Spatialization in m4l

Unless Ableton has pulled a rabbit out of their hat recently, there is no way to do 'true' and accurate multichannel work natively in Live (ie. not relying on sends). Regarding the panning algorithm - and you probably need to look at 'constant intensity panning' (see here:https://cycling74.com/docs/max5/tutorials/msp-tut/mspchapter22.html) the transition 'between' sends most likely won't follow the same law anyway, so you'll have to tailor a 'panning law' of sorts depending on the characteristics of Live's send gains.

So, it comes down to two choices depending on how crucial to your project Lives other features are: Find a way of routing audio sources from Live/M4L - perhaps something like this https://cycling74.com/forums/ambisonics4live/ (which I have't tried) - OR Use a host, like Max (or perhaps REAPER) that can enable flexible multichannel routing internally.

I need to use it in live, and to record automations, etc, so I'm still searching the good mathematic function which will work well working with ableton's sends.

I reproduced these algorithms described in 'constant intensity panning', and they don't work that good on a transition between ableton's sends. At the moment what works better for the transition is to use a 5th square root (0
Log, sin, etc., don't work well.

You need just rotation or also 2D position?

mostly rotation

Ok,
This is how you can do it and it doesn't involves max for live at all.

Lets say you want to specialise an operator synth over a circular array of 8 speakers.

1) Right after the operator place an empty audio rack and name it "Array Panner" and set "Audio To" to Sends Only

2) Create 9 empty layers and name them from 1 to 9

3) Edit zones for al layers and fades as pic 1 and pic 2

4) Create nine audio tracks and name them s1 to s9

5) Route each one to a single speaker, track s1 to speaker 1, s2 to speaker 2... IMPORTANT s9 goes also to speaker 1!

6) Select audio from for each track as follows:
(operator track's name is "operator")

s1: Audio From 1-Operator
Array Panner | 1 | Post Mixer

s2: Audio From 1-Operator
Array Panner | 2 | Post Mixer

s2: Audio From 1-Operator
Array Panner | 3 | Post Mixer

...till s9.

7) Activate Monitoring for all the S tracks.

It should look like pic 3

Now you can use the Chain Select Ruler (pic4) control to pan smoothly between all the speakers, automate it or map it to an external controller.

If you need to compensate for something, just modify the zones and crossfades till you get what you need.

Happy panning!

...and the project in case you need it

Thanks,
I tried with 4 speakers, works nicely !
Didn't know this method in live.

Comparing with my m4l patch, I don't get which one works better. I need to test with more speakers..

great! let me know how it goes!

Hey SALVADORPSARTEK,

I also might have a solution for you. For a recent project I developed an Ambisonic based M4L device/Patch pair. It not in a release stable version at the moment therefore I would not like to publish here. But If you are interested you can e-mail me (jan[at]janmech[dot].de). It works, an I produced a multi-channel audio installation with it.
The actual spatialziation is done by the max patch that receive the audio via external routing (i.e. SoundFlower and the information about the position in space of a Live Channel.) All movements can be recorded as automation in Live. As ambisonic is the base it't pretty flexible in loudspeaker setup, numbers of speakers and input channels.

Let me know if you are interested.

Jan