Simpler Recorder

Comments (28)

• irishmos · January 10 2026
  Does this only work in Live 12?
  Not getting result in 11
• Prebentious · January 10 2026
  @irishmos unfortunately I made it in 12.
• Prebentious · January 10 2026
  Also I’m not sure if it’ll work in windows. Unfortunately I don’t have a machine to test with.
• irishmos · January 11 2026
  aight word
  oh well
  Sometimes I want to capture the tail artifacts of fx when the transport stops
• Buddyfingers · January 11 2026
  For some reason the device isn't receiving audio when I run it. It is making a sample file and loading simpler with it, but they're just empty wav files. The device's meter doesn't react to input audio either. Love this idea though, I've been looking for something like this for a long time!
• Prebentious · January 11 2026
  Thanks for these bug reports Buddyfingers. and Irishmos. I think it's probably some file situation. I'll make a debug version and update the device to help investigate. it works great for me so I know it's possible
• Prebentious · January 11 2026
  Does the meter light up with the audio chosen by the menus?
• Prebentious · January 11 2026
  @buddyfingers @irishmos I re-uploaded. any better? if still having problems, try looking at the max console and copy the issues.
  View -> Show Max for Live Window
• irishmos · January 11 2026
  It's monitoring audio sources. Not creating a wav file in the current project files or creating a simpler.
• Prebentious · January 12 2026
  Any logs?
• irishmos · January 12 2026
  It's just saying Record to Simpler: No such object
• Prebentious · January 12 2026
  any chance you could share a screenshot? and also share your computer specs, version etc? and you re-downloaded the latest?
• irishmos · January 12 2026
  Screenshots aren't option here. I've often thought this community should have a forum with more options for devs/users to interact.
  Using latest version of .amxd
  Catalina OS 10.15
  Intel
  Live 11 Suite
  Max 8.5.8
• Prebentious · January 12 2026
  @irishmos I have a feeling it's a limitation of max msp 8 which is bundled with Live 11. if you want, you could try downloading max 9 and pointing ableton to it https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209070309-Using-a-separate-Max-for-Live-installation
  Also I'm moving the latest release to https://github.com/ben-juodvalkis/Simpler-Record/releases
• irishmos · January 12 2026
  I'm basically out of luck because I can't run higher than this on Catalina
• TheloniousMoog · January 12 2026
  OMG! Finally someone did it!!
  Incredibily straighforward and flexible, amazing little device!!!
  works like a charm on Live 12.3.2 on Mac
  A big Thank you!!
• Prebentious · January 13 2026
  just did a little QOL update which allows it to either use an external audio input or the normal device input
• Rickster · January 14 2026
  It’s posible to make optional auto load simpler in current track with recorded audio? I wonder if works on Push3SA, add to master track and use it just as audio recorder
• Prebentious · January 15 2026
  @rickster can you please explain more clearly?
  Like a step by step list of exactly how you would want it to work
• Prebentious · January 15 2026
  @rickster unfortunately I don’t have a push standalone to try it with. Feel free to send me one to test!
• Prebentious · January 15 2026
  another update to optionally create a new midi track for the simpler
• Buddyfingers · January 16 2026
  @Prebentious works great now, thanks!
• RRR · January 18 2026
  Instead of a new midi track, could this be set up in a drum rack, so I could set each pad to record on the first press, and play the sample on the second? I don't mind some setup beforehand, but this is a workflow that I really miss in Live!
• Prebentious · January 18 2026
  @RRR cool idea.
  It’s definitely doable, but might be complex.
  Might require something like selecting the pad, turning on hot swap, and loading the sample. 
  I doubt think I’ll look into it, to be honest, but you might be able to hire someone from the maxforlive discord or something. 
  But I could give it a shot if you wanted to pay me…
• RRR · January 18 2026
  Definitely fair, but I'm afraid I'm a student at the moment!
• swapc · June 19 2026
  Hi, this is great! I wondered if it would be possible to have a setting to choose which mode simpler opens in ie classic/1 shot/slice? I'm particularly interested in opening in slice mode, so I tried to amend the code using a loadbang and prepend set playback_mode = 2 connected to the live.object but couldn't get this to work unfortunately. Downloaded your v1.7 from Github, is that the best place to go for updates instead of here?
• loopminer · July 15 2026
  Hi,
  This is great thanks! I want to use it to sample guitar live into a Simpler then trigger bits of that new sample using Slice via a Midi footswitch. So I've got the same question as swapc. Can we pass the settings for the new Simpler in so we can set it to Slice and also set it to work on Transients etc?
  One other thing - I can't seem to be able to Midimap the devices record button. Ableton shows it is mapped but the controller (that I used to create the mapping) then does not activate the Record button.
  I'm using 12.4.2 Standard on Mac.
• Prebentious · July 15 2026
  Hi Loopminer. Could you set the default simpler to slice mode, transients etc? is that enough?