Midi via Bluetooth

Predictable Disorder's icon

Hello, I'm part of a electronic music student performance group. We use max frequently to both control sound and add a visual aid to our pieces.
One of our main problems is the large amount of wires running from one side of the stage to the other. We do quite a bit of work with midi controlers and I was wondering if there is a way to send midi data from one bluetooth enabled laptop or computer to another in max.
I was hoping that maybe there's a way to set the bluetooth chip as a midi device there by allowing one laptop to control a device connected to the other.

Any help will be very appreciated. Thanks!

ebmoluoc's icon

You can use bluetooth for serial communication only (with [serial]).
It's a little bit tricky to do so, you'll need to use the Bluetooth
serial utility (panther) or go to the Bluetooth system preferences
(Tiger).

Unfortunetly, it won't be a reliable than MIDI.
you can email me privately if you need help!

Good luck!
PC

On 9/12/06, Rob wrote:
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> Hello, I'm part of a electronic music student performance group. We use max frequently to both control sound and add a visual aid to our pieces.
> One of our main problems is the large amount of wires running from one side of the stage to the other. We do quite a bit of work with midi controlers and I was wondering if there is a way to send midi data from one bluetooth enabled laptop or computer to another in max.
> I was hoping that maybe there's a way to set the bluetooth chip as a midi device there by allowing one laptop to control a device connected to the other.
>
> Any help will be very appreciated. Thanks!
>

peterreidlists's icon

Do you both have wireless internet installed? If so then the easiest thing
might be to either make a computer to computer network or bring a
router/switch, and use the updsend and udpreceive objects, (available from
maxobjects.com I'm sure) [mxj maxhole], cnmat, netsend or similar.

I'd be interested in a more detailed description of how to do bluetooth
nonetheless.

thanks
Peter

On 9/16/06, P C wrote:
>
> You can use bluetooth for serial communication only (with [serial]).
> It's a little bit tricky to do so, you'll need to use the Bluetooth
> serial utility (panther) or go to the Bluetooth system preferences
> (Tiger).
>
> Unfortunetly, it won't be a reliable than MIDI.
> you can email me privately if you need help!
>
> Good luck!
> PC
>
>
> On 9/12/06, Rob wrote:
> >
> > Hello, I'm part of a electronic music student performance group. We use
> max frequently to both control sound and add a visual aid to our pieces.
> > One of our main problems is the large amount of wires running from one
> side of the stage to the other. We do quite a bit of work with midi
> controlers and I was wondering if there is a way to send midi data from one
> bluetooth enabled laptop or computer to another in max.
> > I was hoping that maybe there's a way to set the bluetooth chip as a
> midi device there by allowing one laptop to control a device connected to
> the other.
> >
> > Any help will be very appreciated. Thanks!
> >
>

mzed's icon

Quote: Predictable Disorder wrote on Tue, 12 September 2006 09:50
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> I was hoping that maybe there's a way to set the bluetooth chip as a midi device there by allowing one laptop to control a device connected to the other.
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I understand this is a bit different than what you asked, but M-Audio makes a wireless MIDI controller:

It has MIDI I/O. I would be afraid to use it in a concert.

mzed

roger.carruthers's icon
Mr. Banshee's icon

Karl-otto & Jean-Francios thanks for your help! i have
another question though (whomever can help would be
appreciated); i want to route the randomly generated
samples to different outputs w/ different samples. Do i
have to make several drop files? My brain is being fried
from staring at the screen in frustration.
-Elder

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Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

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Stefan Tiedje's icon

Chubb wrote:
> My brain is being fried from staring at the screen in frustration.

better than staring on the screen is going thru examples/tutorials
(again if you did it already) download collections of abstractions and
study them...

The most simple solution is a [gate 2] and decide with [random 2] + 1.

Stefan

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