Level: Intermediate // Watch Time: 37min

‘Organic’ is a term that gets thrown around a lot in sound design. It’s used to describe sounds that have a more natural feel, or some or other characteristic that makes them feel less machine-like.

Few tools can really lay claim to the term organic though, at least not in a way that the new Inspired By Nature Max For Live devices from Ableton and Dillon Bastan can.

These devices literally operate by way of natural phenomena like gravity, magnetism and fractals. They are deep and creative, but also quite complex.

In the video below I take some time to go through each Inspired By Nature device and discuss what it does, how it works and how you can use it in your own music making and sound design.