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felipe vaz

After struggling to control the leds in my Akai MIDIMix (cheap control surface with 9 faders and 24 knobs), I managed to do it thanks to an unofficial communication protocol I found 

This is the test code if anyone wants it, any contributions are more than welcome.

midimix-lights2.maxpat

After struggling to control the leds in my Akai MIDIMix (cheap control surface with 9 faders and 24 knobs), I managed to do it thanks to an unofficial communication protocol I found here.   

After struggling to control the leds in my Akai MIDIMix (cheap control surface with 9 faders and 24 knobs), I managed to do it thanks to an 

controlling-akai-midi-mix-leds

Felipe, thank you so much for making this patch.
But I can't get it to work. I am using it within Ableton Live. It is communicating with my MIDImix. When it starts up it lights up all the buttons, but no matter what I do, I can't get the lights to turn off again.
I want to use it to control sends (toggle off and on), and could really do with the lights to indicate whether they are activated or not.

Hi Felipe, 

Thanks you very very much for making this patch. I would like to have this as a working .amxd file to work with Ableton, would you be interested in helping me out? I'll buy you a coffee. :-)

Controlling Akai MIDI Mix LEDs

mendel lee

I am a seasoned Max user but a beginner at M4L.

In Max, I have built various patches over the years focusing on event triggering based on live performance (both audio and MIDI). I want to leverage these existing patches as a mechanism for triggering Live scenes.

This is partially from a current comfort level/knowledge state - a part of me would prefer to trigger scenes purely in Live so that only one program needs to be used, but I'm not confident that the way I use native Max to trigger is possible in M4L - much of what I've seen in M4L tutorials assumes use cases of enhancing Live instruments/effects, etc with Live still being the "commander" and Max being the "worker". I want the opposite, to have Max patches be the commander that controls which and when Live scenes get activated in ways that native Live does not.

This is also partially from an interface/preference state. I want to use Max to create a custom UI that makes it easy for a performer who is not knowledgeable in Live (or Max) to track the current status of the performance, make basic adjustments (e.g. gain based on the acoustic space), start from a particular rehearsal mark, etc.

 that has some example patches using [live.object] and [live.path] to control Live scenes, but the help states that they can only work within M4L. So I have two branching-path questions:

using-max-patches-to-trigger-live-scenes

Using Max patches to trigger Live scenes

Dan Nigrin

I can't figure out how to change the default font size in newly created patchers within Max 9.  It used to be a setting in Preferences... Is it somehow wrapped up in Themes now? 

default font size in new patchers in Max 9?

default-font-size-in-new-patchers-in-max-9

Toby Fox

tl;dr: I have a jweb object in my patcher with a custom UI implemented as a webpage, but it's unusable since keypresses get passed through to Live, so for instance if you hit spacebar, it does input a spacebar in the jweb page's textarea, but it also sends play/pause through to Live.

Is there a setting or a workaround to make this work?

Interestingly, if you set jweb render mode to "onscreen", every single keypress is passed to both the patcher and Live (i.e. pressing "a" inputs an "a" in the jweb page but also toggles Automation Mode in Live), but if you set jweb render mode to "offscreen", most keypresses are 

 passed through to Live, but spacebar is. In all cases, command shortcuts are intercepted and don't work in the jweb page (i.e. you can't press cmd+c to copy in the jweb page, nothing happens).

I've tried using JS to capture keypress events and do preventDefault and stopPropagation, but that doesn't help.

This happens in patcher popouts too, and I've tried various window flags like float, but it doesn't help.

If you open the patcher in the Max editor, it works as expected: jweb captures all keypresses and shortcuts and they're not passed through to Live.

Textedit objects of course work as expected.

This problem only happens on Mac, works fine on Windows.

To reproduce, you can simply add a jweb object to a patcher, pointing to 

Any way to prevent Max jweb object from passing all keyboard input through to Live?

any-way-to-prevent-max-jweb-object-from-passing-all-keyboard-input-through-to-live

mestre andré

I just installed the Max 8.6.0 upgrade + RNBO, from Max 7, and I have this issue at startup. Even before Max window showing, I get this error message more than once:

I'm running Max on a 2012 MBP with High Sierra

node-quit-unexpectedly

HELP: node quit unexpectedly

jasch

The ICST Ambisonics package for multichannel spatial audio and algorithmic source control has seen an extensive overhaul and is now available in the Max Package Manager and/or on our institutional download page: 

https://www.zhdk.ch/en/research/icst/software-downloads-5379/downloads-ambisonics-externals-for-maxmsp-5381

The ICST Ambisonics package for multichannel spatial audio and algorithmic source control has seen an extensive overhaul and is now available in the Max Package Manager and/or on our institutional download page: https://www.zhdk.ch/en/research/icst/software-downloads-5379/downloads-ambisonics-externals-for-maxmsp-5381 

Hello,
The ICST Ambisonics package for multichannel spatial audio and algorithmic source control has seen an extensive overhaul and is now a

icst-ambisonics-version-3-available

Hi Jasch,
thanks for this new ICST update.

Two things:

1) When I use the download link on your institutional page and try to expand the downloaded archive, I get the following error:
Unable to expand "icst_ambisonics_v3.0.1.zip" into "Downloads".

2) Is the source code for this new version available? I might have asked you the same question in the past (for an older version) and you were kind enough to send the code to me privately, however I was wondering if there is a code repository online where users may be able to browse the code, contribute to it and/or report issues, etc...

1) We've seen this problem before, there seems to be a issue on the server, sometimes the package does not downloaded completely. The correct size for v3.0.1 is 9'805'223 bytes (under macOS). As mentioned, the package is also available in the Max Package Manager, so there is always a way to get it.

2) The code is hosted on our institutional gitlab and can only be accessed by members of staff. I'm happy to share the code on a case by case basis. The email route for reporting issues remains the best option. 

Hi Jasch,
Thank you very much for this update.
I am writing to ask if it's possible to getting a compile version with new Mac with 64bit AArch structure . Or since the architecture is not support on the new mac, do you know any solution on using this external on new Mac now? 

The release of the 3.0.2 package with FAT binaries for both Intel and arm64 architectures (Apple Silicon) is imminent. Watch this space.

Thank you very much for this update. I'm on new Mac now. This external doesn't support on this architecture. Is there any solution for install this package in new mac?

You can install the existing package and run it under Max 8.2 with Rosetta (read https://cycling74.com/forums/max-8-2-released), 
Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the upcoming package which we are preparing to release soon.

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ICST Ambisonics version 3 available

bdhm

I guess this is very easy -- but I don't know how.

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I am searching for a simple way to save the data of a breakpoint function into a coll and to recall this data.

I guess  this is very easy -- but I don't know how.

I am searching for a simple way to save the data of a breakpoint function into a coll and to recall this data.
I guess by a dump message .. but how?

preset-for-breakpoint

You're right about using the dump message, you need to format each list [function] spits out with an index number for [coll]. In the example below I've used [counter] and some [prepend]s. To get the [coll] data into a second [function] object I've used [grab] to find the number of items stored in [coll] and then an [uzi].

preset for breakpoint

jychow

I am reading on Robert Rowe "Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing" and I would like to open the examples from the CD. All the files are in "Max Binary File" and I can't open via Max6. Can anyone share with me how to open this old format of max file in max6?

help-for-open-old-max-binary-file

If you go to https://cycling74.com/downloads/older/ and download Max 4.6 Runtime you'll be able to open the patches but not edit them.
If you need to unlock them, you could always download the full version and run it in demo mode, and then visually copy them as Max 6 patches,
Cheers
Roger


I was going to write that Max 5 still reads the old format and converts it to the newer JSON-based format (what it won't do is write to the old format). So you'd need a full version (or at least the demo version during its 30-day trial).

However, it seems that Max 6 also reads the old format as long as the file has one of the standard file-name extensions (.mxb or .pat should get you through the night). Rob's book was written in the days when Mac OS-users didn't need file-name extensions and generally treated the things with scorn and contempt. Times change.

So, short answer: just rename and add .mxb to the file name. Let us know if that does the trick.


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