IAC bus

Kim Cascone's icon

stupid q:
I am having trouble setting up the IAC Bus to send data from Max/MSP
to Quartz Composer
- how do I get my data from a fader box on the IAC bus?
    - I've set up the IAC Bus in the OS X Audio MIDI Setup prefs - ie.
it is online
    - changed the offset to '0' in the MIDI setup in Max
    - I tried sending midiin assigned to my MIDI interface to a midiout
assigned to IAC Bus 1
    - selected IAC BUs 1 in the MIDI controller panel in QC
nada...
clues? page in the manual?

tim_thompson@mac.com's icon

I'm not sure why you need to use an IAC bus other than the ones that Max creates. Simple example:

Max:
[random 128]-[ctlout 1]
[random 128]-[ctlout 7]
[random 128]-[ctlout 10] (all outputting to "from MaxMSP 1")

QC: [MIDI Controllers (observe controllers 1, 7, and 10 on "from MaxMSP 1"]---[(R,G,B inputs) RGB color]-[(color input) Teapot]

The "from MaxMSP" busses work very well for getting MIDI data into QC.

Kim Cascone's icon

Tim,
yeah that's what I thought too...but 'from MaxMSP 1' was just not
giving up the love for me -- and why I tried the IAC Bus next...
but I did manage to get it working using the IAC Bus after some
fiddling and much head scratching
thanks for the info though!
:)

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Tim wrote:

>
> I'm not sure why you need to use an IAC bus other than the ones
> that Max creates. Simple example:
>
> Max:
> [random 128]-[ctlout 1]
> [random 128]-[ctlout 7]
> [random 128]-[ctlout 10] (all outputting to "from MaxMSP 1")
>
> QC: [MIDI Controllers (observe controllers 1, 7, and 10 on "from
> MaxMSP 1"]---[(R,G,B inputs) RGB color]-[(color input) Teapot]
>
> The "from MaxMSP" busses work very well for getting MIDI data into QC.
> --
> Tim Thompson
>
> Assoc. Professor
> Palm Beach Atlantic University
>
> dorkbot-sofla
> http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsofla

redhexagonal's icon

IAC bus timing is crap. rewire is better if you can get it to work...

aldymachine's icon

I'm having this problem...

I can send midi from MAX to ableton using IAC but it doesn't seem to work from ableton to MAX.

any ideas???

thanks

--> Zach