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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

DaSheng Hen

I use js code to randomly generate 10 numbers and save them in dict. I can receive the numbers normally, but why does dict always prompt "dict: doesn't understand "int"" ?

dict-error-message

Dict error message

Jan M

 is end of life since long. The goto solution for using a DMX USB Pro recently was using the serial object directly.

I wanted to start learning to write Max externals, and I chose to create an external for the DMX USB Pro.

A beta version of the package is available here: 

https://github.com/janmech/jam/releases/tag/1.0-beta

https://github.com/janmech/jam/releases/tag/1.0

 for sending and receiving DMX data from the interface  and

 for use with audio signals (sending DMX data only).

To install, download and unpack the zip package and copy it to the Max Packages folder. On first load of the externals Max might ask you to remove the quarantine attribute. Just confirm and continue (I don't have a paid Apple developer account, that's why). 

The externals are compiled for MacOS 10.15 and later and should load on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Looking forward for feedback and if there is interest in continuing this little project also collaborators are very welcome!

The good old external from nullmedium is end of life since long. The goto solution for using a DMX USB Pro recently was using the serial...

sharing-my-take-on-an-enttec-dmx-usb-pro-external

[sharing] My take on an ENTTEC DMX USB Pro external

sugoza

After using Max for over 10 years, I'm writing in the forum for the first time, because I have a big error.

For my long-term project - a MIDI looper - I bought a new device. The Yamaha Finger Drum Pad FGDP-50 which I really enjoy.

Here is my problem: The „midiin“ object swallows notes that were definitely sent. Sometimes a NOTE ON is missing and sometimes a NOTE OFF. This doesn't happen in the MIDI Monitor app or in Ableton live. No data is missing there! So the device ist working correctly but Max/Msp makes troubles. The same mistake happens with xmidiin, notein, xnotein. I never had a problem with other midi master keyboards.

I've tried a lot of things. I've tried it with the latest Max version and with a older Version. I've tried it with and without overdrive. I am working on a mac.

Could this be a „midiin“ bug? Is there another midi in object? Is there a workaround without „midiin“?

Hey Max users,

After using Max for over 10 years, I'm writing in the forum for the first time, because I have a big error.

For my...

midiin-missing-note-on-and-offs

"midiin" missing NOTE ON and OFFs

KatKaDe

I need MaxMSP for Linux because there is only a Linux for my Max patches. I need it ASAP.

As far as I know there is only Max for Mac OS X and for Windows, but not for Linux.

SO, I WOULD SUGGEST TO THE PEOPLE IN Cycling'74 TO DEVELOP Max FOR Linux AS WELL.

SO, I WOULD SUGGEST TO  THE PEOPLE IN Cycling'74 TO DEVELOP Max FOR Linux AS WELL.

maxmsp-for-linux

YEAH RIGHT NOW GET ON WITH IT YOU LAZY CYCLING74 !!!

(actually having to miss Max is pretty much the only thing keeping me from moving to linux...)


:O
is this for real ?!
on a more constructive note : maxMSP on linux won't happen in the foreseeable future, use PD or move to a non-free OS, those are the only alternatives


MaxMSP for Linux !?!?!?

Carlos Araneta

I'm studying the Step by Step book by Greg Taylor and i'm stuck on one of the first examples, namely the rotating group sequence patch. Basically i wanted the live.step object to display the sequence of each slot i choose on the matrixctrl object but it doesn't, i wanted to change the sequences of the other patterns on the matrixctrl since this patch is an example of a polyphony mode but so far i can't let it display it. is there by any chance i'm missing a message, argument, or attribute in this one? Thank you

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Hi all,
I'm studying the Step by Step book by Greg Taylor and i'm stuck on one of the first examples, namely the rotating group sequence pat

rotating-group-sequence-question

Hello, Carlos.

I'm not entirely certain of what it is you wish to do, but let me see if we can hone in on it

The matrixctrl object that feeds the right inlet of the sequence_select abstraction just displays the current state of the individual sequences in the "stack" that are being triggered. you select the specific sequencer using the umenu item attached to the rotate_me abstraction. The ones and zeros indicate which of the 8 stacked sequences will be played - you'll notice that the pattern displayed in the matrixctrl object corresponds to the umenu pattern of zeros and ones as it rotates through the sequence of 8 patterns,

If you want to change the contents of that first stack, you use the umenu connected to the mode $1 message box, of course. I left off the display of each stack individually because it was going to be a part of a series of homework assignments for persons using the book as a classroom text. There are a number of places in each chapter where the absence of something can be explained by that simple fact. :-)

When it comes to that stuff, a quick look at the very first tab of the live.step object's help file should be of some assistance, since it shows you how to select which sequence you wish to display, and also the message you use to tell the live.step object which sequence you want to edit. I hope this helps.

(Oh... and I prefer Gregory. Thanks.)

Thanks for the response. I figured that would be the case in which the individual stacks would be an upcoming exercise on how to make it display in the live.step object. I just assumed that it can be viewed already by the way the patch is already.  I thought i can view the sequence of each stack on the live.step object by pressing the matrixctrl,  kinda like the previous patch before this on your book, the one where we can do a display switch by using the tab object. 

Rotating group sequence question

Olivier

I was about to write about some very strange behavior of deltaclip~ , when I saw this thread:

https://cycling74.com/forums/deltaclip-clips-at-zero-is-this-a-bug

This post is almost 10 years old (!) so I guess it is not a bug... but I still don't understand it. Try opening the deltaclip~ help patcher. Start DSP, click on the toggle. The signal slopes to 1. Then try to decrease the value in the float box over middle inlet.

1) The signal value drops unexpectecly: why?

Then, try increasing the value in the second float box, over the third inlet of the object.

Then, try moving back this second float box value to 1. (default - gets multiplied by 0.00001). Nothing happens, as expected . But all arguments being the same, the result is different from the beginning of our "experiment".

Try then to change the input signal to -1.

The output signal from deltaclip~ slopes to 0. and from then on it is impossible to get deltaclip~ to output any negative signal value.

I was about to write about some very strange behavior of deltaclip~ , when I saw this thread:
https://cycling74.com/forums/deltaclip-clips-at-zero-is-this-a-bug

This post is almost 10 years old (!) so I guess it is not a bug... but I still don't understand it. Try opening the deltaclip~ help patcher. Start DSP, click on the toggle. The signal slopes to 1. Then try to decrease the value in the float box over middle inlet. 

1) The signal value drops unexpectecly: why? 

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