'On a couple of occasions, wed send MIDI (rather than audio) to multiple channels, so each speakers sound could have an independent decay. Modul8 doesn’t of course react to OSC messages from Live but with some minor alterations of the OSC (global) module I got it to translate the messages to something useful. The Octopus Projects 8-Speaker Live Surround-Sound System.
Please let me know if you have any trouble setting this up. If you install the OSC folders from the mlrV4live package you can get Ableton Live to send and receive OSC messages.
You may adapt this recipe to do what you need. The result is that when the MIDI note is fired, the resulting OSC message will be sent to the slave computer as well. Finally assign the newly created OSC routing to one of your MIDI note's duplicates.Add a new routing by clicking the + button, and change the slot number from default to the number you've just memorized (2 for example).Remember the slot number (2 for example). At the top, define a new target by choosing an empty slot, and click on the gear icon, then choose the target that matches your slave computer (you should see the OSCulator service with your computer name in the list).That might involve sending TAP commands from one end to another with a. open the Parameters Window, and go to the OSC tab Ive had better experience with OSC for controlling VDMX from Live over the network.in the main list of the master computer, locate your MIDI message, and duplicate it (Command-D).choose one computer as the master and the other as the slave.By using Ableton Link musicians and visual artists who perform together can easily keep all elements of a show in sync. & - just to happily contradict myself, my latest screen captures, using Soundflower as the sound source is to be found at and it does exhibit some of those snaps and crackles. Today we are extremely excited to announce that VDMX now has native support for Ableton Link, a new technology developed by Ableton that synchronizes musical beat, tempo, and phase across multiple applications running on multiple devices.
I've mailed Synium about the problem their product has that seems related directly to Soundflower, however, Snapz Pro seems quite capable of dealing with Soundflower as a sound source, it just treats it as being the active sound track when it is enabled in System Prefs and running Soundflowerbed, just as it does with any currently active audio source. I think it’s great that one person can now perform live on stage with one computer to control both their music and visual lighting in one compact system. Part of it is captured in Snapz Pro - shortly finishing its demo period and partly captured in Screenium. The way I achieve this is by sending Ableton Live’s MIDI out data to DMXis, which controls LED lighting that I have set up on stage. Everything else could be selected but just didn’t take effect (Ableton wasn’t even showing any kind of levels).
I shall be posting a screen capture of my work to date with the 'russian doll' macro patch compositional variant I posted earlier which is based upon gabemott's variant of goto's awesome line drawer. Basically I couldn’t route Ableton’s output to anything different then ‘Output 1&2’ which is the main output at the Audio 6’s front side. This is just an impromptu demo with the first reactive shader I found. That’s where you could easily compensate minor (or even major) misalignments between audio and video. If you look closely you might identify an LFO running in VDMX on the left screen. Indeed, using Soundflower through Kineme Audio Tools worked very well indeed. However, this is simply a matter a fine-tuning. I concur that Soundflower can be a trifle unreliable, though I seem to have overcome almost all such problems except with Screenium screen capture. Interesting to hear of your success with this posted composition on 10.6.x.