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Ableton Connectivty - stephencarr - 06-22-2021

Ok, I'll kick this off...

When I connect the host port to my Macbook I can't see anywhere in the Midi config of Ableton to select the MRCC as the "control surface" in order to route my midi messages from Ableton to the MRCC.

I can't find anything specific in the user manual, the device shows up in the Audio Midi Setup tool on my Mac, but not in Ableton for some reason.

Edit: Ok, now I go back to Ableton AFTER opening Audio Midi Setup -> Midi Studio view, Ableton shows all the ports available /shrug


RE: Ableton Connectivty - oldgearguy - 06-22-2021

(06-22-2021, 07:48 AM)stephencarr Wrote: Ok, I'll kick this off...

When I connect the host port to my Macbook I can't see anywhere in the Midi config of Ableton to select the MRCC as the "control surface" in order to route my midi messages from Ableton to the MRCC.

I can't find anything specific in the user manual, the device shows up in the Audio Midi Setup tool on my Mac, but not in Ableton for some reason.

Edit: Ok, now I go back to Ableton AFTER opening Audio Midi Setup -> Midi Studio view, Ableton shows all the ports available /shrug

I've had similar weirdnesses on my Mac Mini with either the MIDI side or the audio side (some days the Mac sees all of the Weiss AFI-1 ports, some days audio just comes out the internal speaker - lol)

Once it saw the MRCC though, anything I pull up has all the MRCC ports available and stuff like MIDI Monitor or Sysex Librarian can use any/all w/o problems.  It's been stable though for a while now (145 or 147 on the MRCC, I forget, High Sierra on the Mac)


RE: Ableton Connectivty - Jesse Johannesen - 06-23-2021

Glad it sorted itself out, if you had to write a note for this to put in the manual as a heads up to other users, how would you word it?
Jesse


RE: Ableton Connectivty - stephencarr - 06-23-2021

(06-23-2021, 06:41 AM)Jesse Johannesen Wrote: Glad it sorted itself out, if you had to write a note for this to put in the manual as a heads up to other users, how would you word it?
Jesse

I don't think it's something worthy of the manual since I am not sure if it's just a quirk of my particular mac. If more people have the same issue hopefully they will find this thread and we could then find a common problem with a common solution for the manual, or maybe it can be a firmware fix if it's some sort of implementation issue.


RE: Ableton Connectivty - Kyl3wyld - 09-22-2021

How solid is the clock sync with Ableton? Most people syncing external gear with Ableton end up buying an e-rm multi clock to ensure a solid sync. It uses an audio signal from ableon to achieve this.


RE: Ableton Connectivty - Jesse Johannesen - 09-22-2021

Yeah, Ableton is pretty notorious for having pretty bad sync, but I've not really noticed many issues on my end. That may be because I use it less frequently in my setup though.


RE: Ableton Connectivty - The Puppeteer - 10-18-2021

We run an ERM Multiclock, and run MIDI clock separately behind the scenes to the MRCC, 8PortSE, Midex8, Blokas MIDIHub and the Thru 8. We kinda have a crazy amount of MIDI gear hooked up though, and tight sync is critical. MIDI clock is not routed through Ableton. Just the sync track to the ERM.