A workaround for the loss of play/stop triggering through PC keyboard when tweaking bridged plugins in Ableton Live

Unfortunately, due to limitations of the bridging process, you may lose the ability to use your PC keyboard to start/stop the sequencer in Ableton Live.

This is because PC keyboard input will be routed to the secondary process that hosts your bridged plugin when you’re tweaking its GUI,  until you click anywhere in Live’s GUI again  ( which is actually how it’s supposed to work between two different processes, but not what we want here ).

James created a Max for Live patch that allows the user to map any button on a control surface (e.g a keyboard, MIDIfighter or APC40) to the ‘start/stop’ function of Ableton Live’s transport bar.

You can get it here.

Please read the included documentation for instructions on how to use it, if you have any questions regarding its usage, please contact James ( you can find his email in the included documentation ).

A big thanks to James for this clever workaround!

 

 

 

jBridgeM 0.76g beta released ( for OS X )

Changes in v0.76g beta:

- Improved uninstall routines.
- Improved internal data structure handling.
- Safer auxhost start procedures.
- Other minor fixes / improvements.

more info here.

( note to all registered users: if you don’t receive this update in your email during the next 24h please contact me. )

Using jBridge in Ableton Live ( video )

The following video shows an example of how to use jBridge in Ableton Live:

http://tasherre.com/site/ableton/2013/01/using-32-bit-plugins-in-64-bit-ableton-live/

Thank you, Tasherre!

Kong Audio releases QIN RV 2.08

Kong Audio released QIN RV 2.08, which is now 64bit compatible by using a customized implementation of jBridge’s engine, specially tailored for it.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.chineekong.com/main.htm

eaReckon releases BloXpander v1.4.0, with support for jBridge

eaReckon released BloXpander v1.4.0. This update includes direct support for jBridge.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.eareckon.com/en/products/bloxpander-vst-host-for-live-performance.html

 

jBridgeM v0.72 released ( for Mac OS X )

Changes in v0.72 beta:

- Fixed an issue where drag n’drop would not work correctly with some plugins.
- Improved thread handling mechanisms.
- Fixed an issue where the jBridgerM tool would crash when scanning some plugins.
- Other compatibility improvements.

more info here.

( note to all registered users: if you don’t receive this update in your email during the next 24h please contact me. )

jBridgeM v0.7g released ( for Mac OS X )

changes in v0.7g:

- Fixed a problem where in some cases the auxhost could make the whole system unresponsive.
- Several other minor bugfixes.

more info here.

( note to all registered users: if you don’t receive this update in your email during the next 24h please contact me. )