fanderson2

I have installed Max but I am unable to open the editor for any Max Midi effect, instrument or audio effect! I press the edit button on a device and all i get is the Max window opening but not the editor, the Status bar does say "Starting Max Editor" but nothing happens!

I am running Ableton Live 9.1 64 bit on Windows 7.

m4l-editor-not-opening

hi. the usual problem here is that Max is set to run as admin and Live is not - thus, Live doesn't have permission to start Max... check your perms...

I have set both Max and Live to have full admin privileges and yet have no luck. I managed to get it to work yesterday by deleting the Preferences.cfg of ableton and the preferences of Max in appdata/roaming but today I tried the same thing and it doesn't work. Also I have edited my host file and still no luck.

are there any messages in the log.txt file? should be in the same location as your preferences.cfg... host file?

Thanks for your help Lee! There are a tonne of messages, should i look for anything in specific? I looked at another thread on this forum 

https://cycling74.com/forums/max-for-live-devices-wont-open-in-editor-max-5-1-9-live-8-2-6-osx-lion/

 and people had a similar problem but on Macs, not sure what the host file has to do with anything but gave it a try anyway.

Thanks for your help Lee! There are a tonne of messages, should i look for anything in specific? I looked at another thread on this forum https://cycling74.com/forums/max-for-live-devices-wont-open-in-editor-max-5-1-9-live-8-2-6-osx-lion/ and people had a similar problem but on Macs, not sure what the host file has to do with anything but gave it a try anyway.


search for "editor" - i've seen errors in there in the past... other than that, not sure...

Nothing under editor, this is quite annoying, need it for my uni course!

have asio4all instaklled? i recently had some problems with that (on win 8.1 tho).

I don't believe I have that installed no, this is quite frustrating! Thank you for all your help lee, I'm not sure if I can find a fix for this!

M4L Editor not opening!