I’m using TD to create visuals for with my live set as a musician. Ableton is my forte and I am reasonably new to TD.
My ableton computer: MacBook Pro mid 2015 running BigSur
Ableton version 12. 2.1
My TD computer: Mac Mini M4 Pro running Sequoia 15.3.1
TD Version 2023.12370
The reasons I would like to run on separate machines are obvious, I can’t risk the music dropping out on stage if TD gets heavy.
I’ve been working on this for 2 days and still haven’t found out why TD can’t connect.
First, I got error messages in the textport that were similar to what I’ve seen in other forum posts, having to do with the OSC being overloaded with messages. I got my friend who can code to come over and he took a look at the OSC3 Python script and actually fixed it so that those errors were fixed.
The curious thing is that TDA Master connects (the yellow connected button lights up) when I put in the IP address of the wifi network both computers are connected into the tdAbletonpackage operator. So Ableton is responding to what I do in TD. But TD just gives me the pop up that it is trying to connect and that’s it. There are no more error messages. So it would appear that the trouble is with TD connecting, not TDA Master in Ableton.
I checked that IP address was correct, I tried different IP addresses (the one listed in TDA Master and also the one in my wifi network). I made sure the ports in TDA Master and tdAbleton package were aligned. I tried other ports in case the ones TD automatically assigns were being used elsewhere. I pinged the IP address on both computers and checked for firewall issues. If anyone can spot my issue I would be very grateful!
Please send your toe file and, if possible, your Live set to ivan@derivative.ca. Collect all and save… audio files are not necessary if they are big. I’d like to check that and possibly incorporate the osc3 solution if it helped you. Also, please send your Ableton log file. Instructions for finding that are in the wiki.
When you say you “checked for firewall issues” do you mean that you turned your firewalls completely off on both computers? That is an important test.
It’s definitely odd that your Ableton is responding but TD is not. Do you get any errors on your textport? If so, please send them along. And also try the “ping” on the TDAbleton utilities page when Live and TD are both running. Check the textport for ping messages there too.
I tested with Live 12.2.1 and TD 12370 and had no problems. I use PC tho, so it may be a Mac thing. I’ll do some testing on Mac when I can but if possible, it’d be great if either or both of you could try a couple of things.
Test connecting with a toe file with just the TDAbleton package and an empty Live set.
Test the TDAbleton demo set. That’s the one that comes in the Samples folder JHelp>Browse Samples then Samples\TDAbleton\Live 11+\Demo Project. Use the toe file and live set that’s in there.
Let me know how that goes. If either of those don’t connect, send me the log file from Live and any errors that appear in the textport.