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Tom Auger

Hey folks, I have an old latching-type footswitch (Boss FC-50) and I have had some success reading the incoming latching PC data and using it to change the Ableton Looper's State parameter.

Right now it works if I have my M4L MIDI device on a MIDI channel, and then I hard-code the track and device IDs of the Looper on a separate Audio channel. This is fine when I have time to get things set up, but I'd like to take it one step further - create an Instrument Rack that contains the Looper and the M4L device to transform the incoming MIDI PC data.

So I'm wondering what the best way to do this might be? Can I create an M4L Audio device that can still read the incoming MIDI PC data from my external footswitch and bundle it into a rack?

Is it possible to read external data on anM4L Audio Device?

The other option I can think of is to use my M4L MIDI patch and build a UI that spawns a new audio track, maybe immediately to the right of the MIDI track, and then hard-code the track ID and go from there.

Is my first idea possible? Any gotchas with my second idea? Can you think of any other approaches, where the main goal is zero or low configuration required in the moment to get a looper running and responding to my old hardware?

Hey folks, I have an old latching-type footswitch (Boss FC-50) and I have had some success reading the incoming latching PC data and using...

transform-incoming-midi-to-control-looper-midi-data-on-audio-plugin

Transform Incoming MIDI to control Looper - MIDI Data on Audio Plugin?

Martin

I'm trying to move devices within a device chain using the Live Object Model (LOM), specifically the '

 function. However, I'm having trouble understanding how the parameters work. According to the documentation, the function takes the following parameters:

I haven’t been able to get it working so far and would really appreciate any insights or examples you can share.

PS. I'm also getting into Javascript right now, apparently it's also possible to control Ableton's API via the 'JS' object. Does anyone have some good tutorials regarding this specific topic?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to move devices within a device chain using the Live Object Model (LOM), specifically the 'move_device' function....

help-understanding-movedevice-function-and-lom-parameters

Help Understanding 'move_device' function and LOM Parameters

John dsfsdf

In MaxForLive, I can easily get the frame count from a movie by inserting 'read, getframecount' and routing it from the jit.movie dumpout. (see patch attached)

But now I have a jit.playlist and I can't find how to have that frame count update when I switch between movies. I tried to get the frame count from the jit.pwindow dumpout or from the jit.playlist content, nothing works. What am I missing?

Hey guys, 

In MaxForLive, I can easily get the frame count from a movie by inserting 'read, getframecount' and routing it from the...

get-frame-count-for-movies-in-a-jitplaylist

Get frame count for movies in a jit.playlist

Thierry Angers

I haven't programmed Max in over 8 years, so I'm very Rusty.  But I didn't forget how to use presentation mode.

Check my 3 pictures, and please tell me what I am doing wrong!

3rd image, I don't see presentation mode when I open my patch in Live.

presentation-mode-in-live

Presentation mode in Live

tyler mazaika

In this configuration I'm having problems with the locked_bgcolor attribute when set to a Dynamic color name ("Device Background").

Trouble is, it's only happening in .amxd that I froze/exported a while back, and which have worked correctly for more than a year.  

I've tried to reproduce the issue from scratch by mixing and matching devices exported from Max as old as 8.3.3, but I can't seem to cause the problem.

Pictures of the issue below.  Is anyone else able to reproduce something like this?

In this configuration I'm having problems with the locked_bgcolor attribute when set to a Dynamic color name ("Device Background").

Live...

max-86-live-color-theme-issues-lockedbgcolor-with-dynamic-color

Max 8.6 + Live color theme issues (locked_bgcolor with dynamic color)

Diemo Schwarz

An open question for M4L makers: Has anyone done anything to automate (at least partly) the build and distribution process of a M4L device? For me, it still involves manual steps that I'd like to avoid (by some Apple scripting magic maybe?)

1. clean out all those pesky unfrozen externals and subpatches that Live scatters everywhere on the system and that can possibly be picked up with the new  build

2. open a new Live set, add the source device

3. freeze and save to the distribution dir

An open question for M4L makers: Has anyone done anything to automate (at least partly) the build and distribution process of a M4L device?...

automating-m4l-builds

Automating M4L builds?

Caligula Cuddles

Alright, this is an odd one and probably involves something simple I'm missing, but...

I've been working on some devices, and I've noticed that certain dials (With ☒ Initial Enable and a preset value defined) don't seem to send their value until I adjust them. Is there something I'm missing?

I have a similar issue with a umenu that selects an audio source, but until I click it, there's no audio. 

Alright, this is an odd one and probably involves something simple I'm missing, but...
I've been working on some devices, and I've noticed that certain dials (With ☒ Initial Enable and a preset value defined) don't seem to send their value until I adjust them. Is there something I'm missing?
I have a similar issue with a umenu that selects an audio source, but until I click it, there's no audio. 

What am I forgetting to do here?

Alright, this is an odd one and probably involves something simple I'm missing, but...
I've been working on some devices, and I've noticed t

m4l-device-not-working-properly-until-adjusting-parameters

M4L Device not working properly until adjusting parameters

Thomas 

I need a little tool to send different midi sysex codes depending on a note pressed in Ableton.

How to get the note pitch value I found out.

But I dont know how to define and send the sysex data to the midi output bus.

So, could anyone send me a graphical example from the GUI how to program that in MaxForLive please?

Hi
I am new to MFL.
I need a little tool to send different midi sysex codes depending on a note pressed in Ableton.
How to get the note pitch value I found out.
But I dont know how to define and send the sysex data to the midi output bus.
For example: F0 43 10 12 11 00 F7

So, could anyone send me a graphical example from the GUI how to program that in MaxForLive please?

regards 
thomas


Hi
I am new to MFL.
I need a little tool to send different midi sysex codes depending on a note pressed in Ableton.
How to get the note pitc

how-to-simply-send-constant-sysex-code-to-midiout

Hmm, nobody knows how to send a fix SysEx string to the output?


you would type the message in a messagebox and connect it to midiout?...


and use decimal, not hex.
You don't want to convert note number to hex and back to decimal to be able to send that out, right ?
or use sprintf and iter to convert hex to decimal on the fly,
if you want to keep all hex.


Thank you.
So no further command is necessary for formatting.
Simply output the contents of the messagebox...

I could program myself a hex-dec converter in max for live, like above, and then manually enter it into the messagebox ;-)



you can also use [textedit] to enter the hex values (once you get it going, because it is a bit strange by default)


Use the sxformat object, in your case this is an example:

[sxformat 0xF0 0x43 0x10 0x12 0x11 0x00 0xF7] which is [sxformat 240 67 16 18 17 0 247]

You can select any part of the SysEx message to be dynamic and accept it via the 1st, 2nd, 3rd ... nth inlet, like this:

[sxformat 240 67 / is $i1 / is $i2 / is $i3 / 0 247]

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