Nate

Hey, I'm in a pretty dreadful situation lately...I'm supposed to visualize a sound wave (in form of float value) generated by a Max patch on-the-fly, but for days I cannot find the right way to send it from Max to my application.

I've tried UDPsend, but I keep getting the value "float" instead of the actual value, as stated in this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33751812/receiving-float-string-via-max-msp-udpsend-instead-of-the-actual-value?noredirect=1#comment55271916_33751812

I've tried writing the value to a file, but that's another failed story. And using files for IPC is not ideal anyways.

We have everything done except passing this value from Max to visualization application. We're facing a total change of project direction just because of this.

Just..what is the best way to pass value from Max to another application? And how exactly do you use UDPsend to send the actual value?

Thanks for any help. Thanks a million. I've just so overwhelmed. Had to re-implement this visualization three times to try different ways and now I'm still clueless.

Hey, I'm in a pretty dreadful situation lately...I'm supposed to visualize a sound wave (in form of float value) generated by a Max patch on-the-fly, but for days I cannot find the right way to send it from Max to my application. 

I've tried UDPsend, but I keep getting the value "float" instead of the actual value, as stated in this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33751812/receiving-float-string-via-max-msp-udpsend-instead-of-the-actual-value?noredirect=1#comment55271916_33751812

Thanks for any help. Thanks a million. I've just so overwhelmed. Had to re-implement this visualization three times to try different ways and now I'm still clueless.


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Maybe try using the udpsender from sadam's library? I think your problem might have something to do with the fact it formats it as OSC data (but I'm not really sure)

https://cycling74.com/forums/announce-the-sadam-library-version-2014-04-30/

Cool, I'll try that. Is there any other ways to do IPC?

Syphon? Technically for sharing frames (still or otherwise) but you could do some creative coding and use it for storing values within matrices/frames?

I assume you've considered doing the visualization with Jitter--is there a reason this doesn't meet your needs?

Well, regrettably Jitter was not considered simply because I don't have any experience with that. I thought I had several visualization development kits in my "arsenal", but didn't realize "supply" could be a problem. :P

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