On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Jeffrey Concepcion jeffreyconcepcion@gmail.com wrote:
i am already aware of Jack for sending audio directly from pd to live and vice versa(not sure about midi capabilities), but i'm refering to truly open possibilities that this type of integration will allow.
I think you are asking on the wrong list... This question should rather be directed to the Ableton Live developers.
I really do not want to appear as a troll and do not want to open a can worms either but after reading the above quoted sentence I was not sure what you meant by "open". http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/11_3/behles_ableton.html explains one point of view about what open means in Ableton context and I believe that jackd is actually a more open solution than M4L appears to be (albeit less user-friendly to some extent but that's debatable). I have not tried M4L so my knowledge of it is rather inexistent but while driving home last night I heard someone on the radio explaining more-or-less how it works. Far from "open", if I understood correctly. I guess you should follow Cyrille's suggestion, it sounds like a reasonable compromise.
On the other hand, I think that M4L idea is brilliant, especially as a marketing maneuver.
Out of curiosity, how different is M4L from Pluggo (I reckon Pluggo is discontinued, or am I wrong again?) and could not Pluggo be used in that context?
Thanks (and sorry if this happens to be off-topic. Feel free to respond privately)
./MiS