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Posted by rainbow_marble on May-14-2008 18:19:

Two Laptops with Ableton sync'd?

A friend and I both have Ableton installed on our laptops with synths hooked up to each laptop respectively. We are trying to connect the mac laptops wirelessly and have a jam session but cant figure out how to 1) sync the sound and 2) use my ableton as slave to his laptop set as the master. Is this possible? I understand how to use the wireless MIDI feature on the mac, but for some reason im getting no love.

If anyone has done this and knows what im talking about, can you please help?!

Posted by Zombie0729 on May-14-2008 19:36:

multiple tutorials on abletons forum but here is the stickied one:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewto...=asc&highlight=

Posted by rainbow_marble on May-14-2008 20:43:

thanks but that doesnt really help... has anyone done this w/ success?

Posted by 3F05Q on May-15-2008 04:36:

What other hardware do you have?

If you have the ability to run MIDI... then just connect one computer to the other via a MIDI cable and follow the instruction manual to have on send clock and the other to slave to the master.

Posted by daveth on May-15-2008 05:59:

quote:
Originally posted by rainbow_marble
thanks but that doesnt really help... has anyone done this w/ success?
From the linked thread:

"dudes, you're making all this waaaay too complicated.

1 midi cable
EXT button set on the slaved Live
SYNC out on the master Live
SYNC in on the slave Live

hit spacebar and go. I've done this literally dozens of times with various combinations of macs, PCs, Live 6, Live 5, sound cards, synths, mpcs...

for MIDI mapped control just enable REMOTE IN/OUT on the computers.

open the help box and hover over the midi remote/sync/track buttons, it's all there.

if things go awry, unset all the boxes and start simple, no need to close the preferences box, settings are enacted immediately."

How exactly does that not help?

Posted by rainbow_marble on Jun-16-2008 01:03:

well.. i see the blinking orange dot so it looks like everything is right, but...

the master laptop is not able to control the slave's tempo or anything. everything gets out of sync AND im still unable to figure out how to route the audio from the slave computer into the master and out the master's speakers. I know ab out AUNETSend/AUNetReceive, but i cant seem to find AUNETRecieve anywhere in ableton.... thanks in advance for any help

Posted by davidbuhau on Jun-18-2008 00:55:

this sounds like a big pain in the ass to me

heh

david