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Pierre-Arnold Theron

arm and disarm Ableton Live tracks at specific musical times

, without ever allowing two tracks to be armed at the same time.

 (bar + quarter-note), not milliseconds or floating values.

Quarter-note resolution is sufficient for now.

no two tracks may ever be armed simultaneously

, even for a few milliseconds. Overlapping armed tracks cause audible artefacts (e.g. guitar input bleeding, clicks, or loaders sounding), which is unacceptable on stage.

I’ve already tried several common approaches:

All of these occasionally fail under load or ignore messages, or briefly allow two tracks to be armed at once.

I’ve already built parts of a prototype in Max for Live:

 that stays stable in performance has proven harder than expected, and I’d prefer to hand this off to someone experienced rather than keep fighting edge cases.

I don’t need anything visually fancy. I care about 

If you’re interested, feel free to reply here or DM me.

Thanks in advance — I really appreciate any guidance or offers of help.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for help building a reliable Max for Live device that can arm and disarm Ableton Live tracks at specific musical...

max-for-live-device-needed-bar-quarter-note-accurate-track-armdisarm-no-overlap-live-api-safe

Max for Live device needed: bar + quarter-note accurate track arm/disarm (no overlap, Live API safe)

Walk-Man

I have a synth (Pro 800, if info is necessary) and I'd like to use a control surface for it in ableton (and also a novation midi controller).

First of, I read some of the documentation and took a look into some videos showing basic stuff.

But it did not work since, I haven't been using the msb/lsb number. And the synth showed some values changing but no real audible changes. At least I've got something. :-)

I hope you can help me out here and enlighten me.

I came a bit clser, but I'm still wondering, what's wring.

The cc-value on the synth is changing by 1.

Hi everyone! 

To begin with: 
I have a synth (Pro 800, if info is necessary) and I'd like to use a control surface for it in ableton (and...

max-midi-effect-control-a-hardware-synth

Max Midi Effect - Control a hardware-Synth

Stevon

I know this forum really isn't about self promotion stuff but Im trying to grow some Max (for Live) Audience via my Socials and started a little tutorial series on how to build different Audio FX in Max (for Live)

Since this might be of interest for some of you, especially beginners, I thought I might share this here. And you of course are encouraged to use the files which come with the tutorials for your own creative projects. 

Also im interested on what are the topics which you would be interested in for further videos.

I just released a video on how to recreate the kHs Clipper Plugin with Max (for Live) which you can find on patreon and YouTube alongside with some other videos and Demos of Max for Live Plugins i released so far. Everything is available for free

I also did some Max teaching in the past, so since that is something you are interested in, feel free to contact me.

If you have any questions, feedback or just want to have a little chat let me know

Hey all you Max-enthuasiats,

I know this forum really isn't about self promotion stuff but Im trying to grow some Max (for Live) Audience...

max-for-live-tutorial-series

Max for Live Tutorial Series

arbooz65

Hello, I've been trying to use Max MIDI effect to send control data to vst plugin and haven't been able to successfully even make one knob to respond. If I can learn the basics, I can populate the patch with multiple parameters. For time being, even one parameter is enough (like M4L knob to move a knob in the VST plugin (in this case let's say Oscillator 1 shape selector CC 31 on Aura Blofeld Editor VST plugin). The reason I like to set it up this way is to have M4L as intermediate stage to have flexibility for naming the parameters. Right now on my Novation SL mkiii MIDI controller, the parameter names are so long (fed from the VST plugin) that I can't discern any useful info on the knob displays (limited to 10 digits) and it is confusing. By default, Live doesn't allow renaming the configured plugin parameter names, and I was seeking a solution and this seem to be a suggested potential. I need to configure more than 64 parameters so the Novation Components software or using Live plugin Macro is not sufficient. I also tried it as a Max Audio Effect (tried to see if DAW style automation of parameters can be streamlined this way) and still wasn't successful. Thanks for your help.

Hello, I've been trying to use Max MIDI effect to send control data to vst plugin and haven't been able to successfully even make one knob...

creating-m4l-patch-to-control-vst-instrument-plugin

Creating M4L patch to control VST Instrument plugin 

Isaac  sandman

I don’t really have a background in programming, but I really appreciate this community and all the amazing work people do here 🙌🍺

I’m having some issues with my MIDI setup involving a few 

 user, and lately I’ve also been enjoying 

When I send a simple melody from Ableton to my 

For a long time I thought this was a hardware issue with the synths themselves. However, a few days ago I tested the exact same MIDI material in 

, and the synths stop cleanly there  no stuck notes at all.

After digging into it a bit more, I realized that 

Ableton does not use “true” MIDI Note Off messages

, but instead uses the newer implementation of 

It seems that some older synths don’t fully handle this behavior, which may explain the stuck notes.

convert “Note On with velocity 0” into a true Note Off message

ChatGPT helped generate some code for this, but I don’t really have any programming knowledge, and I wasn’t able to implement it successfully.

So I was hoping someone here could help either by explaining how to do this properly, or maybe even by coding a simple Max device that does exactly this.

, and I’d also love to understand more about what’s going on under the hood.

                    "maxclass": "notein",

                    "patching_rect": [50, 50, 60, 20],

                    "args": ["144","128"],

                    "patching_rect": [150, 50, 80, 20],

                    "patching_rect": [250, 50, 60, 20],

                    "maxclass": "noteout",

                    "patching_rect": [350, 50, 60, 20],

                    "maxclass": "button",

                    "patching_rect": [50, 150, 20, 20],

                    "maxclass": "ctlout",

                    "patching_rect": [150, 150, 80, 20],

            {"patchline": {"source": "notein1", "sourceoutput": 0, "destination": "route1", "destinationinput": 0}},

            {"patchline": {"source": "route1", "sourceoutput": 0, "destination": "split1", "destinationinput": 0}},

            {"patchline": {"source": "split1", "sourceoutput": 0, "destination": "noteout1", "destinationinput": 0}},

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