<![CDATA[How to make Ableton to talk with Pd via MIDI or audio]]>Hello. How do I make Pd to communicate with Ableton. For example I would like to trigger a bang in my Pd patch using audio or MIDI from Ableton to play or modify visuals. Thanks

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9328/how-to-make-ableton-to-talk-with-pd-via-midi-or-audioRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 18:57:16 GMTSat, 06 Jun 2015 14:55:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to make Ableton to talk with Pd via MIDI or audio on Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:55:51 GMT]]>Hello. How do I make Pd to communicate with Ableton. For example I would like to trigger a bang in my Pd patch using audio or MIDI from Ableton to play or modify visuals. Thanks

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9328/how-to-make-ableton-to-talk-with-pd-via-midi-or-audiohttp://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9328/how-to-make-ableton-to-talk-with-pd-via-midi-or-audioSat, 06 Jun 2015 14:55:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to make Ableton to talk with Pd via MIDI or audio on Sun, 07 Jun 2015 11:00:08 GMT]]>you need a third party application which acts as a MIDI patch bay. I use loopMIDI (which is free and simple to use) for communicating from pd to ableton. I should imagine it would work the opposite way just fine. Then... it would be either a [notein] object (for midi notes) or a [ctlin] object (for CC values) which you would need to open in pd. If you are sending to a bang you would want [notein] but you would also want a [stripnote] object after the [notein] which removes the note-off value (without this you would get two bangs every time).

Important: make sure you open loopMIDI or whatever MIDI patch application you choose to use before you open Ableton and PD. Think of it like a hardware MIDI interface. If you open your DAW and then open the device it won't show up in the MIDI settings menu. It needs to be the first thing open.

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