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Hey there,

Man, not cool about the CNTRL:R. I don’t think they’re very easy to come by these days, another good friend of mine had his go down last year.

Livid began a protracted demise several years ago, and I also am sad. I have a lot invested in Livid, scripts, homemade gear, etc. I’ve made a lot of cool stuff, both hardware and software, using their products as an anchor.

The website is still around, but it’s gone down several times, and all the downloadable content that was linked is missing. I’m not sure what the story is, but I think there was only one guy at the helm for a while, and I knew it was only a matter of time. When the Livid forums first went down, I had this forum set up in preparation for some software of my own I’ve been working on, and I decided to point people in this direction just to keep a conversation going and hopefully keep some of this stuff alive. The forums over there still work as an archive, but somehow years back a lot of the useful posts by moon and others got deleted.

I hear you about sloppy people on stage….I’m a live sound engineer, and do mostly electronic shows these days. I’d like to say d-bags are the exception….lol. I can’t say that. It’s no fun when you’re basically rolling with a piece of destined to be vintage, irreplaceable gear. It’s like someone stepping on the neck of an old Gibson.

You’re not totally stuck. There are a lot of people using this hardware out there, and although the resources seem to have disappeared from the internet, I know there are a lot of people out in the world with working Livid gear that want to keep using it. I have copies of most of the final releases of software for the brain stuff. The problem I foresee is compatibility with newer OS’s…..Catalina seems to be breaking everything, everywhere

I’m less a hardware guy and more a software guy, but I’ve made a controller out of a brainJr and done a good deal of config work for the Brainv2 for a client. People have slowly been navigating in this direction from the old Livid forums, so keep us posted on your progress….if I can’t help maybe someone else has ideas

Gotta run for the moment, I’ll check your other post tomorrow….

Oh, and incidentally, there is a CNTRLR on eBay right now for not a ridiculous amount of money….

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Hold tight champ, I have some feelers out to a few people that should be able to help!

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Glad you got things working!

Re: factory reset and Catalina.

Ok, so. The last time I researched this I did the same thing you did: I went to the NPAPI editor, which of course we both now know doesn’t work. Turns out, though, there’s another newer one at a different location. It’s here, and it should work with modern browsers:

https://lividinstruments.com/editor_2017/

I just tried it and it didn’t work with Safari (my guess is I just need to configure something correctly), but it worked with Chrome no problem.

There are standalone editors for each of the Livid controller models. They were built in MaxMSP, but I’ve had issues installing them (most likely due to local conflicts with newer versions of MaxMSP that exist on my development machines). I don’t have any clue if this stuff works in Catalina, since I haven’t shifted my machines over to use the that OS yet (for what are probably obvious reasons….Catalina just breaks too many things that I still need).

I removed your log file from the discussion

Hope that helps, and let me know if you have other questions I’m glad to help however possible!

Hey Mac,

I just checked on my local install with my CNTRLR, and it’s working as expected. So probably you’re using the wrong scripts (that’s what happens most often). You might want to download them again and reinstall…the current version is here:

https://github.com/aumhaa/m4m8

If things still aren’t working after that, send me a copy of your log.txt file and I can have a look to see if there are errors that will tell us what the problem is. Here’s some (very old lol) info about where to find it:

http://www.aumhaa.com/wiki/index.php?title=Log.txt

I’m sure we can get you happening without too much trouble

Hey Rockitdog,

Thanks for joining the conversation

I didn’t realize the site was down again….I’ve watched it pop up and down a few times and it definitely worries me because I have a LOT of Livid hardware, and a pretty big investment in time with their stuff.

I should have a copy of the configure software somewhere, as I have a creation I made with a Brain Jr that is at the heart of my live rig. I haven’t used it for a long time, though, so I’ll have to do some digging around on my machines to see if I can find it.

Can you send me a PM with your email address please? When I find something I’ll send you a link….

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