Ms Pinky's Reformed Max-For-Live device

[BentoSan]

Sweet I got the data storage and retrieval system all working ! This was really half the battle (for me anyway), the rest of the features based around this should go pretty smoothly

It works across the many instances that you can have of the patchers too so there is no need to save the data per every single instance, once one patcher knows the info, so will the rest of the patchers.

[Mudo]

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http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/03/1 ... #more-9890


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[BentoSan]

Seeings how i had complaints about how the cue system worked i have gone ahead and made my own system for storing cue point and loop point data.

Now storage of loop data and cue data can be done without activating the said cue or loop.

To keep in line with the current patch i have made 16 cue points and 16 loop points, which is a totally absurd amount of cue points and loop points, but i know how much everyone loves such absurdly large numbers

At the moment though this data is not actually doing anything, but it should not take me long at all to start putting it to good use

[rabalder]

Im not able to trigger which clip to scratch with my midi-controller anymore. I have to highlight the selected clip with my mouse...(!?) When I map a button to a clip, its played, not highlighted..

Isnt this possible anymore??

[Mudo]

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With 16 cues you could map a mpd pad and beat!




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[rabalder]

Aha.. Never really used cues.

Thanks

[Mudo]

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Aha.. Never really used cues.

Thanks

My answer was for Bento about cues, not to you.



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[BentoSan]

Using downbeat info and BPM info i have worked out how to store i was able to make a phase meter which tells you how far your track is off from the closest beat. At the moment this only exists as a number ranging from -0.5 -> +0.5 but it should be very easy to turn this into a more visual object. Its using the master clock of Ableton so it will tell you the phase of your track in relation to Abletons master clock.

This was the first step in making a sync feature so a sync button should not be very far off now

[BentoSan]

I would like to see an output of the pinky object to send a floating point output (or even better a signal out) of the current position of the track from 0.00000 -> 1.00000 so that way we can get more accuracte cue drops.

Currently the song duration outputs at around every 40ms, so using this as a cue drop function does work, but could be better.

Doing this would definitely help with the accuracy of some of the current work i am doing.

[Mudo]

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I'm not sure but I think this is related to timestamps... Scott has the answers.


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[dlpinkstah]

There are several different ways to get the track position as a floating point value between 0.00 ---> 1.00.

1) "query percent_played".
The mptcfs_sa~ object will output the track position as a floating point number between 0.00 --> 1.00 in response to the message "query percent_played". You can send this query as often as needed to obtain the time accuracy you want.

2) Position signal output. The fifth outlet from the left is the position signal output. It outputs a signal at the audio rate which normally corresponds to position on the vinyl control record (or CD). Sending the message "file_position_out 1" to the object will cause this output signal to reflect the current position of the file playback. However, you'll need to scale this value as follows in order to get a number between 0.00 ---> 1.00. Create an expr object with two inputs as follows: "expr $f1*11.60997732426/$f2". Connect the output of a number~ which is fed by the position signal to the left inlet, and the output from "query msec_duration" to the right inlet. This is shown for you in the patch "FileScratchPatch_MPTCFS" which is part of the Maxi-Patch patches. Note: you only need to issue the "query msec_duration" once just after a new file is loaded.

[BentoSan]

ooo, thanks very much for the info that will help greatly in what i am currently working on

[mr.]

i can't wait to spend a little time and learn how to use this... so excited for it.

[JuanSOLO]

A new version of Ms Pinky's Max For Live device (OSX and Windoom) is available for all fan club members to download.

Maybe this is a silly question, but where do I download this new version?

[Mudo]

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It is at downloads files MAXMSP_yourOS/Patches_yourOS/Max4Live/


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