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Sean Clark

I can no longer run my video patches in full-screen mode in Max 9,1,4. When I press escape, the screen goes black, but nothing displays. It locks, and I can not escape from it by pressing escape again.  After a couple of hours thinking it was my patch, I downgraded to 9.1.2 and full-screen works again.

Does anybody else experience similar problems?

I can no longer run my video patches in full-screen mode in Max 9,1,4. When I press escape, the screen goes black, but nothing displays. It...

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Max 9,1.4 Breaks Full Screen Video on Mac mini M4 Latest OS

Prone

Can anyone help me? I'm using a VST object with Kontakt, but it's not recognizing the message midievent 145. Does anyone know what's wrong or how to fix it?ç


Hello, 

Can anyone help me? I'm using a VST object with Kontakt, but it's not recognizing the message midievent 145. Does anyone know...

vst-kontakt-problem

vst + kontakt problem

Stephan

Max has always been stable on my machine but recently it started crashing. I’ve updated Max to 9.1.4 about 2 weeks ago and while I’m not saying the update is the reason but it does line up with when this started happening.

It could very well be my machine, I am running an MacBook Pro M1, 2020 with Tahoe 26.4.1 that is starting to show some signs of aging but again, it has been running Max dependably well.

I’m wondering if anyone has experienced this recently too before I run out and buy a new computer.

Max has always been stable on my machine but recently it started crashing. I’ve updated Max to 9.1.4 about 2 weeks ago and while I’m not...

max-crashes-3

Max Crashing

Lewis Keller

I am wanting to use pattrstorage to save the names of files dropped into live.drop in max patches (not a M4L device). If I drop a file into live.drop I see the file name in live.drop's GUI and the file name is sent out the left outlet if it is a file in my searchpath, or the full path is sent if it is a file from outside the searchpath. Works as expected. 

However when I look at pattrstorage's client window or try to store a preset, the data is not displayed or retained. If I open the clientwindow and type the file name (or full path) into the data slot and store a preset, the data is retained and recalled as expected. This also functions with typing the name of the file into the storage slots themselves in the storagewindow. 

I have tried with pattr and autopattr. I have tried with a paired preset object and by sending the store message into pattrstorage. None of these storage methods populate pattrstorage with the data, only typing in the data in the clientwindow or storagewindow will populate pattrstorage. I have also found that after dropping a file and checking the Initial Enable box in the inspector that it is possible to save that file through normal pattrstorage interactions. That file then becomes the only data that pattrstorage will store through normal interactions.

Here is a simple example, does it work for you to save data in a preset (Initial Enable is deactivated, try enabling it after dropping something)? Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

I am wanting to use pattrstorage to save the names of files dropped into live.drop in max patches (not a M4L device). If I drop a file into...

livedrop-data-wont-populate-pattrstorage-slots-max-911

live.drop data won't populate pattrstorage slots - Max 9.1.1

Martin Daigle

Hello, I just changed my documents folder location. 

the reason is because, Onedrive somehow inposed itself in the way of my documents folder. and I did not want this..

Now when I load max, I get this message in my terminal:

"error locating user-domain Documents folder"

Hello, I just changed my documents folder location. 

the reason is because, Onedrive somehow inposed itself in the way of my documents...

i-changed-my-documents-folder-location-and-now-max-is-angry

I changed my documents folder location, and now max is angry

Sergey KORTIKOV

I'm building a Max for Live device that gets placed on multiple audio tracks 

(8-12 instances) and sends OSC data to a Python backend for analysis.

Each instance must send three types of OSC messages:

  /ableton/track/spectrum "TrackName" 0.1 0.2 0.3 ... (12 float values, 12-band fffb~ analyzer)

  live.thisdevice → live.path this_device canonical_parent → live.object → get name → route name → tosymbol

This part works correctly — I confirmed with [print] that tosymbol outputs the 

correct track name (e.g. "PERC 65", "MELODY 3") for each instance.

I cannot reliably combine the track name (symbol) with the audio data 

(float values from snapshot~) into a single OSC message inside Max.

  1. [pak symbol_default 0. 0. ... 0.] with name on left (cold) inlet and 

     12 snapshot~ values on right inlets. The name arrives via inlet 3 of 

     the subpatcher. Result: [pak] outputs the default symbol "s" instead 

     of the actual name — the name doesn't reach the symbol-inlet in time 

  2. [pack ...] instead of [pak]. Result: no output at all (left inlet is 

     hot/symbol but never receives a list-triggering bang in sync with audio).

  3. Sending name to a separate /ableton/track/name OSC message and letting 

     the Python backend correlate name+RMS+spectrum by timing 

     (last_received_name pattern). Works partially but unreliable when 

     multiple instances send simultaneously — names get mixed up between tracks.

  4. [t s s] (trigger) to duplicate the symbol to two destinations — no effect.

  5. [value @scope local] as a name buffer — couldn't get the local scope 

What is the recommended pattern in Max for Live to:

  (a) capture the track name once per instance

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