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octo8 wrote: Why is it not possible to apply a MIDI effect as well?

Group tracks in Live are *audio* tracks and thus can only host audio effects.

Yes, but live.object may be less suited for higher control rates.

chapelier fou wrote:Is it because the remote~ object removes the parameter from live's savable parameters ??

Yes, with the (positive) side effect that it doesn't write to the undo history.

I would convert the mtc number to milliseconds and then use the Max object [translate ms bbu].
'bbu' means 'bars beats units' where units is given in ticks (1 beat = 480 ticks).

I've found that Live at stop sends an All-Notes-Off message (CC123).

Try 'Gate' mode of the Velocity device.

The reason is that the VST standard has only 2 types of plugins, instrument (midi>audio) and audio effect (audio>audio), but no midi effect (midi>midi). Instead a midi effect is implemented as *instrument* with additional midi output (even if it doesn't produce audio), and thus on Live tracks such p...

I get about 13ms of latency on the External Instrument device, running a session at 44,1Khz and 256 samples buffer settings using an RME Babyface as output. Interesting. I've tested again with 256 samples buffer and still get latency on the external instrument much higher than 13ms. And finally I e...

I'm using it on 10.10.5 and it works fine. Cool. Just tried it with success but I'm not sure about the latency. What is your audio buffer in Live and the latency setting of external instrument? PS With a phase test I got instrument latency about 80ms (@512 samples audio buffer). So Soundflower itse...

For guys on a Mac and wanting to use Logic as a slave to Ableton. Just use Soundflower (free) to get the audio into Ableton and use the IAC Driver (already native to Mac) to route the midi from Ableton to Logic. That way you can use an External Instrument device (from Ableton) to get your Logic ins...

For handling OSC in Max (and M4L) you can use [udpsend/udpreceive]. Quite simple and no Java involved.
But there is a general limitation of UDP/OSC that different applications cannot receive on the same port.

It's not possible to send system real-time messages like MIDI clock through Live's track output.
As workaround you could send UDP/OSC messages to a standalone Max patch and convert there into MIDI clock.

Btw, Live's EXT mode is for clock input, not output.

Capturing midi notes in the background can be done with the [detonate] object as buffer. For recalling the buffer you'd need to create a midi clip and copy the data from detonate into the clip. All these steps can be automated with M4L - but only in session view. M4L cannot create or paste a midi cl...

Since Live does only receive MTC you could use a MTC generator tool as master clock for synchronization.

For example this.

https://sononum.net/horae

The small free app 'MidiPipe' can easily merge multiple input devices/ports into one.