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mschulze@du.edu

I am making some M4L patches starting with the default Max Midi Effect object in the Live browser. You know, the object that has nothing in it but a MidiIn object connected to a MidiOut object. [insert your MIDI effect here] comment is in there.

My midi effect patch does not deal with Midi notes at all, so I leave this little connection as is. The patch receives CC data from some send objects elsewhere in the set, modifies it, then connects that data to various versions of the MaxAPI param controller thing to control synth parameters downstream on the same Live track. This is all contained in my M4L midi effect. Incoming Midi data should pass right through that default connection from track midi input to the synth plugin.

I notice after a while, if messing with parameters in my patch (not in the Max editor, just in the UI of the Midi effect I have created), sometimes the Midi effect I have created no longer passes midi notes through the default thru connection I have not touched. If I save and re-open the Live set it works again. If I delete then reload my Midi effect from the browser it works again. For now I am putting my effect on an adjacent MIDI track so I don't have to rely on that Thru connection, but this is frustrating.

Hello!

I am making some M4L patches starting with the default Max Midi Effect object in the Live browser. You know, the object that has...

default-m4l-max-midi-effect-thru-connection-mutes-notes

Default M4L Max Midi Effect thru connection mutes notes

Rachel Horrell

I am trying to connect Arduino Uno to Max/MSP, but Max does not recognise any serial ports at all. I’m using MacOS Sonoma 14.5, and when I try to search the serial ports on Max, I get “read 0”. When I enter the port in the serial object I get the error “serial: specified port not available”. 

 The macOS recognises the port exists in the terminal, so the issue lies purely within max/msp. 

So far the troubleshooting I’ve done is:

Hi, 

I am trying to connect Arduino Uno to Max/MSP, but Max does not recognise any serial ports at all. I’m using MacOS Sonoma 14.5, and...

arduino-to-max-max-wont-recognise-serial-port

Arduino to Max - Max won't recognise Serial Port 

Keith Hamel

Almost all of the 3rd party externals that I regularly use will not load under MaxMSP 8.6.2. They are all fine under 8.5.  I have tried on several computers (Intel and Silicon chips) and on Silicon chips I have the app set to open using Rosetta.

I am puzzled because the configuration on my computers is exactly the same in terms of system and MaxMSP settings and the externals are all in the same location. When I launch my patch under 8.5 everything is fine, when I launch my patch using 8.6.2 I get a ton of errors.

For example, the MaxSoundBox collection of objects from IRCAM

are  externals that I use in almost every one of my patches. They are all compiled for arm64. They all work fine on MaxMSP 8.5 and on MaxMSP 8.6.2  they all produce the error:

Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/MaxAPI.framework/Versions/A/MaxAPI

Referenced from: /Users/keith/Documents/Max 8/Library/MaxSoundBox/externals/yin~.mxo/Contents/MacOS/yin~

Any suggestions or even verifications from others that many 3rd party externals do not work on MaxMSP 8.6.2 would be helpful.

Macbook Pro M1 64 GB Ram running MacOS 14.2.1

Almost all of the 3rd party externals that I regularly use will not load under MaxMSP 8.6.2. They are all fine under 8.5.  I have tried on...

maxmsp-862-3rd-party-externals

MaxMSP 8.6.2 - 3rd party externals

Ryan Ellis

Crashes with jit.movie, js, jit.gl.videoplane

We've been suffering from sporadic crashes when using 

 objects. The crashes have been mostly between a half hour and several hours of the code running fine, although sometimes they happen almosty instantly. 

The code involved with these crashes has the goal of dynamically rendering videos from a set of 

) and loads and plays back a single video file on a loop, outputting a texture to the abstraction's outlet. Each 

object currently in use is attached via a jit.gl-style patch cord to another abstraction containing a 

 code which dynamically chooses which connections need to be made from a bank of 

 which are not in use have their internal 

) when they should stop rendering (in case removing the patch cord is not enough to break the link). 

In essence, we're trying to recreate the functionality of the 

 object, with its many inputs and outputs. (Early experimentation with the 

 object lead to some unexpected results and was abandoned.) We have the 

code deleting and creating patch cords instead of the matrix object routing inlets to outlets. 

I've pared down our code to the essential bits. 

Crash Logs, Hardware and Software Versions

I'm not sure if the .ips crash report file can be attached so just in case, I've attached some screenshots. 

The screenshots include pictures of the trace from the crashing thread (106) as well as thread 0 (just in case that one happens to be useful).

I believe that they have also occurred on a Mac mini with an Intel chip, however instead of Max crashing like it does here, Max hangs and pinwheels indefinitely. 

Crashes with jit.movie, js, jit.gl.videoplane

We've been suffering from sporadic crashes when using js code to remove and create...

sporadic-crashes-when-js-changes-jitgl-patch-cords-from-a-jitmovie-to-a-jitglvideoplane

sporadic crashes when js changes jit.gl patch cords from a jit.movie to a jit.gl.videoplane

Francois Weber

There seems to be a bug in the vst~ (and mc.vst~) object. Inputs 5 and 6 do not work, and the output patch does not look correct. 

The plugin used in the screenshot (spatial mic converter) works perfectly in Nuendo. 

Hi,

There seems to be a bug in the vst~ (and mc.vst~) object. Inputs 5 and 6 do not work, and the output patch does not look correct....

mcvst-bug

mc.vst~ bug

m datamusic

I'm pretty shure that the object "playlist" do not actualise the sounds loaded in : it means that if i have modified my sound file I need to restart max ? 

Is it possible to force "playlist" to refresh ?

playlist-actualisation

playlist actualisation

santamorphic

Is there a view to introduce the Scala file capabilities that RNBO offers into Max? It seems strange to have that capability in RNBO and not Max(?).

https://rnbo.cycling74.com/learn/scala-and-custom-tuning

Hi -

Is there a view to introduce the Scala file capabilities that RNBO offers into Max? It seems strange to have that capability in RNBO...

max-equivalent-of-rnbos-scala-file-capability

Max equivalent of RNBO's Scala file capability?

realshafer

Hi, I've run into a pretty straightforward issue in 8.6.4 on a Mac and I suspect it is a bug: the read or write message into mcs.vst~ doesn't trigger the expected dialog to read or write a preset that you get with the regular vst~ object. Instead you get a complaint that you need to specify a file name. Upon trying to load or write to a pre-existing preset, I get no error but the preset does not load or save.

Hi, I've run into a pretty straightforward issue in 8.6.4 on a Mac and I suspect it is a bug: the read or write message into mcs.vst~...

mcsvst-read-write-bug

mcs.vst~ read /write bug

Domenico Di Giosa

Hi, beginner here... Is there any chanche to have a umenu which is autopopulated and updated by adding/removing items to the playlist object? 

Hi, beginner here... Is there any chanche to have a umenu which is autopopulated and updated by adding/removing items to the playlist...

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