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24 alternatives to Max Studio Tools – C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live

Max/MSP externals covering essential studio gear. Contribute to apresta/max-studio-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

Max Studio Tools provides C++ digital signal processing modules designed for use in Max and Ableton Live. The software enables audio developers and musicians to build custom DSP effects and instruments within these… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

  1. 1WD

    2018 · dsp.audio · its alternatives →

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    Ever wanted to control Ableton with just your voice? Me too! I made this MCP server so I could just ask Codex to do anything in Ableton Live for me, while I was nap-trapped by my baby. The chat messages I sent to Codex to make this: in ableton, make a self reflective song, with audio vocals (via macos say) and chip tunes and 80's drum machines. should be a real edm banger i want midi for everything but vocals please, with ableton devices. not prerendered audio for instruments needs some fills and should hit way harder after "3-2-1 i become the sound" the vocals are squished too much (read…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I recently got Ableton Move and was disappointed by how difficult it was to convert samples into Move-compatible drum racks, so I made a simple CLI tool for that. I hope others find it useful, and at some point, Ableton sees the need and provides us with a built-in solution.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create cover photos, canvas videos and amazing visuals of 🫵

    2024 · soundboost.ai · its alternatives →

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    Qwen3.8-Max + MCP for coding on your local machine, without paying for Qwen Code. Qwen3.8-Max itself runs in the cloud through Qwen Studio — this setup just gives it access to your local files and terminal through MCP. My take: it is slower than Codex and Claude Code, especially in thinking mode, but it does work well. MCP adds some latency too since there’s an extra layer between the model and your machine. In fast mode, it gets noticeably closer. I wouldn’t put it in the same category as Fable or Opus-5. Personally, I’d place it closer to the next Opus 4.7 level in terms of coding ability.…

    Aug 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →

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    Libre music sequencer for desktop and mobile platforms - helio-fm/helio-sequencer

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth - kofigumbs/typebeat

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Generative AI for audio made simple

    2023 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-generated samples and effects for producers (FREE VST)

    2024 · audialab.com · its alternatives →

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    In 2020, Magenta released DDSP [1], a machine learning algorithm / python library which made it possible to generate good sounding instrument synthesizers from about 6-10 minutes of data. While working with DDSP for a project, we realised how it was actually quite hard to find 6-10 minute of clean recordings of monophonic instruments. In this project, we have combined the DDSP architecture with a domain adaptation technique from speech synthesis [2]. This domain adaptation technique works by pre-training our model on many different recordings from the Solos dataset [3] first and then…

    2022 · erlj.notion.site · its alternatives →

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    2018 · acarabott.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust - chaosprint/glicol

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’ve been working on a browser-based tool for exploring and debugging Web Audio API graphs. Web Audio Studio lets you write real Web Audio API code, run it, and see the runtime graph it produces as an interactive visual representation. Instead of mentally tracking connect() calls, you can inspect the actual structure of the graph, follow signal flow, and tweak parameters while the audio is playing. It includes built-in visualizations for common node types — waveforms, filter responses, analyser time and frequency views, compressor transfer curves, waveshaper distortion, spatial…

    Mar 2026 · webaudio.studio · its alternatives →

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    NoiseCraft is an open source, visual programming language and platform for sound synthesis and music making, with the goal of creating a community for the open exchange of musical ideas. The design is loosely inspired by PureData, Max/MSP as well as other visual programming languages. NoiseCraft is

    2022 · noisecraft.app · its alternatives →

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    A powerful realtime node-based audio synthesizer. Contribute to monadgroup/axiom development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm developing Hyperstep[0], a spatial language for music production. I find using existing DAWs frustrating because they don't allow me to navigate and operate intuitively on the latent spaces behind my musical ideas. This is why I've decided to build my own set of "seeing tools".(Bret Victor)[1]. I'm also convinced that by framing music as processes and interactions in the 3D world, spatialization and mixing should become fairly pain-free. I'm still early in development and I would love to build this into an actual product that can be integrated into existing DAWs or even turn it into a…

    2022 · a-sumo.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Ever since childhood I've wanted to play around with modular synthesis, so now I'm building an application to do just that!

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Reamp▲158

    Audio player for Mac with Winamp classic skins support

    2021 · re-amp.ru · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, not many will know what this tool is about, but it's launch day and I always dreamed of posting on HN. Let's start! This is a tool for people using eurorack gear. For synth people. What is cool about my tool is that I show the signal flow with a graph. Here's the official press text: After a decade of stagnation in this space we are excited to present patcher.xyz: the modern way to manage everything modular. It’s a tool for professionals, enthusiasts, and casual wigglers. Novadays artists must develop their own means of taking notes, often on paper, since there is no common format…

    2022 · patcher.xyz · its alternatives →

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    so i got sick of scrolling through sample libraries, buying plugins, and trying desperately to make original music and sound design with suno. built a DAW that's free to try for any music producers or content creators! you can generate individual stems, one shots and sfx standalone or in studio mode. you can also share and remix tracks instantly, something incredibly painful in the existing audio space. shoot me an email at [email protected] if you wanna come work on this with me :)

    2025 · sonurastudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Jam with friends

    2014 · soundtrap.com · its alternatives →

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    I am excited to announce a new tool for music producers and audio enthusiasts - a music audio search engine. With just a simple description of the groove you're looking for, our semantic search engine will output the most similar audio in seconds. I used the Freesound.org API to upload over 3,000 grooves to MongoDB, and combined all the relevant data such as tags, title, description, BPM, etc. into OpenAI's Text-Davinci to generate a unique description of each sound. I then embedded these descriptions using the Ada Embeddings Model and inserted them into Pinecone DB vector database, making…

    2023 · muzic-sage.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    sas-audio-processor. Contribute to shiehn/sas-audio-processor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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