Carl Caulkett

I'm making my first forays into building M4L devices, and the first pressing need I had was to build something which would help with Gain Staging. I figured that a good starting point would be some kind of multi-channel mixer device, so I was interested to find this 

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... er-monitor

I've made a copy of the device and have started to make changes. The first idea I had was to try to save some screen space by substituting the existing meter and slider combos with "live.gain~" objects. This is how I changed the components for Track 1...

https://i.ibb.co/kSVBGLY/Screenshot-2018-12-15-at-16-57-45.png

Needless to say when I tried it out in a Live project, while the unchanged tracks worked as expected, my changed Track 1 did not show anything with incoming audio. Can anyone see what I am missing here?

I'm making my first forays into building M4L devices, and the first pressing need I had was to build something which would help with Gain Staging. I figured that a good starting point would be some kind of multi-channel mixer device, so I was interested to find this http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... er-monitor.


I've made a copy of the device and have started to make changes. The first idea I had was to try to save some screen space by substituting the existing meter and slider combos with "live.gain~" objects. This is how I changed the components for Track 1...

[img]https://i.ibb.co/kSVBGLY/Screenshot-2018-12-15-at-16-57-45.png[/img]

I'm making my first forays into building M4L devices, and the first pressing need I had was to build something which would help with Gain St

adapting-the-"master-mixer"-device

This is the image I tried to include in the previous post. Track 1 shows my failed attempt, while tracks 2..20 work just fine!

Screenshot 2018-12-18 at 17.15.21.png

Aha! I didn't realise that the outputs from the "p track 1" object had different functions. By double clicking the object I was able to see the internals of the patch object.

It's slowly beginning to make sense, but is there a series of tutorials that has more of an emphasis on how to access the signal paths from within Ableton Live? The lessons I've seen so far just seem to be how to make self contained FX units, flangers and phasers and delay units and so on. All very useful, but not exactly what I'm looking for here!

Adapting the "Master Mixer" device