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After reading from everybody how wonderful this trade-in-offer is, I would like to be a little bit logical about it: If you really want to enable young students to make music, wouldn't it be a better idea to show them how they can do it with a 20 Euro-Midi-Keyboard and free software (like Studio On...

After reading from everybody how wonderful this trade-in-offer is, I would like to be a little bit logical about it: If you really want to enable young students to make music, wouldn't it be a better idea to show them how they can do it with a 20 Euro-Midi-Keyboard and free software (like Studio One...

Hi all! Happy to report that I've been working with 9.2 and Max 7.0.4 for almost a month now without a crash. Reminder: When I joined this thread I was in a real bad mood, some of my Live-Sets had just disappeared into crash-loops (couldn't even open them anymore) because of M4l. Several crashes eve...

I ran into a strange issue today with the new maxurl. Worked on a track that contained no M4L at all. I used the CodeFN42-Midi-Plugin "Chordz" (it's like the Ableton "Chord"-Device, only better) to trigger Chords with one finger. It was routed to a Grand Piano (Ableton Pack) on a...

Hi all, We have some news on this front regarding the recent Windows crashes . Cycling 74 have supplied us with some potential fixes. To test the fixes, the attached maxurl objects should replace the maxurl objects in the respective Max 7 folders. Worked for me. I opened a set that contains 12 inst...

not sure if this helps but after the last round of windows updates m4l is now completely unusable on my windows 7 64bit system. before, the workaround (load m4l midi device and wait for 15 to 30 seconds) worked quite nicely and i was able to load almost all of my m4l devices. now after the updates ...

Hi! I have both Progressive and Bassline and I think they are both really useful tools that can do much more than "just" generate quite complex clips in linked-mode. Bassline, for example, can also be used without Progressive (linked to a "chord-detect"-device on another track) a...

not sure if this helps but after the last round of windows updates m4l is now completely unusable on my windows 7 64bit system. before, the workaround (load m4l midi device and wait for 15 to 30 seconds) worked quite nicely and i was able to load almost all of my m4l devices. now after the updates ...

Hi Everyone, Rory here from Ableton HQ, I've been tracking this problem for some time now and hopefully I can shed some light on the situation. We are very much aware of the Windows crash, when loading a Max device into an already large project. This is known and filed in our bug backlog with top p...

All I know is: I never had major problems with several other DAWs in the last 10 years. I did everything you suggested (before buying the computer/software). I even did that with the machine I bought before the machine I use now. … What you call "whining" might be important information fo...

Hi! Just wanted to let everybody who's interested know that some of the workarounds pointed out in this thread have worked for me last night. Especially this one: Pull an empty "max midi-device" into an empty project and let it "sit" for a good 30 seconds (thanks to Fab an Eanna)...

That's interesting. I would ask you for further system specs, but we both know that we will never figure this out. If I change "this" and still have problems, then I might have to change "that". It's a loop, endless. All I know is: I never had major problems with several other DA...

My Tip: If you need something like Max for Live (only working), buy Bitwig. Yeah, I'll apply that tip on my non crashing 9.1.7 / 9.2b7 installation. Sure. Excuse me, I have to finish this track now that has 7 instances of M4L devices. You're on a mac. If you would have read some of the posts on thi...

From what I've seen so far (as a Windows 7, 64-bit-user), M4L doesn't answer any questions. Not even the wrong ones.
It just opens up A LOT of new questions.
Seems to be the wrong method with the wrong technique.
As Dave said, it's just completly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9RjVT5eM-E

Hi! Don't know if this is the right way to reply? To scheffkoch: I wanted to rant and then help. My tip is at the end of my post. I don't think an update to 9.1.8, which only adds control surface support for two keyboards, will solve M4L-problems. I believe my crashes started with Convolution Reverb...