Cycling 74 » Topic: Suggestion on Patch Cords

Suggestion on Patch Cords

Andrew Spitz — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:21:55 +0000

Max 6 is awesome! Such a pleasure to patch :-) thanks.

Two little comments on the patch cords though:

1. When clicking on an object, would love to have all the related patch cords highlight. It would save having to hover over all the patch cords to find the right one.

2. Would be amazing to be able to choose their thickness. When opening Max 5 patches, it can get particularly busy. (Unless it’s there, but missing it)

These are super minor suggestions, but thought I’d throw it out there.

Re: Suggestion on Patch Cords

nilloc — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:30:44 +0000

YES! I second the request for patchcords of varying thicknesses. Sometimes if you change the color of a patchcord it’s barely visible because they’re so thin. It would be great to be able to make a patchcord 2 or 3 or even 5 pixels thick so that a medium green is distinguishable from black, for example.

Re: Suggestion on Patch Cords

visuelle.musik — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:17:38 +0000

Also do like the ideas concerning patchcords highlightning and varying the thickness – more or less, depending on the use-case, colour and if it’s a former Max 5 patch and so on…
And yes: version 6 is yet a great improvement of a perfect tool and concept :-)
Beeing very glad that Max 6 already works with Max for Live and JRuby for Max – to be found at: http://cycling74.com/toolbox/jruby-for-max
BTW: Among other things using “presentation mode” and Ruby (or another) scripting language may of course avoid quite a few patching-cords when those get too much in the way ;-)

Re: Suggestion on Patch Cords

larme — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:22:43 +0000

An option to make the cord look exactly the same as Max 5 is welcomed. I know you can disable curved cord, but the thickness and the color is not the same.

Re: Suggestion on Patch Cords

Tokyo Rose — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:29:38 +0000

my buck-o-five:

i can deal without patch chords of varying thickness. just as in max5, i can achieve just as good a sense of organization by varying the opacity levels of the patch chords.

But i wouldn’t mind thinner patch chords in general. (perhaps close to the thin line one’s in max5, though there’s probably a comfortable medium, too)