Cycling 74 » Topic: Max Simple Math Tutorial http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/feed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:39:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-51964 <![CDATA[Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-51964 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:31:21 +0000 dthomas86 Hey everyone,
I'm new here and I am making my way through the Simple Math tutorial for Max, and coming to the exercise of converting Fahrenheit to Celsius I have become quite stuck. When I alter the Fahrenheit number box nothing happens to display the Celsius result.
I have uploaded an attachment of my patch that I have constructed. Will I have to use a trigger with an integer and a bang, or a simple bang message to display the result?

Sorry for my noobness but you have to start somewhere.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186466 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186466 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:16:59 +0000 tegid o Highlight the text below and copy and paste it into a Max window.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186467 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186467 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:00:23 +0000 o s To answer your question, yes- in your example you need to trigger the message first…

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186468 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186468 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:03:40 +0000 n00b_meister I can’t reproduce the behaviour you say you’re getting, but perhaps you should be aware that most (if not all) the Max (and many MSP) objects with >1 inlet, have ‘hot’ (left), and cold (right, middle etc) inlets: this means the left inlet tells the object to ‘do its job’, the other inlets set or change variables, or receive other info; so if a maths object appears not to be doing its job when changing a variable (like your 32 message to [-]), you should bang the left inlet to remind the object to do its job ‘now’. Enjoy the tutorials, a wonderful world awaits you!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186469 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186469 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:30:00 +0000 dthomas86 Cheers everyone,
Thats what I love about Cycling 74 the whole community is what makes Max the best program to use. It is so well documented and with their email support and forums and guys like you who go out their way to help that makes the whole learning curve so simple.
Cheers again, I have a whole bunch of tutorials I need to go through ha.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186470 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186470 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:51:16 +0000 dthomas86 Also guys, if I want to do the inverse by doing the inverse math also by converting celsius to fahrenheit in the same patch how can this be done? I tried to fiddle about with the patch but I think I started to over complicated matters. Sorry for posting again and may be really simple for you guys. Cheers

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186471 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186471 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:17:05 +0000 n00b_meister Rather than give you the answer, how about this:
think about how your simple program operates, i.e. what is the order of actions and what are those actions?
What do you wish to do? Reverse the order of actions; don’t forget to invert the actions themselves too…..

ps use float numbers and operations, e.g. [+ 32.]

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186472 <![CDATA[Re: Max Simple Math Tutorial]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-simple-math-tutorial/#post-186472 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:43:04 +0000 Roman Thilenius if you want to make a patch with one input and two different coversion modes, you might
want to look into the help file for [gate]

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