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Alex Walsh

I'm a gear head and quite new to M4L. I have been building a hardware latency calculator to help measure my synths latency. This would primarily be used for determining the 'Hardware Latency' time to be applied to an 'External Instrument' device. 

I've tried two main methods of doing this

1. Measuring the time it takes from [Note Out] until I hear the audio back in my [plugin~] - with this method it compensates for the Sample Rate, Buffer Size and Project Latency. The issues arose with the project latency which (correct me if Im wrong) is not an available readable value from ableton, so I was trying my best to calculate it on its own (Scanning all the plugins in a project, adding up all the latency etc). This took awhile as there were always new places a plugin could be (i.e. Groups within Groups or Drum Rack Return Tracks). Yet after all this work, though accurate 90% of the time, in some big projects, it was still miscalculating somewhere along the way.

2.  I'd try to bypass all this compensation by sending a click & and [noteout] at the same time. I'd route the click internally (yet still have project latency) and then I'd just measure the difference in time for the click audio to come back in and the audio from the synth. This method seemed to introduce more latency to the click. 

I can go into more detail but I'm curious if anyone has tried to tackle anything similar to this and has any suggestions on how to approach it? Am I on the right track or am I missing something that would make this whole process easier?

I'm a gear head and quite new to M4L. I have been building a hardware latency calculator to help measure my synths latency. This would...

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Latency Measurement within M4L

Jose Bedoya

Hello everyone, I hope you are very well. I have the following problem, I hope you can help me to solve it:

I am creating a M4L device, which, a part of its user interface is created using HTML and displayed with the jweb component. This component reads a local .html file in which is the code of the interface.

However, when I export the project as M4L device and transfer the .amxd file to another pc to open it with ableton, the jweb component fails to find the .html file. But when, from ableton, I open the patch editor and unfreeze it, max writes the .html file and finally, the jweb component manages to find it and display the created interface.

Is there any way that, automatically, when the end user loads the device to Ableton, it writes to the .html file, so that he doesn't have to do the whole process of unfreezing and reloading the device after that?

I am also getting other suggestions on how I could display user interface created in HTML.

Hello everyone, I hope you are very well. I have the following problem, I hope you can help me to solve it:

I am creating a M4L device,...

export-m4l-device-with-html-gui

Export M4L device with html GUI? 

Emma Ainsley

I'd like to be able to get a score into Max/Max for Live and have the computer play it replacing scored pitches with random pitches. I've been exploring Bach but I'm struggling to see how this could be acheived. Would this even be possible and if so, is there an existing tool that would do the job or would I need to build it from scratch?

Hi

I'd like to be able to get a score into Max/Max for Live and have the computer play it replacing scored pitches with random pitches....

playback-of-a-score-replacing-scored-pitches-with-random-pitches

Playback of a score replacing scored pitches with random pitches

Ruben R

A brief introduction to what I am trying to build: I am writing a Max Audio Effect that reads incoming audio into a buffer~ (eventually for processing/manipulation), where a 'time' knob sets the rate at which a new audio buffer is acquired. A phasor~ object serves as the main engine of the patch, where every wave represents a new sample being recorded/played. Changing the time knob will update the sample period once the wave has finished and the old buffer has been played completely. Furthermore, I made a Freeze/Record mechanism: Record mode is the mode I just described; in Freeze mode, no new audio will be recorded into the audio buffer, and the current buffer will be looped.

The audio is being recorded using two poke~ objects (one for left outlet of plugin~, one for right outlet of plugin~), and is being played using two index~ objects (one for left inlet of plugout~, one fot right inlet of plugout~). The buffer~ has been set to have two channels. The I/O mappings seem to have been set-up correctly for stereo sound.

However, when I use the audio effect, the incoming stereo sound becomes mono. When I pan completely left (using Utility device) no sound can be heard, and when I pan completely right, the sound comes through both ears. This is only the case when the patch is closed. When I open up the patch (using the edit button) and leave the effect turned on, the sound is perfectly stereo and panning left and right shows expected behaviour.

Does anyone have an idea how this may be caused? When I connect a noise~ object to the left inlet of plugout, and a cycle~ object to the right inlet of plugout~, I can hear the stereo sound working perfectly fine. (Note: I am using Max 8)

A brief introduction to what I am trying to build: I am writing a Max Audio Effect that reads incoming audio into a buffer~ (eventually for...

sound-is-stereo-when-patch-opened-but-mono-when-closed

Sound is stereo when patch opened, but mono when closed

eli7vh

I looked in the "getinfo", but couldn't find a way to select all the sub tracks in a group.. so this is my solution.. it seems wild.

My goal is to select all the sister devices of this plugin , and perform an action (a macro) 

I welcome any alternate approaches, still only a couple weeks into learning. 

I looked in the "getinfo", but couldn't find a way to select all the sub tracks in a group.. so this is my solution.. it seems wild.

My...

select-all-tracks-belonging-to-a-group

Select All Tracks belonging to a group

Diemo Schwarz

I'm looking for tips and experiences how best to go about controlling specific M4L devices from TouchOSC. This is based on stuff working in Max that I want to port to Live.  I'm not so familiar yet with the LOM and so on, and am happy about all general pointers, too.

My starting point is (left part of the diagram below):

What I'd like to achieve (might look like the right part of the diagram, but maybe there are better ways):

I'm looking for tips and experiences how best to go about controlling specific M4L devices from TouchOSC. This is based on stuff working in...

touchosc-switchable-mapping-to-m4l-device

TouchOSC switchable mapping to M4L Device

zzz900

I am looking for a way to have my device tell push 3 to keep the touchstrip in modwheel mode when the track with the device is active. 

I would like to use copies of my simple scratching sampler in a drum rack. Unfortunately the touchstrip goes to octave mode when there is a drum rack, but I need it to stay in modhweel mode so I can use it for the scratching / pitching of the samples.  

Perhaps there is a nice solution? I have searched but found nothing.

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Push 3 - touchstrip takeover questions

John montroy

Hi! I'm writing a M4L device in which I'm hoping to programmatically freeze (and, optionally, flatten) some subset of tracks. I've perused the 

 docs and the object model doesn't seem to have any functions that would help me - just some 

Is there some sneaky way to freeze + flatten tracks via the Live API's exposed Object Model? Or is this a feature I can request? Or is this not a good idea, or otherwise impossible due to some structural constraint in Max For Live, etc. etc.

Hi! I'm writing a M4L device in which I'm hoping to programmatically freeze (and, optionally, flatten) some subset of tracks. I've perused...

way-to-freeze-flatten-tracks-via-live-api

Way to freeze + flatten tracks via Live API?

flpvsk

Hi, I'm making a utility that would allow to merge MIDI on/off messages with the MIDI pitch information from two different sources in Live.

I have that system working using two M4L Midi Effects. One uses

  and then manupulates the two sources accordingly.

Question: could I use Live Object API to instead just have one M4L device that would have a 

 and a dropdown to select one of the other MIDI Live tracks as the second source?

Or, alternatively, could I make the name of the "channel" used by 

 variable? So I can have many instances of the MIDI Effect pairs?

merge-midi-from-two-live-tracks

Merge MIDI from two Live tracks

KLEROS

I'm experiencing some issues with having a pfft~ subpatch inside a Max4Live patch, and I'm not sure what the root of the problem is. My guess at the moment is just having this pfft~ subpatch, since I have never had any problems with my other patches or even having a poly~ subpatch. 

Both the main patch (.amxd) and the subpatch (.maxpat) are in the same folder: /Ableton/User Library/Presets/Audio Effects/ Max Audio Effects/

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