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max4.live MCP Server

live.max4/max4live
answering

max4.live is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

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

Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 43%
41 hours agonow
50.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 182 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
982 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add max4live --transport http https://mcp.max4.live/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "max4live": {
      "url": "https://mcp.max4.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.max4live]
url = "https://mcp.max4.live/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "max4live": {
      "url": "https://mcp.max4.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "max4live": {
      "url": "https://mcp.max4.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

device
get_device
Get full details for one device by its numeric id (from search_devices results).
devices
search_devices
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>.
filters
list_filters
List the valid values for the type, license and sort filters of search_devices.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.max4.live/mcp streamable-http answering 909 ms 5 min ago
https://mcp.max4.live/sse sse answering 207 ms 6 min ago

max4.live — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can max4.live do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_device, list_filters, search_devices. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is max4.live working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 182 checks got a reply (50.0%), average response time 982 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect max4.live?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does max4.live need an API key?
No. max4.live completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is max4.live?
It answers our handshake in 982 ms on average, which is faster than 5% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.