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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

Ullstein

I built a standalone app and would like to include a function that the patcher saves to disc at closebang without having a Mac dialog appear. 

The idea is to save a few data in the app each time it is closed without asking the user to save it.

Is there any command available to do so? I checked the complete browser but cannot find any. Is there are workaround to get there?

I built a standalone app and would like to include a function that the patcher saves to disc at closebang without having a Mac dialog appear. 
The idea is to save a few data in the app each time it is closed without asking the user to save it.
Is there any command available to do so? I checked the complete browser but cannot find any. Is there are workaround to get there?
Thanks!

I built a standalone app and would like to include a function that the patcher saves to disc at closebang without having a Mac dialog appear

save-the-patcher-function-inside-a-standalone

You'll need to save stuff to the standalone's preferences folder.

Hi Andrew,
thanks for your quick response, but please forgive my stupidity:
- my app does not have or create a preference folder, or at least I cannot find it. Where would it be? In user/Library/Preferences?
- and how do I save to the preferences? Sorry I've never done that...
- is there any tutorial or so?

this 
https://cycling74.com/tutorials/get-your-max-standalone-on-apple%E2%80%99s-mac-app-store 
has  information re mac but I think you can apply it to windows too


You can set a custom name for your app's prefs using the standalone object, in its inspector.


to get the path to it, which you can use to save things. In general, users do not have permission to modify  apps folders.

Thanks Andrew and thanks to Floating Point. That solved my problem, many thanks

Sorry Andrew and Floating Point, but the problem is not solved yet. Yes I can create a folder in "~Library/Application Support", write a .txt-file into it, but I can't read it out, because the separation of the two words "Application" and "Support" makes any "read" command to the "Text"-object assuming additional arguments. When I make a symbol out of the path, it cannot find it. How do I access "Application Support" from within a patch?

you need to enclose the file path in double quotes, for example:
(read "my mac/Library/Application Support/my text.txt")

you can use the tosymbol object to help with this

Hi Floating Point,
many thanks, in the meantime I found it. I just made to many trials, so that I got confused, I had the solution already, but did not see it, due to over concentration. Sorry for bothering
Many thanks again and have a good day... Hans Peter


Save the patcher function inside a standalone

Tim Massar

Hi, new max user, i think some of my frustrations come from wanting to do things in Max the way I used to do them in Reaktor (as context)...anyway looking for advice. I wanted a phasor to be synced to the transport, used the standard delta, edge detection for creating bangs at resets to drive a counter that worked independently, but still synced to the transport. What I wanted to do was read what bar and what beat I was on then modulo the counter with the note division i chose, add all those numbers together to get the current step number in relation to the size set by the user in bars - for example, If i set my midi recording to loop every 2 bars I modulo the current bar over 2, multiply by my note division, then add the current beat multiplied by note divisions to get my starting offset value to add to my counter driving current step from 0. But, the phasor was wildly out of sync. numbers that should reset over the modulo at the same time were sometimes two or three steps behind, the phasor was inconsistently throwing out a 1 at the start instead of starting at 0, and just looking at a counter of the phasor edge detection and transport beat readout it was clear they were operating on much different wavelengths. Wish I had the project to share, it was total spaghetti wires anyway, but with all this possibly being irrelevant, what is the best way to independently clock something that is still synced to the transport?

Edit: also is there a way to hold a calculation from being processed until I receive new numbers at both inlets? Because Im still having this sync problem driving from the metronome. Numebers in modulo are rolling over to 0 before the last numbers have arrived from the previous calculation, even though they should be all arriving simulataneously.

Best way to sync a Phasor~ with transport?

best-way-to-sync-a-phasor-with-transport

Artem Malyshev

Was trying to improve on my poly sequencer and ran into an issue where poly~ seemingly ignores the contents of notemessages (messages are structured as follows: notemessage - note - list of parameters).

Things stopped working after I wrapped the "noteGen" subpatch (at the bottom) inside of a different poly object. Output messages looks to be the same but poly~ synth no longer gets it.

Poly~ doesn't receive "notemessage" contents

poly-doesnt-receive-notemessage-contents

Noise Wrangler

I'm sharing this issue to make sure I'm not the only one facing it. When using 

 state anymore. This is a new issue from 9.0.5 for me, 9.0.4 works fine. It seems to be a problem with snapshots as well but since I'm not using them, I have not made extensive tests.

I'd like to know if others face the same issue before issuing a bug report.

pattr-not-capturing-vst-state-in-905

pattr not capturing vst~ state in 9.0.5?

Jason Aylward

I'm trying to create a dict of dicts where the key is a float and the value is another dict.  I think I have all the data ready but I have not managed to get it working in pure Max.  

I've uploaded what I'm working on with comments.  My goal is to iterate through each note in a clip and generate a dict of  

{<start_time>: {"start_time": <start_time>, "duration": <duration>, "pitch": <pitch>"}}

creating-dict-of-dicts-in-max

Creating dict of dicts in Max

I think I finally got this working so I removed the half-working version and updated this post.

Setup one track with the M4L MIDI Sender effect.  This track will be your rhythmic controller.  For me, I plan to use a kick drum trigger.

Then on another track, use the attached effect with the same MIDI bus selection as the Sender.  On this track, you can setup your melodic clips.

Once a clip is playing, the effect will parse all the notes and then whenever a note is received from the Sender track, it will play whichever was the relative last note seen.  It will also play that note's duration so you can have various length notes. It also uses the Sender's velocity so you have some live dynamic control.

Finally, I added a "Fudge Factor" which adds milliseconds to the time the triggered note was received so if you play a little before the intended note, it will still catch it.  This is especially useful when trying to trigger the note as the very beginning of the clip.  If you happen to trigger early, it will appear to be at the end of the previous clip, this will nudge it up so that it appears to be at the beginning.

Hopefully that all makes sense.  Thanks again for helping out with all my questions over the last few weeks.

Drum trigger controlled melody using the LOM

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

mellowtronix

Even after changing various OS settings, it did not work...

I changed to a different machine, but it was the same...

Please let me know if there is a solution...

Max 9.0.3 doesn't start on windows11  23H2

max-903-doesnt-start-on-windows11-23h2

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

was running into some issues but I managed to figure it out. 

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