton as instructed.

However, after I relaunched Ableton I got hit with an error when trying to load Bass. It says "The selected Max application could not be loaded. A 32-bit version is probably required".

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!
Go to the Max application icon (Applications folder) and Get Info (command+I). Make sure "Open in 32-bit mode" is checked if you are running Live 32-bit.
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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by D3VOUR » Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:59 am

stringtapper wrote:
D3VOUR wrote:Having a little issue with loading the new instruments (Bass, Multi, Poli).

I downloaded Essentials 2 and tried to fire up Bass, but I was hit with an error mentioning I needed Max 7. So I went in my Ableton account and did the update (32 bit OS X). I installed it and updated my preferences in Ableton to point to the new Max 7 app and I restarted Ableton as instructed.

However, after I relaunched Ableton I got hit with an error when trying to load Bass. It says "The selected Max application could not be loaded. A 32-bit version is probably required".

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!
Go to the Max application icon (Applications folder) and Get Info (command+I). Make sure "Open in 32-bit mode" is checked if you are running Live 32-bit.
Just check this. The open in 32-bit box IS checked.


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stringtapper wrote:This is just a guess but are you sure you downloaded the 32bit version of Max 7? I noticed that the difference between those isn't fully obvious if you check the download page. Do you get the same issue when loading other M4l devices or do those work normally?
Confident I got the 32-bit version. The cycling74 URL when I download it even has "os=mac&bits=32" in it.

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by [art] » Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:09 am

Love Poli & Multi!

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by stringtapper » Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:16 am

D3VOUR wrote:Confident I got the 32-bit version. The cycling74 URL when I download it even has "os=mac&bits=32" in it.
Just to cover all bases, are you positive you are running Live in 32-bit?
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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by D3VOUR » Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:21 am

stringtapper wrote:
D3VOUR wrote:Confident I got the 32-bit version. The cycling74 URL when I download it even has "os=mac&bits=32" in it.
Just to cover all bases, are you positive you are running Live in 32-bit?

Thanks for responding. Yes, Live is 32-bit. Not sure what happened, but I got super frustrated, and shut everything down for a bit.

I just booted back up and it seems to be working fine now. Maybe it was just a sign to get the f off the computer.

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by Warmonger » Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:49 pm

I don't consider M4L content competetive synths. If I need something beefy, I can take Serum or Dune 2 for that purpose.

It's just good they are here and were added for free. Still, they can be nice addition with their somewhat dirty and analog tone. Also, new synths make up for general lack of synths in Ableton.

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Re: Max Essentials 2

Post by S-N-S » Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:34 am

Angstrom wrote:It's worth mentioning that Max7 (for Live) is a free update. That wasn't really clear to me until somebody explicitly stated "you can upgrade from M4L6 to M4L7 for nothing, no money"
Usually integers cost money.

Upgrading to Max7 solved quite a few of of my Live crashing problems.

awesome didnt knew the upgrade from max4live 6 to m4L 7 was free,downloading now

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