The Idea
Era is a set of 8 MaxForLive plugins specifically designed to enhance workflow for assembling Launchpad performances in Ableton live. It is the first plugin set to completely integrate Interactive Mapping for MIDI and audio clips.
How To Use
Use these plugins to enable interactive sampling, reduce the amount of chains in your Lights track, or just set up your project with a single In/Out Controller Track. You can use one plugin, or all of them. If you only want one of these plugins, you can download it by clicking the image next to its description. These plugins are compatible with other plugins to the best of my ability, such as Kaskobi's Practice Mode and Mat1jaczyyy's Multi Reset. All plugins support forward compatibility with Amethyst.
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Plugins
Photon Mapper
The ultimate breakthrough in project assembly, Lightspeed Mapper is an all-in-one solution for light effect naming, exporting, and mapping. Compatible with Lightspeed and Kaskobi's Midi Launcher.
With Mapping enabled, you can press the 'Play' button to preview the currently selected light effect. Requires Spectrum to display custom palettes
NOTE: Currently in beta for MacOS/Ableton 12. Not supported on Linux.
Lightspeed
The continuation of MIDI FXt Rack, Lightspeed lets you load MIDI clip lights in a drum rack format, complete with flip, rotate, and other transforms for every single effect, as well as a Channel system which lets you send the light to one of 8 Receiver channels.
Supersonic
A re-creation of Ableton's Drum Rack in MaxForLive, specifically tailored for standard sampling. Features 8 Choke groups and fade in/out options for each sample. Enable Mapping Mode to automatically map selected samples on the Ableton Timeline using your Launchpad buttons. This plugin shows up in Ableton under the Max Instrument folder.
This plugin shows up in Ableton under the Max Instrument folder.
Cycle
A simple solution to multi-sampling. Cycle length up to 64, as well as a Unison mode to trigger all notes at once. Works best when used before a Supersonic or Lightspeed device to hold clips.
Cycle Lights
Simple light effect multi-sampling. Simply set your cycle length, and drag your lights into the proper slots, and your light effects will cycle through when the device is triggered with a MIDI note. Now features a Unison mode, which triggers all contained clips at once.
Cycle Samples
Simple multi-sampling. Works exactly the same as Cycle Lights, but requires you to crop your samples in Ableton (Right Click -> Crop Clip(s)) to work properly. Features Supersonic's Sampling Mode as well as a quick-fire button to sample the entire cycle length of back-to-back clips.
This plugin shows up in Ableton under the Max Instrument folder.
ERA Controller
This plugin serves as a manager for your pages and triggers for the project. In the Bus mode, you are able to edit the settings for your project, including autopage, MIDI triggers to stop Ableton playback, and more.
Also includes an ERA Sender and Receiver device for moving MIDI around a project file.
Time Travel
Our ERA-native solution to automatic page swapping. Choose between Local(channel-exclusive) and Global(all channels) switching.
When in Global mode, this plugin only affects tracks which use ERA Controller, rather than affecting all tracks, allowing devices on non-performance tracks to be unaffected by Macro changes.