[fingerpinger] with [matrixctrl] runs slowly on Max 6.1?

    laonikoss
    Mar 25 2013 | 7:13 pm
    Hi!
    I just downloaded the Max 6.1 demo and it seems that there's a little glitch when using [fingerpinger] (http://www.anyma.ch/2009/research/multitouch-external-for-maxmsp/) in combination with [matrixctrl] and custom images.
    The exact same patcher runs perfectly smoothly on Max 5.1.8, but when run on Max 6.1 [fingerpinger] is about 100ms slower in responding (and the whole patcher runs very very slowly..)
    Here's the patcher I'm using (and I've attached the custom images I'm using for [matrixctrl])
    (If you don't have [fingerpinger] you can download it from the site above, or, well, you can skip this post :P )
    Is anyone experiencing something similar or is it just me? I'd like to get in touch with the folks who wrote [fingerpinger] but I want to make sure it is indeed something between [fingerpinger] and Max 6.1, and not just my computer/set-up/whatever.
    Thanks!
    • Letraset Catalogue
      Oct 24 2013 | 2:06 pm
      Yes! Did you figure out a way to resolve it?
    • vichug
      Oct 24 2013 | 4:15 pm
      i had a lot of crash with *fingerpinger and* max 6.(0.8 or 1.something, can't remember). I ended making a standalone with max5 that includes fingerpinger and udp communication with max6 !..
    • Letraset Catalogue
      Oct 24 2013 | 5:01 pm
      Oh dear :/
    • Letraset Catalogue
      Oct 28 2013 | 9:38 pm
      I'm going to try your udp idea now. Is it straightforward and did you get speedy enough performance?
    • vichug
      Oct 29 2013 | 3:29 pm
      had no performance speed problem afair. A standalone with only fingerpinger and udpsend is quite lightweight. udpreceive is ok. The process is quite straightforward. If you have multicore processor, several max instances will probably be repartited over several cores, so that might be a plus too.
      Though, i must say i am not sure that solution is ideal... Specifically, i'm not sure it will help the latency problem. Maybe also fingerpinger works best since Max 6.1. It's also a bit unclean !...
    • vichug
      Oct 29 2013 | 3:37 pm
      fwiw, here's the patch that i compiled :
    • Letraset Catalogue
      Oct 30 2013 | 12:01 pm
      Thanks a lot but it seems to mess up the order of messages. See here;
    • Letraset Catalogue
      Oct 30 2013 | 12:43 pm
      No matter. I got it working with mxj.net.multisend and the performance was still horrible - slow glitchy. A Fingerpinger developer told me that the project is now dead.
    • vichug
      Oct 31 2013 | 12:08 pm
      i'm not sure what you mean by 'mess up the order of messages'. the order of messages coming from fingerpinger is naturally messed up, since you have first a bang coming out right oulet, then messages coming from the left, bang from right outlet before each frame, and finally right after last frame another bang. But it's not related to the use of udpsend/receive, rather to fingerpinger... or did you mean that it first comes out from both fingerpinger outlets, then only it is sent through udp ?
      anyway sad to hear the project is now dead. not very surprising considering changes of os and hardware and considering that this is a hack.