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Hi all,

I just got a new macbook pro and am having problems getting midi from Logic into Live via rewire, though I'm having no problems getting audio from Live into Logic via rewire.

In Logic's environment I've created a new internal rewire object, the name came up automatically as Ableton Live which tells me (that and the audio working right) that Rewire is installed right. Then in Logic's arrange page I've assigned a track to that rewire object and created a midi sequence on that track.

Now in Live I have Simpler loaded and am trying to get Logic to trigger it but no dice, if I create a midi clip in Live it'll trigger simpler and I'll hear it just fine in Logics mixer but I can't seem to get Logic to trigger simpler. One the midi input for the simpler channel I have all inputs selected and all channels but still nothing.

Any ideas or anything that I'm missing?

Well, you can't send MIDI from Cubase to Live through ReWire, so maybe it is supposed to not work with Logic either. If nobody here can confirm this, contact Ableton support to clear this up.

i am not familiar, exact on "how to" but you can use the IAC bus for it, maybee someone can explain exactly how... i did not had any use for it yet, so never got my head around it. but i know from the Logicprohelp.com forum (i did read some threads about it a a while ago, but can't recall from scratch) that it is possible and that it works... maybee do a search there:

http://www.logicprohelp.com

I thought I read that Live 6 brings the ability to receive midi from a rewire master, which would therefor imply that it isn't officially supported yet.

I'm sure there is some workaround though.

grb

Thanks everyone, I guess if it isn't there then that would explain the results that I'm getting

I'm going to try the IAC route then.

Not yet.  This is an advertised feature of 6:

"ReWire master applications, such as ProTools, Logic and Cubase, can route MIDI to Live's MIDI tracks, making it possible to use Live's instruments."

In the meantime, you could use a painfully complex midi loopback procedure to achieve this, or a painfully time consuming process of exporting standard midi between the two apps a track at a time.