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Conall Ó Maoláin

I am working on my own spin of Andrew Bensons FlyOver Jitter recipe. In his version procedural noise and matrix feedback is used to determine the position for each grid shape instance. In my own I'd like to control the x and y position with MIDI. I've simulated the MIDI sequence for now by assigning random values to random matrix indices and sending the matrix to the feedback loop. However, when the matrix is only output on every metro tick, the drawing happens to slowly but when I use the draw bang from jit.gl.render the cubes look like they are stretched. 

Another issue is that I only want to be able to see the cubes that have been positioned by the "MIDI sequence" but the jit.gl.multiple object will create a new instance for every cell in the matrix. 

I hope this is all clear and would love some suggestions and a push in the right direction.

Hello!

I am working on my own spin of Andrew Bensons FlyOver Jitter recipe. In his version procedural noise and matrix feedback is used to...

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Hiding multiple gl instances

spin lud

  I'm building a real-time visual performance patch to run together with Ableton. I need to keep computation load consistent to avoid dropouts in the audio. Basically I would like to have the same load regardless of the projector resolution (Full HD, 4K, etc). 

.slab @file Patcher:/my/shader.jxs @adapt 0 @dim 1280 720] -> [

.node ctx @name mix @capture 1 @blend_enable 0 @erase_color 0 0 0 1 @adapt 0 @dim 1280 720]

    (bloom → downsample → blur → ...)

 (multiply-blended with a mask video layer)

.layer ctx @blend_enable 1 @blend multiply @preserve_aspect 1]

 ctx   ← output window / fullscreen (here I am assuming a full hd projector as output)

 ctx @fsaa 0 @floating 0 @enable 1 @output_texture 1 @dim 1920 1080 @size 1920 1080 @erase_color 0 0 0 1 @fps 60 @sync 0 @displaylink 0]

Do you think this signal path is correct to guarantee that resource usage stays roughly constant regardless of the projector I plug in (Full HD, 4K, etc.)?

 Hi everyone,

  I'm building a real-time visual performance patch to run together with Ableton. I need to keep computation load consistent...

keep-computation-load-constant-across-projectors

Keep computation load constant across projectors

Nodanoma

 when operating in an exported runtime (standalone) on 

. I tried to find the object in the Max application itself to copy it over manually but to no avail. Does anyone know the backstory to this, where I can find the object, whether it cannot be used in projects which will later be rendered as standalones or whether this bug is already known and being worked on?

jit.bang: No such object (in standalones) SOLVED

jitbang-no-such-object-in-standalones

Hi there, so tried searching and using AI for this (which gave me some insight and also threw me into some long dead ends), so thought I might just ask here.

I'm creating some music videos with Max Jitter, so some very long audio and video files and along the way I'm wanting to trigger smaller videos to start and stop on select beats.  There are quite a few smaller videos that play simultaneously so all my vids are in hap.  The videos are all trimmed on beat to a certain tempo.

So I have sfplay~ as my master sync source right now and video is sync'd to the position messages output of that.  To trigger videos I'd like to be able to select a bar/beat start.  Currently found a way using the same position messages out of sfplay~ into snapshot (set to 50ms)... then into translate to get the bar/beats.  This has added a good chunk of CPU % though... which I'm trying to keep down.  Anyone have other sync methods that might work here that are more efficient?

Hi there, so tried searching and using AI for this (which gave me some insight and also threw me into some long dead ends), so thought I...

music-video-sync-and-triggering-video-events

Music video sync and triggering video events

JMB_13

What is the best way to do masking in the openGL context ?

The purpose is to animate/distors parts of an image with noise (jit.gl.bfg). I already tried to do binary masks (black and white) to animate a part of an image and then recombine it to the original image but it is very hard to avoid artifacts on the border of the mask.

I tried [jit.gl.meshwarp], it is a very versatile solution, but I didn't find a way to feather the mask outlines. Is there a way to blur/feather the mask outline of [jit.gl.meshwarp] ?

Of course everything in the openGL / texture context.

(I join a shematic example of what I just explained).

Hello,

What is the best way to do masking in the openGL context ?
The purpose is to animate/distors parts of an image with noise...

feathered-masking-in-opengl-context

Feathered Masking in OpenGL context

syrinx

I've been working on a set of Max for Live devices that rely heavily on JavaScript. Recently, I've been having some issues where the adding the devices to an empty Live set will instantly crash Live. Sometimes, Live will display an error that says "A serious program error has occurred. Live will shut down after this message box is closed." In other cases, Live just abruptly quits.

After doing some bisection testing, I found that the crashes were specifically being triggered by jit.gl.texture objects receiving bangs on load. Opening the Ableton crash dumps in WinDbg revealed that the last instruction preceding the crash was always jitlib!jit_handle_size_set . This led me on a bit of a wild goose chase trying to figure out if the issue had to do with initialization order, GL context creation, etc.

I noticed the problem would persist for a while, including across rebooting my computer, and then it would seemingly "fix itself," which led me to suspect that it was being caused by a file somewhere on disk rather than anything stored in memory.

I thought that the issue was perhaps being caused by the Max's database files for Live (at AppData\Roaming\Cycling '74\Max 8\Database or AppData\Roaming\Cycling '74\Max 9\Database, depending on your Max version). Deleting the files in these folders seemed to fix the issue, but now it's cropped up again. I initially posted this when I thought I had a working solution in case it was helpful to anyone else, but now I think I'm just going to submit a bug report to C74 support.

I've been working on a set of Max for Live devices that rely heavily on JavaScript. Recently, I've been having some issues where the adding...

ableton-database-corruption-causing-jitter-crashes-fyi

jit.gl.texture receiving bangs causes crashes in Max for Live

Martin Daigle

I’ve come across a few forum posts discussing ways to view PDFs in Max, but many of the suggested methods no longer seem to work. Using JWeb as a PDF viewer is a decent workaround, but I’d really like to integrate it directly inside a Jitter matrix—something that doesn’t appear to be possible at the moment.

Ideally, I’d also want better interaction within the JWeb window, such as zooming and the ability to navigate freely without relying on click-and-drag.

For example, I’m interested in building a tool for reading musical scores in PDF format, with control features mapped inside Max—such as zooming and horizontal panning—so that navigation can be handled programmatically.

Thanks in advance for any modern solution to this!

I’ve come across a few forum posts discussing ways to view PDFs in Max, but many of the suggested methods no longer seem to work. Using...

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Viewing PDFs in Jitter. Jweb options or other alternatives

I'm entering the jit.gl.pix realm and feel a bit lost...

I want to do something I guess simple : changing the saturation of an image (still image, but i guess it would be the same thing with a video clip) using [jit.gl.pix].

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