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Jillian Olesen

Office hours are back this week! Tomorrow (Wednesday 6/24) at 11am PT we'll be joined by composer, audio engineer, educator & artist (and more), 

Learn more about Lewis and his work here! 👉 

And check it out - more coming up!!! 😮

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Office hours are back this week! Tomorrow (Wednesday 6/24) at 11am PT we'll be joined by composer, audio engineer, educator &...

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🤖 WEDNESDAY 6/24 - OFFICE HOURS WITH LEWIS KELLER! 🤖

F_Dos

i have the following patch that should store the id of each camera so it will remember it in everytime I open the patch. It worked great until some days ago one of the camera went blank everytime (it seems like the id of it changed)

it make me wonder if there is something wrong in the names I gave to the [getattr] and [pattr] objects?

I have the same name [getattr uniqueid]  repeated 4 times

i have the following patch that should store the id of each camera so it will remember it in everytime I open the patch. It worked great...

pattr-uniqeid-for-4-cameras

pattr uniqeid for 4 cameras

Andrew Milne

I am running into issues with jit.gl.pix and my Radeon 680M Graphics card. 

Whenever I add a call to sample() in my connected codebox i get an unkown error in the max console with every attempt to execute the shader and then max frequently crashes shortly after. I have an older laptop that runs the equivalent code with no issues so it appears to by a graphics card/driver specific issue. I have rolled back the engine to gl2 as a work around but would love to know if there's anything else that i can do to troubleshoot or fix the issue. especially since i bought this mini pc to have something that i could run max on ;(

hello, 

I am running into issues with jit.gl.pix and my Radeon 680M Graphics card. 

Whenever I add a call to sample() in my connected...

jitglpix-and-amd-radeon-680m-graphics-issues

jit.gl.pix and AMD Radeon 680M Graphics issues

Mauro Trotta

Hi! Is there anywhere on the Internet where to check apps developed entirely in MaxMSP? I would like to see what kind of projects people can do.

Hi! Is there anywhere on the Internet where to check apps developed entirely in MaxMSP? I would like to see what kind of projects people...

standalone-apps-built-entirely-in-maxmsp

Standalone apps built entirely in MaxMSP

Rivanni

I have a Max for Live device that uses an abstraction. The Max device is frozen.

I adjusted the abstraction to add some improvements.

When I open and unfreeze the Max device, it still uses the old abstraction, which now lives in the Max for Live Devices folder. The new version of the abstraction is located inside the discarded subfolder. I would expect the opposite. Why discard another/newer version of a patcher that was not even part of the device?

Replacing the old patcher file with the new one breaks existing objects. Creating new ones works, of course. Even if replacing files would work, it would kind of defeat the purpose of abstractions as reusable objects. I shouldn't deal with file management.

What is the best way to have devices always use the abstractions from my Library folder rather than unfrozen ones? 

I have a Max for Live device that uses an abstraction. The Max device is frozen.

I adjusted the abstraction to add some...

how-to-force-the-use-of-the-correct-abstraction-after-unfreezing-a-device

How to force the use of the correct abstraction after unfreezing a device?

Jim Lanpheer

I'm a very experienced developer overall but very new to developing in the Max8 environment and i'm attempting to create a simple device and sometimes the device works as i've designed it and sometimes it doesn't.  I'm seeing a bunch of strange messages in the Max8 console and inconsistent behaviors within Live 11 that are making me wonder if (a) this is a stable development environment or (b) i'm just completely missing something simple.... i'm hoping for the latter.  :-)

I am attempting to build a very simple device M4L device that i can place into a MIDI clip in session view that will allow me to automate a de-acceleration in tempo.  I've chosen 80bpm arbitrarily as the target tempo.  My device has a live.dial device which is set to the leftmost position.  What i want is for the device to read the current project tempo and as i rotate the dial, to reduce the tempo down to the target of 80bpm.  My device has the dial, a 'Start BPM' numbox, a 'Target BPM' numbox, all of which feed into a JS object for which i've written a script to get the job done.  I've also created a debug button which (when pressed) should sense the project tempo and set the 'Start BPM' value to the project tempo and allow the dial to reduce the tempo from there.

The kicker is that sometimes it works but then, i'll test again by again deleting the device from the track, reloading it and after doing so, sometimes it won't work at all.  On other occasions, it won't work on the first pass.  I've tried numerous things and have even consulted Claude on this one and i still can't seem to remove the inconsistency.  I'm seeing some warning signs from the above inconsistent behavior to errors in the console, two of them in particular: "jsliveapi: set: no valid object set" and "set: no valid object set".  These errors also seem sporadic in nature.

Before i throw my code out there, i just wanted to check and see if there's something specific that needs to be done in order to get an M4L device to connect with the Live API?  Claude has suggested to me that after adding my device to a track to wait 10 seconds before testing to allow the device to hook up with the API.  As an experienced developer, that seems hopelessly brittle.  Again, that works sometimes and not others.

I'm running Ableton 11, the most recent version and Max8 v. 8.5.8 on an M1 Mac Mini.  Any advice would be helpful.  Many thanks and cheers!

I'm a very experienced developer overall but very new to developing in the Max8 environment and i'm attempting to create a simple device...

inconsistent-times-connecting-with-live-api

Inconsistent times connecting with Live API?

Placebo Messiah

I just recently realized after much yelling at the computer that max seems to automatically implement measures to prevent feedback loops

however i would like to make a feedback loop

I'm attempting to build a fairly elaborate fm synth with flexible modulation routing

I've attached the maxpat that represents the core of each fm operator as a patch and .png

Everything works great until I attempt to use a matrix for routing or for that matter feed an operator's signal into its modulation input...even using the limiter

Now I have to wonder how the DX7 accomplished this

dx7-style-fm-feedback-loop

dx7 style FM feedback loop

Conall Ó Maoláin

I have been playing around with versions of a genetic algorithm from Daniel Schiffman's 

I first made a js version of this sketch: 

https://editor.p5js.org/natureofcode/sketches/q4F192JCV

and wanted to try something similar with jit.gen. The matrix values average out over time but they don't seem to move towards the target value. Is this to be expected when using this type of algorithm? The js version produces "incorrect" results too just because certain characters get selected and reproduce. 

My first thought is that the "selection" gen subpatch is the problem since it uses a while loop and increments through the matrix but because it's in a gen patch the operation is being done per pixel. 

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