Cycling 74 » Topic: Presets in abstraction http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/feed Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:19:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-57861 <![CDATA[Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-57861 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:26:26 +0000 gratkowski Hi, is it possible to have different presets inside abstractions? Let’s say I have a fader in an abstraction and wan’t to store a preset value to it, but the preset should be changeable and only be for the particular instance of the abstraction I’m using in my patcher. Can I maybe use pattr for that?

best,

frank

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207577 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207577 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:03:23 +0000 Jan hi frank,

you could achieve it like this:

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

give your abstraction a unique argument when instantiating it. When you close the main patcher Max will write the presets into a file for each instance of the abstraction and reload the when loading again.

jan

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207578 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207578 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:36:03 +0000 gratkowski Thanks Jan,

is it possible to autosafe the preset file (best would be in the directory of the abstraction or the patcher)?

best,

Frank

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207579 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207579 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:53:47 +0000 Jan give the pattrstorage the attribute “@savemode 3″. like this the file is save aromatically when closing the patcher. The first time a dialog will appear to chose the location.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207580 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207580 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:58:09 +0000 MuShoo A) I want to know how to save smelly files! :P
B) I wish I’d had this little patch when I was making something along these lines, very helpful! Pattr is still one of the more confusing aspects of Max (I put it right up there with Poly~).

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207581 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207581 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:54:41 +0000 gratkowski Jan,
thanks a lot.
frank

p.s I assume there is no way to safe the file inside the patcher which uses the abstraction….. but it would be nice though…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207582 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207582 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:07:39 +0000 Jan hi frank,

indeed I can’t think about a straight forward way to save the files inside the patcher.

But you can gather the presets of all abstractions into one file:

Put a [pattrstorage] into your main patch and give it the argument “@greedy 1″. This will make all the [pattrstorage] objects in your abstractions and other subpatches visible to your [pattrstorage] object in the main patch.
(in this case don’t use a savemode attribute in the [pattrstorage]s inside the abstraction).

Like this you can store presets that cover all the abstractions, but you can only store and recall them as one preset – not individually for each abstraction.

The only way that comes to my mind to save presets of abstractions inside your patch would be quite a hack (and not really slick…) you could read the values from your pattrstorage i.e. with “dump” and write them into a [coll] that is located in your main patch. to restore a preset you would need to go the same way backwards: read a set of values from your coll and send them via the pattrstorage back to the abstractions…

jan.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207583 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207583 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:47:22 +0000 Jan Here is an example for the hack I tried to describe:

inside your abstraction use only pattr:

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

Here is an example of a main patch that uses coll to save presets

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –
]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207584 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207584 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:16:07 +0000 Jan in case you were fast to read: just updated the 2nd patch (removing a small bug) …

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207585 <![CDATA[Re: Presets in abstraction]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/presets-in-abstraction/#post-207585 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:39:38 +0000 gratkowski cool, thanks a lot

best,
frank

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