Kambor

First of all, thanks for reading this. I've found this forum incredibly useful, as I'm no programmer and starting in Max is a little bit of a pain for me.

I'm a musician, and wanting to do some sound manipulation I got max/msp. However, I don't have time or knowledge to become highly skilled in this yet.

That said, let's go with my question: For electronic shows I'm using ableton live. I've been able to hook it up to the LiveAPI and Max, so now I can communicate via OSC.

I want to go one step further, and make Live perform more like an instrument, so as not to having to look too much to the screen.

I want to make some kind of full-screen (or at least, BIG window) monitor which shows just a representation of a button matrix, with "leds" indicating wheter the button is "on" or not. Maybe also additional features, but graphic-wise this is all.

I would control this matrix with a Wacom tablet using some code from the OSC site, so I need a way to interact with the button matrix.

As I've read, there would be a way to do this in javascript, but as I have said, my requeriments are not too much, and I don't know if there's a painless way to achieve this effect...any ideas??

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Quote: Kambor wrote on Thu, 13 March 2008 16:31

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> I want to make some kind of full-screen (or at least, BIG window) monitor which shows just a representation of a button matrix, with "leds" indicating wheter the button is "on" or not. Maybe also additional features, but graphic-wise this is all.

> ... there would be a way to do this in javascript, but as I have said, my requeriments are not too much, and I don't know if there's a painless way to achieve this effect...any ideas??

Have you looked at the matrixctrl object? You should be able to map a grid on your Wacom tablet to cells in the matrixctrl without too much effort. The split object is probably useful for this.

Quote: Kambor wrote on Thu, 13 March 2008 16:31
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> I want to make some kind of full-screen (or at least, BIG window) monitor which shows just a representation of a button matrix, with "leds" indicating wheter the button is "on" or not. Maybe also additional features, but graphic-wise this is all.
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> ... there would be a way to do this in javascript, but as I have said, my requeriments are not too much, and I don't know if there's a painless way to achieve this effect...any ideas??

Thanks for the answer! Yes, I've seen the matrixctrl just after writing this message (as always, things pop when you stop looking for them, hehe).

Ideally, I would need kind of a big matrix (aprox. 6 o 7 columns by 30 or more rows). I've tried to resize the matrixctrl, but I'm afraid it's not possible hehe.

I don't know the split object, I'll read the manual right now (and I promise to not ask more silly questions before that lol).

Quote: Kambor wrote on Thu, 13 March 2008 18:46

> Ideally, I would need kind of a big matrix (aprox. 6 o 7 columns by 30 or more rows). I've tried to resize the matrixctrl, but I'm afraid it's not possible hehe.

Nah. I just played the game "How big can I make matrixctrl before Max crashes?" I got past 260x160. 7x30 will not be a problem.

Quote: Kambor wrote on Thu, 13 March 2008 18:46
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> Ideally, I would need kind of a big matrix (aprox. 6 o 7 columns by 30 or more rows). I've tried to resize the matrixctrl, but I'm afraid it's not possible hehe.

Nah. I just played the game "How big can I make matrixctrl before Max crashes?" I got past 260x160. 7x30 will not be a problem.


I didn't read that almost any object can be resized using my mouse dragging from the lower right corner....I thought that there would be some coding to do it haha.

Thanks again! And yup, it seems I would be able to do my matrix ^_^ (I've also played that game, I think max crashes about that numbers hehe).

And if you're done with the manual and the tutorials, you owe us some of 

your music, then all will be forgiven... (Especially if your music is 

And if you're done with the manual and the tutorials, you owe us some of 
your music, then all will be forgiven... (Especially if your music is 
jumping off with Max... ;-)

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Haha of course! No one will be safe when I finish my patch! Muahahahaha (evil laugh) ^_^

Wow, thats a nice one (and big too hehe). It's an interesting use of the matrixctrl, I'm sure I will use something like that some day. Thanks for reposting ^_^

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