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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

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Jason Aylward

Hi.  I'm having trouble understanding how to edit subpatches.  

Turn off edit mode and double click on the patch object.

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Editing subpatch question

Valera Saenko

Hi, first time posting. I have decided to learn Max and the best way I know how to do it is to make a kick in an unorthodox (or rather the most orthodox) way. In the patch you can see that I'm trying to do the 909 kick with filters (as it was initially designed in the analogue world). The basic principle is you send an impulse into a resonant HP filter.  The cutoff/centre frequency gives you the pitch and the Q amount gives the decay. To keep the sync and set the envelope I am using phasor~ into ramp~ into shape~ into scale~. This gives me a smooth curve of values that send signal to filtercoeff~ "frequency" and do their magic for the biquad~. 

The problem is still somewhere around ramp/shape/scale (most likely the scale~) as I see that the peak values are different. When the sound is on you can hear the peak pitch go in a cycle (sin) rising several hits in a row and then lowering. What could be the reason for that?

It is unlikely to be biquad~ as this happens with all filters (svf, live, etc) although for sure I need to learn filter design in order to use one biquad~ instead of five as I'm doing right now. But that is for the next improvements.

Edit. After googling more about self oscillating filters I see that it is the filters' problem as they don't get enough energy, or there is a very sweet spot for Q I need to find to get it to oscillate on a consistent basis. Compression and overdrive should also help. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed this little panic moment I had. 

[Attachment: 909 kick.maxpat]
Hi, first time posting. I have decided to learn Max and the best way I know how to do it is to make a kick in...

is-my-filter-envelope-out-of-sync-filter-based-909-kick

Is my filter envelope out of sync? (Filter-based 909 kick)

Terry Weymouth

I want to check if an element in not in a list, e.g. to provide a default response (route) if I'm about to hand a 

 an unknown key. For example, I have a dict of reactions to colors with a key list that looks like this: [red green blue orange yellow]. And a section of the patch spits out a color label. What I want to generate is a default response "No idea on that one" when the key is not in the list of keys. 

Newbe, here, but searches for such basic questions are very hard. I went through all the zl functions, and must have missed or misunderstood the one I needed. Or perhaps the answer is even more basic that that.

(Also, how do I add a patch to a message? )

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Detect: element not in list?

Yvonne

Hi, I'm a beginner in MaxMSP, I have to make an audio project for school, and the audio decided to randomly stop working today. I was working this morning and it was fine (I'm playing some audio with playlist, the live.gain thing and ezdac), but when I retried later today suddenly I couldn't hear anything. I can see it's working because the audio is playing in the bottom right corner, I checked the audio outputs and drivers, I did random stuff I read online with the signal vector size, I kinda clicked on whatever I could but nothing works. I got the latest version of Max installed. I restarted my computer but still nothing. What's weird is that I have built a midi keyboard and I can hear the sound from that, but just not from the playlist objects. I can't see what's not working with them though since they're so simple and they worked fine a few hours ago. I also switched my own sounds for the ones Max already has but I can't get any sound either.

edit: Max randomly selected a wrong audio driver my bad

Hi, I'm a beginner in MaxMSP, I have to make an audio project for school, and the audio decided to randomly stop working today. I was...

audio-not-working

Audio not working!

Dante Escrofani

I'm trying to make a Max4Live patch in Ableton's patcher. The issue is that sending a 1 to the groove~ object causes the audio to playback at a rate slightly over 1. I made sure the sample rates are the same from Ableton to Max. When I use play~ and send it a message of "0,$1 $1" with $1=endpoint in ms, it also plays back slightly faster than the recorded loop.

Groove~ object plays back wrong speed in M4L

groove-object-plays-back-wrong-speed-in-m4l

Hi again I hope whoever is reading this is doing well!

I am on a tight deadline with this project ( I should have started earlier) but a part of my project is creating a reactive sound system where audio file or voice is played and then ovals are drawn on a jit.window  based on those sounds using jit.lcd. 

Hi again I hope whoever is reading this is doing well!

 ISSUE RESOLVED 

I am on a tight deadline with this project ( I should have...

sound-to-image-jitlcd-help

Sound to image  jit.lcd help 

weuoimi 

Hello, i am a newbie in max, but have some programming background and understanding of computational geometry, but found myself struggling to understand the process of creation of custom shaders for jit GPU objects. I also haven't found any extensive documentation on the topic. Are there any bible sort of material on this topic? idk if that relevant, but i am using max9. Thanks in advance everyone!

Good materials to learn and understand max's jxs GLSL?

good-materials-to-learn-and-understand-maxs-jxs-glsl

Hello, don't be mad at me if i what i am looking for is stupid or pointless, i am new to this and not quite familiar with max terminology. So, i am looking for a way to use line object to perform linear crossfade between x y z float coordinates, packed in some kind of multichannel signal, to express the transition delta from one point placed in 3d space to another point placed in 3d space. I just want to make it flexible enough to not to process each coordinate separately. I want to have a dynamically changing list of three coordinates in output. In other words, i am looking for a decent way to perform any operations with each member from a list as if i were using map() function in programming

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linear crossfade between lists

Jess 

I was very excited that the new max 9 release made the native input work for my ultrastudio 4k mini.  However I've been having trouble for a while, with both native and non-native inputs (the non-native has disappeared with my upgrade to sequoia).  If I leave my patch, or even the jit.grab Blackmagic help file open for a bit it disconnects and I have to reopen the device.  This is very disruptive to my microscopy workshops (running a sony rx0 II w/4k hdmi output for live video from my microscope).  I was wondering if anyone with this device had found a workaround.  Or, worse case scenario maybe someone could recommend another device to digitize video that is more max friendly?  I do need an output for raw video to an external screen on it.  I tried an Elgato 4k device but it drops frames here and there and this is very disruptive to my application- being the trails of microscopic critters, it make little gaps in the trails.  So far the 4k ultrastudio is the only device that does not drop frames, but it has this issue of disconnecting randomly, nothing in the max console about it.  It seems to happen more when I don't click anything in my patch and just go outside to vape etc, it takes anywhere from 3-20 min and it will always disconnect.

Blackmagic ultrastudio 4k mini + jit.grab keeps timing out after a few minutes unattended

blackmagic-ultrastudio-4k-mini-jitgrab-keeps-timing-out-after-a-few-minutes-unattended

Ben Bracken

. This update features 40+ new features and 175+ fixed bugs. This update focuses on Max for Live stability in the context of Live 12, fixes for Max 9 features, improvements to Jitter, and much more. This Max update also includes RNBO 1.3.4, also released today.

The full list of improvements are below, or on the release pages:

https://cycling74.com/releases/rnbo/1.3.4

We are happy to announce the release of Max 9.0.5 and RNBO 1.3.4. This update features 40+ new features and 175+ fixed bugs. This update...

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