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spin lud

Hi, I have some Jitter visualizations to play in sync with music. Currently I am projecting them the normal way on a 16:9 projector screen. 

For an upcoming event they’re designing a wall behind the stage with raised shapes representing the venue’s logo. They’ve asked me to project visuals only inside these shapes, leaving the rest of the wall blank.

I’ve never done something like this before — what could I use? I saw that it’s possible to do projection mapping in Max using 

.meshwarp, but I’m not sure if it works for this scenario since I’d need to leave certain areas dark. Maybe some sort of mask should be applied? I also don’t quite understand if this is something I can prepare before the event or if it’s mapping that has to be done on site.

Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed?

Hi, I have some Jitter visualizations to play in sync with music. Currently I am projecting them the normal way on a 16:9 projector screen....

projection-mapping-or-masking

Projection mapping or masking?

Mark Wallace

I have created what I think is the simplest possible patcher to test audio dropout problems I'm having in my system. This preloads a 500 ms sound, and then plays this in an infinite loop with a 500 ms delay added. See screenshot (I know the play 0 message doesn't do anything here).

I have now tested this on 4 different systems, and on every one this reliably produces dropouts that get worse and worse over time, to the point where after several hours it is frequently degraded beyond recognition. 

It also reliably degrades performance on one of these systems (which uses a Madiface USB output), so that even after we close Max, the computer cannot do tasks like play a short video without massive graphical artifacts, indicating a GPU crash, and stuttering. Windows reliability monitor shows error logs which mention the madiface clock failing to sync. If you leave it playing for long enough, the computer crashes, but only this computer, not the other ones we have tested. This is an extraordinarily powerful computer, and Task Manager shows no unusual CPU, GPU, or network usage (all well under 30%). 

So far as I am aware, these are two distinct issues: 1) Audio dropouts on all systems after an hour or more of playing this patcher, and 2) crippling system slowdown that only affects one system, possibly because of something to do with the Madiface.

I'm aware that audio processing is subject to dropouts and can interact in unpredictable ways with system resources, but surely the level of processing here is tiny. What am I not understanding here? What can be done to mitigate this?

Hi,

I have created what I think is the simplest possible patcher to test audio dropout problems I'm having in my system. This preloads a...

audio-dropouts-with-extremely-simple-looping-patcher

Audio dropouts with extremely simple looping patcher

R_Gol

How can I make the dialog object open when patch is first open (this is easy - using loadbang) and to ask the user to choose between two names ?  is it possible to change the build in selection of yes no or OK cancel to something else?   

How can I make the dialog object open when patch is first open (this is easy - using loadbang) and to ask the user to choose between two...

dialog-to-choose-between-two-names-when-patch-is-opened

dialog to choose between two names when patch is opened 

Diemo Schwarz

I have a polyphonic synth that takes MPE (channel per note) using 

For it to accept non-MPE input (all notes on same channel), it needs a different path:

What's would be the easiest way to accept all types of controllers through the same midiin,  e.g. by converting non-MPE to MPE, using channel rotation (borax?).

Or would it be better to route the non-MPE controller's MIDI events by channel, but how to do that on the raw MIDI stream / reconverting mpeevent to midievent?

 The poly voice's polymidiin seems to kind of usurp [in 1] and blocks all other messages to poly~'s first inlet.  You need [in 2] if you want to send anything else into the poly voices.

I have a polyphonic synth that takes MPE (channel per note) using 

main patch:  midiin --> mpeeparse --[right outlet's mpeevent...

best-way-to-handle-mpe-and-classic-midi-input-for-a-polysynth

Best way to handle MPE and classic MIDI input for a polysynth?

Aqeel Aadam

I'm primarily a plug-in developer, but I'm trying to put together a M4L wrapper for my plug-in, so that it can be used in Ableton a bit more easily.

My setup is pretty simple, at it's core. Basically 

Here's the issue that I'm having: whatever MIDI I send into 

 seems to get passed through unaffected, in addition to whatever the plug-in actually generates/outputs. One feature of my plug-in is that it can transpose notes. So in that case, it takes the incoming note, generates a new note with a different pitch, and removes the original from the stream. However, with M4L I'm seeing that the original note still passes through the 

 object, so rather than transposing, I get an interval/chord.

I've combed through the options and messages that 

 accepts, but I'm not seeing some obvious control for whether or not MIDI should be passed through. I'm kind of a noob though, so it's very possible that I've missed something.

I'm primarily a plug-in developer, but I'm trying to put together a M4L wrapper for my plug-in, so that it can be used in Ableton a bit...

vst-hosting-a-midi-plug-in-seems-to-pass-dry-signal-through

vst~ hosting a MIDI plug-in seems to pass "dry" signal through?

I made an abstraction and gave it a name. 

when I place this abstraction object and add it an id (lets say SUN) it will replace the #1 in the route object but will not do it in the sprintf object.

how can I make it to replace the 1# in the sprintf object a well?

I made an abstraction and gave it a name. 

when I place this abstraction object and add it an id (lets say SUN) it will replace the #1 in...

abstraction-that-load-variable-into-an-object

abstraction that load variable into an object?

Eric Sterling

This seems to be related to what @Wonderchild reported last week.

I have a JUCE UI controlling my RNBO project and so far everything is working fine.

I have a couple buffers though, and in my MAX/MSP test harness for the RNBO project they work fine.

But with JUCE, my external buffers do not seem to be making it into RNBO.

Any value I set with JUCE has no effect, and even though I am "poking" values in RNBO, in JUCE all I see are '0's.

Here is the code I am using to set up the buffers, is there anything obviously wrong?

(within JUCE, I can set/read values from these buffers just fine)

void CustomAudioProcessor::setExternalBuffers()
{
    sequenceBuffer = std::make_unique<float[]>(256); 
    matrixModBuffer = std::make_unique<float[]>(30000);
    matrixModSummaryBuffer = std::make_unique<float[]>(1000);
    wavetablesBuffer = std::make_unique<float[]>(98304);   

    RNBO::UntypedDataBuffer fwBufferType;

    this->_rnboObject.setExternalData(
        "sequences",
        reinterpret_cast<char*>(sequenceBuffer.get()),
        256 * sizeof(float),
        fwBufferType
    );

    this->_rnboObject.setExternalData(
        "matrix_mod",
        reinterpret_cast<char*>(matrixModBuffer.get()),
        30000 * sizeof(float),
        fwBufferType
    );

    this->_rnboObject.setExternalData(
        "matrix_mod_summary",
        reinterpret_cast<char*>(matrixModSummaryBuffer.get()),
        static_cast<int>(1000 * sizeof(float)),
        fwBufferType
    );

    this->_rnboObject.setExternalData(
        "wavetables",
        reinterpret_cast<char*>(wavetablesBuffer.get()),
        98304 * sizeof(float),
        fwBufferType
    );

}

This seems to be related to what @Wonderchild reported last week.

I have a JUCE UI controlling my RNBO project and so far everything is...

external-buffers-with-jucernbo

External Buffers with JUCE/RNBO

Dan Laüt

Objective: dialog produces output on OK if any text entered, else bang.

Approach: load a register with some token; open dialog; if OK without entering text, bang register to output token and route token, else output input thru register.

Issue: the routed token does produce a bang, but it does not trigger the message. How can this be?

Objective: dialog produces output on OK if any text entered, else bang.

Approach: load a register with some token; open dialog; if OK...

empty-dialog-output

Empty dialog output

Davide Bosi

Hi! I’m new to Max/Jitter. Is it possible to create a hemisphere in Jitter? I’m trying to model an eye without the iris or pupil—just two white hemispheres. Any pointers or example patches would be greatly appreciated.

Hi! I’m new to Max/Jitter. Is it possible to create a hemisphere in Jitter? I’m trying to model an eye without the iris or pupil—just two...

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