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Dario Palermo

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help with this message after testing dicy2 - on an M4. I‘m testing an example within Performance Strategies called Ex1_Defining_Behaviors.

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Marcus Ballam

I'm struggling to get the filter envelope on this patch to work correctly. The sounds cut off when the next notes come in, instead of fading naturally.

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industrialist

I am looking for an idea to realize this in jitter: It is one of the iconic videos from emptyset in the retro style of 80's CRT and VHS. I found a lot of jitter patches around noise (good ones in the tutorials from andrew benson etc) , but I am confused of all the choices. 

Anyone with patches that can point me in that directions? 

Hi, 

I am looking for an idea to realize this in jitter: It is one of the iconic videos from emptyset in the retro style of 80's CRT and...

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MaxW

 about it at SMC 2025, for those interested) as part of my PhD research into chaotic instrument design.

Now has come the time to run a workshop for those interested in experimenting with the use of strange attractors as the basis of chaotic rythmic generation. The central idea is that chaotic/ unpredictable signals can be more than just  'wierd lfos', as long as we embrace their unpredictable nature and relinquish some control!

All that's required is that you have a working Max install and the ability to join Zoom!

For more info and the signup form checkout 

https://www.emutelab.org/blog/SPT-workshop

I've been developing the Strange Pulse Toolkit over the last year, (and presented a paper about it at SMC 2025, for those interested) as...

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Connector

For a jitter MOP external i want to use two matrices as input and two matrices as output. For the output matrices i want to calculate some values and store it into a t_linklist for sorting the values wich are of the type connector_linesAB:

typedef struct
{
    float x;
    float y;
    float z;
} connector_point_Vec3;

typedef struct
{
    connector_point_Vec3 facePoint;
    long faceIndex;
    connector_point_Vec3 singlePoint;
    long singleIndex;
    float length;
} connector_linesAB;

The sorting and calculation of the output matrices should be done in the matrix_calc function:

t_jit_err connector_lines_matrix_calc(t_connector_lines* x, void* inputs, void* outputs)
{
    t_jit_err err = JIT_ERR_NONE;
    t_linklist* linesList = linklist_new();

    t_jit_matrix_info in_minfo, in2_minfo, out_minfo, out2_minfo;
    void *in_matrix, *in2_matrix, *out_matrix, *out2_matrix;
    char* in_bp, * in2_bp;
    float* indata, *indata2, *pospointer1, *pospointer2;
    long in_savelock, in2_savelock, out_savelock, out2_savelock;
    in_matrix = jit_object_method(inputs, _jit_sym_getindex, 0);
    in2_matrix = jit_object_method(inputs, _jit_sym_getindex, 1);

    out_matrix = jit_object_method(outputs, _jit_sym_getindex, 0);
    out2_matrix = jit_object_method(outputs, _jit_sym_getindex, 1);   

    if (x && in_matrix && in2_matrix && out_matrix && out2_matrix) {

        in_savelock = (long)jit_object_method(in_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, 1);
        in2_savelock = (long)jit_object_method(in2_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, 1);
        out_savelock = (long)jit_object_method(out_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, 1);
        out2_savelock = (long)jit_object_method(out_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, 1);

        jit_object_method(in_matrix, _jit_sym_getinfo, &in_minfo);
        jit_object_method(in2_matrix, _jit_sym_getinfo, &in2_minfo);
        jit_object_method(out_matrix, _jit_sym_getinfo, &out_minfo);
        jit_object_method(out2_matrix, _jit_sym_getinfo, &out2_minfo);
  
        jit_object_method(in_matrix, _jit_sym_getdata, &in_bp);
        jit_object_method(in2_matrix, _jit_sym_getdata, &in2_bp);
       
        if (!in_bp || !in2_bp) { err = JIT_ERR_INVALID_INPUT; goto out; }
        
        indata = (float*)(in_bp);
        indata2 = (float*)(in2_bp);
       
        for (int i = 0; i < (&in_minfo)->dim[0]; i++) {
            long offsetFacePoint = (&in_minfo)->dimstride[0] * i;
            pospointer1 = (float*)(in_bp + offsetFacePoint);
            connector_point_Vec3 facePoint;
            facePoint.x = pospointer1[0];
            facePoint.y = pospointer1[1];
            facePoint.z = pospointer1[2];

            for (int j = 0; j < (&in2_minfo)->dim[0]; j++) {

                long offsetSinglePoint = (&in2_minfo)->dimstride[0] * j;
                pospointer2 = (float*)(in2_bp + offsetSinglePoint);
                connector_point_Vec3 singlePoint;
                singlePoint.x = pospointer2[0];
                singlePoint.y = pospointer2[1];
                singlePoint.z = pospointer2[2];
                             
                connector_linesAB* newLine = (connector_linesAB*) sysmem_newptr(sizeof(connector_linesAB));
                newLine->faceIndex = i;
                newLine->facePoint = facePoint;
                newLine->singleIndex = j;
                newLine->singlePoint = singlePoint;
                newLine->length = distance(facePoint, singlePoint);

                linklist_append(linesList, newLine);
            }

        }
        
        linklist_sort(linesList, mySortListCmpfn);

        connector_linesAB* data;
        long i, count;
        long maxSinglePoints = 5;
        count = linklist_getsize(linesList);
        for (i = 0; i < maxSinglePoints; i++) {
            data = (connector_linesAB*)linklist_getindex(linesList, i);
            post("length=%f", data->length);
        }
         
        jit_object_method(out_matrix, _jit_sym_frommatrix, in_matrix, NULL);
        jit_object_method(out2_matrix, _jit_sym_frommatrix, in2_matrix, NULL);   
        
    }
    else {
        return JIT_ERR_INVALID_PTR;
    }

out:
    object_free(linesList);
    jit_object_method(out2_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, out2_savelock);
    jit_object_method(out_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, out_savelock);
    jit_object_method(in2_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, in2_savelock);
    jit_object_method(in_matrix, _jit_sym_lock, in_savelock);
    return err;
}

The memory allocation, adding Values and sorting the list seems to work but at the end of the matrix_calc function i want to free the memory with the object_free function. When i call the object_free function with the t_linklist i got following error messages:

So how do i do the right memory managment with t_linklist and my own struct types?

For a jitter MOP external i want to use two matrices as input and two matrices as output. For the output matrices i want to calculate some...

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made a fibonacci spiral moiré pattern generator to better understand how my favorite vfx on my 

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Martin Schmid

I'm trying to export data about clips.. specifically, trying to output the Color of each.. referring to this...

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My script is below... you can see that the output to console provides a non-empty value, but when sending that to 'text', it's not comming through.. why is that?  how to resolve?  Ultimately, i'm using this data to inform an import of color data in another application.

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Natacha Michel

I am a beginner and I am looking for how to change the name of the buffer in the wave object with a menu object. Can you help me?

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I am a beginner and I am looking for how to change the name of the buffer in the wave object with a menu object. Can you help...

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Onokio

Does anyone have experience with Arduino Uno and could help me modify this M4L device / patch?

https://github.com/Ableton/m4l-connection-kit/blob/main/Arduino/Arduino.amxd

The issue is that every time I unplug the Arduino from my computer and plug it back in, the Arduino forgets the mapped parameters (on the back-end), so the UI shows the mappings are still there, but when I Rescan for the device, or unplug+plug the arduino back in, and select the correct device, the mappings are unresponsive!  Meaning you have to remap the params every single time, which is tedious / makes the device unreliable for live performance.

I think it has to do with the serial initialization, but I am not entirely sure!  

Any help is deeply appreciated! I've created a controller for my partner and want the device to remember the mappings so she doesn't have to re-map all the parameters every single session / live performance. THANKS!

Ableton Connection Kit (Arduino M4L patch unresponsive mappings issue)

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Maschu

is anyone aware of a possibility to send track metadata like 

Is this even possible when Live itself is not the host? I want the plugin to know which track it's on...

Hey there,

is anyone aware of a possibility to send track metadata like color and name to a vst3 object? 

Is this even possible when Live...

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