Connect Max 7 to Kinect

Yeah's icon

Because I worked before with Quartz and Kinect,
I want try the same by connecting a Kinect to Max 7 to use and create visuals.

At this moment I have already tried Synapse and Freenect.

I can't find any tutorial to use which works on Max 7.

Does anybody know how I can use the Kinect for creating and trigger visuals in Max?

kodamapixel's icon

Try elaborating a little on what you're trying to achieve with the Kinect and your results with Synapse and Freenect. Did they not work at all in Max 7, or are you after a tutorial to explain how to deal with the Kinect data?

There are 2 main avenues to explore with the Kinect: using skeleton/joint tracking; and/or the greyscale depth image.

Shay Silver's icon

Hi kodamapixel!
i would like to trigger anything (let's say - led light) when I see any a repeat of movements (dancing).
any idea how to do something like that? I guess its the joint tracking...

Thank you so much for helping

diablodale's icon

I have two externals for the Kinect that you can use with Max 7.
dp.kinect for the original Kinect for Windows https://hidale.com/shop/dp-kinect/
dp.kinect2 for the 2nd generation Kinect for Windows (XBox One) https://hidale.com/shop/dp-kinect2/

Both of them have trials and include a demo patch where you can see examples of using skeleton/joint data. The simple one you will first see. A more advanced example is in the subpatcher.

Happy patching

Abao's icon

hi there

I am using synapse on max7 for kinect, it worked on max6 sometimes, totally not working on max7, already open max in 32bits, what can I do? thanks!

jit.synapse: unable to load object bundle executable
2016-09-01 15:21:51.448 Max[18434:248734] Error loading /Users/dontmarryme/Documents/Max 7/Library/externals/SynapseJit/jit.synapse.mxo/Contents/MacOS/jit.synapse: dlopen(/Users/dontmarryme/Documents/Max 7/Library/externals/SynapseJit/jit.synapse.mxo/Con
tents/MacOS/jit.synapse, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
    /Users/dontmarryme/Documents/Max 7/Library/externals/SynapseJit/jit.synapse.mxo/Contents/MacOS/jit.synapse: mach-o, but wrong architecture

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