MIDI Setup (Inputs Outputs)/settings

derf07's icon
Hello.
I read the tutorial:Midi Tutorial 1: Basic MIDI. The tutorial specifies in the paragraph "The midiin and midiout objects":A simple way select a MIDI device is to double-click on the MIDI object you want to assign. Double-clicking on the midiin object produces a menu of available MIDI inputs, while double-clicking on the midiout object will display a menu of MIDI outputs.
The problem is this: when I click on the midiout object for example, a window appears saying: "none".
If I look in the Options menu (MIDI setup...), there is nothing to indicate at the level of "Inputs" and "Outputs".
My question is: how do we configure MIDI setup?
Thanks for your help.
Source Audio's icon

you read max tutorial, midi objects in live have no option to select anything, they use midi assigned as track in and outputs

derf07's icon

Thank you .
But , i don't understand.
"...midi objects in live have no option to select anything."I am attaching 2 photos.
If I set Live 11 like this, I can select something by clicking on the midiin object.

HDSP 9632 is my sound card


Source Audio's icon

again and last time - max midi objects as part of live device can not select
any external midi source.
Ony what Live gives them.

Andy Maskell's icon

The functionality that you are looking for is only available in the full (standalone) version of Max. It is not available in Max4Live. You cannot assign the MIDI objects in M4L (such as [midiin], [midiout], etc) to any external MIDI device. They can only be connected directly to the track in Ableton Live in which you define them. You can't even receive/send MIDI data from/to another track in Ableton Live easily unless you do some clever jiggery-pokery.

derf07's icon
THANKS. Now I understand better why nothing worked. 
Finally, until I have purchased the full version of Max, there is no point in me reading the tutorials dedicated to MIDI in Max for Live...?.
diatom's icon

That depends on what you are trying to specifically achieve.