Max for Live
Small tools that live inside your Live set, right next to your tracks.
Playhead Notes
Notes and timeline bookmarks, right inside your track.
Every producer knows the feeling. You hear something mid-session (“the snare’s too loud in the second drop”, “try a vocal chop here”) and by the time you’ve found a notepad, the moment’s gone. Or you write it down, and next week you can’t remember where in the track you meant.
Playhead Notes puts your notes where the music is. Drop it on any track and you get a notepad for general ideas, plus a list of time stamps that remember exactly where the playhead was.
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PLAYHEAD NOTES
What it does
- One-click time stamps
- Hit + Time stamp and it records the playhead position, showing the bar, beat and time of day.
- Jump straight back
- Every stamp becomes a button. Click it and Live’s playhead goes right back to that exact spot.
- A note for every stamp
- Write what needs fixing or what you were trying at that moment. Notes wrap and grow as you type, and scroll when they get long.
- General notes
- A notes area for to-do lists, lyrics, mix ideas or anything else.
- Colour themes
- Pick White, Sticky, Dark, Blue, Pink or Green to match your setup or colour-code your tracks.
- Saves with your project
- Notes, stamps and colours are stored in the Live Set, so they’re still there when you reopen it weeks later.
- Works on any track
- Audio, MIDI, returns or master. It passes audio through untouched, so it never affects your sound.
Why it’s so useful
Mix feedback without losing your place
Listen through, stamp every problem as you hear it, then work through the list and click straight to each spot.
Remember your ideas
Capture inspiration the second it happens, tied to the exact bar it belongs to.
Better collaboration
Send a project to a collaborator or mix engineer with notes pinned to exact moments. No more “around the middle of the second verse”.
Revision tracking
Each stamp shows when you made it, so you can see what you noted in which session.
A cleaner workflow
No more sticky notes on the monitor, phone notes or a separate text file you’ll never open again.
What you need
Ableton Live with Max for Live: Live Suite, or Live Standard with the Max for Live add-on.
£10, one-off. Download straight after checkout, and sign in to My downloads any time with the email you bought with to get it again.