Maxuino documentation / tutorials

growing's icon

I'm having a hard time finding any documentation or tutorials for getting started with Maxuino. Anyone know of a good place to find some information?

ashs_au's icon

Growing: *in case you are still interested*
hi, you're not the only one. Reverse-engineering the 'documentation' patches seems to be the only way to go about it. I will probably post a demo patch a bit more approachable in the next day or two. I'm just reading the analog ins on a duemilanove (from analogue LFOs) but the principles should be transferrable.

chrisbob12's icon

Hi ashs_au, I have reached the same conclusion. I'm sure it was presented with pedagogic intent ;)

I'm somewhat baffled why he has put so many in/outs on the interface, but then I have an early model. Anyway, I did get it working with analogue inputs for a bit, but I couldn't figure out how, then I stopped it working. So, maybe time to print out the javascript in Max manual, and be clear what's going on.

Regards, Chris.

Andrew Benson's icon

My experience is that although Maxuino is a pretty full-featured system, it's pretty difficult to take apart and repurpose. I'd highly recommend looking at some of the Serial communication examples in the Arduino distro (w/ included Max patches) and the Max serial tutorial. If you are just looking for a quick start on using the Arduino with MaxMSP, there are some other options available.

chrisbob12's icon

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into that.

chrisbob12's icon

Andrew, many thanks for pointing me to sensorbox (and for writing and sharing it). It's just what I needed to get me up and running; very straightforward, and enough pointers to move onto driving Arduino outputs.

john meneses rizo's icon

How can I send Maxuino data as MIDI via LoopMIDIPort?

Source Audio's icon

I'd suggest don't use maxuino in first place.

but no matter how you get values into max from arduino,

pass them either to dedicated midi objects (noteout, ctlout etc)

or form raw midi data for midiout.

In any case : take care to keep numbers within midi specs , otherwise you might blow your loopmidi ports.

William Walker's icon

Hey there! Finding Maxuino resources can be tricky. While the official docs seem scarce, there are some great video tutorials out there. Let me know if you'd like some links!