Ableton Live 9's transport to Live/ sadam.udpsend limitations
Nov 21 2013 | 3:43 pm
I get all of Lives transport data in an .amxd patch via [plugsync~].
I'd like to use some of this numbers (bars, beats, time signature, fired scenes) to organise things that are going on in my Max patch, outside of Live; therefore send them over ...
Sadly one cannot use [send] [receive] pairs for communicating between a Max patch that lives outside Live and a M4L patch, right? (why, oh why is that limitation present?)
I tried [udpsend] [udpreceive] but found that very unstable. There were constant crashes and the performance was slowing down heavily at unpredictable moments.
I switched to [sadam.udpsend] [sadam.udpreceive] and it seems to have timing glitches and it seems that the highest allowed number is 255 ...
And I also see that timing glitches (the interveral for 120bpm quarter beats oscillates between 482ms and 512ms, a different number each count).
So what is your preferred method of sending and receiving numbers from Live to Max and back again?