Ultimate Mixer

Comments (42)

• hitchhikerX · April 27 2013
  wooOoow! That's insane mate! You're the man!
• littlejn · April 27 2013
  Amazing Oo' !
• nout · April 28 2013
  Waouh! Finally !
  thx
• nout · April 28 2013
  where is download link ?
• kevinkripper · April 28 2013
  As the article says: ** Available from April 29th **
• mauronedj · April 29 2013
  Just a big WOW for that, really good work man!
• Sillitoe · April 29 2013
  Thank you this is great!
• SharkmanSam · April 29 2013
  $9 too steep. These floating mixers are like a holes in my pockets ;) iOS functionality with these mixers would be superb.
• maesojua · April 30 2013
  when the mixer section is expanded you get a peak level meter and a track volumen box display for each fader?
• kevinkripper · April 30 2013
  maesojua: I did develop that but I couldn't manage to represent exactly the numbers of Live, for example: in Live, volume box display -3.5 and in Ultimate Mixer -4.3. So, because of that, I decided to not include peak and volume representation in v1.0, but is one of the things I would love to add in future versions! Cheers!
• xbitz · May 01 2013
  please please please :) could u update the state of the group tracks (open/close) as http://www.macableton.com/Ableton_live_tutorials/project-organisation/multiple-windows--dual.html do it , THX
• farabee · May 01 2013
  great work, thanks for sharing
• hitchhikerX · May 02 2013
  It works really great man!!!! The only thing is that consumes cpu, but it is understandable.
  @xbitz, I have those devices (don't like them at all) and the state of the group tracks are not shown!! In fact, I have read the article and nothing is said about it............so
• xbitz · May 02 2013
  @hitchhikerX
  if u close a group that one hides the affected tracks (which ones are in the given group track)
• hitchhikerX · May 02 2013
  @xbitz, I know that! What I said is that in the devices you posted (which I have them) you CAN'T see the state of the group tracks (open/close = fold/unfold)
• kevinkripper · May 06 2013
  @xbitz, that would be a really nice thing to add to the mixer but it is kind of complicated. Even the Max crew leave this message in the LOM (Live Object Model):
  "A track is visible if it is not a subtrack folded in. Hiding tracks be scrolling them out of view is something completely else."
  Anyway I think the devices you posted, don't have that option as @hitchhikerX said...
• Aputy · May 07 2013
  Great device but its CPU consumption surprised me. On a song with only 6 tracks CPU is ~20% higher with this device enabled (on MacBook Pro) Is this just the nature of things with such a powerful/busy Max for Live device or can we expect improved CPU usage with future versions?
• kevinkripper · May 07 2013
  @Aputy, thanks for purchasing Ultimate Mixer and supporting the project. I'm working to improve CPU consumption, it is my top priority for v1.1!
• kevinkripper · May 22 2013
  @hitchhikerX, I finally tried the device from which @xbitz was talking about and he is right! That is a nice feature I would add in the future for sure!
• bullymix · May 30 2013
  Omg wonderfull stuff Thankx
• st235 · May 30 2013
  and again :-( i don`t have a credit card, but i NEEEEDD this
  what can i do?
• kevinkripper · May 30 2013
  Hi @st235. You can use PayPal as well, check this out: https://gumroad.com/kevinkeytools#hlvQR
• st235 · May 31 2013
  hi kevin. i`m really very disappointed!!!! i bought your mixer and your spectrum and i have to say: when you want to sell patches, they really should work.
  1.i opened the mixer and all the faders were in the wrong position. (i.e. in the live mixer some are at 0dB , in your mixer they are 1cm beneath the line.)
  2. it doesn`t properly update after adding, deleting tracks.........
  i was patching my own mixer but i was struggling with exactly this problems and then i found yours and thought: wow, you did it. but now i have paid for a finished working patch and have the same problems as before.
  and about the spectrum:
  it`s really useless that the frequencies below 10 hz take up so much space as you should get rid of anything down there anyway.
  sorry, i know it is hard work and you are very close but as soon as you aren`t there you should not sell it
  all the best, andreas
• kevinkripper · May 31 2013
  Okay, well, you are the first one to be disappointed with that stuff.
  1) The faders are like that because Live measure dB in a strange way, that is, they use a table of values instead of a normal logarithmic scale. I've found a polynomial that imitate quite well dBs and I'm going to add it to v1.1.
  2) I don't know your set up, nobody have reported that issue, in fact here every track is updating just fine after adding, deleting or changing the position of tracks! (Live 9.0.3 with Max 6.1 and Live 8.0.4 with Max 6.0.8)
  You have payed for an excellent work, that is going to be updated (with quite cool new features) for free in the next few weeks, so take it easy!
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  Change the scale of the spectrum to Linear if you don't wanna see frequencies below 10Hz, but every spectrum analyzer shows those frequencies.
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  Look, every software needs improvements. I've payed a lot of money for Ableton Live and it has a lot of flaws, which they try to fix in every update. The same here: I've updated 5 times Spectrum Analyzer S8 (and with each of them S8 has become a more powerful plugin) and I'm about to release Ultimate Mixer v1.1. So, chill and thanks for the bad add! But I just wanna say that whatever you say doesn't change the fact that this is a great piece of patching that is going to be reviewed in the next issue of Computer Music Magazine.
• ido1 · May 31 2013
  great one!!!!
  if u can please add the feature that highlight the selected channel.
  it will be great for people that using controllers for mixing :)
  keep up the great work!!!!
• st235 · May 31 2013
  sorry, it wasn`t meant that bad. i know it is a good piece of patching. but you can`t compare this issue with ableton bugs. ableton does infinite cool things and yes, some of them are a little bit buggy, but the main purpose of your device is mixing!!!!
  and yes on all spectrum devices those freuquencies are shown , but soo big?
  btw.: i didn`t want to write you here but i haven`t found a email address.
  sorry it must be my english skills that i`m not able to write it in the right words which aren`t too rude
• kevinkripper · May 31 2013
  Well, just for the record, my email is in the last row of Ultimate Mixer description, in this same page, see: "For support, impressions, suggestions, please contact [email protected]".
  And also, it is (with my facebook too) in "License.txt", which comes inside both UM and S8 .zip file.
  About the Analyzer, yes, that big. Have you tried Ableton's native Spectrum Analyzer? Please, if you don't, check out how big frequencies from 0Hz to 80Hz are displayed!
• xbitz · July 12 2013
  "- React to Group Tracks"
  thank you very much :)
• spydear · July 12 2013
  Dude, i ve been checking all your stuff out, quite impressive! thanks.
  andreas, your point is somehow valid about the size of the frequency range between 10 and 100 but in these 90 hz we are dealing with more than 2 octaves and when mixing this is the part of the spectrum that demands the most precision, just for monitors tuning it's worth the size.
• chuck0889 · August 08 2013
  The mixer in your video looks cool, price is not bad if I can actually get it to work.
  Not alot of instruction in the zip file.
  I installed it and when i put in on the master out, all i get is the device with logo in the bottom. I hit 2 and a window pops up but i dont see the mixer/channels.
  I'm new to Max 4Live, so maybe I'm missing something...
  please help.
  thanks,
  chuck
• kevinkripper · August 08 2013
  @chuck0889, here and in the .zip file is included the support email so please contact me at [email protected]. I'm sure is something really silly, don't worry!
• chuck0889 · August 08 2013
  thanks kevin I emailed you.
• ansolas · February 20 2014
  Just bought it
  here is my impression:
  * its slow, spectrum drawing is very slow here.
  If you lie to display a kick and a snare together, the spectrum display just flashes very short, but its very hard to see anything usefull.
  Probably add a kind of falloff time ?
  But for 5 bucks its ok ;)
• ansolas · February 20 2014
  When Opening the Floating windows the whole Live GUI gets slowed down to time lap view :)
• kevinkripper · February 21 2014
  @ansolas, I guess you are talking about the Spectrum Analyzer. Try changing the "interval" parameter value to speed up the spectrum drawing. Here its working just fine with Mac OS Mavericks (8g RAM), Live 9.1. Keep me posted at [email protected] please!
  Cheers!
• blastique · September 29 2014
  Help! I just purchased it and installed it according to the accompanying instructions. However, I'm having repeated crashes on Live 9.1.5 32-bit on Mavericks OSx, Retina 13-inch MBP.
  I've tried loading it on audio tracks, midi tracks and also the master with the same result. This happens on new live sets with nothing in them except the default.
  Do let me know how I can send you the crash log from OS X as I am not allowed to post more than 5000 characters here. Thanks!
• kevinkripper · September 29 2014
  @blastique, thanks for purchasing UM. Please send me the crash log and keep me posted at [email protected]!
• Kadub · November 20 2014
  Quite disappointed with this purchase. It causes Ableton to lag/freeze very often e.g. Loading a blank MIDI track takes 10-20 seconds longer than usual.
• froschfinger · January 14 2015
  Unfortunately I didn’t want to believe the lag/freeze that was just reported recently and with the previous version. 1.1 is hitting real hard on Ableton Live 9 and renders it unusable, since it takes several seconds to get me to select even a channel, plus it does not support full 1920x1080px - it leaves an empty gap (for more return channels?!) although I have a lot of tracks that could use it. So far it feels like wasted money :(.
• Patrick320 · March 20 2015
  Or you could just, you know...click View > Second Window and bam! there´s your floating mixer window.
• Stromkraft · July 16 2017
  This looks nice. However, as I can already use a second monitor and place the native mixer on that at will, what is the main advantage using this instead? Can it for instance be used on a third monitor instead? So 2 native Live windows could be focused on Arrangement and Clips (rather than the mixer) respectively and the third monitor with Ultimate Mixer focused on the mixer?
  Can you launch a plug-in easily now from UM?
• kevinkripper · July 17 2017
  @Stromkraft, this device was built before Live 9 even exists! You can still use it if you want but I'm not updating it anymore. And yes, you can have it in a third screen but you can't launch plugins from it.