Steve Meyer

I am very new to Max for Live and have been following some tutorials. I have created a M4L patch that uses [live.dial] objects to control parameters of a basic Max synth. My Live set has two tracks. Each track has an instance of the synth. I am finding that if I turn the dial in Live on track 1 both synth instances change with the setting. What I would like is for the dials to behave independently per track and not globally.

Is there some kind of setting for the dial object I am missing? I have seen references to varnames in other forum posts, but I don't know enough to know where to look in the documentation.

I am very new to Max for Live and have been following some tutorials. I have created a M4L patch that uses [live.dial] objects to control parameters of a basic Max synth. My Live set has two tracks. Each track has an instance of the synth. I am finding that if I turn the dial in Live on track 1 both synth instances change with the setting. What I would like is for the dials to behave independently per track and not globally. 

I am very new to Max for Live and have been following some tutorials. I have created a M4L patch that uses [live.dial] objects to control pa

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I figured out how to resolve this issue in case anyone stumbles upon this post...

My mistake was that I was using [send]/[receive] objects that connected the [live.dial] objects to a [send] object to avoid patch messy patch cords. The [receive] objects were elsewhere in the patch. My patch now does not use the [send] objects and the receives are replaced with [live.param~] objects.

With this configuration, changing the dials in Live does not update all instances in the Live Set.

alternatively, you can still use send and receive, just precede each name with 3 hyphens (---) and M4L will automatically limit their scope to that instance of the device

Thanks for the clarification. That is very good to know for other situations.

The [live.param~] works well in this case because it also removes the objects serving the [send] function, which cleans up the UI space when the patch is unlocked.

Max for Live dial updating all instances of patch on separate Live tracks