max4.live MCP Server

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answering

max4.live is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

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

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 47%

91 days agonow

50.3%

Uptime 24h

92 of 183 checks

Tools

read from the server

929 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 28 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_devices

16 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_device, search_devices

16 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_device, search_devices

16 Oct a tool changed version

28 Sep a tool changed version

max4.live does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 49.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add max4live --transport http https://mcp.max4.live/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "max4live": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.max4.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

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 id from search_devices: a number for maxforlive.com catalogue devices, or a string starting with m4l_ for devices submitted to max4.live by their author.

devices

search_devices

Search 9,000+ Max for Live devices for Ableton Live: the maxforlive.com catalogue (indexed until 2026-08-07) plus devices submitted to max4.live by their authors (origin "own", ids starting m4l_). 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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.max4.live/mcp	streamable-http	answering	735 ms	7 min ago
https://mcp.max4.live/sse	sse	answering	156 ms	8 min ago

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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 92 of 183 checks got a reply (50.3%), average response time 929 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 in the form 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 929 ms on average, which is faster than 9% 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.