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As always, thanks for sharing....you rock!

Try changing "Takeover Mode" in Lives Preferences>MIDI Sync. Set it to absolute instead of relative or takeover.

Python integration with Max (using the stuff you've already done or any Control Surface Scripting in conjunction with Max) will require m4l. No need for the full version of Max, though. Does that answer your question?

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The C stuff is pretty esoteric, but if you search the web you can find several examples of how to build and compile both C and Java externals. I compiled working versions of both my first C and Java externals the same day I started writing them, without having any background in either language. Java...

No reason to chuck all your old Python scripts. You can always communicate from m4l directly to Python via the control_surfaces hook in the API (I make extensive use of this in Monomodular and the stuff I've done for Livid). Also, don't think of it as a downgrade: even though it offers a simplistic ...

Monomodular has its own monome template for Lemur (Aum256). It will not help you with Monoemur, but it can be used to connect to SerialOSC monome patches by itself. It currently requires m4l for the Lemur connectivity.

I think the problem that you are having is that you are creating a new API object every time you do something. Instead of using the new LiveAPI() method, you might instead try re-using instances that have already been created and reassigning their paths. This is a little slower on the front-end, but...

Hey uber, Thanks for the grats. It's really nice to know when people are having success! I'd love to hear about the crashes (I don't really get any Monomodular related crashes these days, unless I'm trying to update from old versions to new ones). Load speed is an issue for me, as well, but I always...

Monomodular is up to b993 now....you can download the content here:

http://www.aumhaa.com/Monomodular/Monomodular_b993.zip

There's a changelog with the content, and you can also read about the new additions here:

http://www.aumhaa.com/wp

Cheers

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I've thought about this a bit, and I just don't know a good way to do this. It would be helpful to know how you are formatting the messages, and what kind of messages you are sending. What does the crash report say? I responded initially because I have a tester for Monomodular b993 that is having Li...

Can't say that I'm much help, but I'm giving it some thought. Is this also crashing Live? What are you sending to? (every suggestion I can think of tends to be rather Mac-centric, sorry.....)

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Yeah, that's just the extension used for Windows externals (mxe as opposed to mxo). Bad message could definitely cause this, or other things with port blockage I suppose (although this shouldn't happen after its instantiated). What are you sending it? Are you using Zeroconf? a edit:: oh, I see what ...

You can observe the mode_index of the Mode component to bang your stuff when switching modes. It's one of the few observable Control Surface API objects other than 'value'.

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This sort of thing is soooo much easier with Monomodular.....and you get 16 user-modes.

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Or use Leigh Hunt's lhmidi objects, if you are on OSX.

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