Hi Alec,

I posted this a week ago:

The MIDI byte 248 belongs to the class of real time messages. This means they are accepted at any time at high priority. The receiving device being in external sync mode and in play mode (e.g. the drummaschine) goes immedialely to the next 96th of the bar after receiving the clock byte 248. This is no reference for the absolut position just a continious time grid of 96th notes. The song position can be transmitted by the song position pointer, see page 28 of Max getting started pdf.

See the sync~.help file for an implementation example

Falk

Hi there

Thanks for the pointers, I have found the patch:

It seems from looking at the other thread this came from, that it is what i'm looking for...

However, I know how to save patches I make as a txt file but have no idea how to convert txt files to patches. When you refer to page 28 of the Getting Started .pdf, is this where the solution is supposed to be?

I looked through the file menu commands and found no way of converting the txt file to a max patch. How is this done?

Also, I when I type in sync~, it says "no such object" in the MAX window.

Just one more thing...

When you refer to sending MIDI byte 248 to the external sequencer, how do I send it out. Does it involve sxformat, midiout or what?

I would be very grateful for anyones assistance on this matter!!! :)

Just copy the text.....

In the filemenu in MAX choose New From Clipboard

That's it...

Sometimes if it wont work....try copying the TEXT to an empty TEXT document, and remove the space in front of each line.....

So can this only be done on a mac then? I have windows and I don't have the option "New From Clipboard" in the file menu.

Is there some way of doing it in windows, or some sort of workaround?

Thanx

New from clipboard was added in max 4.5.5 AFAIR. mac and Windows. If you upgrade to the latest version you will have it. If not, add

max2;

as first line of the text, and

pop;

as last one. Now you will be able to open as a Max patch saves as text. I don't necessarily exactly remember the syntax out of the top of my head, so open an existing patch as text, and copy first and last lines to make sure that you get it right.

Best, Trond

Thank you to all who have tried to help - now i'll try to get on with my project!

Hope i dont have to make any more posts on this thread!!! :-)

Alec Pritchard wrote: > Thanks for the pointers, I have found the patch: > Also, I when I type in sync~, it says "no such object" in the MAX > window.

Which version of Max are you using? If its an older one, put it into your signature ;-)

I found more and more patches sent to the list need Max 4.5. Though most of my patches could run on older versions, and have been made in the first place with older versions, alone one object like patcherargs is now in almost any patch I make. But its 4.5...

I might start a little hacking to replace some of the new objects with abhaXions for those who are still on pre 4.5, but with patcherargs its hard to get the same behaviour. It would only work partially.

> When you refer to sending MIDI byte 248 to the external sequencer, > how do I send it out. Does it involve sxformat, midiout or what?

Yes, midiout.

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Thank you for the suggestions...

So, what functionality does patcherargs have?

I'm on the verge of upgrading and will do so soon cos i'm getting left behind a bit!

I'v managed to control my external sequencer using midi bytes 248, 250 and 251 (sent out of midiout) in conjunction with the tempo object. Seems to be working well, so I'm sorted for now!

Cheers

Alec J P