How do I get SYSEX into Live?

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Bin ray
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How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by Bin ray » Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:28 pm

I'm sending a SYSEX message to Live, with only one MIDI track , and I can see the MIDI in indicator flash , but I can't detect any SYSEX using the sysexin object in a M4L device. I can receive these message okay in a max patch though. Any idea why I can't receive SYSEX? (I'm not sending any SYSEX from Live.)

Bin ray
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Re: How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by Bin ray » Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:36 pm

ShelLuser wrote:
Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:54 pm
Live filters all those system messages. The amount of midi data which you can process is very limited in that regards.
not according to Ableton https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... in-Live-10

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Re: How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by Bin ray » Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:57 pm

ShelLuser wrote:
Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:11 pm

Which brings me to: do you use Max embedded or as a separate setup?
See OP.
I should add, I have no problem sending SYSEX from a M4L device out of Live. Its just receiving it I can't get to work.

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Re: How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by hoffman2k » Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:00 pm

Works here. Which device are you sending from? I tested with Push 1.
Everything up to date? Sysex/CC fixes are very recent.

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Re: How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by Bin ray » Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:40 pm

OK, so I haven't changed anything obvious but now its working fine.
In fact better than fine because i can send and receive SYSEX using the same track, which Ableton claims is not possible!

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Re: How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by hoffman2k » Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:48 pm

Bin ray wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:40 pm
OK, so I haven't changed anything obvious but now its working fine.
In fact better than fine because i can send and receive SYSEX using the same track, which Ableton claims is not possible!
Just watch out so you don't create a Sysex feedback loop. If you send a Sysex Request and that Sysex Response is also a trigger with its own response, then you're stuck in a loop.

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Re: How do I get SYSEX into Live?

Post by chapelier fou » Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:20 pm

And you die.
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