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1. 

   Simon

   Hello there, I'm trying to build a control system so I can switch one set of dials between a number of zones, for example one set of controls that is switchable between x oscillators (or whatever)

   I'm guessing that this has maybe been done already or can be achieved in a much simpler way as it seems like a fairly useful thing to do!

   I currently have one dial and a tab object. Tab chooses control 'zone' 1-8. Ideally, when you change this value, it should recall the parameter for that zone and assign it to the dial before the stored parameter can be replaced.

   However I cant seem to get it to work. Anyone any ideas please??

   I've attached both files... Thanks a lot!

   Attachments

   1. control_feedback_router.maxpat (7.5 KB, 38 downloads) 1 month old
   2. test.maxpat (3.6 KB, 33 downloads) 1 month old

   1 month ago
2. 

   Luke Hall

   You have an [append $1] in your patch which is throwing errors. Take a look at the patch below and see if it helps.

   lh

   
   ----------begin_max5_patcher----------
   688.3ocwW00jZCBE843uBFd15.DfP5a82wNcbhIrUZiINIn0t6r+2KeDUz0n
   QqS5KWBWB26gCmKj79jH3h5cxVH3qfW.QQuOIJx4x5HpqeDbU1t7xrV2qAqj
   +tdwOgS8Cok6zN2qajqkUEfVod+X0azkRs9Oqk93Cgfu2Mzq0U5V0atAvjYn
   N2UaVopLywkIbmy0Y57kppeLuQlq8QBSQl4.HIbaSB00w35P7UENPY.5WvXX
   PRqxV4RJ7aMprR3w75AqOwVmeLYh0L8eiUdqDzH21OgL8dIExsIERpsIN8Zj
   h3d4DxyiSP.zSRgL.x.k3THoyX8SFI+GEH40kkfhLc100HSeDsx.JfXtRG1U
   oG98ROzNusYakEyMgvj14YZciZwFs+vlnCrTDTtZgzkMjygiWeRrqFn.pdYV
   Uk1Rp1lmEuRPXKghELWMH8Z7Z7XTCpyVbq0+oBq7RU9uLyxHLqa7unSpflwS
   PLgv9TJIkhIlkYvB67oDyQIB5zK9T375gvMWmzJqzYZUcUntk6OViSbzLM11
   vEAwaY8VYiU.bBZ3F.icX+yOc1pn6xPH1xKDqI1ZnVCyZ3VSh0HNRaWTfr7A
   3QO9ePxrGEIVfS3wtKJoLJikNEHRmIHbJMwD.jXVJJEIDGiS.6GtfBTuoC3T
   ykmsO3qMBMg7WfRONnP9Fy+ApIJBf3mJJdsrNSei809OPEybE9Lzd6QctMtl
   rsditGFkc6KabQCVppN+S1bHx5+zkca8ll78qrtb.NhoBYqVUcXW9kCWGF7N
   KUEER2v6KMWoJVWaN6nCB8rELTDkL.DIFUDIF.h3iJhRGBIEOpPJdfBI7nhH
   7ycaiP39uRxebC0+YRr9O2YnXkO.1y9eKi3F5Yo6xXhcePZOik5tzF2wlmzC
   yHAbqq2IKDSmOl7WCojSPB
   -----------end_max5_patcher-----------
   

   1 month ago
3. 

   Roman Thilenius

    
   for things like that i would use dynamic gates of forward/receive pairs with
   names ending on ints, and put a [+ ] in the name formatting path.

   then you can control targets 25-48 from your 24 sliders interface by adding
   int 24 to the [forward] names.

   1 month ago
4. 

   seejayjames

   You can also have multiple dials atop each other (one layer for each zone) and use the [tab] to bring the current zone dials to the top:

   bringtofront [dialscriptingname] message to [thispatcher]

   It's more objects but the appearance is the same, and the layers will of course remember their values as they are unique.

   If you name the first dial something like

   my_dial[1]

   and then alt-drag to copy, they'll auto-name themselves my_dial[2], etc. Then your message from [tab] (which outputs the numbers 1 to 8 for 8 zones) would go though

   sprintf script bringtofront my_dial[%ld]
   --> to [thispatcher]

   the %ld is replaced by the tab's output number, you're done with the whole setup.

   It's good to check out the scripting messages to [thispatcher] anyways if you haven't, the [thispatcher] help file changed how I do many many things in Max. A very versatile and surprising object to know well... not to mention the many window-control commands, essential for patch-building.

   1 month ago
5. 

   Simon

   Thanks a lot for the replies! The learning never stops :)

   1 month ago
6. 

   Simon

   @ Luke Hall - thanks a lot for that, I knew I almost had it!

   @ Roman - excuse my ignorance, but I don't fully understand what you are mean by "dynamic gates of forward/receive pairs". Could you perhaps upload a basic patch if you had a second?

   @ seejayjames - Ye thats something I never really looked into! I am sure there are all kind of handy things that can be done from there.

   Thanks once again for all the replies.

   1 month ago
7. 

   Roman Thilenius

   just use forward and receive to build a gate in order to reach different targets:

   dial - [forward]

   [receive] - DSP 1
   [receive] - DSP 2

   sorry for the cryptic description :) see the abstractions´ helpfile maybe.

   one of the rare cases where i use sends instead of connections.

   1 month ago
8. 

   Roman Thilenius

      

   Attachments

   1. forum_dynsend.zip (15.9 KB, 18 downloads) 1 month old

   1 month ago
9. 

   Roman Thilenius

   oh je, i uploaded from the wrong computer, these abstractions do not work correctly.

   please replace the "#2" with "s" in both files and they will do what they should!

   -110

   1 month ago
10. 

    Simon

    Cool, thanks a lot! Will check them out now

    1 month ago

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