jtshavitz

trying to figure out how to get Track names from a DAW like Ableton Live into a max patch - and to display in a text field

(trying to consolidate my live setup - running Live / Reason - controlled by a max based UI )

anyone know how to do this / is it possible ?

track-titles-from-daw-displaying-in-maxmsp

One way (not a complete solution mind) is as follows:

In Ableton, set up a Mackie Control Surface with midi in and out from and to Max, e.g. on a Mac use 'to/from MaxMSP 2' as your Midi ports; in windows you would need to use MidiBe or similar.

Live will send a variety of sysex, some of which contains seven character condensed names of the first eight tracks.

You can filter the appropriate sections from the sysex stream (see below patch) then use mackie control emulation to bank/nudge channels to get at the other names...

This has two limitations mind. Firstly you only get a (defined by the DAW) 7 character abbreviation for each track name (a limitation of the mackie control surface lcd display). Secondly you only get sent eight names at a time. You could use a series of bank messages and storage to get all the names though.

Hello, this post is old, but anyone knows if this is possible with pro tools?. THX

Track Titles from DAW displaying in Max/MSP