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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?


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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

Hans Tammen

I've used a quiz with my students which requires to use frame or frame_true with jit.movie. This semester it has not worked for many, as both frame and frame_true jump only to the beginning of the file regardless of what arguments we're using.

It works fine using jit.movie~ instead of jit.movie, so there was a workaround available.

I can't narrow down the technical specs: it happened using different file formats, on Windows and Mac computers, on student's and lab computers and on mine, with no discernable pattern. It may work on the student's computer but not on mine, or the other way around, and behaved differently when presented on a lab computer. But it was consistent, if it did not work on one computer, it did not work on it the next day, too. Certainly all machines used recent OS, from the last few years.

I've used a quiz with my students which requires to use frame or frame_true with jit.movie. This semester it has not worked for many, as both frame and frame_true jump only to the beginning of the file regardless of what arguments we're using. 

I can't narrow down the technical specs: it happened using different file formats, on Windows and Mac computers, on student's and lab computers and on mine, with no discernable pattern. It may work on the student's computer but not on mine, or the other way around, and behaved differently when presented on a lab computer. But it was consistent, if it did not work on one computer, it did not work on it the next day, too. Certainly all machines used recent OS, from the last few years. 

Hi,
I've used a quiz with my students which requires to use frame or frame_true with jit.movie. This semester it has not worked for many, as

frame-frame_true-issue-in-jit-movie

hi Hans, the only thing I can think of without seeing the patch is if you are using AVF engine (the default on Mac) and not taking into account the asynchronous seeking behavior, which is described in the jit.movie reference page Discussion section (linked to in each of the reference entries for frame, jump, etc).

Hi Rob, makes sense, as it would explain why it worked on half of the machines but not on the other half. That said, I identified a student's project that does not work on my machine, and changing the video engine does not make a difference. It works with our beloved chickens, though, and it works with jit.movie~.

Is it worth looking into it for C74? I can send you the project (but it includes a 10MB movie). Maybe a link to your email address? Thanks, Hans

Not so complicated to put it together... ;-)

Same problem here.
Is there a way to get jit.movie to work ?
I am on the latest Max version and Intel Mac.


Thanks for the example patch and movie file Hans. I can see jit.movie behaving unexpectedly with this file when using avf engine (though other files seem to be fine). I will have to dig in and see what's going on here. 

In the meantime you can use the viddll engine which is the same engine that jit.movie~ uses (jit.movie @engine viddll, or change your video engine Max preference).

Any suggestions for getting the avf engine to work ?
I am using the HAP codec and can not switch to the viddll engine because the poor playback of HAP movies. Long loading times, less precise playback and higer CPU load.

There is no literally no documentation about the `seeknotify` message on the jit.movie Reference page. How are we supposed to use `frame_true` in tandem with `seeknotify` ?

it's documented in both the Discussion section of the jit.movie reference page and in the help patch. Does this patch clarify?

Is there any use case where we dont want to see the frame after sending the frame message? 
From my point of view the seeknotify could be implemented into the jit.movie object.
Or does it take such a long time to load the frame?

Thank you Rob this is very clear. I think it's phrased rather awkwardly in the documentation for jit.movie … I couldn't make sense of it. 

frame & frame_true Issue in jit.movie

Noah Park-Roesel

Hi, I am currently building a patch I am struggling massively with what seemingly should be a very simple task. 

When a number object is at 5, for instance, I want the patch to output the previous number, effectively storing what it was before it was changed. So if it was a 5, and is then changed to a 7 I want to be able to store the 5 to use in a different place. And then when the same number object is changed from 7 to a 3, I want that to in turn change the same "stored" number that was previously a 5 to a 7 and so on and so on.

I have looked up "how to delay output of number until the new number is received" and other things along those lines but surprisingly have found nothing.

I would just use a basic delay object, but I want the delay to be input-dependent, not time-dependent.

Hi, I am currently building a patch I am struggling massively with what seemingly should be a very simple task. 

When a number object is...

delaying-output-of-number-until-new-number-is-recieved

Delaying output of number until new number is recieved

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

Marc Carlton

can someone help me find a link to a tutorial/reading on instantiating multiple independent instances of a bpatcher? the built in tutorial doesn't include this (or i can't understand it) and I'm having trouble understanding how to make instances not reference each other. I think I understand using patcherargs - but I'm wondering about simply connecting to inlets on each instance. IE create a bpatcher with a few inlets. Instantiate it a few times, connect stuff to those inlets on each instance; have each bpatcher process their input independently. Thanks!

can someone help me find a link to a tutorial/reading on instantiating multiple independent instances of a bpatcher?  the built in tutorial doesn't include this (or i can't understand it) and I'm having trouble understanding how to make instances not reference each other.  I think I understand using patcherargs - but I'm wondering about simply connecting to inlets on each instance. IE create a bpatcher with a few inlets.  Instantiate it a few times, connect stuff to those inlets on each instance; have each bpatcher process their input independently.  Thanks!

can someone help me find a link to a tutorial/reading on instantiating multiple independent instances of a bpatcher?  the built in tutorial 

multiple-unique-bpatchers

independent from each other is normally how bpatchers work. unless you are using send/receive, global variables, or named objects with fixed names.

what part, what objects in your bpatchers current do not work?

Hi Roman.  Thanks for your time.  In building a demo patch to post my issue, I realized my mistake!  I was using #0 s/r incorrectly. The Bpatchers are working as you describe.
Cheers.


multiple unique bpatchers

emmanuel synthétiseur

I have a main patch, which is a drum sequencer ; I wonder how to make the preset object in the main patch recall the preset number of each subpatch - I don't understand the clever way. 

(I tried using integers to send the preset number but i have to check each time the preset used in the subpatch, and save the right integer in the main patch. this is not clever, nor practical)

The patch is quite loaded with dependencies, external sounds and stuff so I made a simpler patch to illustrate the issue.

Hello, 

I have a main patch, which is a drum sequencer ; I wonder how to make the preset object in the main patch recall the preset number...

subpatches-and-presets

Subpatches & presets ?

Leon Aviles

I want to store 2 lists in coll in a certain way:

I managed to get the first list right with the iter-object but I can't get my head around the second list. I tried it with "zl.iter 2", but that only outputs the last 2 elements. 

Then I combine the two lists with zl.join and prepend store.

Is there an object that can do that, or was my approach wrong?

For reference: I want to store cuepoints from Ableton with their individual names.

The live.object only accepts the id-number as e.g. "id 1", so with a space in between...

join-2-lists-and-store-them-in-coll

Join 2 lists and store them in coll

Joe Donaghey

In this patch i have 2 oscillator - one to modulate the other - but when I click "off" to turn the modulation off (it send a signal to a gate to close the output and the flow of my 2nd oscillator) i can no longer hear my original oscillator even though that signal flow should still be open.

If i remove the patch cables to my cycle/saw/rect/tri objects coming from the 2nd oscillator and only leave the patch cables from the first oscillator then i have no problem.

So, my issue must be stemming from my gate that turns modulation on and off. But why?

No signal when I bypass my modulation signal

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