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Dante

I think there's a bug with live.step being loaded by a dictionary and including a "fold_pitch" key. 

If I include the fold_pitch key in the dict, it's values get set to extra2's values. 

after you load the dictionary extra2 becomes:

I think there's a bug with live.step being loaded by a dictionary and including a "fold_pitch" key. 

If I include the fold_pitch key in...

livestep-load-with-dictionary-foldpitch-bug

live.step load with dictionary fold_pitch bug 

Martin Daigle

Is it possible to draw 3d jit.gl.text along paths? I am hoping to have text flow down a spiral shape. I was thinking that perhaps, using the jit.gl.path, I would be a good way to acomplish this....

Let me know you have any tips on this matter! help me make my dreams come true! Thanks!

Is it possible to draw 3d jit.gl.text along paths? I am hoping to have text flow down a spiral shape. I was thinking that perhaps, using...

jitgltext-along-jitglpath

Jit.gl.text along jit.gl.path.

axers fall

What if granular synthesis had a body, or even a consciousness?

[Video]
More Max/MSP ambient works ►...

sounds-like-next-generation-of-granular-synthesis

Sounds like next generation of granular synthesis......

[ortho] — an invented-language generator external

I've released ortho, a Max external that generates invented language: pseudo-words that hold the shape and internal consistency of a language without belonging to any existing one.

Every seed names a different language — more than four billion of them. Go looking and you'll find tongues that are clipped and consonantal, others long and vowel-heavy, others that sound like they have grammar. Pick the one you want and the seed keeps it: same number, same language, on any machine, forever.

bang gives you a paragraph. tokens N gives you exactly N words with no punctuation. section mints a new cast of names and topics without changing the language itself.

Seven dials control recurrence and punctuation — how often names come back, whether phrases return whole, where commas fall. Words come out the left outlet as symbols, one per atom, and the right outlet reports why each word appeared: freshly generated, a function word, a topic, a name, or part of a recurring phrase. So you can colour by origin, or spawn something when a name shows up.

macOS, signed universal binary. Drop the folder in ~/Documents/Max 9/Packages/ and restart Max.

The language engine is a small C library shared with a JavaScript reference implementation and an openFrameworks addon, so a seed produces the same words in all three. Output is diffed against published golden vectors rather than assumed — the conformance suite is in the repo.

[ortho] — an invented-language generator external

I've released ortho, a Max external that generates invented language: pseudo-words that...

ortho-an-invented-language-generator-external

Laurin Baumann

Just recently I updated to Tahoe on my Macbook Pro M1 and now Max is super laggy. Ever other few object I want to place makes the software hang for a few seconds before going on. I cannot use it. Help patches open up super slow etc. etc. 

I didn't have issues before. I updated Max too after the macos update. Anyone having similar experiences or suggestions? 

MacOS Tahoe update makes Max super laggy?

macos-tahoe-update-makes-max-super-laggy

rbedgar@stanford.edu

I have two 360° videos, each played by its own 

 at its center, with pan/zoom controlled via UI.

 set, and its captured output is patch-corded directly into a 

 — layer 1 for camera A, layer 2 for camera B — both inside one shared 

, all objects living in the same top-level patcher (I think GL objects need true top-level placement to bind reliably at all, not nested in a bpatcher or subpatcher).

Camera, mesh, and material aren't bound to any named context. I've tried wrapping each camera+mesh+material trio in its own 

, with and without wiring the trio to the node's middle outlet) to try to keep the two trios isolated from each other — none of these variations fixed the actual problem.

The problem: rather than each camera independently viewing its own sphere, both cameras end up viewing the same sphere (source A).  Changing source A's pan/zoom controls affects what's visible through both 

s, and source B's video is never shown, even though its 

 is confirmed loaded and playing (its audio is audible). Blend-fading between the two layers (via 

) works correctly as a crossfade, but since both layers show the same sphere, it's just fading between two views of the same video.

Any thoughts on why two independently-instantiated camera+mesh+material groups would end up sharing the same gemoetry instead of staying isolated — whether left unbound or grouped via 

? Is there a more reliable mechanism for this (separate 

 per group? something else?) — or is there a known gotcha with multiple 

s/ cameras coexisting in one context that I'm unaware of?

I have two 360° videos, each played by its own jit.movie~, feeding through a jit.gl.texture and a zoom-processing jit.gl.pix stage into its...

specific-problem-blending-two-separate-360-degree-video-sources

Specific problem blending two separate 360-degree video sources

I put together a starter template for building Max externals with CMake.

https://github.com/leeMeredith/max-cmake-template

It's a plain object box that adds two numbers. The object itself doesn't matter; it's there so the package is complete and buildable rather than a fragment. What you get is a CMake build that produces a universal binary and ad-hoc signs it, max-sdk-base wired up as a submodule so a --recursive clone builds immediately, the full package layout including a help patch and a reference page, and comments through the source explaining the non-obvious SDK calls.

The logic sits in a separate file that contains no Max code, with the object file handling only the Max side. Replacing that one file is most of what making your own object involves.

BUILD.md is probably the more useful part. It documents seven SDK behaviors that produce misleading symptoms rather than errors — three of them surface as no such object from completely unrelated causes, and one produces an Intel-only binary while still reporting a successful build. Each entry gives the symptom alongside the cause, since the symptom is what you'll have in front of you.

Verified on macOS, Apple Silicon. Windows is untested — nothing in it is deliberately mac-only, but I haven't built it there. :-)

I put together a starter template for building Max externals with CMake.

https://github.com/leeMeredith/max-cmake-template

It's a plain...

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