Getting audio and midi at the same time to a device

zion's icon

Hello
I have my device in a chain after a Live's synth that gets midi notes from a slot on its midi track.
Live's synth gets midi but output audio to my M4L device that plays it out.
Can I get to my device not only the audio from live's synth but also its midi notes? (I need the attack to calculate some timing issues..)
when I plant a midi in objects in my chained device no midi comes in - it is on a midi track like I mentioned but number 2 in the chain.
In other words -my device is a [plugin~] to [plugout~] but as well want to get the midi notes of the synth that I am after in the chain to my device .

I hope that I put my words clear.
Thanks!

Namakemon's icon

There is only audio after an instrument, not MIDI.

You need to add some kind of MIDI routing, like in this examples.

zion's icon

So I need Live 11 to have and use this feature

Namakemon's icon

Don't know, never tried it on Live 10, maybe it is a Max 8 thing, not Live 11.

Anyways, on older versions (and 11 too) you can just use send/receive (saw "forward" used too in a M4L device here), but then you need a 2nd M4L device set loaded as MIDI Effect.

Like this one:

It is not even in presentation mode.

OBS: "s" and "r" are send and receive shortened, some object names can be shortened like that.

zion's icon

If it is a max 8 thing than it is fine, I thought of send/recieve but like you said it is another device..
Thank you for your detailed answer!