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Alex Kiesl

I'm new to Max and struggle with the problem that I want to change the Audio Output device on a Mac. From the Audio status I can see that "Build-in Output" is selected.

Now I want to change this to my external audio interface from a patch.

Hi,
I'm new to Max and struggle with the problem that I want to change the Audio Output device on a Mac. From the Audio status I can see that "Build-in Output" is selected.
Now I want to change this to my external audio interface from a patch.
How do I do this?
Same for Input Device?

new-struggling-can-set-audio-output-device-patch

I'm actually looking for a way to set the Audio device without opening the dialog.
I want to make sure my Input and Output device is automatically set to "Fireface (blabla)".

Actually you can just go into edit mode with your keyboard shortcuts while you're in the DSP dialog window and copy/paste bits from the patch. It's all created in Max patching :)

Otherwise just have a peek at the [adstatus] object help file.


adstatus did the job insofar as I can use the "option 0" and "option 1" argument and shoot them an integer message.

Unfortunately if additional interfaces appear (i.e. AirPlay) the integer numbers change. So I can not rely on the fact that shooting a 1 will always select the correct interface.

What I'm searching for is: How can I translate the device name into the correct integer for "option 0" and "option 1"?

I looks like if you use 'route', you can always get he same number for your option no matter where it is in the list. In the example I used soundflower (2ch) and (64ch) which are numbers 2 and 3 in my list but I assigned them numbers 1 and 2.


Thanks a lot for trying to help.
That's also not exactly what I'm looking for.

When I open your patcher for the first time, the drop down menu shows "Built-In Microphone".
I would want it to automatically switch it to e.g. "Soundflower (2ch)" without having to touch anything.

Therefore I'd need to know what number I have to shoot "adstatus option 0". 

Now the problem with this number seems to be:

My list currently reads
0 Built-In Microphone
1 Soundflower (2ch)
2 Soundflower (64ch)

That means, if I shoot 1 to "adstatus option 0" then "Soundflower (2ch)" will be selected.

If now suddenly an AirPlay device appears in the network, the list reads:
0 AirPlay (
1 Built-In Microphone
2 Soundflower (2ch)
3 Soundflower (64ch)

You see what happens now, if I shoot 1 to "adstatus option 0"?
"Built-In Microphone" will be selected.

So I'm searching for a solution that basically fetches the correct number of "Soundflower (2c)" and shoots this to "adstatus option 0".

So you want to report the 'new' numbers when the list changes.

I don't want to touch the drop down in the first place.

What I'm looking for is an object that does the following:

I shoot the device name (e.g. "Built-In Microphone") to the inlet and as a result this device gets set.

So if you want: I need an adstatus that takes the string instead of the integer to set the audio device.

Tried creating this yesterday for several hours but had no luck.


I didn't have any luck trying to send messages to the ads or the umenu. It is possible to populate the umenu using "prepend" or "insert" messages but its too quirky. However, I don't see the point of sending a message instead of a number. Here is why; If you are going to take up screen space with individual messages for each menu item, it seems much more efficient to use my code where you scroll through the numbers and the menu item that is being set in the umenu (and ads) is automatically reported back. That way all you really is 1 number box and 1 message box on your screen. I just updated my current patches with this code... thanks!!! Previously I was opening the ads status window by sending an open message to the adc~ and changing my ads that way... this is much more efficient.


I need to be sure the correct audio device is selected once max and the patcher start up.

The problem is that the audio device does not always have the same number in the list. So sending "adstatus option 0 2" will not always be the correct device. This depends on which audio devices are currently connected.
It might be number 2 currently, but number 1 next time, or even number 3.

So sending a static integer to adstatus is not an option.

Therefore I need an object which scans all device names and creates a list looking like this:
0 Device1
1 Device2
2 Device3
3 Device4

Then I need the object inlet to accept the name "Device3" and return the integer via its outlet: "2"

I would build the object myself but I did not have any luck in achieving it.

It doesn't matter that the list is different each time. my code reports back the device AND the number no matter where it is in the list. look again. If AirDrop (your device) is 0 then it will report that back. If AirDrop is 7 it will repot that back. Don't know why you need all the extra stuff when you can scroll the number box, set your device instantly and see the result instantly.. done.


Beyond that, I got nuthin... sorry couldn't be more help.


Thanks again. I see that. But I need complete automation in my case.
I need it to start up with setting the device automatically without human intervention. So scrolling the box is not an option for my use case.

But appreciate you trying to be helpful.


If anyone is interested, after hours of work I finally did it.

This patch you can shoot the physical input device name you want to set in the form: "My-Input-Device"
And it sets the appropriate input device using adstatus.

This can be adapted for output device by changing 0 to 1 in both "adstatus option 0" objects.
I called it "Autoselect-Input-Device".

If anyone comes up with an easier way to implement this: I'm grateful for any hints.

Realize this thread is pretty old, but I was just struggling with this myself, and found the simplest option was to bang the message "; dsp setdriver "YourDriverName" "YourSubDeviceName" ".  You can find more info on this by searching "Controlling MSP with Messages" in the documentation.

Old thread but I can't get the ;dsp setdriver message to work. If I send the message ;dsp setdriver "Core Audio" "Scarlett 18i8 USB" I get "setdriver: can't find driver" error in the console. The same applies if I try to use any other subdriver such as "Soundflower (2ch)". Sending the message without the subdriver doesn't produce the error but it also doesn't change the audio device, just the driver.

I just came across this thread while searching for the same solution.  Thanks, Alex Kiesl!  Looks like your patch is going to do pretty much what I need!

Haha. Returning here 5 years later! Now I need to use this.

"adstatus option 0" only sets the input device.  

@Tom Law. Yeah. Where's my brain! Thanks.

Who needs a brain when you have the internet?   ;)

I had some luck using a [t b b b b] to send out a series of bangs in order to populate a [umenu] from [adstatus option 0] and then send a message, prepended with [set], with the name of the device I wanted to use.  No numbers, seems to work smoothly given limited testing.  Happy for people to tell me when/how this will fail (as I'm about to build it into a standalone...)

First time posting Max code, hopefully this works:

New and struggling: How can I set the Audio Output Device from a patch?

Fede

I'm working on a physical computing project and would love some advice on spatialising sound in Max.

I've built a device with 4 load cells under a plate. These calculate the centre of force and send live OSC data to a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which then communicates with Max.

, and total force from the plate. Now, I’d like to use a piezo mic attached to the plate as a live audio input — capturing whatever physical interaction is happening (touches, taps, movement).

 based on the calculated centre of force — ideally using stereo panning (binaural-style, as it's being demoed over headphones).

Has anyone done something similar, or could point me to examples/tutorials for dynamic panning or gesture-based spatialisation in Max?

sound-spatialisation

sound spatialisation

Jason Aylward

My first approach to this was by measuring the distance between note-off and note-on messages but now that I realized that I can queue the clip for note-duration directly, I'm trying to take that approach instead.

Besides some tweaks, I feel like I'm super close.  I know that I need to fix the output note-length but right now, I'm stuck trying to figure out how to correctly use the 'gate' object or maybe there's a better way in general.

The attached patch gets the current playing clip and on each trigger, it generates a stack of notes in the clip that come before the trigger and tries to pop off the most recent note, using its pitch and duration.  The problem is that the gate is not letting the value through that's being evaluated by the condition that triggers the bang.  

A related follow up question is, what's the difference between an 

 but the gate object does not accept dict.  Is it the difference between an object and a message, since I see gate's right inlet is a "Gated Message"?

Regardless, thanks for all the help so far.  It's been a lot of fun.

My first approach to this was by measuring the distance between note-off and note-on messages but now that I realized that I can queue the...

drum-trigger-controlled-melody-using-the-lom

Drum trigger controlled melody using the LOM

I'm pretty stuck and working in circles on this little project.  It's my first week with Max in a few years also so I'm hoping to get some help before I lose hope.

My project is for essentially playing a melody via drum triggers.  I plan to have a MIDI drum track that uses the M4L MIDI Sender effect to send notes as triggers to another "melodic" track.

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