Live not passing poly aftertouch to m4l device?
Jan 24 2010 | 8:23 am
i'm building a custom handler in max4live for my td20. the drum brain uses aftertouch to send the cymbal choke messages. i have a max midi selector (lifted from the example from the help) within a max midi effect in a live track -- it is receiving notes and cc values just fine, but poly aftertouch is ignored. i've set the aftertouch attribute to 1 in the midi selector object.
using midi monitor (os x), i can see that the machine is indeed receiving the aftertouch data. live is ignoring it or filtering it out, or does not yet have a mechanism for passing to m4l devices.
anyone else encountering this, or have thoughts on resolution? i know i can make a max patch that floats outside of live that intercepts and translates the aftertouch to cc, etc. and pass to live, but this is not very elegant.
- Jan 24 2010 | 8:37 amin the max for live documentation, "max for live for pluggo developers":"Live does not currently support polyphonic aftertouch (received by the polyin~ object)."gosh, that sucks.
- Jan 24 2010 | 10:01 am[Shameless plug] Maybe my Java based MIDI driver (http://netzhansa.com/jmidi.zip) can help you with that. You'll need to use a loopback MIDI device to get stuff back into Live if you desire so.
- Jan 24 2010 | 11:10 amDoes it also work on Macs? I've read somewhere that Java on Mac doesn't support MIDI..
- Jan 24 2010 | 11:24 amIt should work on Macs - I'm using Windows myself, but the original idea was of mo-seph who I think is a Mac user. Let us know if it does not.
- Jan 24 2010 | 12:15 pmHere is some information on Java, MIDI and Macs: http://www.humatic.de/htools/mmj.htm
- Jan 24 2010 | 2:04 pmOk, so the issue seems resolved with the latest versions of OS X. Could be a reason for upgrading..
- Jan 24 2010 | 6:18 pmthanks hans, i'll see if that fits in the setup. i do also have max 5 standalone, so most likely i will use that to intercept/translate the aftertouch into something else, but if that fails i'll try your java driver.
