I've created a patch where a LCD screen is resized by the length of a MIDI file (in milliseconds). Unfortunatly I have just worked out that there is a restriction in the size of a LCD object to around 8200 pixels, this gives me just 80 seconds of music to play with. I was wondering if anyone knows of a way around this restriction or if there are any other objects I can use that will accept the 'paintrect' and 'size' messages that don't have the same restrictions of the LCD object.

I've created a patch where a LCD screen is resized by the length of a MIDI file (in milliseconds).  Unfortunatly I have just worked out that there is a restriction in the size of a LCD object to around 8200 pixels, this gives me just 80 seconds of music to play with.  I was wondering if anyone knows of a way around this restriction or if there are any other objects I can use that will accept the 'paintrect' and 'size' messages that don't have the same restrictions of the LCD object.

lcd-size-restrictions

> Unfortunatly I have just worked out that there is a restriction in the size of a 

> LCD object to around 8200 pixels, this gives me just 80 seconds of music to play with. 

> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way around this restriction

I do not see any need for sizing a LCD to more than 8200 Pixels! I don't 

There are always at least 1000 different ways to achieve the same goal.

Several come to mind: scale it down (2, 4, 10 ms/pixel), use jit.lcd, 

display only the part you want to see in a fixed size LCD.....

(I prefer cycling to work on the FAT port than extending an obviously 

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Alistair wrote:
> Unfortunatly I have just worked out that there is a restriction in the size of a 
> LCD object to around 8200 pixels, this gives me just 80 seconds of music to play with. 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way around this restriction 

I do not see any need for sizing a LCD to more than 8200 Pixels! I don't 
know of any screen of that size.
There are always at least 1000 different ways to achieve the same goal.
Several come to mind: scale it down (2, 4, 10 ms/pixel), use jit.lcd, 
display only the part you want to see in a fixed size LCD.....

(I prefer cycling to work on the FAT port than extending an obviously 
non critical restriction ;-)

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If using LCD for only screen display, then, yes, these other work 

But 8200 pixels isn't really big enough if one is using LCD to make 

files for large size prints... something I'm interested in. (Yes, I'm 

aware that one could tile, and then put the files together in Photoshop.)

But it brings to mind a suggestion for future Max/MSP docs: please list 

limitations of size or parameters in the documentation (probably the 

If using LCD for only screen display, then, yes, these other work 
arounds are fine.

But 8200 pixels isn't really big enough if one is using LCD to make 
files for large size prints... something I'm interested in.  (Yes, I'm 
aware that one could tile, and then put the files together in Photoshop.)

But it brings to mind a suggestion for future Max/MSP docs: please list 
limitations of size or parameters in the documentation (probably the 
reference manual).

> If using LCD for only screen display, then, yes, these other work 

> But 8200 pixels isn't really big enough if one is using LCD to make 

> files for large size prints... something I'm interested in.

To use LCD to create prints, even if it seems to be a weird wish to use 

Max for that, visuals are better done with Jitter in general, its aimed 

at that, and probaly does not have these restrictions, and best of all 

has all kinds of tools to create graphics. LCD is comparativly very, 

jim altieri wrote:
> If using LCD for only screen display, then, yes, these other work 
> arounds are fine.
>
> But 8200 pixels isn't really big enough if one is using LCD to make 
> files for large size prints... something I'm interested in. 

To use LCD to create prints, even if it seems to be a weird wish to use 
Max for that, visuals are better done with Jitter in general, its aimed 
at that, and probaly does not have these restrictions, and best of all 
has all kinds of tools to create graphics. LCD is comparativly very, 
very limited for this kind of purpose...

LCD size restrictions