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Advice on M4L Patch -> Module Naming "convention"
Feb 01 2013 | 7:38 am
Dear all,
I am the author of the M4L Drum Box :-) and I did it thanks to you (I put all your names in the About page)... anyhow, I am facing a strange issue with my patch:
1/ On ableton live, I create a midi track and put in it the M4L Drum box.
2/ If I duplicate this track (so duplicate the M4L Patch)... well, I get strange behavior:
- the second patch doesnot start from time to time :-(
- I can select a preset in the presets PADs UI :-( from time to time
- certain toggle buttons can not be activated from time to time
I don't know why this is happening :-(
My question is:
* I did not named very well my modules inside the patch :-(
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* I use "S ---#1accentvolume" to send values to other modules but I have only one big patch!!!
(I know that using the '#' means that the value will be sent to another file. but I copied this from a tutorial :-( )
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* do you think I should give specific names like this I don't have any collusion between two M4L patches?
* Shall I remove the "#" and the "---" ?
Thanks!
- Feb 01 2013 | 10:59 amyou cannot use "---" and "#" in the same name declaration. it will just fail, so that the reason your multiple devices in a set are not working is that the objects are globally scoped in the set and interfering with eachother, same as if you named them all "foo"."#" must come at the beginning of a name, so must "---"."#" is for scope within an abstraction. in the top level it does nothing."---" is for scope throughout the entire M4L device no matter how deep (and does nothing in Max alone).you need to go look at the manual or so.
- Feb 01 2013 | 12:44 pmYeap, perfect, thanks to your remarks I went deeper in the documentation and find answers!! many thanks, I had some doubts but thanks to you I am more confident :-) Cheers!
- Feb 17 2013 | 4:49 amI can't find documentation for the send # formation... Can you point me at it? Thx
- Feb 17 2013 | 11:43 amFund it I think, seems just add #0 to the front of the name for send/receive
- Feb 18 2013 | 3:16 pmI searched for "---" and for "send" "receive" "#" in the search box :-( --- in front of a parameter means that this data is unique to the patch. # in front of the parameter means that MAX4LIVE will search the data into the sub patches as well :-) if you combine both symobls, you get M4L to search for unique parameter into the main and sub patches.I hope I am clear and not too wrong! :-))))))
- Feb 18 2013 | 3:51 pmHi egnouf. U r very wrong. Look at my post above which explains it. I agree that documentation on this issue should be 100 times better.
- Feb 19 2013 | 12:15 pmooppsss.. sorry :-(
