Roald Baudoux

I salute the ability of Max 8 to register touches on several GUI items simultaneously. It raised some foolish expectations in my mind to get rid or Lemur and use a touchscreen directly within Max. So I gave it a go and put some objects on my touchscreen.

Conclusion: it could be great but a few objects should be updated to make such a replacement possible. For instance:

- it's currently not possible to select a range in rslider using two fingers simultaneously ;

- same issue in waveform~ in select mode ;

- it's not possible to change the selection in tab object just by moving a finger on the object without lifting the finger and pushing the object again;

- it's impossible to move several sliders within multislider simultaneously.

So globally it seems that these GUI objects themselves are not multitouch-compliant. Can JSUI detect several touches simultaneously? In this case some custom replacements would be possible.

Also, when using live.slider, the arrow doesn't follow the finger closely, especially in the bottom of the range. It seems to have a log reaction to a linear movement. Live.gain~ has a similar issue (the arrow catches the finger ad mid-range).

I salute the ability of Max 8 to register touches on several GUI items simultaneously. It raised some foolish expectations in my mind to get rid or Lemur and use a touchscreen directly within Max. So I gave it a go and put some objects on my touchscreen. 

Conclusion: it could be great but a few objects should be updated to make such a replacement possible. For instance:
-  it's currently not possible to  select a range in rslider using two fingers simultaneously ;
- same issue in waveform~ in select mode ;
-  it's not possible to change the selection in tab object just by moving a finger on the object without lifting the finger and pushing the object again;
- it's impossible to move several sliders within multislider simultaneously.

So globally it seems that these GUI objects themselves are not multitouch-compliant. Can JSUI detect several touches simultaneously? In this case some custom replacements would be possible.

Also, when using live.slider, the arrow doesn't follow the finger closely, especially in the bottom of the range. It seems to have a log reaction to a linear movement. Live.gain~ has a similar issue (the arrow catches the finger ad mid-range).




I salute the ability of Max 8 to register touches on several GUI items simultaneously. It raised some foolish expectations in my mind to get

still-some-way-to-go-to-make-max-a-really-multitouch-friendly-application

it should work up to 12 - so that you can use all your fingers at once.

(when i need to do this in max 4.x, i usually connect additional 11 mouses.)

 - it's impossible to move several sliders within multislider simultaneously. 

it should work up to 12 - so that you can use all your fingers at once.

(when i need to do this in max 4.x, i usually connect additional 11 mouses.)


Monkeys have 10 additional foot appendages, and they can play the barrel organ.

Still some way to go to make Max a really multitouch-friendly application