I have all these mono synths that I wanted to play as a poly synth including my new Minitaur, an evolver, mopho, and even my eurorack modular rig.
I created a MaxForLive patch that lets you play four monosynths as one 4-voice poly synth. Now I can play chords! (works on softsynths and poly synths too but only four keys at a time total at this time)
Check it out and let me know if it works for you - I’ll add additional features later on.
Welcome to the forum!
Besides the monosynths, what is needed to run this?
All you need is MaxForLive. It comes free in Ableton Live 9. Of course you need to then get MIDI data out of your computer.
Oh, you’re the one who made PolyMind? Thank you! I used it the other night to run three instances of Monark. I will probably use it to run my voyager alongside two slims, bc the factory settings for my Voyager’s poly mode are far more dodgy than the slim’s polychain mode.
I have to tell you, though: upon saving and re-opening the file I made, though, none of the PolyMind satellites are hearing the brain’s data anymore. In your patch you said to try and save the patches in Live, which I did before using anything. Now I can’t get PolyMind to work at all. Save redownloading, can you offer any troubleshooting advice?
Thanks!
I’m glad to hear you got it working! Unfortunately I foresaw the technical issues which is why I included the detailed txt file.
I used the udpsend/udpreceive objects because in ableton there is no other way to send midi data from one track to multiple tracks. It’s really annoying to use this work around but at least on my system I’ve got it stable and reopening projects work every time.
When you hit the save (disk) icon on the patch instances, they were automagically saved to your user maxforlive presets list which can be viewable in lives left side browser. Make sure you know the difference between the saved ableton presets and the max patches which will have the same name but a different icon and extension (the max patch has a .amxd extension).
The way I understand it is that the ableton preset accesses the max patch for it’s content so you will have both. When you go through the steps on the txt file make sure you always drag the ableton preset file.
On my system, the patches always work when I am using the presets (you can delete all and re-drag on to be sure) and lastly delete and re-drag on the brain.
I would very much like to know if this helped you at all. If you like, please pm me your email address I can send you the files as a live pack which potentially work better, it would help me iron out the bugs. Thanks and good luck!