johncabaker

I'm new at Max4Live and I've currently built a device that sends clip names out through 

 and route it out to a message which returns something like 

I'm trying to send this to a custom button in Lemur for the iPad that will display the current track playing (something similar to what Mu does). The problem is I can't get it to display and I've established that the bi-directional connection works. According to the Lemur user guide you can update attributes of a Lemur object by sending custom OSC messages in this format: 

 messages to populate the button with the clip name so my OSC message should look something like this: 

/CustomButton/testbutton @label_on nameofclip

I think the issue is when I send the OSC message using 

/CustomButton/testbutton @label_on name "nameofclip"

 which I assume isn't going to work. So my question is: Is there a way I can edit an outgoing message by removing certain words (i.e. name and the "") from the message so it's formatted correctly?

Or is there another (much simpler) way to do this?

I'm new at Max4Live and I've currently built a device that sends clip names out through udpsend. I use "get name" with the live.object and route it out to a message which returns something like "name "nameoftheclip"".

I'm trying to send this to a custom button in Lemur for the iPad that will display the current track playing (something similar to what Mu does). The problem is I can't get it to display and I've established that the bi-directional connection works. According to the Lemur user guide you can update attributes of a Lemur object by sending custom OSC messages in this format: /OSC_Addr/Object @attribute val

In my example I'm trying to use the label_on and label_off messages to populate the button with the clip name so my OSC message should look something like this: /CustomButton/testbutton @label_on nameofclip

I think the issue is when I send the OSC message using prepend it comes out as: /CustomButton/testbutton @label_on name "nameofclip" which I assume isn't going to work. So my question is: Is there a way I can edit an outgoing message by removing certain words (i.e. name and the "") from the message so it's formatted correctly?

lemur-max4live-sending-clip-names-to-objects

the quotation marks come from you inserting a symbol (in this case nameofclip) - it ensures that "Drum beat number 02" comes through as a single unit, which is what you'd want in this case, presumably? You can use the tosymbol/fromsymbol objects to handle that aspect.

We have no real indication of where the "name" comes from here without seeing your patch - I can only assume it's some part of your code that sneaking its way into the list.

The dirty way of fixing it would be going through a message object like "$1 $2 $4", but I wouldn't recommend it, really.

the quotation marks come from you inserting a symbol (in this case nameofclip) - it ensures that "Drum beat number 02" comes through as a single unit, which is what you'd want in this case, presumably? You can use the tosymbol/fromsymbol objects to handle that aspect. 

The dirty way of fixing it would be going through a message object like "$1 $2 $4", but I wouldn't recommend it, really.


I'm basicly trying to achieve the very same thing as the thread starter, but I met problems earlier than him. Live.object doesn't have "getname" or "get name" in its list of perceivable messages, so I have no idea how to "extract" the track name of the track whose the m4l device is in. Note that I'm a noob at m4l, still working to understand the LOM, live API, and so on.

What I have achieved is locating the track whose m4l device is in with live.path, so that's no issue right now. I just need to get the track name of that particular track as well.

I'm basicly trying to achieve the very same thing as the thread starter, but I met problems earlier than him. Live.object doesn't have "getname" or "get name" in its list of perceivable messages, so I have no idea how to "extract" the track name of the track whose the m4l device is in. Note that I'm a noob at m4l, still working to understand the LOM, live API, and so on.
What I have achieved is locating the track whose m4l device is in with live.path, so that's no issue right now. I just need to get the track name of that particular track as well.


Lemur, Max4Live, Sending Clip Names To Objects