Cameron Harris

This question is probably more appropriate for the Liine Forum but I'm not sure how active it is so I was wondering if any M4L users may be able to help me:

I have recently installed Lemur on my MacBookPro (running Max 6.1 as my M4L) and am learning Ableton. I know Max a little. I have been trying to use Mu as a way of understanding how Lemur and M4L access the Live APL but I've got stuck very early on.

I am using an HP tablet (slate 10 HD) running android as my Lemur.

There is either something I am not understanding or I have a problem with my setup. I want to use Mu to control the audio devices in Ableton. I have no problem putting the Mu.amxd device in a Live set and using it to load a jzml file on my tablet. But that's where I get stuck. I see that each device controller has a jzml file and a maxpat file but I don't know what to do with the maxpat file. I just put both Mu.amxd and the audio device on the same audio channel of my live set and hoped that the maxpat file does something in the background. It doesn't. When I move something on my tablet nothing happens to the device in the live set. I am confused because I thought maxpat files were just used in the full version of Max and only amxd files are usable within Ableton.

I thought my problem may be a file association issue and that M4L isn't seeing the maxpat file for some reason but I have put the Mu 1.2 folder within the cycling74 folder of my Max6.1 application folder and even used options to put it in the Max filepath as well. So I'm stuck. I did have to ask Ableton to find a bunch of files when I loaded one of Mu's framework sets so I'm suspicious.

In the case of the mu.devices that come as part of the Mu Frameworks I have no problems. My lemur will control these amxd devices -- it's the 'bridge' to Ableton's own audio devices that I can't work out.

A Lemur/Mu Question