I’m working in a patch which is sending midi notes to Ableton Live synthetizers. Currently I’m just using a midiout set to channel “From Max 1″ and manually switching in Ableton the ‘armed’ track whenever I want my patch to sound through one synth or the other. Thing is, I would like to be able to change the selected Synth from my Max interface without having to go to Live’s window, how is this done? Do I have to create extra channels?

Thanks in advance

I figured that’d be the way, but I’m not sure how to create new channels. However, I think I just found how “;#SM create outport;”, although I still have one question though: With that message, the input arguments are and respectively, what do I have to put in drivername? Coreaudio (I’m in mac OSX)? Whats the midi channel limit or recomended amount?

thanks again


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