Tom Haig

I'm just trying to make a patch at the moment and I'm having a lot of problems.

I'm trying to control synth preset changes in ableton live through midi messages in max / msp. My plan is to have buttons on a midi keyboard controller to send CC+1 / CC-1 messages functioning as a preset previous / next trigger. In my patch so far, I have only been able to recognise the previous / next buttons to send out a 1 / 0. How do I then use this data to compile the full midi message, and then send it to live?

I'm really stuck on this, and I'd appreciate any help, thanks.

hi everyone,
I'm just trying to make a patch at the moment and I'm having a lot of problems.
I'm trying to control synth preset changes in ableton live through midi messages in max / msp.  My plan is to have buttons on a midi keyboard controller to send CC+1 / CC-1 messages functioning as a preset previous / next trigger.  In my patch so far, I have only been able to recognise the previous / next buttons to send out a 1 / 0.  How do I then use this data to compile the full midi message, and then send it to live?
I'm really stuck on this, and I'd appreciate any help, thanks.

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Just a thought- to communicate to ableton, will I need to use rewire? - or will the midi message just tranvel internally?

excellent, thank you.
Just a thought- to communicate to ableton, will I need to use rewire? - or will the midi message just tranvel internally?
thank you for your help.
tom


you can use IAC bus, or maxmsp bus...
lot's of thread about that.
did you search in the forum ?

but you have to configure it into your Live preferences

ableton live and max works pretty well together

it should work internally
but you have to configure it into your Live preferences

ex: you choose "from Max" for midi in 
if I well remenber it

hmm... I've stilll been very unsuccessful sadly.I simply cannot get max to communicate with live. Live fails to see anything coming from a [midiout] in max, and I have set the preferences within live. Can anyone thing of anything else I can do?

Here's how my patch is looking right now. I'm suprised ableton don't implement these features in the application!:

hmm... I've stilll been very unsuccessful sadly.I simply cannot get max to communicate with live.  Live fails to see anything coming from a [midiout] in max, and I have set the preferences within live.  Can anyone thing of anything else I can do?
Here's how my patch is looking right now. I'm suprised ableton don't implement these features in the application!:

did you set the midiout on "from Max/Msp 1" (or 2)?

and of course the same in Live preferences ?

also in your patch I see a pack object (the control change)

did you set the midiout on "from Max/Msp 1" (or 2)?
and of course the same in Live preferences ?

also in your patch I see a pack object (the control change)
without any output ...?


thank you very much for your help, I got there in the end!

I didn't realise that I had to channel the midi out of midiout to maxmsp 1. Very unfamiliar with midi routing like this. 

Thanks again, and I'm sorry to be a pain.

Hi Eryck,
thank you very much for your help, I got there in the end!
I didn't realise that I had to channel the midi out of midiout to maxmsp 1.  Very unfamiliar with midi routing like this. 
Thanks again, and I'm sorry to be a pain.
Tom


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