Ewoud Van Eetvelde

Max crashes from time to time, and then I need to reinstall the dmg file on my Macbook M1 pro, OS: 12.0 Monterey. I have had this before two multichannel concerts, first max turned into a bitcrusher, then crashing, then unable to re-open. Maybe it has to do with my file directory, but I am not sure.. should not be because of that. I am using a max project folder's a lot, maybe it has to with this?

Tips and info about this is very welcome!

Max crashes from time to time, and then I need to reinstall the dmg file on my Macbook M1 pro, OS: 12.0 Monterey. I have had this before two multichannel concerts, first max turned into a bitcrusher, then crashing, then unable to re-open. Maybe it has to do with my file directory, but I am not sure.. should not be because of that. I am using a max project folder's a lot, maybe it has to with this? 

Max crashes from time to time, and then I need to reinstall the dmg file on my Macbook M1 pro, OS: 12.0 Monterey. 

midi-mapping-file-does-not-load-in-max-mapping-tab

Max MSP crashes, then is not able to re-open (icon jumps)

charles spencer

Is there a way to do this? Has anybody made this?

Is there a way to do this?  Has anybody made this?

implement-funbuff-inside-rnbo

Interesting task!
Maybe the RNBO [list.store] object could be a starting point. If you only store list of length 1 you can use the list-index to recall a specific item.
For the interpolation part of [funbuff] you might need to work with a normalised value range and perform lookup in a [data] or [buffer~] object...

Implement funbuff inside rnbo

Scott Findley

Hi friends! There was once an external which I relied heavily on - Metatag - which allows one to both read and write metadata (id3) associated with media files - mp3, aiff etc.

Since the M1 transition, seems it no longer works.. Any ideas of a possible replacement or updated version? I need to figure out a way to do this... critcal for a project Im working on. If anyone can help, or has a workable alternative - Id be forever grateful :) Thanks, Scott

Hi friends! There was once an external which I relied heavily on - Metatag - which allows one to both read and write metadata (id3) ... 

metatag-in-modern-times-m1-archetecture

https://github.com/jeremybernstein/metatag/releases 

Rob (and Jeremy) Wow, and just updated too! Thank you!! That was not the easiest link to find in the entitre universe, I and my project salute you :)

Metatag in modern times (M1 archetecture)

Maggie

I'm currently working on a MIDI-sending motion tracking controller for Ableton Live 10 (via MaxMSP 8), based on IRCAMs Leapmotion object (http://ismm.ircam.fr/leapmotion/). The tracking and MIDI-sending and mapping works just fine, but I ran into a little problem for which I could not find a solution yet. I work on MacOS High Sierra.

For example: I want to control the panorama parameter for a track in Ableton and therefor, I send MIDI-data from Max to Ableton. As I want to draw an automation while playing back my Ableton track, I need to have the Ableton application window active (for starting and stopping the playback). But as soon as I switch from Max to Ableton, Max only transfers the last recognized value and the motion tracking stops (because Max is more or less inactive behind Ableton). Is there some way, that Ableton and Max can be "active" at the same time? Like, I have my cursor in Ableton, but still Max continously gives out new motion tracking data. 

Or is it possibly better to find a workaround and controlling the whole playback module via Max too?

I haven't found a solution on Google or in the Max forum yet, but maybe somebody already had the same kind of problem, running Max and Ableton in parallel?

I'd be incredibly grateful for every kind of advice.

For example: I want to control the panorama parameter for a track in Ableton and therefor, I send MIDI-data from Max to Ableton. As I want to draw an automation while playing back my Ableton track, I need to have the Ableton application window active (for starting and stopping the playback). But as soon as I switch from Max to Ableton, Max only transfers the last recognized value and the motion tracking stops (because Max is more or less inactive behind Ableton).  Is there some way, that Ableton and Max can be "active" at the same time? Like, I have my cursor in Ableton, but still Max continously gives out new motion tracking data. 
Or is it possibly better to find a workaround and controlling the whole playback module via Max too?

I haven't found a solution on Google or in the Max forum yet, but maybe somebody already had the same kind of problem, running Max and Ableton in parallel?
I'd be incredibly grateful for every kind of advice. 

Hello dear community,
I'm currently working on a MIDI-sending motion tracking controller for Ableton Live 10 (via MaxMSP 8), based on IRCAMs

use-ableton-live-and-maxmsp-simultaneously

yo, it's strange that max becomes "inactive", actually. It should not become inactive unless you tell him to do so, even if you switch apps. Unless they are not on the same desktop or something ? In which case it's a MacOS problem. Or is that an option in the leapmotion object itself ? (check the object's doc for that.)

Other than that are you using max4live ? i'm not sure how well it would behave with the leapmotion object, but my guess is it would behave very well :) and that sort of problem would become less existant.

Last thing, maybe if you are usinng udpsend/receive or some networking stuff, maybe some ports are beeing taken over from one app or the other (but i doubt the problem is here, it would behave even worse probably)


I already thought of using max4live - maybe I'll switch to this module, if cannot make it work. 
And yeah, possibly it's a MacOS problem, haven't thought of this yet... 

Thanks for these tips! :) 


Hello MAGGIE!

I am having the exact same problem... could you find the solution??

I frequently use Max to preprocess MIDI data before sending them to Live and never had this problem. Can you describe a bit you your setup and Max patch? What Operating system are you using?  

Use Ableton Live and MaxMSP simultaneously

Noah Neumark

I have a very complex Max for Live device I'm working on with at least 5 levels of nested abstractions, and one of the third level abstractions has a pattrstorage object to control settings on that level. All my UI control objects have a trigger that first sets values within the algorithm, and then bangs out the algorithm. This works great for general use, but when loading the device and changing presets, it generates a lot of redundancy because every UI object triggers the full algorithm. I've added a method of filtering out redundancy using a gate that is initially closed, and then only opens when a loadbang fires on the main level, which should fire after all the patches and subpatches are finished loading. I'm also using this gate such that it closes during a preset change.

My problem is that in my complex patch (not the one below) the loadbang on the main level opens the gate, and then lower level abstractions seem to load a second time causing the redundant triggering of the algorithm. This causes significant load time and CPU drain due to it running the algorithm for each UI object in the patch.

I haven't been able to replicate this problem in a smaller patch, but i'm including this example for reference.

I have a very complex Max for Live device I'm working on with at least 5 levels of nested abstractions, and one of the third level ... 

nested-abstractions-load-a-second-time-after-main-patch-finishes-loading

Loadbang?  Don’t try doing anything until after a live.thisdevice fires. Pattrstorage in parameter mode won’t recall data before then.  On my phone so can’t check out the patch, sorry.

In general this sounds like a good place for a delay object since it’s timer restarts with every bang in even when the delay interval hasn’t been reached, so it would coalesce all the triggering of main algo  into one bang.

I changed out the loadbang on the main level for a live.thisdevice, and it worked! Thank you!

I did notice that there were still some things firing after the live.thisdevice and apparently the source was a [mousefilter] that had received bangs from initialization. Mousefilter seems to release its pent up data upon completion of initialization. So I added another gate to the incoming bangs that also opens at the end of initialization, and that resolved those too! 

Nested abstractions load a second time after main patch finishes loading

I've been trying to generate ramps based on a sequence of variably spaced impulses (that is, we don't know what the spacing between the pulses is) --- but have been coming up short. I've been trying various approaches based on accumulators (e.g. [+= 1]) but the issue I run in to is the scale factor of the resulting ramps --- they're all over the place, and I'd like them to be always be a full ramp between 0 and 1. I've also tried spike~ but this doesn't really cut it due to timing issues or not always getting a full ramp.

For context, the impulse sequence is being derived from a shape~ object --- basically what I really want is a full ramp for every 'segment' in the shape~.

Here's an example patch showing what I've tried so far:

and an image showing what I'm after (desired ramps drawn in green):

desiredresult.png

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

For context, the impulse sequence is being derived from a shape~ object --- basically what I really want is a full ramp for every 'segment' in the shape~. 

Here's an example patch showing what I've tried so far:


and an image showing what I'm after (desired ramps drawn in green):




Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

Hi all,
I've been trying to generate ramps based on a sequence of variably spaced impulses (that is, we don't know what the spacing between ... 

impulses-to-ramps-mspgen~

I may be misunderstanding the question, but if not...

If you don't know the duration advance, you can't know how quickly to make the ramp rise. That's because, to create a ramp that hits 1.0 after a certain duration, the rate the ramp needs to rise is duration_in_samples / samplerate.  There's just no mathematical way to compute the rate of rise without knowing the duration. 

This is one of the reasons that triggers are not an ideal way of telling the passage of time. Between each trigger you know nothing about what is happening. It's mostly easy to go from ramps to triggers, but much more difficult to go from triggers to ramps. 

Fair enough, I can understand the logic, just thought there might have been a clever way of computing the durations on the fly (e.g. using a counter/accumulator). Tried to do something based on the delta times of the function feeding the shape~ but haven't had much luck on that front yet... Guess I just need to rethink my whole approach...

thought there might have been a clever way of computing the durations on the fly

if you create a set of multiple random shapes in advance all at once, then you would know their durations at that point(at least, this would work whenever the set was static or not transitioning to a new set)... and we do know the durations in advance in this case because function has the general timing in milliseconds, just need to compute that as a ratio to the total of 1000ms in order to translate into the space of phasor~ between 0 and 1, here i've almost got it but just for this set, just to explain the concept, but the floating-point inaccuracy keeps it from making a full ramp:

you could take the mathematical idea of this patch and try to work it into a fully signal realm, sorry if i couldn't figure it out completely(the inputs to selector~ here need to change when you change the function graph, and not be sig~s with a static value... and there's some additional inaccuracy with one delta~ -> abs~ that might include a drastic slope at times... but hopefully those times coincide with a reset anyways 😅), but hoping you get the idea:

use the space in milliseconds of each ramp, figure out what fraction that is of 1000ms in order to translate between 0 and 1 of your master phasor~, then use that as a multiplier to multiply the slope of your master phasor~(in order to get it to ramp faster according to the duration of each segment), and then use the tick output to reset those ramps per segment. (my wording probably confuses more, but hopefully with the patch you'll see what i'm saying, hope it helps)

Thank you so much - this helps immensely! I'm thinking I could probably use stash~ to store the ramp times from the function dynamically --- will have a play around anyway and see what I can come with! Thank you again for the help, this is pretty much what I was trying to do but just couldn't quite realise it...

Edit: Here we go - got it all 'automated'! The list processing part (to get the durations from the function into a single list) seems pretty slow but otherwise pretty happy with this I think.

Impulses to Ramps (MSP/gen~)

Simon Rivet

Are dynamic colors editable? I saw in the themecolor object's help patch that it's possible to change the colors, but then when I save the device and close it the color returns to its original value.

Basically, I'm trying assign the background color of all my devices to a variable color I can change at will. What would be the best way to do that? I thought the new dynamic colors feature would be perfect for that...

Are dynamic colors editable? I saw in the themecolor object's help patch that it's possible to change the colors, but then when I save the d

edit-dynamic-colors

I have a little patch that loads whatever colors I want into themecolor. I personally found using that on Max startup to be the most convenient. 

Edit Dynamic Colors?

Joel Lipman

I'm very new to Max, but I'm trying to convert datasets into signals which can trigger and modulate synths and samplers etc. Any advise on how I can do this?

I've found some example patches which convert lists stored in the coll object to simple midi patterns using makenote, and was hoping I could reroute these to some BEAP devices but it didn't seem to work.

I'm very new to Max, but I'm trying to convert datasets into signals which can trigger and modulate synths and samplers etc. Any advise on how I can do this? 

Hi All,
I'm very new to Max, but I'm trying to convert datasets into signals which can trigger and modulate synths and samplers etc. 

dataset-sonification

Dataset Sonification

Alexander Buers

I need to send a String via TCP to another computer on a specific Port.

I did that with sadam objects on the past BUT these do not work on the new ARM processors on OSX.

Any idea how to do it except stuff like "send it to a python script via OSC and convert the messages to TCP"

I need to send a String via TCP to another computer on a specific Port.
I did that with sadam objects  on the past BUT these do not work on the new ARM processors on OSX.

Any idea how to do it except stuff like "send it to a python script via OSC and convert the messages to TCP" 

Hello!
I need to send a String via TCP to another computer on a specific Port.
I did that with sadam objects  on the past BUT these do not ... 

send-tcp-string-via-max

Yes that looks good but how can I open and close a connection? It seems there is a lack of documentation.

Send TCP String via MAX

jawnypants

I need a web interface to work with a public art project I am doing. Let me explain the piece and anyone interested can contact me if it's within your skill set and you are interested in working on it.

I have a Max Patch running on a server that creates generative musical compositions in real time. The software simultaneously streams the music (Shoutcast) and creates an aiff file. What I would like is to make it possible to point one's phone at a QR code (or point one's browser at a web page) and be able to "claim" the music. Perhaps this would be by the user entering their email, and having the music file emailed to them.

The trick is that only one person can claim each piece of music, so if the Maxpatch creates and plays "Song100", then "Song100" is available for claiming, but as soon as it is claimed, then anyone visiting the site would have to wait until the Software created and played "Song101",

Let me know if you are interested or have more questions. I am happy to pay a reasonable rate, but I should also note that this might need to be done in the next 2-3 weeks.

I need a web interface to work with a public art project I am doing. Let me explain the piece and anyone interested can contact me if it's w

webside-work-needed-for-max-project

This is more for a web/back-end development job with real-time communications (web sockets or rest API). This could be done with nodejs server and any SQL database.
What kind of solution did you find eventually?


I hired someone through FreeLancer.com to build a site. I believe he used React with Node.js and an SQL database as you say. It' actually working now if you want to preview it. The url is http://157.245.243.41/ and you should be able to send yourself a song. Just out of curiosity, are you the Singer who built a bunch of midiparsers for Max that became obsolete with 64 bit implementation? Just curious. Let me know how you like the React site.

Hi John,
Yea, I would do something similar eventually, not with react tho, but nodejs and sql. Site looks nice, but  why no domain name for it? (its possible to get free domain names as well)
Its strange, I don't get sound from the player, but if I go to steam link in rbx2.hnux.com... (the link that player streams music from), then it works. Interesting project thought :)
No ,I am not the Singer who did midiparsers for Max, but I do work as developer with Max, Pd and web tech (nodejs, js, sql, php, css etc)
Do you have  link for that library, I am curious to :)


Webside work needed for Max Project

Ben Bracken

. The Runner provides plug and play access to a 

 from the Max application, using using OSCQuery for communication with the running code.

This update features a new web-based interface with routing capabilities, expanded hardware support, along with many other improvements and bug fixes. Improvements include:

We've also rolled in direct support for the 

 add-on package, and have included a number of other improvements and bug fixes. Check out the release notes 

We are happy to announce the release of RNBO 1.3.0, available now for download via the Max Package Manager.

With this update, we are...

rnbo-130-released

RNBO 1.3.0 Released

We are excited to announce the availability of our 

 as a public beta. We’ve worked closely with 

. The Eventide H9000 is a rack-sized multi-effects unit with powerful DSP processing capabilities and numerous high quality built-in effects. We’re excited to enable RNBO export for this and open the door to unique custom studio effects and instruments without the strict limitations of other hardware platforms.

RNBO support is similar to the existing Gen support, but more streamlined, and uses the built-in 

, rather than a watcher patcher, to manage the export process. Eventually, all of these changes will be rolled into the standard release versions of RNBO and this package.

Get the preview version of the RNBO package (v1.2.7-eventide.0):

Get the preview version of the "Eventide H9000" package (v1.0.4-beta.3):

We’d love to hear any experiences and feedback from RNBO users with access to an H9000. To join the discussion, use the 

We are excited to announce the availability of our Eventide package for RNBO as a public beta. We’ve worked closely with Eventide to bring...

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We are happy to announce the release of RNBO 1.3.0, available now for download via the Max Package Manager. With this update, we are...

We are excited to announce the availability of our Eventide package for RNBO as a public beta. We’ve worked closely with Eventide to...

Max crashes from time to time, and then I need to reinstall the dmg file on my Macbook M1 pro, OS: 12.0 Monterey.

Interesting task! Maybe the RNBO [list.store] object could be a starting point. If you only store list of length 1 you can use the...

Rob (and Jeremy) Wow, and just updated too! Thank you!! That was not the easiest link to find in the entitre universe, I and my project...

Hello MAI ISHIJIMA, I frequently use Max to preprocess MIDI data before sending them to Live and never had this problem. Can you describe...

I changed out the loadbang on the main level for a live.thisdevice, and it worked! Thank you! I did notice that there were still some...

Thank you so much - this helps immensely! I'm thinking I could probably use stash~ to store the ramp times from the function dynamically...

I have a little patch that loads whatever colors I want into themecolor. I personally found using that on Max startup to be the most...

Hi All, I'm very new to Max, but I'm trying to convert datasets into signals which can trigger and modulate synths and samplers etc.

read help file. it explains all.

Hi John, Yea, I would do something similar eventually, not with react tho, but nodejs and sql. Site looks nice, but why no domain name for...