Sampler and MAX4 Live worth buying?
Hey guys,
At the moment I use Ableton Standard. For the most part, it accomplishes everything I need to, but I am curious about these two plugins (Sampler and Max4Live)
Do you think they are worth buying? How are MAX4 Live’s Instruments?
I must admit, the LFO does look handy.
Despite the naming, sampler and simpler cant be compared. Both can serve the same purpose inside a drum rack, but samplers features are almost overboard. plus it can be used for multi velocity instrument recordings, each note can hold 128 samples.
I personally have little experience with m4l. I don’t like the fact that you have to have an additional program (MAX) running in the background. It seem very complicated, but limitless. I feel that you would be better off pursuing ClyphX.
Sampler for sure is worth it. It’s ridiculous what all it can do vs. Simpler.
Max4L IMO is meh, although I don’t do any of my own programming. I own Komplete, so I much prefer Reaktor.
So expensive though I don’t wanna drop $100 for sampler 
If your an controllerist at heart, I don’t think you will regret it.
There are some GREAT freely downloadable M4L devices - they have a very active user community.
BUT - M4L is extremely complicated. Unless you are willing to spend a lot of time (and I mean A LOT) researching, leaning and practicing the programming language/syntax for M4L I’d advise against it.
Sampler is epic for making 128 racks. There’s a gazillion other reasons that it’s great too but 128 racks are probably worth $99 by themselves.
Also M4L is amazing but I wish that it worked slightly better lol. It’s still causing a lot of instability and crashing, especially on the newest macbooks (the 2015s can’t even run M4L atm)
Just buy the suite…besides sampler , operator is also a must have IMO…not to mention analog…