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Joe Bentley

I am having issues with choppiness with UI elements in Max. I have a couple of videos to demonstrate.

In the first video I have Max's default dial and the max4live dial, then in the middle I have Ableton Live native dials, then finally I have my own C++ plugin in JUCE.

In the second video I have a native Ableton Live device (Meld) and a max4live device (LFO) side by side.

As you can see, it's as if the Max versions always have a slower refresh rate. I found a refresh rate setting in Max preferences which was set to 30fps by default, but increasing it doesn't seem to help. I can verify the setting does something since it gets appropriate choppier at lower fps settings.

EDIT: It isn't the quantisation either, since the same happens for sliders, with float outputs, and when shift-dragging

All this isn't a huge deal or anything, but I'm just wondering if this is a known issue or if I'm missing a setting to improve it.

I have an M3 macbook Air running macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, and I'm using Max 8.6.5 for arm64 mac

I am having issues with choppiness with UI elements in Max. I have a couple of videos to demonstrate.

In the first video I have Max's...

laggy-ui-on-macos

Laggy UI on macOS

Brian Bender

Hello! I am working on a patch which controls a bit of hardware via MIDI. I have a pretty realized control schema up and working, including reverse engineering the sysex. We now have a successful implementation which is intermediating Sysex dumps via JS and a byte table in a json dict etc, my colleagues and I have gone pretty far with this.

The manual for the HW device provides a raw MIDI formatted message to call a preset dump of the current edit. (240 28 96 1 0 124 70 69 52 54 66 67 is the message itself)

I am working in Live Suite 11, max 8.6.1, and simply putting that decimal sequence into a message box and banging it to a Midiout has been sufficient to call preset dumps. It seems a little sketchy, sometimes two commands have to be issued for it to work, but it is essentially functional. My colleague is working in live 12, max 8.6.5 however (he just updated) and this same message formatting does not seem to call the current edit dump as expected // as it does in my environment. What gives?

Was there a change to the handling of this type of midi message in the recent update? Do I need to prepare the decimal string somehow now with a ctlout et al ? Is there a better approach I should consider to handling this type of sysex request globally ?

Hello! I am working on a patch which controls a bit of hardware via MIDI. I have a pretty realized control schema up and working, including...

quirk-with-raw-decimal-midi-message-in-m4l-live-12

Quirk with raw decimal MIDI message in M4L // Live 12 ?

mistabu

It looks that Waldorf Microwave 1 vst plugin does not works within vst object. The GUI does not opens and even if dropping the vst directly to the patcher (not through vst object) it just shows a vst object including the file path.

It looks that Waldorf Microwave 1 vst plugin does not works within vst object. The GUI does not opens and even if dropping the vst directly...

waldorf-microwave-1-vst-not-working-at-all-in-a-vst-object

Waldorf Microwave 1 vst not working at all in a vst object

Daniele Filaretti

I'm working on a simple audio FX with the idea of first developing it as a Max4Live device, using RNBO, and then exporting the C++ to be used in my custom JUCE project (so I can add a custom Ui etc.)

The FX is basically doing a simple (bell) filter sweep across the frequency spectrum. 

It all seemed well until I tested with a simple sine wave as an input and realised the VST plugin is actually introducing distortion. 

The Max4Live device, however, doesn't do that and sounds completely fine. 

Since, according my understanding at least, the Max4Live device and the VST share the same exact C++ code at this stage, I thought the issue could be in the way I used the 

 inside my C++ project, so, as a test, I tried exporting the VST directly from RNBO (the one with the auto-generated GUI) and surprise... That's also introducing distortion!! 

So I wonder, given that the issue isn't due to the way I interfaced the exported C++ code with my code, could that be a RNBO bug? 

Hey all, 

I'm working on a simple audio FX with the idea of first developing it as a Max4Live device, using RNBO, and then exporting the...

exported-c-introducing-unwanted-harmonicsdistortion-in-plugin

Exported C++ introducing unwanted harmonics/distortion in plugin

missmiss

屏幕快照 2019-05-03 上午3.33.36.png

I'm study the package "max for visual arts" these days, but I can find where to download tap tools, the link in the tutorial patch not working any more. Anyone could tell me where to find them? 

I'm study the package "max for visual arts" these days, but I can find where to download tap tools, the link in the tutorial patch not working any more. Anyone could tell me where to find them? 
Thanks a lot


 
I'm study the package "max for visual arts" these days, but I can find where to download tap tools, the link in the tutorial patch not wo

where-can-i-find-tap-tools

I believe that the latest versions can be found on github, although it's not been updated in a while... take a look at https://github.com/tap/TapTools/releases 

anyone know if there is a tap tools that works for max 8? 
the version on github isnt working for me. 

where can I find tap tools?

Baek Santarek

When I open the "Storage Slots" window of pattrstorage object with the storagewindow message and change some of the values in the stored presets, the changes are not written to the json file, not even upon force saving the patcher.

In order to change the stored presets I need to write the changes directly into the json file itself.

I have also noticed that changes in the "Storage Slots" window do not dirty the patcher, which could indicate the problem.

See the screenshot to see where I am trying to change the values.

pattrstorage "Storage Slots" changes not saved

pattrstorage-storage-slots-changes-not-saved

spin lud

Hi! I am trying to put a slab inside a subpatcher attached to a sub context (

.node). The goal is to have shader incapsulation inside a subpatcher which should just output a texture, with the possibility to easily bypass the shader from the main patcher or apply specific effects in the sub context (e.g. a 

.pass). Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, it doesn't render when I take the output texture from the 

.node. It works if I send the slab output directly to the outlet instead, but in that case I am not using the subcontext. 

Not sure what I am missing here, any clue?

Hi! I am trying to put a slab inside a subpatcher attached to a sub context (jit.gl.node). The goal is to have shader incapsulation inside...

slab-drawto-jitglnode-not-working-in-sub-patcher

Slab drawto jit.gl.node not working in sub patcher

Patrick Gemayel

I've put my finger on one big issue with the UDPreceive object.

I'm using UDPreceive to receive OSC messages from a certain port (8002 in this case). Everything works fine until I decide to edit the MAX patch from Ableton. As soon as I open it freezes the port and stops receiving messages. It starts working again if I switch ports (for example 8003), but I can't switch back to the previous port.

That was weird enough so I kept digging, and I discovered that this issue only arises when I want to edit the patch from Ableton before the MAX8 app is running...

If it's already running, even without another patch opened, it will work fine, if not, 100% of the time my patch will crash and I'll have to switch ports.

You'll tell me the workaround is easy, just switch the port, or have MAX open before you edit the patch, but I believe there should be a fix for this.

Not sure if it's an Ableton or MAX issue, but seems more likely to me MAX. 

 of the problem for better understanding.

I've put my finger on one big issue with the UDPreceive object.

I'm using UDPreceive to receive OSC messages from a certain port (8002 in...

udp-port-binding-issue-using-udpreceive

UDP Port binding issue using UDPreceive

Oni Shogun

I am running a patch that hosts 60 jit.phys.bodies with the following initial attributes:

jit.phys.body @mass 0 @force 0 0 0 @restitution 0 @scale 0.02 @filterclass other @filters other @collisions 1

anyhow, the jit.phys.body outputs the collisions-dictionary, though for some reason 

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