History object
Howdy I am still a beginner and recently purchased Generating Sound and Organizing Time by by7 Wakefield and Taylor. Very interesting stuff. My problem is this I downloaded the sample patches. so far so good, I opened a sample patch: Counter_simple_timer and started adding objects. When typing history I get history-history :No such object. I am at a loss
'history' op is specific to gen~, you can only add it within the 'gen~' subpatcher of your patch.
there are different parts to the environ: Max, MSP, and Jitter, (they handle event/data-flow, audio, and video respectively), that make up the larger environ of Max, and within each you can use 'gen' for different/more-specific tasks: there is 'gen' for event/data, 'gen~' for audio, and 'jit.gen' for jitter matrices(there's no 'history' op in jit.gen either).
it's probably best to go through the tutorials for Max proper, first, before learning gen, i recommend the MSP ones, too for audio-specific stuff:
https://docs.cycling74.com/max8
and then, to learn the 'history' op most comprehensively, it's best to try it within the audio realm of 'gen~'(so you can double-click on the 'gen~' object to go inside and then add from within there). hope it helps 🍻
Thank you, very much this does indeed help.