Midi Note - list of Text strings - display them
Hi.. I did this once long ago and I have forgotten how.. not really a max user, but I had it working in Max For Live.. Basically I had midi notes trigger different text strings that would display.. for cues.. and now i cannot remember which object i used to hold the strings.. if someone could jog my memory then i can probably bash out the rest myself...
Probably [coll]
No, thats not it, since I had about 80 different text strings.. i recall i had the list in the inspector... tied to a #.. so the incoming
midi # would display it..
so annoyed that i forgot what it was...
basically its function was to sit on a midi track in live, and the midi notes would trigger test to display full screen.. queues.. for live performance
so players would know what was coming up, etc etc..
i've been away from max for awhile... i had blocks of midi passages to trigger off different sets of strings.. ie, 8 bars to go, 4 bars to go.. 4, 3, 2, 1, chorus#, section name... etc...
Easily accomplished with [coll], though. You can double-click the coll and it will open a text editor.
ok i will try it... thanks.
Ok, thanks I figured out coll ! Thats not how I did it in the past but its better... I like that i can create the lists by double clicking..
thanks all!!
Ah, here is the hitch with coll...
it doesn't remember all the text strings everytime i open my ableton session back up.
so, i will still have to try and remember what i was using.. since the text was stored in a line in the inspector it was
portable and i could drop it into any session and not have to enter in 80+ lines of queue text again...
but at least I learned something!
Thanks!
See inspector of coll: [x] Save data with patcher
That works for a max patch, but not as an ableton live device...
If I save the device and then put it in a new session the data is blank again.
Also reopening an ableton session with the device already on it, is also blank.
Thanks though.
Just use a live.menu and fill it with data in the inspector if you really want to go that route.
thanks, i'll give it a go.. i need it to be portable with the same midinote -> text every time so i can drop it into different live
session and use premade midi clips to fire off text queues to the monitor.
thanks.
Yes. you can access items in the menu by there index (0= first item, 1 = second item etc.)
Thank you! I won't look pretty on the inside, but it's looks great on the outside! that works.
Strange how your coll forgets data even if you check [x] Save data with patcher. If I ploink by M4L MIDI device on a MIDI track it still has all its data, just as expected. That's Live 9.18, Max 7.0.3 on OSX 10.10.3. Just sayin'.
interesting. I'll try replacing the path to use max 7.. maybe 6 is broken. I am using ableton 9.18, OSX 10.10.3 and Max 6 right now.. But I have 7... i just never bothered changing the path..
Thanks.
I got it working with a menu item now anyways, which is fine.. its just a big numbered list that i use on every single session.