brendan mccloskey

normally, Max never EVER crashes for me, during building/testing, even when firing loads of serial data from Arduino at it, with multiple gen-based [poly~] voices. So I just came back from a gig, and we were using some stuff I never used before: Processing for OSCP5 LAN network chat, running 'in the background', plus my usual live Arduino/granulation engine in Max. Three times Max crashed. The GUI just froze, audio was still running, then I relaunched the patch and the entire window was white, no contents. Had to relaunch Max , quit Processing, and it would run fine and then crash again. Obviously I don't gig enough to stress test each element of such a set up, but what is the likely culprit? When it happened, I first tried stopping the Processing sketch and that didn't work, so I unplugged the Arduino. Still frozen. Relaunched Max and ramped up the audio buffer size, slowed the serial transmission down and tried again. It ran fine for a while and then boom! Crash.

I'm not listing my hardware details here because I'd just like to ask if anyone has had issues with Max/Arduino/Processing/LAN setups and who the culprit is likely to be. I'm on Windows 7 i5, loads of cycles and RAM, the rest of the group were on Macs and we were all networked via Apple Airport.

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normally, Max never EVER crashes for me, during building/testing, even when firing loads of serial data from Arduino at it, with multiple gen-based [poly~] voices. So I just came back from a gig, and we were using some stuff I never used before: Processing for OSCP5 LAN network chat, running 'in the background', plus my usual live Arduino/granulation engine in Max. Three times Max crashed. The GUI just froze, audio was still running, then I relaunched the patch and the entire window was white, no contents. Had to relaunch Max , quit Processing, and it would run fine and then crash again. Obviously I don't gig enough to stress test each element of such a set up, but what is the likely culprit? When it happened, I first tried stopping the Processing sketch and that didn't work, so I unplugged the Arduino. Still frozen. Relaunched Max and ramped up the audio buffer size, slowed the serial transmission down and tried again. It ran fine for a while and then boom! Crash.

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Yeah, sorry raja. Max 32bit 6.1.9, Processing 2 for chatmonkey, IPv4. Latest Arduino and, like, ONE analogRead/send. Obviously, the new link in my setup was wireless networked OSC chat, so he gets the blame, guilty or not.

Hey thanks raja. I missed that update, certainly wouldn't hurt to get the latest version of 6. There was no udp control going on, just a chat window for each ensemble member. But the Processing code was pretty bulky. Maybe some java conflict or failure? I'll report back on the update.

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