Julien Bayle

some knows I worked a bit on standalone sequencers made with max.

I didn't like to use rewire because I "felt" is sluggish sometimes, especially with Ableton Live (I didn't say it is their/your/my fault ; I don't care really)

Not completely tested, but better than rewire with ableton, especially...

So I ask that, candidly, what do you or would you use to have a nice sync ?

Hi there,
some knows I worked a bit on standalone sequencers made with max.
I didn't like to use rewire because I "felt" is sluggish sometimes, especially with Ableton Live (I didn't say it is their/your/my fault ; I don't care really)

I tried the basic MTC message too.
Not completely tested, but better than rewire with ableton, especially...

So I ask that, candidly, what do you or would you use to have a nice sync ?


finally-what-do-you-use-to-sync-max-with-an-external-software

If Max is your slave, I'd suggest playing a 1-beat phasor ramp from your master, into Max, and treat this as a Max-native "master phasor". If you're trying to sync Max to Live, you can do this very easily. Just make a spare track in yout Ableton project with a single, 1-beat long looping clip in it. Set this to "repitch" warp mode, route it to Max, adjust Ableton's track latency somewhere into the negative and you're away!

MTC/MIDI clock between most software will usually result in disappointing levels of slop.

I'd need a safe way to build max standalone applications easily syncable with users' daw-centric world.

It would be "as if" max was an external sequencer, and eventually an external sequencer + sound generator plugged into a daw.

"a bit like" Numerology made it before being a VST (...)

BTW... at least for Ableton-centric environement, I can easily provide a max for live machine "only for sync purpose"

This one would fire messages, those messages grabbed by my external would work...

I'd need a safe way to build max standalone applications easily syncable with users' daw-centric world.
It would be "as if" max was an external sequencer, and eventually an external sequencer + sound generator plugged into a daw.

BTW... at least for Ableton-centric environement, I can easily provide a max for live machine "only for sync purpose"
This one would fire messages, those messages grabbed by my external would work...

finally, what do you use to sync Max with an external software ...?