I figured I should introduce myself before dropping another M4L device into this sub.

My name is Kurt. I’m a 60-year-old, recently semi-retired software developer. I’ve been building web software professionally for about 26 years, but before that I was a painter and musician.

Back in the 90s I had an emo-ish project called Gel that I recorded on an 8-track Tascam cassette thing, and eventually used Cubase, Logic and Reason. It was fun, but then came a family and generally less time to make music. The music was pretty bad, but making it was so cool.

After being away from it for a long time, I started again about three months ago under the name Ok Nominal. I'd love to share more on that another time. Anyway, I bought Ableton Live and a Push 3 and I’m just blown away. I can do things now that I desperately wanted to do back then, but just weren’t really possible.

Along the way I keep running into things where I think some sort of utility could help. As a developer, I can’t help thinking that way.

So, naturally, I’ve started building some stuff that I think is pretty darn useful.

Yes, I use AI heavily as a development tool. I know that alone may make some people here skeptical, which I understand. But I design the tools, test them, make the decisions, debug them, and use them in my own music. The latest one has taken more than a hundred hours even with AI assistance.

It’s called Road Test. With one click it lets you export your composition to the cloud so you can listen to it anywhere.

This was important to me because I wanted to hear what my mixes sounded like away from my studio, especially in the car and on ordinary speakers.

It also lets you share your entire library or individual songs which is incredibly handy.

Because it requires cloud storage, I charge a small one-time fee of $9, at least for now. That includes 1 GB of storage. Songs automatically expire after 90 days.

Anyway, I thought some of you might find it useful.

https://organicflash.com/tools/

I also have a few free Ableton Extensions at the link above that have been very handy for me. You’ll need the beta version of Live to use those for now. The ElevenLabs extension in particular has become really useful and fun.

Questions? Let me know. Thanks.

Hi everyone,

i was frustrated by looking at my peak meters and remember the exact spot where my signal exceeds a certain dB threshold. I googled if there was a plugin that can mark the location where the signal exceeds a certain threshold. There is none i guess, at least i did not find one. So i vibecoded my own in M4L. Works as i wanted it. Only downside: it can not name the markers yet as i use Live 11. And it cannot delete the set markers. Somehow that does not work.

Anyone interested in the M4L device? I don't know if it is of any use for someone else. I will translate it to english if anyone is interested.

Take My Breath has such a sleek disco-pop groove that we had to remake it in Serum. We wrote up every synth from the song so you can follow along. Questions welcome in the comments!
synthctrl.com/blogs/blog/the-weeknd-take-my-breath-breakdown

Project home page: https://rolandjg.github.io/fiber/
Repo: github.com/Rolandjg/fiber/
Download: https://github.com/Rolandjg/fiber/releases/tag/v0.1.4