If you peer over the shoulder of a typical laptop musician in the middle of a gig, the chances are that you'll see one of two things: either an incomprehensible, complicated‑looking rat's nest of ragged coloured boxes connected by lines, or a neat, grey spreadsheet‑like grid above a strip of slim, regimented control panels and waveforms. Suddenly your device is displayed as a patcher in the Max editing window for real‑time modification. Max For Live devices act like other Live devices until you click the Edit button. But what if you could mangle the devices themselves?
Ableton Live's 'devices' offer powerful tools for mangling sounds in live performance.
