Introduction

In this second installment of the ReWire Essentials series, we are going to look at hosting ReWire client applications. Clients route their information to the host (or mixer) application through the ReWire mechanism, and using Max/MSP as a host gives us options to have some fun with both the playback and output of the connected application.

The basic connection strategy for hosting ReWire clients involves the rewire~ object. This object gives us the means to select a ReWire client, use the available audio outputs and control the connected devices transport controls.