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Mauro Trotta

I am developing a max for live device that play clips in the session view in Live, and these clips send read messages to a jit.gl.movie object that plays them in a jit.world. Everything runs well on my Mac laptop, but recently I got some unusual heating that I thing is related to the jit use and the rendering of these movie clips. I am reducing the dimensions of my clip after they go through jit.gl.movie to 1280x700. After that I applied some jit effects ( color saturation, hue, delay and vhs). What other precautions should I take care in the patching in other to reduce the stress of GPU? Also, I monitor the CPU and GPU of my laptop while using the device, but I am not sure what numbers should I be careful.

I am also monitoring the jit.world in Max with the fps it renders, and I notice that even when the movie clips are not playing, it keeps active the monitoring of fps. I tried giving it the argument enable 0 but it just disappear  the window.

Sorry for so many questions in one, I am starting to work with jit and videos.

Hi all!

I am developing a max for live device that play clips in the session view in Live, and these clips send read messages to a...

good-practices-for-avoiding-gpu-overload-when-using-jit-objects

Good practices for avoiding GPU overload when using jit objects

I need to delete part of the path I am getting into my patch in order for the jit.gl.movie I am using, can read the file. I am using regexp object to do it but still leave part of the path I need to substitute. What am I doing wrong?

issue-with-regex-substitute

Issue with regex @substitute 

 and playing_slots_index. I am trying to simply stop a movie playing in jit when the playing_slot_index turn -2, which means all clips in that track have stoped. So I patch a sel -2 so that when I get that number, a bang is send to a stop message to the jit. For some reason I can´t is not working. When I click stop all clips in Live, I receive a -2 in the live.observer, but after I click it again, then it send the bang to the stop. I did plenty of tries with other objects like t b, == -2, etc., but no chance. Anyone experience a similar issue?

Hi! I am having an issue with live.observer and playing_slots_index. I am trying to simply stop a movie playing in jit when the...

playingslotindex-not-sending-bang-at-the-right-time

playing_slot_index not sending bang at the right time

I am developing my first max for live device, and I am stuck trying to do that my device recognise which midi slot is launched in the session view. Also I would like that it can tell what's the name of the midi clip launched. The device is placed in the same midi track, so I understand I have to start my patch with live.thisdevice patched with live.path this_device canonical parent, so it can identify the track where the device is sitting on. After that I am very confuse about how to use live.object and live.observer. I understand that with live.observer I can get the info of when the clip is launched? Is that right? I am not sure now what live.object could do :/ After I figure out that, the idea is that I will get the name of the empty midi clip launched and this will go to a node, and this will look for some movie clips files and play them in a jit.world window. That part I have it figure out, but launching and getting the information out of the launched slot is still difficult to understand. 

Hello!

I am developing my first max for live device, and I am stuck trying to do that my device recognise which midi slot is launched in...

getting-slot-id-when-launch

Getting slot id when launch

Stefano Giovannardi

I am unable to solve a problem: when using the opendialog object in a max for live device, the file path and file name data is not transferred inside the patcher (my goal is to save the path and file names in a Coll object for a late retrieval). Instead everything is working fine if I open the device in max editor. I understand that is probably a path setting problem in the preferences of max, but I am unable to solve the enigma. (live 12.4 max 9.1.4 OSX)

opendialog problem in max for live device

opendialog-problem-in-max-for-live-device

Pitchthrill

i am working on a device that is supposed to be heavily modulated with Ableton's standard modulation devices (LFO, Shaper, etc.). Now an important question came up, which i couldn't find an answer to:

Is it possible to detect, when a device parameter gets mapped by an LFO? I saw that a mapped live.dial gets disabled, but i cannot use live.observer to watch the property "is_enabled". I can just use get with a live.object.

Hi Everybody,
i am working on a device that is supposed to be heavily modulated with Ableton's standard modulation devices (LFO, Shaper, etc

remote-paramter-control-questions

Remote Paramter Control Questions

distantnoise

Hi! Since days I'm not making any progress with a device I have in mind. I tried to learn from others devices ("reverse engineered"), asked 

 and so on. I tried [coll] different [zl] objects but I'm stuck. 

Let me explain where I am and what I want to achieve.

Now I'm stuck. I want the stored ID's to route to individual [message] - at least I think I need that step. Actually I want the stored ID's routed to individual [live.modulate] objects. Depending on the selected device I'll (probably) have 4 up to 24 IDs which then needs to be routed to 4 up to 24 [live.modulate].

I feel dumb because there is probably a pretty easy solution :D

What could be an sane approach to get the stored IDs [

Help! I'm stuck. How to send parameter IDs from [zl] to [live.modulate]?

im-stuck-how-to-send-parameter-ids-from-zl-to-livemodulate

Chris Lee

We've created MaxPy Studio, a web platform that generates Max for Live devices (audio effects and MIDI instruments) from natural language prompts. You can prompt, iterate, and download the .amxd to drag into Ableton.

It's far from perfect, but it could potentially help non-Max experts create M4L devices more easily.

It's free during beta. We would love any feedback!

Web platform for generating Max for Live devices from prompts

maxpy-studio-generate-max-for-live-devices-from-prompts

Aera

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how pattrstorage works in conjunction with the presets object.  What I try to do:

Each time I load a new device, the preset slots should be empty. Now I change values and add presets to the device one by one. 

When I save the device with an Ableton set, I want those snapshots to be saved with it. But only in this instance of the device. So snapshots that save with the Ableton file. But not global presets.

Is this possible or is there a better way of doing this?

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how pattrstorage works in conjunction with the presets object.  What I try to do:

Each time I...

pattrstorage-and-preset-to-save-snapshots

pattrstorage and preset to save snapshots

Kristoffer Lislegaard

I have a problem. In an Ableton Live set I am working on I did at some point make a max for live patch with ; max maxwindow in it to open the console window to check a few things while i was working.

This worked great, but I am done with the console window now, but even if I close it everytime something is printet to the max window (like a number being out of range, or udpreceive is binding to port etc.) the window pops up again! In the middle of the screen. Close it, same thing happens every message. I am not triggering any ;max maxwindow messages, and if i open the patches in another liveset I don't have the problem.

Is there a way to deactivate the max window again in this liveset?

Resolved: Turns out Granulator 2 was the problem.

Hi.
I have a problem. In an Ableton Live set I am working on I did at some point make a max for live patch with ; max maxwindow in it to ope

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