“This is a never-before-seen effect yielding unlimited sonic exploration”: Alexander Panos’ Color Transfer bundle has some of the coolest Max for Live devices we’ve seen all year [Video]

One of our favourite things about Ableton Live is its ability to integrate with Max, a visual programming language that tech-savvy music-makers can use to design software tools of their own to run inside the DAW via Max for Live.

The latest innovation to come out of the Max for Live community that’s blown our collective minds is from software developer and electronic musician Alexander Panos. 

Color Transfer is a bundle of three Max for Live devices – Timbre Resynth, Cepstral Morph and Formant Shifter – for experimental sound design and creative effects processing, making use of innovative timbral manipulation techniques to produce some truly unique sounds and textures.

Panos’ flagship device, Timbre Resynth enables you to “resynthesize” any sound with the timbre of another sound. Take two inputs – a vocal and a synth pad, for instance – and the device will analyze the spectral information of one signal and resynthesize the other using this spectral analysis. The …