M4L 6 and 7 installed simultaneously or just 7

[annadyne]

Hi,
This might be a silly question - would there be any point in keeping M4L 6 installed instead of just replacing it with M4L 7?
I have a huge number of version 6 devices - will they open up fine in 7?

Thanks much, peepz!

[jonbenderr]

It's best to try and open those devices with 7 and see. For the most part things should be compatible.

Version 7 will not overwrite your version 6 install.

[chrk]

From the cycling74 forum: Topic: Max 7 Backwards Compatible? «

When installing m4l 7 you need to set the path in Live's files/folders preferences. So you can't use both versions from Live simultaneously, anyway. And without Max 7 you can't use the Max Essentials 2 (all those shiny new Max devices).

Unless you own a standalone license for Max 6 but not 7, you can just as well ditch the former.

[annadyne]

Thanks guys -
Ableton Forum rocks!

After nearly 10 years of Ableton, and screwing around with other DAWS - PT, DP, Cubase, Logic,
professionally and otherwise,
I still love and appreciate Live, despite its faults and weaknesses.


-Liz

[oceanzen]

So you're saying it's safe to delete max6 and live will automatically use max7?

[chrk]

So you're saying it's safe to delete max6 and live will automatically use max7?

No, see my answer in your original thread: Installed max7, why is live9.5 still using max6?