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leafcutter

I thought that some of you might be interested in this. I'm doing some free workshops on using and processing field recordings, it's 4 hour long live-streams between 20th - 24th July 26. 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-redmires-reservoirs-sound-library-with-leafcutter-john-tickets-1992763297667

I thought that some of you might be interested in this. I'm doing some free workshops on using and processing field recordings, it's 4 hour...

free-online-workshops-on-using-and-processing-field-recordings

Free online workshops on using and processing field recordings

Chris Perren

I am a relative beginner to Max, first time posting on the forum. Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

I am creating a video tool which displays 12 instances of the same video across a single screen, with each video playing at a different speed. 

To make this happen, I've arrived at a setup where I have 12 jit.gl.movie objects, feeding into 12 jit.gl.videoplane objects, writing to a single jit.world.

I have made parameters to spread the videos spatially (i.e. evenly distribute) across 

For the most part, this all works ok. The videos all show up fine and the spatial distribution works. 

The issue I am having is with what seems to be a kind of grouping or chunking behaviour in the way that the multiple videos are rendered. For example: 

When the videos are overlapping on the x plane, I would expect them to all overlap in the same direction (like fanning cards), but they seem to overlap randomly. To get them to fan out like cards, I have to put a non-zero value into the 

 spread, so that they're actually in order in front of one another in space.

I can live with that workaround, however, the next issue (which feels related to me) occurs when I use blending. For example, when I set all my jit.gl.videoplane Blend Enable attributes to 'ON', and Blend attributes to 'add', I get this:

I'm not sure if I have misunderstood something, but I would expect the additive blending effect to compound across all videos. To me this looks like the first four videos from the left are additively blending, but then the four in the middle are normal, then a bit more additive blending in the last four panels but not in the way I would expect.

Does anyone have an explanation for what might cause the jit.gl.videoplane objects to display this way? Or whether there's a way to force them to render in a particular order, or to blend globally?

I think it probably isn't important, but just in case it is, I have a jit.gl.slab in between each of the jit.gl.movie/jit.gl.videoplane pairs, running the shader 'cc.brcosa.jxs'.  

Hi friends, 

I am a relative beginner to Max, first time posting on the forum. Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

I am creating a...

order-of-rendering-multiple-jitglvideoplane-objects

Order of rendering multiple jit.gl.videoplane objects

Mauro Trotta

I am trying to organize the objects of a max for live device that are already mapped in ableton move when the move is in control live mode. I would like certain objects in the device in certain banks in the move. In max, I can order the objects parameters, but they simply appear in sequence, so if I want only 3 knobs in the bank 1, I can´t jump to the next bank making the next object #9, because it will appear after the 3rd nob in the move. I see there´s a 

 object to deal with something like that, but that´s for the push. Is there something like that for the move? 

Hello!

I am trying to organize the objects of a max for live device that are already mapped in ableton move when the move is in control...

organizing-objects-in-banks-in-ableton-move

Organizing objects in banks in Ableton move

Georgina

the setup I'm working with for a show is comprised of a max patch running alongside a Live session, the max patch sends MIDI and audio to the Live session using Blackhole and inter application MIDI.

I tried to encapsulate the Max patch into a M4L device so that I only open one file for the show and don't have to use Blackhole to pass audio. Everything works except no MIDI is passed from the device to Live. 

I am using ctlout to move Live faders and turn channels on and off.

Do I need to do something in Live preferences or do I need to use m4l specific MIDI objects in the device?

I need the control to remain in the MIDI domain because some of the faders that the patch controls in Live are also controlled by an external hardware MIDI controller

Hi all,

the setup I'm working with for a show is comprised of a max patch running alongside a Live session, the max patch sends MIDI and...

m4l-sending-midi-from-device-to-live

M4L: sending midi from device to Live

dmx_router.js

dmx_router_4chan.js

I've been a happy user of nullmedium's dmxusbpro external for many years and now that I changed computer (mac M5) and upgraded to Max9 I cannot use it anymore.

I am testing jam.dmxusbpro but I seem to have some lagging issues (discussed in another topic with the most kind Jan, the creator of the external).

I have come across a small patch another user has created to use the serial object to control the DMXUSBPRO box that I'm using. The only problem is that the example only had 4 channels using a pak object.

I got lost trying to create a 512 inlet pak object and decided to ask a friend to create a js file to use in the patch instead.

Here is where I start having issues: the js file works if the channels created are less than 256.

the patcher I stole formats the incoming js abut seems to truncate anything above 256 whereas I need 512 channels.

I'm attaching the patcher (and the two js files needed) with some comments that hopefully will be useful, how would you change the "p format" subpatcher so that. 512 is not truncated?

[Attachment: dmx_router.js]
[Attachment: dmx_router_4chan.js]
Hi all,

I've been a happy user of nullmedium's dmxusbpro external for many...

help-needed-using-serial-obj-to-control-my-dmxusb-box

Help needed using serial obj. to control my DMXUSB box 

Hi! Is there anywhere on the Internet where to check apps developed entirely in MaxMSP? I would like to see what kind of projects people can do.

Hi! Is there anywhere on the Internet where to check apps developed entirely in MaxMSP? I would like to see what kind of projects people...

standalone-apps-built-entirely-in-maxmsp

Standalone apps built entirely in MaxMSP

Jim Lanpheer

I'm a very experienced developer overall but very new to developing in the Max8 environment and i'm attempting to create a simple device and sometimes the device works as i've designed it and sometimes it doesn't.  I'm seeing a bunch of strange messages in the Max8 console and inconsistent behaviors within Live 11 that are making me wonder if (a) this is a stable development environment or (b) i'm just completely missing something simple.... i'm hoping for the latter.  :-)

I am attempting to build a very simple device M4L device that i can place into a MIDI clip in session view that will allow me to automate a de-acceleration in tempo.  I've chosen 80bpm arbitrarily as the target tempo.  My device has a live.dial device which is set to the leftmost position.  What i want is for the device to read the current project tempo and as i rotate the dial, to reduce the tempo down to the target of 80bpm.  My device has the dial, a 'Start BPM' numbox, a 'Target BPM' numbox, all of which feed into a JS object for which i've written a script to get the job done.  I've also created a debug button which (when pressed) should sense the project tempo and set the 'Start BPM' value to the project tempo and allow the dial to reduce the tempo from there.

The kicker is that sometimes it works but then, i'll test again by again deleting the device from the track, reloading it and after doing so, sometimes it won't work at all.  On other occasions, it won't work on the first pass.  I've tried numerous things and have even consulted Claude on this one and i still can't seem to remove the inconsistency.  I'm seeing some warning signs from the above inconsistent behavior to errors in the console, two of them in particular: "jsliveapi: set: no valid object set" and "set: no valid object set".  These errors also seem sporadic in nature.

Before i throw my code out there, i just wanted to check and see if there's something specific that needs to be done in order to get an M4L device to connect with the Live API?  Claude has suggested to me that after adding my device to a track to wait 10 seconds before testing to allow the device to hook up with the API.  As an experienced developer, that seems hopelessly brittle.  Again, that works sometimes and not others.

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