max4.live

Natural-language search over 8,900+ Max for Live devices for Ableton Live.

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
73%
Naming quality
100%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~617Tokens (tool definitions)
~1.4 KBTypical response size
Minimal attention impact (0.48% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "max4live": {
      "url": "https://mcp.max4.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://mcp.max4.live/mcpstreamable-http
https://mcp.max4.live/ssesse

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (3)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟢search_devices(query, type, license, sort, added_after, ...)

Search ~8,900 Max for Live devices for Ableton Live. Fuzzy full-text match (title/author/description, identical to max4.live) plus filters. Compose for natural language, e.g. "popular free MIDI devices from the last 2 weeks" -> type=[MIDI Effect,MIDI Generator,MIDI Transformation], license=[free], sort=downloads, added_after=<date>.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free-text fuzzy search (name, author, keyword). Omit to browse by filters only."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "Audio Effect",
          "Instrument",
          "MIDI Effect",
          "MIDI Generator",
          "MIDI Transformation"
        ]
      },
      "description": "Device types to include."
    },
    "license": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "free",
          "commercial",
          "cc",
          "cc-by",
          "cc-by-sa",
          "cc-by-nc",
          "cc-by-nc-sa",
          "cc-by-nd",
          "cc-by-nc-nd"
        ]
      },
      "description": "License buckets. free=freeware, commercial=paid, cc=any Creative Commons. For 'free to use' pass [free, cc]."
    },
    "sort": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "relevance",
        "downloads",
        "newest",
        "oldest",
        "name_asc",
        "name_desc"
      ],
      "description": "Default relevance (Fuse ranking with a query, else newest)."
    },
    "added_after": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only devices added on/after this date."
    },
    "min_downloads": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Minimum download count."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100,
      "description": "Max results (default 20)."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}
🟢get_device(id)

Get full details for one device by its numeric id (from search_devices results).

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Device id."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}
🟢list_filters

List the valid values for the type, license and sort filters of search_devices.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

Recommended Prompts

search_research
Search for information about [topic] using max4.live
Expected tools: search_devices
find_specific
Find [specific item] using max4.live
Expected tools: search_devices
retrieve_data
Get details about [item] from max4.live
Expected tools: get_device
fetch_info
Fetch [information type] using max4.live
Expected tools: get_device
list_items
List all [items] available in max4.live
Expected tools: list_filters

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