Max7 and maxforlive
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:51 pm
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Hi Pinksters!
Interesting things in the last years... But today I want to talk about the new Max7 and its implications over maxforlive.
When Cycling'74 (maxmsp devs) and Ableton Live announced their partnership I get excited about the wonderful possibilities coming. The maxforlive patch was more or less the "tool" I have in my mind... But the drawbacks of Ableton Audio Api (not totally improved by Max audio api neither) such no warping buffers, one audio input restriction for max instrument, not true midi/audio max instrument... In addition to their own drawbacs in Live such crash, lost "share" feature and Serato The Bridge fail (rumours of new Bridge are in the Serato forums) make me consider the opposite path: Return to Max7 as a Ladypink hosting.
Maybe someone could argue that Scratch Track from stagecraft software or even the full livetronika studio could do more or less what I described time ago. Some other could argue over the Remix Decks (which essentially are Live Audio clips inside Traktor deck like m4l ms pinky device try to be bypassing the warping problem and so on...) but no, there aren't yet and probably they will not be never.
It is in the nature of Maxmsp environment itself which is not at "full-focused commercial" brands like Serato or NI which makes Ms. Pinky attractive because it make her "customizable".
So the aim of this topic is to discuss about how users imagine the new era of Ms. Pinky and what features they will see. It is not an official statment of nothing due I'm only a contributor as any of you could be and it is DLP who has the last word at last... But if we (all of us) grow a modular Ms.P which will be your opinion mate? Let's talk...
Hi Pinksters!
Interesting things in the last years... But today I want to talk about the new Max7 and its implications over maxforlive.
When Cycling'74 (maxmsp devs) and Ableton Live announced their partnership I get excited about the wonderful possibilities coming. The maxforlive patch was more or less the "tool" I have in my mind... But the drawbacks of Ableton Audio Api (not totally improved by Max audio api neither) such no warping buffers, one audio input restriction for max instrument, not true midi/audio max instrument... In addition to their own drawbacs in Live such crash, lost "share" feature and Serato The Bridge fail (rumours of new Bridge are in the Serato forums) make me consider the opposite path: Return to Max7 as a Ladypink hosting.
Maybe someone could argue that Scratch Track from stagecraft software or even the full livetronika studio could do more or less what I described time ago. Some other could argue over the Remix Decks (which essentially are Live Audio clips inside Traktor deck like m4l ms pinky device try to be bypassing the warping problem and so on...) but no, there aren't yet and probably they will not be never.
It is in the nature of Maxmsp environment itself which is not at "full-focused commercial" brands like Serato or NI which makes Ms. Pinky attractive because it make her "customizable".
So the aim of this topic is to discuss about how users imagine the new era of Ms. Pinky and what features they will see. It is not an official statment of nothing due I'm only a contributor as any of you could be and it is DLP who has the last word at last... But if we (all of us) grow a modular Ms.P which will be your opinion mate? Let's talk...