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Tommy Scannell

Hello, I'm sending visuals from touch designer via spout to access them in Max. I'm using jit.gl.spoutreceiver and sending that from a jit.pworld into some matrix objects to sonify the original texture. It works when I do one jit.

 and matrix, but when I add a second instance for another spout stream, it won't convert, even though I can see the texture being rendered in the jit.pworld. 

I thought it could be an issue with the naming of the matrix and world objects but that doesn't seem to be working. 

I'm not super experienced with jitter so not sure if I'm missing something obvious, or whether it's an issue with having  multiple spout streams. 

Any tips in the right direction would be greatly appreciated :) 

issue converting second jit.pworld into a matrix

issue-converting-second-jitpworld-into-a-matrix

tyler mazaika

I have a few RNBO abstractions which use a construct like:

Which allows me to reference 'argsbuf' from codebox (which doesn't otherwise allow access to variable-named buffers, AFAIC), while also allowing the possibility of re-using the same abstraction .rnbopat file with different buffer references.

This seems to work ok generally, but in one of the more nested uses of this error and can't compile the code.

Codegen Error undefined
Multibuffer 'argsbuf' is defined more than once with differents buffer lists.

I also believe this error to be inaccurate, as I've audited all instances of multibuffer and they have the same buffer list (#1, which is always being resolved to the same buffer name/reference).

I've tried re-creating this error using the same abstractions in various implementations and can't seem to do it, so I feel a bit lost understanding what's going on.

Does anyone have some ideas or guidance about what I could try?  Thank you.

Multibuffer 'foo' is defined more than once with different buffer lists

multibuffer-foo-is-defined-more-than-once-with-different-buffer-lists

MKHM

Just wanted to share an issue I ran into recently with Max not launching, in case it helps someone else out there.

I’m running Max 9.0.5 on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 (Apple Silicon), and things were working totally fine until one day the application just stopped launching. It would open, hang, and never respond. I’d get the beachball, and eventually I had to force-quit. No error message, no crash popup — just a frozen Max.

 my annual Max subscription renewed. I noticed that Max asked to be reauthorised, but I wasn’t able to complete the process due to network access issues. After I closed the app, I couldn’t get it to run again. It would just hang on launch every time after that.

I went through pretty much everything you’d expect. I deleted preferences, removed all third-party externals and packages, tried launching Max from a new user account, reinstalled multiple versions of Max (both older and newer), even reinstalled macOS — all while preserving my files — but nothing worked. It felt like the app was cursed.

Eventually I took a look at the macOS crash logs and noticed that Max was getting stuck during startup on a system-level call related to network sockets. The process was basically sitting idle, waiting on a response that never came. One line stood out:

Launchd throttled processes: com.paceap.eden.licensed

That pointed me to iLok/PACE software — which I hadn’t really thought about, since I wasn’t actively using any iLok licenses. Still, something in Max (or one of its dependencies) clearly was.

So I fully uninstalled iLok and PACE from my system. There’s an uninstaller app if you have it, or you can manually remove the components from /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/Application Support, and /Applications. Then I rebooted, reinstalled the latest version of iLok License Manager from the iLok website, rebooted again, and tried launching Max.

And it worked. No more hanging, and I was finally able to reauthorise the app.

So if Max suddenly stops launching for you — especially around the time of a subscription renewal — it might be worth checking your iLok installation. Even if you don’t think you’re using it. Reinstalling it cleanly fixed everything for me.

Hope this helps someone avoid the days of frustration I went through.

Just wanted to share an issue I ran into recently with Max not launching, in case it helps someone else out there.

I’m running Max 9.0.5...

max-stuck-on-launch-after-subscription-renewal-solved-via-ilok-reinstall

Max Stuck on Launch After Subscription Renewal — Solved via iLok Reinstall

dlwhite

I want to set the @init value of a latch or sah as the default value of a param (or could use history object). 

But @init is not an inlet, and it appears that I can't use the name of a param or history object. 

Is there any way to set the value of latch @init except as a float on the object itself? 

I am working in Oopsy for the Daisy Seed. I have a physical pedal that has 6 knobs.  But I have 12 parameters I want to control.   

When I hold a footswitch for 1 second I am in "alt mode" then the physical knobs 1-6 control vKnobs 7-12.  I have built a "takeover" mode so that there isn't a "jump" to the the physical knob value... the the vKnob will only start to change when the physical knob crosses over the previous value ("normal mode") of the vKnob. 

This is all working in the attached testing patch.  But one thing I can't figure out how to do is to define the vKnob value on pedal power up.   For knobs 1-6 I can use param @default

But there is no "param vKnob @default..."  The obvious spot to do this is in the Latch of my knob takeover.  But if I decide the default values need to be updated, I'd rather not dig into every vknobcontrol to change the latch @init value.  it would be much easier to follow the same style as the physical knobs which use param @default to set their initial values. 

gen latch @init  - is it possible to use an indirect value such as a param or history name rather than a float ? 

gen-latch-init-is-it-possible-to-use-an-indirect-value-rather-than-a-float-such-as-a-param-or-history-name

Tim Massar

Hi, new max user, i think some of my frustrations come from wanting to do things in Max the way I used to do them in Reaktor (as context)...anyway looking for advice. I wanted a phasor to be synced to the transport, used the standard delta, edge detection for creating bangs at resets to drive a counter that worked independently, but still synced to the transport. What I wanted to do was read what bar and what beat I was on then modulo the counter with the note division i chose, add all those numbers together to get the current step number in relation to the size set by the user in bars - for example, If i set my midi recording to loop every 2 bars I modulo the current bar over 2, multiply by my note division, then add the current beat multiplied by note divisions to get my starting offset value to add to my counter driving current step from 0. But, the phasor was wildly out of sync. numbers that should reset over the modulo at the same time were sometimes two or three steps behind, the phasor was inconsistently throwing out a 1 at the start instead of starting at 0, and just looking at a counter of the phasor edge detection and transport beat readout it was clear they were operating on much different wavelengths. Wish I had the project to share, it was total spaghetti wires anyway, but with all this possibly being irrelevant, what is the best way to independently clock something that is still synced to the transport?

Edit: also is there a way to hold a calculation from being processed until I receive new numbers at both inlets? Because Im still having this sync problem driving from the metronome. Numebers in modulo are rolling over to 0 before the last numbers have arrived from the previous calculation, even though they should be all arriving simulataneously.

Best way to sync a Phasor~ with transport?

best-way-to-sync-a-phasor-with-transport

Artem Malyshev

Was trying to improve on my poly sequencer and ran into an issue where poly~ seemingly ignores the contents of notemessages (messages are structured as follows: notemessage - note - list of parameters).

Things stopped working after I wrapped the "noteGen" subpatch (at the bottom) inside of a different poly object. Output messages looks to be the same but poly~ synth no longer gets it.

Poly~ doesn't receive "notemessage" contents

poly-doesnt-receive-notemessage-contents

Noise Wrangler

I'm sharing this issue to make sure I'm not the only one facing it. When using 

 state anymore. This is a new issue from 9.0.5 for me, 9.0.4 works fine. It seems to be a problem with snapshots as well but since I'm not using them, I have not made extensive tests.

I'd like to know if others face the same issue before issuing a bug report.

pattr-not-capturing-vst-state-in-905

pattr not capturing vst~ state in 9.0.5?

e-vee

I am retrieving pictures within a Max project via a [umenu] whenever the onset of incoming audio is detected. Which picture is retrieved depends on the analysis of another audio signal. 

I noticed strange behaviour where the paths are not found with this mechanism, however, when I select elements in the umenu manually or send in ints with a number object manually, it works. The messages that come out of umenu are the same in all circumstances though.

I made a test project and the same behaviour occurs. Does anyone know why this happens? I suppose using a umenu for this is not best practice, but I tried with a coll and it causes the same problem... 

Strange absolutepath behaviour with umenu/coll

strange-absolutepath-behaviour-with-umenucoll

Haotian Yu

Maybe there's something obvious I'm missing here, but I couldn't find anything about this on the forums yet: jit.gl.meshwarp works well with basically any video source (usually even with direct matrix input) but won't display a specific source video I'm sending (which is a standard 4 plane jit.matrix - generated by some basic color controls). 

1) The source video displays fine when I connect it directly to a jit.pworld, also after I put it through a jit.gl.texture - so it's probably not a texture conversion issue 

2) The jit.gl.meshwarp connected to the source video is making a layer as expected, but it's transparent / showing nothing 

3) Basically anything else works - I included a fairly random jit.expr here which displays fine when connected to the same jit.gl.meshwarp 

(Sorry for the badly organized patch, this is pulled out of a bigger patch) 

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