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benriva

For some reason I cant get my bare conductive board to communicate with Max. I have followed all of the directions to a T. The Data stream seems to be working fine with my touch board and Max recognizes the port, however, when I select the port I am not receiving any data from the data stream. Any Ideas?

Hello Community.
For some reason I cant get my bare conductive board to communicate with Max.  I have followed all of the directions to a T.  The Data stream seems to be working fine with my touch board and Max recognizes the port, however, when I select the port I am not receiving any data from the data stream. Any Ideas?


problems-with-communication-between-bare-conductive-touch-board-and-max

Happy to help. I wrote the tutorial so I better be able to! I'll be referencing this tutorial in my answers: http://www.bareconductive.com/make/the-touch-board-maxmsp/

Just to confirm can you see the DataStream output in the serial monitor as in step 2 of the tutorial? If you can see that (which it sounds like you can) then you are part of the way there. 

Next, make sure that the max patch and the arduino sketch are closed. Unplug and plug the Touch Board back in and open up the max patch. Now try selecting the serial port. If it is not obvious which one the Touch Board is, just try each. Make sure to wait a few seconds before selecting the next one. If this doesn't work we can dig a bit more into the patch to see what is going on.


Hello there. I'm having the same problem. Can see the data fine in Arduino's serial monitor but not a flicker of life in Max. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks!

Problems with communication between bare conductive touch board and Max

Leon Aviles

I'm trying to figure out how I can achieve 2 oscillators which are exactly the same with 2 different methods:

My approach could be a bit strange, but I'm feeding a cycle into a change~ then scale it 0-1 and output it directly to the dac. I wanted to "simulate" the logic of analog circuit square waves, which also only work with "Hi and low". So I want an oscillator that works with 0 and 1 basically. (Of course I can't simulate the analog circuit 100% but the idea is clear I think)

For my project however I also need a non signal rate oscillator (for controlling a sequencer), which has to be exactly the same as the signal rate one. (I like the idea of having "the same" oscillator for the sequencing and the sound:))

I tested it with a conversion via snapshot with the vector size at 1. To hear it I of course have to convert it back to the signal world (sig~), which at low frequencies of the oscillator works, but at higher frequencies distorts.

Could it be because the sig~ object isn't fast enough to match the speed of the signal rate oscillator?

Signal Rate oscillator vs. "snapshot convertet rate"

signal-rate-oscillator-vs-snapshot-convertet-rate

Ellie

Hi, I have a problem with opening Max MSP files.

From some day files are not opened by double click, and when I first open the program, the message in the title always comes up on the console. So every time I open the program I need to press option+O on my Macbook. I believe I didn't change anything back then.... Maybe it could be my laptop's problem, but so far I have no idea.

bad-arguments-for-message-recentfile

Bad arguments for message "recentfile"

Steve Horne

I have created a tutorial on how to record and playback control input automation using Max.  Feedback welcome!

recording-automation-using-max

Recording automation using Max

Manus Sweeney

When i add objects to the presentation window and move them, I can see them in the patch window (double objects.

Is there a way to hide these from the patch window?

presentation-objects-visible-in-patcher

Presentation Objects visible in Patcher

DaSheng Hen

I have implemented this functionality (with a small bug at the beginning), but my implementation is quite complex. 

I'm sure there's a simpler and clearer way to achieve this. 

create-a-smooth-loop-from-0-to-1-to-0

Create a smooth loop from 0 to 1 to 0.

Joshua Emmons

I'm pulling my hair out trying to get a windowed fft to spectral plot~ working. Looking at the example in plot~.maxhelp, though, the graph plotted by windowed-fft~ slowly climbs, eclipses the unwindowed FFT, and then recedes again. Surely that's not normal, right?

I suspect the [count~ 1 1024 1 1] to [-~ 1] to be at fault. Seems like that would give numbers between 0–1022 then loop again?

I suspect the [count~ 1 1024 1 1] to  [-~ 1] to be at fault. Seems like that would give numbers between 0–1022 then loop again?

I'm pulling my hair out trying to get a windowed fft to spectral plot~ working. Looking at the example in plot~.maxhelp, though, the graph p

is-windowed-fft~-broken

Is windowed-fft~  broken?

Troy Cole

Hello. Can someone guide me towards info as to how to make your own mc.wrappers? for instance I would like to make a sinusoids~ wrapper. Unless I am totally 

 movs misunderstanding (probably..), it seems like we should be able to make wrappers from any signal generators/processors?

Hello. Can someone guide me towards info as to how to make your own mc.wrappers? for instance I would like to make a sinusoids~ wrapper....

own-mcwrappers

Own mc.wrappers?

mmprod

When I open my RNBO patch, I cannot edit it. In the bottom left corner the marker icon (read-only) is left greyed out and I cannot click on it.  In addition, the 'Modify Read-Only' button from the file menu is greyed out. This means I can't edit the patcher anymore.

I'm probably making  a simple mistake. Does anyone know how I can remedy this?

rnbo-patcher-is-stuck-on-read-only

RNBO patcher is stuck on read only

gweilo

Since I installed Max 8 I cannot use the Reference system anymore. It says that Search is unavailable as Max is rebuilding the database. Restarting Max, rebooting nor leaving Max open for a very long time help. 

Since I installed Max 8 I cannot use the Reference system anymore.  It says that Search is unavailable as Max is rebuilding the database.  Restarting Max, rebooting nor leaving Max open for a very long time help. 
Someone any idea?

Since I installed Max 8 I cannot use the Reference system anymore.  It says that Search is unavailable as Max is rebuilding the database.  R

rebuilding-database

If Max is rebuilding the database, you should wait until the rebuild has completed. Have you done that, or have you just restarted the minute you saw the error message? Last time that happened to me, I just waited and it worked fine (I needed the rebuild because I'd trashed my Preferences, etc.).

Yesterday I waited for 6 or 8 hours, I'd say that would be enough. 
I just noticed that the search function of the file browser works fine (and very fast!), it's just the Reference search which complains.

Installing Max for the 3rd time solved the problem :-)

Brilliant upgrade btw, I can't believe how much faster everything is now!

Even after multiple uninstalls I'm still experiencing this issue, and can't use the search function at all. Has anyone figured out a direct fix for this issue?

I filed a bug report and after some investigating Cycling 74 sent me a new Node for Max package which solved my problem. I recommend you do the same. Cycling's support is pretty awesome :-)

If you still encounter this issue, please get in touch with the C74 support.

Rebuilding Database

Ben Bracken

This update contains a single fix for issues related to having a path name in Max's search path that contains "extended" characters. If your OS is using a language other than English and you are experiencing crashes on launch, this may be fixed with this update.

See a descriptive overview of many of the new features in Max 9:

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