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I am trying unsuccessfully to get aftertouch to control vibrato in live 8. Someone told me there was a way to do it using max. Can anyone PLEEEAAASE show me how to accomplish this.

yes, you'll need to use max to convert your aftertouch into some other controller message - but I believe that you need "max" not "maxforlive", since Live actively strips out your aftertouch?

Anyone?

Live supports monophonic aftertouch (channel pressure) for midi track input.
So it can be converted with an M4L midi effect device.

The patch would just be [touchin] --> [ctlout X] where X is any controller number.

But for remote control (midi mapping) the conversion must be done outside of Live.

Thanks for the info guys. Broc, I'm kinda new at the whole programming bit. Can you explain more about how I would accomplish this. I really appreciate any help you can give me, I'm running into brick walls everywhere.
Nick

have you done the midi tutorials that come with max and maxforlive?

open the default "max midi effect", and connect the midiin to a midiparse object. Work from there, and then use the Live API stuff to connect to whatever synth plugin you want to control.

Obviously, if you've already got an aftertouch-enabled synth, then you don't need maxForLive to handle it.

For instance, in Operator you click the Global Shell, and then connect Aftertouch to connection A by any amount.