ForestCat

Does anyone here know of an external (or reliable workaround) that would allow a pc user to access h/w or virtual MIDI ports from within a Max for Live device? I've been using Bidule as a VST within live to accomplish this on Live tracks, but that won't help me if I want to use Max. Even if the solution requires a lot of customization/configuration for a specific computer, that's OK. Really searched hard for this, but no luck.

Does anyone here know of an external (or reliable workaround) that would allow a pc user to access h/w or virtual MIDI ports from within a Max for Live device?  I've been using Bidule as a VST within live to accomplish this on Live tracks, but that won't help me if I want to use Max.  Even if the solution requires a lot of customization/configuration for a specific computer, that's OK.  Really searched hard for this, but no luck.

equivalent-of-lh_midiinmidiout-for-pc

With the Max object [vst~] you can use Bidule also as VST in a M4L device. Actually I've done this myself on Mac before the lh_midiin/out externals were released.

Wasn't aware Max for Live could host VST's. Thanks. It's definitely an option, I'll play around with it & see where it gets me. I love Bidule, it's my swiss army knife, & I'm very comfortable w/ it for all manner of arcane MIDI wickedness. But Max opens up the LOM, and will allow me to do things that Bidule can't re: fine-grained control of Live. I'm just starting w/ Max, and I'm assuming that it must be at least as versatile for MIDI manipulation as Bidule, but I could be wrong. If it is, then Bidule is kind of overkill if I'm only going to use it to mux/de-mux MIDI port/channel data within Max objects. I'm thinking that there has to be a more straightforward (less RAM/cpu intensive) way to do this natively (mostly...) in Max w/ java/mxj, but I'm not sure where to start...

Wasn't aware Max for Live could host VST's. Thanks.  It's definitely an option, I'll play around with it & see where it gets me. I love Bidule, it's my swiss army knife, & I'm very comfortable w/ it for all manner of arcane MIDI wickedness.  But Max opens up the LOM, and will allow me to do things that Bidule can't re: fine-grained control of Live.  I'm just starting w/ Max, and I'm assuming that it must be at least as versatile for MIDI manipulation as Bidule, but I could be wrong. If it is, then Bidule is kind of overkill if I'm only going to use it to mux/de-mux MIDI port/channel data within Max objects. I'm thinking that there has to be a more straightforward (less RAM/cpu intensive) way to do this natively (mostly...) in Max w/ java/mxj, but I'm not sure where to start...


http://netzhansa.blogspot.co.at/2010/01/java-midi-windows-and-sysex.html

Outstanding! Thanks broc, that is exactly what I needed, and, since it has a lot of source code, should also be very educational for a java noob such as myself. Look like he found a bug in Java as well, re: sysex

Outstanding!   Thanks broc, that is exactly what I needed, and, since it has a lot of source code, should also be very educational for a java noob such as myself.  Look like he found a bug in Java as well, re: sysex


I know it's been a couple of years, I'm wondering if anyone has gotten this to work after the Max editor is closed? It works for me until I close the Max editor, leading me to believe that it works in Max but not Max4Live, or Ableton changed something in 9.xx to break it.

I know it's been a couple of years, I'm wondering if anyone has gotten this to work after the Max editor is closed?  It works for me until I close the Max editor, leading me to believe that it works in Max but not Max4Live, or Ableton changed something in 9.xx to break it.
Thanks for any feedback.


Equivalent of LH_MidiIn/MidiOut for PC?