Hello, wondering if anyone has a sense of ease of use/performance of the standard gaming Kinect and the “Microsoft Kinect for Windows Sensor.” Also curious whether certain generations of the Kinect are more Max 6.1+ friendly I am planning to start Kinect/Max patching. Especially of interest is the ability to work in both Windows and [...]

The Department of Music at Goldsmiths are running intensive four-day MaxMSP summer courses designed for anyone working with sound in a creative way, or to expand your fundamental knowledge of the MaxMSP programming environment. Introductory Courses (4 day course, 10am-6pm; Either 13, 14, 20, 21 July 2013 or 16-19 July 2013 inclusive) The Max Introductory [...]

Hello all, My patch utilizes the serial object to communicate with an external device. The patch was developed on OS 10.6.8 and Max 6.0.4 and it works very well there. On a much faster OS 10.8 Mac Mini it’s garbage. The message/ack cycle has gotten very slow and inconsistent rendering my patch useless. It’s the [...]

We are happy to announce the release of Max 6.1.3. There are a handful new features, as well as over 100+ bug fixes. You can download it here: http://cycling74.com/downloads/ Enjoy! -Ben New Features: • dict.deserialize: nested key support • jit.lcd: works in x64 Max • jit.mgraphics: reset alpha state • jit.path: implementation in a javascript [...]

I would like to rotate a texture for 90 degrees in a slab chain in a way that can be done with jit.dimmap. So in a way that would be equal to “90 degrees rotation of jit.pwindow”. Is there any slab appropriate for that job? I tried already td.rota.jxs. It rotates texture but i get [...]

Hi, i’m trying to create a list of random numbers with Zl Join. Theorically i must create a list with the last generate number and the list himself, and after that i probably need a “zl rev” to have the correct order. The only thing is that i’m not really praticed with Zl and the [...]

Hi, i bought Max 6.1 but i’m having troubles because it doesn’t recognize my monome64. I would like to uninstall and reinstall, but i don’t want to buy another licence. Do you know how can i do the entire process without lose my licence?

I have been playing with jit.openni and would like to report how far away an object is from the kinect. To do this I will need to report on the lowest value in the 1 plane depth map output. My question then is how do I report the second lowest value within a matrix so [...]

I’m using the jit.qt.movie object to play a rather long video file that I want to split into multiple sections that automatically stop at differing lengths. I realise that I could edit it and load in multiple clips, but I’d like the option to change the input file after a while. Triggering at specific times [...]

Hi all, I’m trying to control video playback with some wii nunchuks but am having problems controlling the data streams from the accelerometers. I want to measure the overall change in the accelerometer to control the speed of the video. In other words, the faster the viewer moves their hands, the faster the video will [...]

I was trying to use kink~ as the basis for a Casio-styled Phase Distortion synth. But to get a left-kinked sawtooth waveform, you need to feed it a number between 0.5 and 1 linearly. To get a right-kinked sawtooth waveform you need to feed it a number between 1 and infinity with some sort of [...]

I just wonder how to get this. I tried to record a movie with the jit.qt.record help file, and then while it was still recording I tried to play it back with the jit.qt.movie help file. It didn’t work, only when I stopped the recording, it would be able to play back… Background, I want [...]

Hm.. i guess i must be overlooking something here.. I’m actually doing a lot within gen and I started to make gen abstractions some time ago too. Now i see that i can not siimply open a .gendsp file is that right?? My problem is that I apperently have two files with the same name [...]

I’m working on a project that makes heavy use of very large JS objects. I’d prefer to write these to JSON for saving/loading projects within the patch but am running up against the 32768 character limit in Max. My next thought is to write a custom serializer that exports to a text file but wanted [...]

Hi all, thanks for reading, Maybe it’s a stupid question but i really need to read an audiofile (.wav) that contains 32ch, unluckly sfplay reaches only 28ch (what a stupid number!)..so anybody know the solution!?!? THanks a lot guyz!

Hi, why is the shape disappearing when I change the erase_color for the camera? <code> ———-begin_max5_patcher———- 585.3ocyVtsiaBCDF9Z3ovxWmhrgBIaup84npBY.WhiH1oFylztZe2q8XHa5 gPBYWwFEof7XOd9mOFOlmBCvEpC7VL5SnuhBBdJLH.L4LDzON.ukcnrg0BKC K46UEavK7SY3GLf4MBSzdgrRseXJY2Vgrga.2n8FUcFqIyO2w8wDWvj03EHL F8sW7yuJvw3dq6Xlx0BYctlWZ79RSSiHKPwqfGYIv.RD43NIp.oYk6GVNnpu qjFIaKDd7WzBVyoyzJ9ELCMNh3r9bXn6uEuN1XPE1ebMqkeavY3oeKNCoRFg TD.QzDBPpkiQprYgTFUccyDogPZNWtSuXt2WqPFK0SwG2FsMwMbcNWxJZ.A7 FVOznXU9WoStXX54+CPh2+lezzO487LxOr7VqPoj+KTheigBk.j3AOURGiJw umTw0UstIRykUb870XkzSD.OKGsngdGfmRaX0rogGqq40M4tspSyuQPE6YCM A30xwqitGJjp0hp10rcbzmYcF0VlQThHSmbVG0hC2J09nGTw9KkF+3Gcd5Jw LFcmXZf3F56LTvzeeb5+dzxIDPQvc84kpF0wC9mfkUuJp.QC2Hj+8m9AR1Y+ OQUqpSWNj18gG8hlq3sFgzVKojmrFWA+IKZsnphCySFbSz5tbs572tdsxw9M KH5EjiqPZFkyknCcVUS7ciZhuB1jMapI8ZpimM0jbEpI8FUi+HOa2tG4519s DDhsO3FEzxIaALTH8Cg1XXM+Qwv5gd5Xl11UyXao4t2z004vpLbnKNOG9avT TR0i ———–end_max5_patcher———– </code>

hi! I’m having troubles on doing operations with jitter, in this case a simple addition. my question is, how do I trigger de right outlet so when i change a number it will output immediately in a matrix? thanks

This sounds like it should be simple, but I’ve just started with Max (1 day in) and I can’t figure it out. Any hints would be appreciated!! The file I want to import looks like this… 0 -0.07 0.087861806 -0.017723613 0.175723613 -0.387255298 0.263585419 -0.478504518 0.351447225 -0.089813656 … Two columns, 2758 rows, ascii file. I can [...]

How can I create an object inside a embedded bpatcher? //the bpatcher obj = test.newdefault(40 ,40, "bpatcher", "test", "@args", 1); Thanks!

I give the pattrstorage a simple write order, which is then being confirmed by its outlet. But when I reopen the session, I get not the values that I saved last time but different ones. During boot up the pattrstorage is connected to a print object, so I would know, if it would get any [...]

Hi. I’m looking to hook up with a good solid Reaktor *AND* Max for Live builder … for a short-term project helping me translate my Reaktor building skills to making Max for Live devices. Fair payment for your time (in $, barter, etc.) to be decided upon together. Message me or email: rachmiel@rachmiel.org Thanks!

Hello all, I am working on a show in which I am mapping video to a marimba, controlled by MIDI. I have managed to construct a dynamic mask with variable parameters capable of handing polyphonic MIDI input, using javascript to draw to the jit.gl.sketch object. After all of that, I am stuck on trying to [...]

Hello, everyone I have a strange problem with a json file I am working with In there is a lot of text which gets displayed just fine in TextWrangler, which also tells me: Unicode UTF-8 But: funny things start to happen when i either import that json file into dict or even copy-paste the text-part [...]

Hi all, I’m totally new to Max and kind of love it already. I went through a bunch of tutorials, downloaded the SDK, built the examples, and have managed to write a couple simple externals. (I’m not new to C.) I’ve started on a jitter external and so far, so good. I’m not hung up [...]