Great, thanks for the responses so far. I just finished the extremely tedious task of making a pixel perfect layout in Max. This patcher uses the new Max 7 custom UI scripting, which allows completely custom looking objects that behave otherwise as expected. This allows having Max for LIve objects that are fully automatable in Live but don't have to look like your standard Ableton controls.
I have some debugging to do on some parameters that are sending incorrect values and should hopefully have a first testing version in a few days.
A teaser of the UI (note some Max 7 bugs like text labels left aligning when assigned center)
EX800 themed. May consider MK1 and MK2 themes when Max 7 is less buggy
-Joe