ArduinoBT to serial port to pick up in Max/MSP

[system]

HI fellow nerds ;),

I am trying to connect a gsr sensor, route the data to the analogue 0 and 1 of the Arduino BT and then send it via the serial port to Max MSP to do interesting stuff with it there.
However, it seems that the Arduino hogs the serial port (even if Arduino is shut down) and Max/MSP can't access it. The Arduino Code is:

int analogPin =0;
int analogData =0;

void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
}

void loop() {

Serial.print(255, BYTE); // ff header
for(analogPin=0; analogPin<2; ++analogPin)
{
analogData = analogRead(analogPin);
Serial.print(analogData >> 2, BYTE);
Serial.print((byte) analogData & 0x7F, BYTE);
}
Serial.print(255, BYTE);
delay(4);
}

Can you see what the problem is?? Any help appreciated, I'm a bit of a newbie. Thanks! x

[Grumpy_Mike]

it seems that the Arduino hogs the serial port

No it doesn't, except when the Arduino environment is downloading a sketch or doing a terminal session. Otherwise it is disconnected. I suspect you are in a terminal session so you can see the bytes coming back and so max can't access the port. Shut down the session and it is free to connect to max.