Clint

I am working on a project that was given to me by a long time client, it consists of 3 hard drives with a video presentation that was made in Max.

The video presentation was created and edited by someone who is no longer around. My client gave me these drives to figure out how to play / present them. It's a 24 hour span of time looking at a watch, with music and audio clips to be played in sync. He was told he needed 3 macs to play it. He didn't know what software to use, or anything. Also the drives have not been plugged in since 2008, until now. 

When I mounted the drives I found a folder called Cycling 74, and MaxMSPruntime among other settings folders, which led me to find this software. 

Anyone interested or able to help me figure this out? Preferably someone local to NYC? My client spent a lot of resources back then to have this made and it was only presented once. He very much would like to have it working again and I am just grasping at straws to figure this out. 

I am working on a project that was given to me by a long time client, it consists of 3 hard drives with a video presentation that was made...

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or multiple, i have room for 20-30 units.

or multiple, i have room for 20-30 units.

i´ll pay the shipping. :)

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Andy Maskell

I know that one can use {;max buildcollective .....} to automatically build a standalone from a top-level patcher using a build script but it doesn't work if the patch is part of a project.

The only way that I can find to build a project is to do it from the Project window using the Manage Project menu it the bottom toolbar.

Is there any other way in which this can be done so that the process could be automated?

When I build my standalone, I initiate a process that updates the version number (used in several ways elsewhere in the Standalone) saves the project, and locks it, amongst other things. What I would like to do is to add something that then automatically builds the project before exiting Max.

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Div Slomin

I'm working on a set of Max for Live devices which use [send] and [receive] for sidechaining MIDI messages and combining them in interesting ways with the regular MIDI messages that come through [midiin] and [midiout].  This mostly works, but when there are a lot of messages flowing at once, as when one of the inputs is a looping clip, the device will sometimes stop emitting any MIDI output, requiring the device to be reloaded from the Ableton Live browser.  Here's a minimal reproducible example:

I guessed that the bytes from the respective streams were getting interspersed, thereby confusing [midiout] and leaving it in an unresponsive state.  So I changed my code to make sure that each stream had its own [midiparse] to accumulate the bytes and emit the MIDI messages atomically.

But I'm still seeing the same issue.  Adding message boxes for debugging, I can see that bytes are still flowing out of the [midiformat] even when it gets in the "stuck" state.  Any ideas?

Edit: I'm using Live 12.0.2 and Max 8.6.2 on Windows 11.

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jjnyx

I'm sending texts from Max to a Thermal Printer via Arduino.

After trying many different methods, I think Max cannot send more than 38 characters to the printer using the serial object. So I'm wondering if a string data is longer than 38 characters, detect the last word and send it as a separate string. 

Because texts have to be sent as ASCII characters to Arduino, my thought was to search the last 32 (which is space as an ASCII character) from the string data and split the string from that... I'm not sure whether it's possible in Max.

Or maybe the problem is that I didn't find a way to send more than 38 characters to the Thermal printer...

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I'm sending texts from Max to a Thermal Printer via Arduino.

After trying many different methods, I think Max cannot send more than...

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I want to create a particle system like below, based on the sound that's coming from ezdac.

The above patch is what I copied and pasted from two youtube tutorials.

jit.catch doesn't react the same way as jit.rgb2luma does. So I need to convert it to something. 

Somebody any guesses or tips or tutorials to fix this?

Hello 

I want to create a particle system like below, based on the sound that's coming from ezdac.



The above patch is what I copied and...

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Hi, I'm encountering the following issue with Max. When I try to open the File Browser and Package Manager, I get error messages: "An Error occured. Connection to Max could not be established". 

Also the Max console displays the message: "synophrys_new: firewall issue? unable to find available port!" when Max is launched, three times. 

I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled Max, removed packages, etc., and the behaviour still remains. 

Has anyone else experienced this or know how I can fix it, or even troubleshoot it? 

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I am trying to create a Binaural Beats application with generative music playing in the background. I am really strugging to get these to play together - and sound good. The patch will have options of differet binaural beat settings using bpatcher and offsets but currently trying to get both the binaural beat signals and the generative music to play together isnt working. I am very new to Max so don't have much experience. 

This is the current patch - both play together but do not sound good together 

This is just the generative music patch on its own 

This is the Binaural Beats Patch on its own - obviously not in full 

Cycling '74 Forums

Thank you everyone for the replies this is great. More progress than I have had in ages. Attached below are the contents of the 3 drives....

thanks i love you

it seems one should always use irony tags yes, especially for those like me whose sense of humor has been decimated by customer support 🥲

I know that one can use {;max buildcollective .....} to automatically build a standalone from a top-level patcher using a build script...

I agree... I would try two separate [midiout] objects, one for each stream. I don't think there's any limitation in Max for Live devices...

Ok. Never show my project in Wales. Noted...

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Hi, I would like to use several instances of a m4l device that contains a pattrstorage object. this pattrstorage uses parameter mode so...

Same problem here :( Upgrade to Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224). Solved :)) Creative regards

Using mc.mixdown for multiple outputs