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Hi, so I'm having trouble getting ableton to recognize MaxMSP's audio in's via rewire. Interestingly, I can select MaxMSP as midi in's on my ableton midi tracks ... but I do not see any MaxMSP audio inputs on my audio tracks.

So, I do of course have MaxMSP's audio driver set to ad_rewire, and I read the tutorial on the cycling74 site, here.

Still, I see no audio ins from Max ... is there some config switch that the tutorial overlooks?

If it matters, I'm using Ableton 6.0.7 and MaxMSP 4.5.7 on an Intel Mac.

Hi, so I'm having trouble getting ableton to recognize MaxMSP's audio in's via rewire. Interestingly, I can select MaxMSP as midi in's on my ableton midi tracks ... but I do not see any MaxMSP audio inputs on my audio tracks. 

So, I do of course have MaxMSP's audio driver set to ad_rewire, and I read the tutorial on the cycling74 site, here. 

Still, I see no audio ins from Max ... is there some config switch that the tutorial overlooks? 

If it matters, I'm using Ableton 6.0.7 and MaxMSP 4.5.7 on an Intel Mac. 

rewire-to-ableton-n00b-question-here

> If it matters, I'm using Ableton 6.0.7 and MaxMSP 4.5.7 on an Intel 

MaxMSP 4.5.7 is not supported on an Intel Mac. You must run 4.6.x 

(free upgrade from 4.5). Then I guess it should work.

> If it matters, I'm using Ableton 6.0.7 and MaxMSP 4.5.7 on an Intel  
> Mac.

MaxMSP 4.5.7 is not supported on an Intel Mac. You must run 4.6.x  
(free upgrade from 4.5). Then I guess it should work.

Hi Emmanuel, that's strange ... the Finder says that my Max/MSP 4.5.7 is just an "Application", not an "Application (PowerPC)".

Anyway, I had downgraded due to problems with 4.6 a while back after running software update, but I guess I'll give the lastest revision a try :)

> Hi Emmanuel, that's strange ... the Finder says that my Max/MSP 

> 4.5.7 is just an "Application", not an "Application (PowerPC)".

> Anyway, I had downgraded due to problems with 4.6 a while back 

> after running software update, but I guess I'll give the lastest 

4.5.7 was a PPC only version. 4.6.x is universal binary and runs 

smoothly with both architecture. The issue you experienced was due to 

some Apple/PACE installer funkiness which has been solved in 4.6.3. 

> Hi Emmanuel, that's strange ... the Finder says that my Max/MSP  
> 4.5.7 is just an "Application", not an "Application (PowerPC)".
>
> Anyway, I had downgraded due to problems with 4.6 a while back  
> after running software update, but I guess I'll give the lastest  
> revision a try :)

4.5.7 was a PPC only version. 4.6.x is universal binary and runs  
smoothly with both architecture. The issue you experienced was due to  
some Apple/PACE installer funkiness which has been solved in 4.6.3.  
Everything should be fine now.

Also, how about using Soundflower or Jack?

The thing with Rewire is you then have to use the rewire driver in Max which I've always found a bit annoying. Who has experience of these three? Any good recommendations?

Yes while it may be a bit annoying switch to the rewire driver, I'm also needing to get transport information from Ableton (i.e. generate a set of bangs at 1/16, 1/32, etc.), if there were some alternate way of doing that, especially without needing the rewire driver, that would intrest me a lot, too =]

Why not just make a Midi track that sends a note out to Max/MSP1. Then use notein and stripnote. that way you have a series of pulses. Also you could have one note e.g. 30 for the bar and then others say 32 for the in between. So you know where you are in a bar.

well, being able to do it with rewire has it's advantages ... that is you can send out your bangs from one patch and not have to worry about duplicating functionality.

also i already have the code written to interface with rewire :)

Rewire to ableton n00b question, here.