Oskar Øiestad

My live rig is loopers on 4 tracks and I want to make a monitor plugin with four volume faders and a Metronome Dial. After alot of reading in forums I finally made the metronome how i want it, but I can't figure out how I can monitor all four tracks i one window.

Note that I don't want to control any parameters. Simply a screen showing me the value and signals.

Hi there. New to Max for live. 
My live rig is loopers on 4 tracks and I want to make a monitor plugin with four volume faders and a Metronome Dial. After alot of reading in forums I finally made the metronome how i want it, but I can't figure out how I can monitor all four tracks i one window.
Note that I don't want to control any parameters. Simply a screen showing me the value and signals. 

Hi there. New to Max for live. 
My live rig is loopers on 4 tracks and I want to make a monitor plugin with four volume faders and a Metrono

help!-volume-and-metronome-monitoring

I’m not familiar with your setup but I know that Max can cope with this. I‘m not sure if you want to display the audio signal as a wave or just as a level meter but both are possible. I presume that the fader can be connected via MIDI. I suggest that you start with just one channel. You need to work out how to connect Max and Live so that each channel has independent communication lines for the fader and signal. Do the fader first as that’s going to be the easier bit. Once you work out how to get one channel working then just make three more copies with the alternate connections. There’s no reason why your fader in Max shouldn’t be able to control Live either. Not sure if that helps to get you started? It’s worth working through the tutorials supplied with Max. They might not give a quick fix but they will give you a lot of ideas and pointers. You’ll soon realise that Max is incredibly powerful!

I’m not familiar with your setup but I know that Max can cope with this. I‘m not sure if you want to display the audio signal as a wave or just as a level meter but both are possible. I presume that the fader can be connected via MIDI.  I suggest that you start with just one channel. You need to work out how to connect Max and Live so that each channel has independent communication lines for the fader and signal. Do the fader first as that’s going to be the easier bit. Once you work out how to get one channel working then just make three more copies with the alternate connections. There’s no reason why your fader in Max shouldn’t be able to control Live either. Not sure if that helps to get you started? It’s worth working through the tutorials supplied with Max. They might not give a quick fix but they will give you a lot of ideas and pointers. You’ll soon realise that Max is incredibly powerful!

it's really reassuring that people can confirm that this works.

Thanks so much for the reply! 😃 
it's really reassuring that people can confirm that this works. 

My project (12 months in the making so far) has become very large and complex for a “first attempt”! Max is providing an interface between CuBase and a Behringer networkable mixer on the one hand and X-Touch hardware controllers on the other. It uses a combination of MIDI and OSC for the interface but could also link to the audio sources if needed. The X-Touch/X-Touch Extender combination has 16 channels of faders, level meters, control knobs, LED displays and a plethora of control buttons, all of which are linked via Max to controls/functions in CuBase and on the mixer and can seamlessly switch between the two. Whilst the X-Touch units provide a hardware interface, I could, with some effort, build a Max equivalent in software to replicate the functionality on screen. Just start simple and gradually build it up!

Help! Volume and metronome monitoring