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Hey everyone,

Working on a project that requires building a native Max for Live external in Rust. Real-time audio thread access, no JavaScript in the critical path.

Been looking into median (github.com/Cycling74/median) as the main option for Rust bindings to the Max SDK. Found one solid production example with petunia-externals by alisomay, which has been genuinely useful to study.

Before going too deep down one path, wanted to check if anyone here is working with Rust and Max externals. Are there other libraries or approaches in this space worth knowing about? max-msp-rs, max-rust, anything else that has come up on your radar?

Also curious whether anyone has tackled creating Max objects programmatically from inside a Rust external without dropping all the way to raw C. The object_new_typed territory. That is the specific challenge I am trying to get a feel for.

Any experience, pointers, or war stories very welcome.

hi all
I'm about to get back to teaching Ableton remotly, here and there..
I've tried a bunch of streaming platforms back in the day and was wondering maybe taking the lessons onto Discord.

Since I haven't been in this world last couple of years, any recommendations for platforms that are good for remote Ableton sessions?

Thanks in advance

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Someone posted here recently about Ableton addiction and feeling lost in it all. The post got deleted but it stuck with me.

Had a reply ready and felt like it would be a shame to let it disappear with the thread. Not trying to be profound or anything, just some thoughts rattling around. A lot of people in this space feel this way and never say it out loud, so if any of this lands for someone, cool. If not, also cool.

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Hey buddy, let's start with a few real facts.

Today's "DJs" are mostly influencers looking for attention and for the most part don't even collect music or have a real musical taste. That raises a question, do you want to submit to the current shift in scenery? I'd call it a death, but it's also an opportunity for rebirth. If so, start "influencing" more than actually caring for music.

Now the other side of this. Music as self-therapy. In our current capitalistic disaster we're drifting further and further from what we actually are, and we're so confused and purposeless that we confuse self-inspection with social norms. Is it wrong to have a safe and familiar space within the digital world that's all yours? A place that lets you express yourself freely, dive deeper into yourself, do some deep tissue work?

Changing shoes, or cream for your knees, or even a new DAW, all of it is superficial and doesn't promise the feeling of purpose.

There's nothing wrong with feeling detached from a fake world living in a simulacrum. You have the capacity to actually disconnect from your mind and connect to yourself, precisely because you're having a hard time accepting the so-called reality. That's not a flaw, that's a signal.

Read a book. Find your inner passion. Ask yourself the real questions. Look into wisdom that's already been documented, Zen Buddhism, Kabbalah, the Stoics. They all insisted on one thing: the answer is not out there, it's in here. Within.

Breakthroughs are often a side effect of a crisis. Read what Carl Jung or Einstein had to say about those dark night of the soul experiences.

And about your body screaming to move, listen to it. Walk, stretch, dance in your kitchen, anything. The body is the doorway back into yourself and it might be the cheapest plugin you never installed.

20 years in Ableton isn't wasted time brother, it's proof you can devote yourself to something fully. Now point that same devotion inward. You're not fucked. You're just due for the remix of your life.

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Keep the good work good ya'll
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