Oli Mason

What I am looking to do is use Max to open an external application and a saved preset.

Native Instruments 'Massive' Plugin & Preset Number 44?!

I have got a feeling the preset part may be a little tricky but Im sure one of you guys knows how!

opening-external-application-with-max

Hi thanks for the reply, I probably used massive as a bad example, its actually a program that projects interactive animations and the presets are for loading different animations.

I need to make child friendly front end for loading new presets that will be on a touch screen panel, so rather then the child clicking 'load-hard drive-my documents-preset1' etc they can just touch a picture of what they want on and it will load.

well, if you're on Mac and your program supports Applescript, you can try sending osascript commands with the [shell] external

https://cycling74.com/tools/bernstein-shell/

well, if you're on Mac and your program supports Applescript, you can try sending osascript commands with the [shell] external
https://cycling74.com/tools/bernstein-shell/


Hi, would it be possible for you to send me an example of how to do this?

its all quite new to me so Im a little lost.

With this patch I load live sets in Ableton Live selecting the files in Max.

I think you can do something similar if your program supports Applescript (osascript is a command-line interface for Applescript, you can access by [shell]). You just need to find the correct script syntax to control your app.

Opening External Application with Max