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grimoire: the Ableton recipe — IAC bus, same-Mac routing, VSTs as the voice

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Step-by-step for the most-asked wiring: IAC Driver online -> Web MIDI out to
IAC Bus 1 -> Ableton Track/Remote/Sync on -> lead ch1 / bass ch2 play any
instrument, CCs map to any plugin knob, EXT slaves Ableton's tempo to godtime
(or the player's heartbeat). States plainly that native VST/AU cannot run
inside the browser sandbox — Ableton is the plugin host, the planet drives it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<p>MIDI-learn any of these at your synth and the planet drives your favorite hardware. You can also pick an <b>in</b> port and hit <b>MIDI learn</b> here: click a slider, mute, or sphere in the console, then twist a physical knob, and that knob is bound to that control (saved to your browser). A knob over your open palm becomes a macro over four data feeds at once. Web MIDI needs a secure context — <kbd>localhost</kbd> works as-is; a hosted console needs HTTPS. The browser runs the MIDI, so even a remote page drives the MIDI on <i>your</i> laptop.</p>
<p><b>The Ableton recipe — same Mac, three minutes, your whole plugin collection becomes the instrument.</b> Native VST/AU plugins can't run <i>inside</i> a browser page — the sandbox forbids it, by design. But they don't need to: Ableton is the plugin host, and the Godstrument drives it. <b>1)</b> Open <i>Audio MIDI Setup → Window → Show MIDI Studio</i>, double-click <b>IAC Driver</b>, tick <i>Device is online</i> — that's a virtual MIDI cable inside your Mac. <b>2)</b> Here: ⚙ → WEB MIDI → enable → out port = <b>IAC Bus 1</b>. <b>3)</b> In Ableton: <i>Settings → Link/Tempo/MIDI</i> → the IAC input: <b>Track</b> and <b>Remote</b> on (and <b>Sync</b> on, if you want godtime — or your heartbeat — to be Ableton's tempo: then press EXT in the transport). <b>4)</b> Drop any instrument on a MIDI track, monitor <i>In</i>, and the <b>lead</b> (ch 1) and <b>bass</b> (ch 2) play it live; hit ⌘M and MIDI-map the CCs above to any macro, any plugin knob, any send. Bitcoin playing your Serum, earthquakes riding your favorite reverb's decay, Delhi's air on a distortion — every plugin you own, played by the planet. The reverse works too: MIDI-learn here binds your hardware knobs to the console's own controls.</p>
<p><b>Three — Strudel, TouchDesigner, OSC.</b> The hub streams <i>/out/&lt;destination&gt;</i> floats to <kbd>127.0.0.1:9001</kbd> — point TouchDesigner's OSC In or a Max-for-Live device at that port and drive visuals or a modular from the same matrix. And <kbd>strudel/godstrument.md</kbd> is a starter kit that plays a live Strudel track (free, open, no Ableton) straight off the CC map, with a no-MIDI websocket path for a custom web-audio synth. One matrix, many mouths.</p>
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