rewire problems

Sorry to hear that you can't get it to work.

The Max/MSP ReWire audio driver (sitting in the ad folder) does not automatically get installed into the ReWire folder. It might help to get the latest one from 5.0.5 copied to the ReWire folder. But, since part of ReWire's vast tower of lameness is that the installers for various applications create ReWire folders in various locations, you might want to search for every ReWire folder you have and get rid of any old ones. That way you'll have a clue which one is running. Then make sure there's a Max/MSP driver in there.

Also, I tend to always run the mixer app before launching Max/MSP. We mostly tested this stuff with Live (both Mac and Windows) and Logic. ProTools and ReWire together? Oof.

David Z.

did you mean MSPReWireDevice.bundle?

I'm not sure what to do. I tried installing the Rewire 1.7 package from the Propellerhead web site. Then I tried various combinations of having the new Rewire.bundle along with the MSPReWireDevice.bundle in the /Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire folder which included:

Just having the Rewire.bundle in the folder
Just having MSPRewireDevine.bundle in the folder
having both bundles in the folder
having neither.

All of this seems to either have no effect or cause Max to say that it could not register ReWire or one time it made Logic go nuts without Max being open.

In any case, that was the only folder I found to have a rewire bundle, but I'm not completely sure thats where Logic looks for its rewire files ?!?!?!?!?!?

Anyway, thanks for the help. I'll probably end up going back to good old midi clock sync but I thought this could be interesting. On the upside, AES tomorrow!

Occasionally rewire just barfs, in my experience.Mostly on Mac.

The only way I've found to get it going again is delete everything in

~/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire/

or the whole propheads folder if you like

reinstall rewire 1.7

Start max, select rewire or switch on DSP until you see the "registering.." message, quit max, restart, start your host, etc.

-A

Andrew - Thanks! I followed your instructions exactly and the rewire voodoo worked. Weird!

So now for the next question- what are the commands I can use to make transport's clock source be rewire?

If I give transport the getclocksources message, it dumps 'append rewire' out the rightmost outlet. However when I try sending 'clocksource rewire' message, the transport reverts to internal. The same thing happens when I try to change it through the inspector.

Here is the really weird part- When I send a bang to the transport, it outputs the current song position info from Logic

.....Ok its around 30 minutes later. I found that turning audio on and off seems to get things running. transport still says internal but it seems to be connected to rewire.

BUT

I found that I need to re-instantiate the metro object for it to output bangs if it is synced to the transport. Sometimes I have to do this if I change something in the dsp chain.

Here is the patch I'm using to try all of this. I'm not even going to get into the timing problems in rewire when metro actually works.

I hope I dont sound like I'm complaining. I'm just trying to help point out any problems in this new system. I do really appreciate that the higher-ups at Cycling 74 are willing to personally respond to my rewire problems!

Hi guys,

I have troubles with rewire too. I work on Mac OS 10.5 and i want to use Live and Max in rewire (Live master / Max slave).

When i start Max i have the "register..." message. I have "Max/MSP" in the "Audio From" combo box of each track in Live. But when i try to switch audio on in Max i always have "ad_rewire: error starting audio. Is ReWire mixer running?" and audio stays off.

I tried what Andrew Pask adviced but it's still the same. I re installed several times rewire 1.7, i tried with Live 6 and 7, i checked that the "Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Rewire" folder is the only Rewire folder of my computer... It always worked with Max 4, Live and Reason but only Max 5 doesn't work, so i think the problem comes from Max 5.

What can i do? Please help, i really need rewire...

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Just to throw this out there ... but I was running into this also when I tried to select ad_rewire and turn the audio on. I found that I actually had to start the given host first (in my case live) which I assume starts the rewire mixer, then the selection of ad_rewire worked for max.

Having the same problem with Logic and Max. I've gone through all the suggestions and have never had this problem in the past (first time trying to get this to work in Max 5 though).

The most frustrating part is if I make a rewire~ object I get the error "Another ReWire Mixer application is already running", but of course if I try to turn on the audio or use hostsync~ I get "ad_rewire: error starting audio. Is ReWire mixer running?"

I know this should be straight forward, but if anyone has any more suggestions I'd really apppreciate it.

Ethan

I finally solve my problem. The Rewire folder which is used by Live and Max is not "Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire" but "[user]/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire". So you need to place your MSPReWireDevice.bundle in this folder (in your personnal account).

I hope this can help.

Thanks for the reply,

I've tried every combination suggested here though and nothing is working. I'm beginning to think that this might be a problem with Logic. Does someone know of a free app that I can test ReWire connectivity with Max just to test this theory?

Cheers,
Ethan