key commands from max

rob beattie's icon

hello, a question. is it possible to create a gui, with in mind, to create qwerty key commands to a daw from max, in this case Cubase? my current visual idea see pic. so, outputting key commands from max,.. is it possible. hope someone can put me in the right direction, cheers - rob.

max layout

Robin Parmar's icon

No, Max cannot send keystrokes. [key] receives keystrokes and [hi] accesses various Human Interface devices, but only as input. The reason for this is likely that such functions are OS dependent.

On Windows I suggest that your application sends out MIDI commands. These can then be converted to keystrokes using something like Bome MIDI Translator.

On macOS you can look at AppleScript.

Source Audio's icon

Max can send keystrokes using 3rd party externals :

http://www.11olsen.de/code/max-objects/11strokes

I would prefer to use other protocol to control DAW.

rob beattie's icon

ah right, thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Michael Gary Dean's icon

Thanks @Source Audio! Perfect solution.