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Roman Thilenius

i have two top level patchers, of which one created the other by opening it from disk.

now patcher 1 sends some stuff to patcher 2 (mostly thispatcher commands), and after everything is done i´d like to delete the [r ] which has been used for that, before patcher 2 is finally saved to disk.

it is clear that there can´t be a solution, but i felt like asking for one.

i have two top level patchers, of which one created the other by opening it from disk.

now patcher 1 sends some stuff to patcher 2 (mostly...

deleting-receive-object-by-message-it-receives

deleting receive object by the message it receives

Hector Peinado

Hello, my name is Hector and I'm currently trying to connect 6 LDR sensors together so I can map each one to different parameters within Ableton devices. I've used some helpful videos from Child of an Android and David E. Farrell to suit my needs; however, I'm running into an issue where I'm not able to get the values working correctly. I see that my values are populating in the message box however only 3 of the live.numbox are active from the unjoin. I just started learning about circuitry and max devices 2 weeks ago so I'm not overly familiar with each of these. Here is the frankenstein patch and a picture of my circuitry, any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Hello, my name is Hector and I'm currently trying to connect 6 LDR sensors together so I can map each one to different parameters within...

question-6-ldr-sensor-project

Question: 6 LDR Sensor Project

I have finally gotten the time to post the updated versions of my Lobjects on my website 

For those who are not familiar with the Lobjects, they were written in the early days of Max, when few objects were included, especially methods for manipulating lists. Since my own work is list intensive (Fuzzy Logic, anyone?) I wrote a series of list objects to do simple math, set and retrieve values and so on. Pretty soon my students and Max users worldwide began making suggestions and by the end of the century I had more than a hundred. Since then DZ and the crew have added quite a few to the base set, many addressing functions similar to the Lobjects, most packed into the zl object.* However, I've kept such objects in the set for backward compatibility. Since my retirement in 2013, the Lobjects have languished, but thanks to Alfonso Santimone and Jeremy Bernstein they are up to date despite constant changes in hardware and OS.

*Note that my last name is pronounced as the two letters LZ. However, I doubt that the rumor  that zl stands for reverse engineered Elsea is strictly true.

Introduction to Lobjects.pdf

I have finally gotten the time to post the updated versions of my Lobjects on my website peterelsea.com

For those who are not familiar...

lobjects-again-available

Lobjects again available

Steven Kruyswijk

What I want to do is use external MIDI CC to control a parameter in a RNBO subpatch: frequency in the [p voice] inside the [rnbo~].

AFAIK there is only a non-normalized [set frequency] method, no normalized counterpart.

So I guess I would use [fromnormalized frequency] before it - only that does not work, nor does [fromnormalized voice/frequency] - which btw instantiate without any error message.

Am I overlooking some other way to do this, or is this a bug, or feature request candidate? 

Please see this example patch:

[Max Patch]
What I want to do is use external MIDI CC to control a parameter in a RNBO subpatch: frequency...

can-i-really-not-set-rnbo-subpatcher-params-using-normalized-values

Can I really not set RNBO subpatcher params using normalized values?

Dje Sparr

After writing my first patch with the help of TFL (thanks again to you!), which you can find 

, I asked myself the question of combining Guitar Pro and Ableton Live.

I work a lot with Guitar Pro, but this DAW has its limits. Apart from tempo management, which I was able to integrate into Ableton Live via M4L, MiDi is very limited and can only be used to play other software or hardware instruments, no more, no clock management, no association with any kind of controller... 

However, Guitar Pro is an excellent score editor. It's subjective, but it's very much geared towards string instruments, and percussion too, it's great for working and writing, it's inexpensive, and it's excellent value for money. Very well developed for bassists, with various types of writing for all types of playing, from slap to thumb, etc. Various tablature writing modes are available, and the sheet music fits in perfectly, it's made for playing. Drums are very easy to write. The pff editions are very easy, and so on... It's not made for voice or orchestra, but that's not what you want from it, and it's not for nothing that it's called Guitar Pro.Nevertheless, it's important to realise that today's stand-alone score editors, except for purists, are on the decline if they are not directly associated with a DAW worthy of the name. Cubase and Logic Pro are perfect examples of this, with their native score editors which, whatever the case, do exist and now just need to evolve.

Via my Patch, I now export my GP work files in .mid, import them into Live and I can work, but the playback cursor on the GP score no longer moves! And to select a batch of bars to work on in a song, it's much less simple in Live than in GP... could this be solved?

With these 2 points alone, plus the tempo patch, this is a GP that's almost a plugin!

I'll let you tell me what you think, and I'll give this little adventure a try...

Hello @ all,

After writing my first patch with the help of TFL (thanks again to you!), which you can find here, I asked myself the...

m4l-and-guitar-pro

M4L & Guitar Pro

I have been discovering M4L for a few days and my poor English absolutely does not help me advance in my search.

Until then, for a few years I worked my bass on Guitar Pro and Ableton which had the role of an instrument. Guitar Pro has a very useful asset for work, which is not found elsewhere, it is the management of the % tempo, per range of +/-5%.

To summarize: when reading the score, we select the tempo and the "-" & "+" keys on the keyboard allow you to increase or decrease the tempo in a range of 5%. There is also a drop-down menu with a certain number of % to choose from and there is also the solution to fill in the tempo we want this time in bpm.

The disadvantage is that all this is not controllable in MiDi...

The idea would therefore be to export the pieces, exercises etc... from GP to Ableton in MiDi and use M4L to build a work tool that would respond to this:

So I started writing a patch by inquiring here and there. I will propose it to you below in image format but also in writing, maybe the study, the correction this one can interest you!

At this stage, I am not getting the desired result, and for a total novice at the start of this project, it is not necessary to have already spent a few hours there! )

Variation of the Ableton tempo in % (MIDI)

gestion-du-tempo-au-percent

spin lud

I have an arbitrary number of toggles, say 10, and a process that sends periodically a bang.

I want that at each bang received, a fixed number of randomly chosen toggles is activated and the others are deactivated. The idea is that these toggles are connected to bypass on/off separate effects in Jitter, so that at each bang a different combination of effects is activated.

Any suggestions on how this could be done?

Hi!

I have an arbitrary number of toggles, say 10, and a process that sends periodically a bang.

I want that at each bang received, a...

randomly-activate-a-fixed-number-of-toggles-deactivate-the-others

Randomly activate a fixed number of toggles, deactivate the others

Connector

I am writing a c-external which should write different Values to a 2x2x3 Matrix. The Matrix should be stored in a .jxf file and should be able to read back in a normal Jitter Patch for further processing.

 if (x->brightnessmatrix == NULL) {
     jit_matrix_info_default(&info);
     info.planecount = 1;
     info.dimcount = 3;
     info.dim[0] = x->cols; //set to 2
     info.dim[1] = x->rows; //set to 2
     info.dim[2] = x->frames; //set to 3
     info.type = _jit_sym_float64; //_jit_sym_float32
     x->brightnessmatrix = jit_object_new(_jit_sym_jit_matrix, &info);
 }

I am setting different brightnes Values inside a loop for each cell and every Frame:

for (i = 0; i < x->nrOfCells; i++) {
    yCellPos = i / x->cols; 
    xCellPos = i % x->cols; 
    
    brightness = 25. * i;
    post("i: %ld", i);
    post("x->currentframe: %ld", x->currentframe); //is set outside the loop
    post("brightness: %f", brightness);

   
    brightnessp = brightness_bp  //pointer to matrix
        + xCellPos * sizeof(float) //xCellPos times 
        + yCellPos * sizeof(float) * (&brightness_minfo)->dim[0]
        + x->currentframe * sizeof(float) * (&brightness_minfo)->dim[0] * (&brightness_minfo)->dim[1];
    *brightnessp = brightness;

}

When i Run the code above i get following output in max console: 

t_jit_err testexternal_savematrices(t_testexternal* x, long ac, t_atom* av) {
    int t, h, z, e, i;
    char name[MAX_FILENAME_CHARS];
    t_filehandle fh;
    t_ptr_size position;
    long err;
    short pathId, exist, binflag;
    position = 0;
    binflag = 0;
    err = JIT_ERR_NONE;

    pathId = path_getdefault();

    for (i = 0; i < x->nrOfCells; i++) {
        t = i / 1000;
        h = (i - 1000 * t) / 100;
        z = (i - 100 * h - 1000 * t) / 10;
        e = (i - 10 * z - 100 * h - 1000 * t);

        sprintf(name, "cellmatrix%u%u%u%u.jxf", t, h, z, e);
        exist = locatefile(name, &pathId, &binflag);
        if (!exist)
        {
            path_deletefile(name, pathId);
            object_error((t_object*)x, "%s: overwriting file", name);
        }

        if (err = path_createsysfile(name, pathId, 'JIT!', &fh)) {
            error("could not create file a");
            goto out;
        }

        if (jit_bin_write_header(fh, position)) {
            error("could not write header");
            sysfile_close(fh);
            goto out;
        }
        if (jit_bin_write_matrix(fh, x->gridMatrices[i])) {
            error("could not write matrix");
            sysfile_close(fh);
            goto out;
        }
        sysfile_getpos(fh, &position);
        sysfile_seteof(fh, position);
        if (jit_bin_write_header(fh, position)) {
            error("jit.matrix: could not write header");
            sysfile_close(fh);
            goto out;
        }
        sysfile_close(fh);
    }

    sprintf(name, "brightness.jxf");
    exist = locatefile(name, &pathId, &binflag);
    if (!exist)
    {
        path_deletefile(name, pathId);
        object_error((t_object*)x, "%s: overwriting file", name);
    }

    if (err = path_createsysfile(name, pathId, 'JIT!', &fh)) {
        error("could not create file b");
        goto out;
    }

    if (jit_bin_write_header(fh, position)) {
        error("could not write header");
        sysfile_close(fh);
        goto out;
    }
    if (jit_bin_write_matrix(fh, x->brightnessmatrix)) {
        error("could not write matrix");
        sysfile_close(fh);
        goto out;
    }
    sysfile_getpos(fh, &position);
    sysfile_seteof(fh, position);
    if (jit_bin_write_header(fh, position)) {
        error("jit.matrix: could not write header");
        sysfile_close(fh);
        goto out;
    }
    sysfile_close(fh);

out:
    return err;
}

When i use following Patch to load the brightness.jxf back to Max Application i get only 0. values in the matrix: 

ReadingMatrix.maxpat

So is there another way to read the values in a 2x2x3 Matrix?

Or have i made a mistake while storing the values into the Matrix in my external?

I am writing a c-external which should write different Values to a 2x2x3 Matrix. The Matrix should be stored in a .jxf file and should be...

problem-with-writing-a-matrix-to-jxf-file-and-reading-it-back-to-jitter

Problem with writing a matrix to jxf File and reading it back to Jitter

in Max for this I first did [sel 127 1], so I get bangs for decrement 1 and increment 1

then after those 'dec' and 'inc' messages into an [incdec] object cross-connected to a dial

there's no [incdec] in RNBO though, so perhaps feed an [accum] with '-1' and '1' messages would be cleanest

but how can I reset this [accum] to a specific value other than 0 though? I can't seem to get it to work even after playing with (and being kinda confused by) the @hot and @resetmode attributes

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