Dylan de Bruijn

I'm busy with a project involving an Arduino and MaxMSP. I wired two potentiometers to my Arduino and uploaded code to it so I can read the analog values of these potentiometers in MaxMSP. My idea is simple. I want 6 audiochannels with different songs. All these channels play when the patch loads but are muted. When the potentiometer outputs 1 channel 1 unmutes. When the potentiometer outputs 2 channel 2 unmutes and everything else mutes again. I tried something with [select] and a [toggle] but select keeps banging the toggle and that's not what I want.

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I hope someone would be so kind to help me. I can provide other information or a sketch of what I want if needed.

I'm busy with a project involving an Arduino and MaxMSP. I wired two potentiometers to my Arduino and uploaded code to it so I can read the analog values of these potentiometers in MaxMSP.  My idea is simple. I want 6 audiochannels with different songs. All these channels play when the patch loads but are muted. When the potentiometer outputs 1 channel 1 unmutes. When the potentiometer outputs 2 channel 2 unmutes and everything else mutes again. I tried something with [select] and a [toggle] but select keeps banging the toggle and that's not what I want.

Hello everyone,
I'm busy with a project involving an Arduino and MaxMSP. I wired two potentiometers to my Arduino and uploaded code to it so

max-arduino-play-song-while-certain-number

I would suggest to rather do the splitting of pot range in Arduino,

and send 6 numbers to Max only when numbers change.

That would significally reduce serial data flow.

change object should be inserted to filter out repeated triggering.

void loop() {int Pot1 = map(analogRead(A0), 0, 1023, 0, 6);

if(Pot1 != lastPot1) {Serial.println(Pot1);}

That would send poti 0 - 6 only if value changed

I would suggest to rather do the splitting of pot range in Arduino,
and send 6 numbers to Max only when numbers change.
That would significally reduce serial data flow.
But if You want to do that in max, 
change object should be inserted to filter out repeated triggering.
See here one example :


But all that could be done in Arduino :
int lastPot1 = 0;

void loop() {int Pot1 = map(analogRead(A0), 0, 1023, 0, 6);
if(Pot1 != lastPot1) {Serial.println(Pot1);}
lastPot1 = Pot1; delay(50);}

Hello, thanks for your reply. I appreciate it very much.

I added your code to my Arduino code, but the value in Max is still from 0 to 1023.

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Max + Arduino play song while certain number