stephane moreau

I'm working on a device that midimaps a surface control to some parameters, with a fancy fullscreen UI with big sliders and knobs... I named it OSC

I have a big live set with multiple track groups, each track group is one song with its own plugin... and each track group has its own OSC device.

The device is currently in use and working almost fine. Each one has its own setting thanks to the dictionary paramater_enable attribute.

BUT each time i open in Max the "original" OSC device, and save some modifications, its dictionary spreads to all the other running OSC devices and I have to set them again individually, which is a pain.

For each device to have an independant dictionary, I preceded the dict name with the magical "---".

I played a bit to try to understand, I noticed that the "---" is replaced by a 3 digit number which is not the device Id. Those 3 digits change in every single running device every time I save the original device, and subsequently the name of the dictionary changes, and lose all its data...

Is there a way to force each instance of the device to name its dictionary with a unique name it could then remember ? I dont want them to be saved into a file and recalled every time, I'm sure there's a straightforward and simple way to do this.

Long story short, I want to be able to modify the "original" OSC device without modifying the dictionary of other running OSC devices...

Hi,

I'm working on a device that midimaps a surface control to some parameters, with a fancy fullscreen UI with big sliders and knobs... I...

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use dict with "---" and turn parameter Mode on, the values for each device is then saved with the live set

Yeah it's the same as the @parameter_enable attribute. It works like a charm as long as I don't open an instance of the device and save it with Max. Once saved its dictionary replaces all dictionaries in all the other instances of the device

OK here's a workaround : the dictionary modification spreads to every instance inside the same live set.

If I load a second live set and work on the device, the dictionary doesn't spread anymore to the instances in the first live set !!

This goes with simultanous ableton instances as well !

saving a patch without saving the dictionary