Maxi-Patch 3.7.3: Loop and Cue Points, improved waveform!
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:26 am
Maxi-Patch version 3.7.3 for OSX and Windoom is ready for registered fan club members to download.
New features:
1) Loop Points
Ms Pinky's Maxi-Patch now supports setting, saving, and restoring up to 16 looped segments per audio file. Located above the zoomed waveform displays is a 16-segment control which you use to select the current loop slot. After selecting the desired loop slot, hold down Apple-Shift (OSX) or Control-Shift (Windoom) and drag across the portion of the waveform (on either waveform display) that you wish to loop on. Then enable the "play loop" toggle button which is directly underneath the filter graph display in the file player deck. Now when the file plays (with or without vinyl control) it should only loop over the selected region of the waveform. Once you've initially specified a loop segment you may refine its boundaries by holding down the Apple (Command) key (OSX) or the Control key (Windoom) and dragging near either edge of the looped segment that is displayed. The loop slot select control is MIDI-mappable. To access the MIDI mappings, hit the “MIDI Map” button just to the left.
Loop points are saved with the waveform data file.
2) Cue Points
Ms Pinky's Maxi-Patch now supports setting, saving, and restoring up to 16 cue points per audio file. Located beneath the bottom waveform display is a 16-segment control for selecting the cue slot. After selecting the cue slot, specify a cue point by holding down the Shift key (OSX or Windoom) and dragging over the waveform display. A red indicator bar shows the currently selected cue point. While still holding down the shift key, release the mouse and the cue point is set. Recall instantly by pressing the numbered cue slot selector. The cue slot selector control is MIDI-mappable. Cue points are saved with the waveform data file.
3) Improved Waveform
The waveform can now zoom in by a factor of 64 (that's 4 times as much as it could before). This makes for much more satisfying waveform viewing. The waveform data files themselves are a bit larger because of this finer magnification (and will need to be recalculated) and because they now also contain loop and cue point data.
4) Improved MIDI setup and handling
We've made some performance improvements to the MIDI control aspects of Maxi-Patch. The way we used to do this was very messy and inefficient in terms of the Max patching involved. A new streamlined optimized C++ code approach makes everything run faster and better with the MIDI mapping, and makes the patches a lot nicer to look at! Check out the new "MIDI Setup" menu item under the "Ms Pinky & Me" menu. Under the “MsPinky & Me” menu at the top, select “MIDI Setup”. This brings up a window where you can see displayed all the MIDI input and output devices that are currently available on your system. Check marks in the column labeled “On” indicate which ones are to be used with Maxi-Patch. If you have multiple MIDI devices, some of which are programmed to transmit on the same MIDI channels, you can select in the column labeled “Offset” a value to add to the base channel number of a given MIDI device so that it does not interfere with the others. There is another column labeled “Abbrev” which allows you to choose an abbreviated name for a MIDI device, but this is not currently used in Maxi-Patch. For more info on MIDI mapping, see the "Quick_Start.pdf" file included in the download.
5) General Spring Cleaning
All of the principal patches that comprise the Maxi-Patch have been tidied up considerably! You should now have no trouble viewing them and figuring out what they're doing, especially the MIDI mapping parts which are now simply elegant.
New features:
1) Loop Points
Ms Pinky's Maxi-Patch now supports setting, saving, and restoring up to 16 looped segments per audio file. Located above the zoomed waveform displays is a 16-segment control which you use to select the current loop slot. After selecting the desired loop slot, hold down Apple-Shift (OSX) or Control-Shift (Windoom) and drag across the portion of the waveform (on either waveform display) that you wish to loop on. Then enable the "play loop" toggle button which is directly underneath the filter graph display in the file player deck. Now when the file plays (with or without vinyl control) it should only loop over the selected region of the waveform. Once you've initially specified a loop segment you may refine its boundaries by holding down the Apple (Command) key (OSX) or the Control key (Windoom) and dragging near either edge of the looped segment that is displayed. The loop slot select control is MIDI-mappable. To access the MIDI mappings, hit the “MIDI Map” button just to the left.
Loop points are saved with the waveform data file.
2) Cue Points
Ms Pinky's Maxi-Patch now supports setting, saving, and restoring up to 16 cue points per audio file. Located beneath the bottom waveform display is a 16-segment control for selecting the cue slot. After selecting the cue slot, specify a cue point by holding down the Shift key (OSX or Windoom) and dragging over the waveform display. A red indicator bar shows the currently selected cue point. While still holding down the shift key, release the mouse and the cue point is set. Recall instantly by pressing the numbered cue slot selector. The cue slot selector control is MIDI-mappable. Cue points are saved with the waveform data file.
3) Improved Waveform
The waveform can now zoom in by a factor of 64 (that's 4 times as much as it could before). This makes for much more satisfying waveform viewing. The waveform data files themselves are a bit larger because of this finer magnification (and will need to be recalculated) and because they now also contain loop and cue point data.
4) Improved MIDI setup and handling
We've made some performance improvements to the MIDI control aspects of Maxi-Patch. The way we used to do this was very messy and inefficient in terms of the Max patching involved. A new streamlined optimized C++ code approach makes everything run faster and better with the MIDI mapping, and makes the patches a lot nicer to look at! Check out the new "MIDI Setup" menu item under the "Ms Pinky & Me" menu. Under the “MsPinky & Me” menu at the top, select “MIDI Setup”. This brings up a window where you can see displayed all the MIDI input and output devices that are currently available on your system. Check marks in the column labeled “On” indicate which ones are to be used with Maxi-Patch. If you have multiple MIDI devices, some of which are programmed to transmit on the same MIDI channels, you can select in the column labeled “Offset” a value to add to the base channel number of a given MIDI device so that it does not interfere with the others. There is another column labeled “Abbrev” which allows you to choose an abbreviated name for a MIDI device, but this is not currently used in Maxi-Patch. For more info on MIDI mapping, see the "Quick_Start.pdf" file included in the download.
5) General Spring Cleaning
All of the principal patches that comprise the Maxi-Patch have been tidied up considerably! You should now have no trouble viewing them and figuring out what they're doing, especially the MIDI mapping parts which are now simply elegant.