spotted via @stretta 
looks great!
github download:
ArcControl + Gridlab for Ableton
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Yeah, doe look great indeed -thanks a lot for pointing to this!
Yeah really cool.
Iām curious about his jitter-based approach to arc animation. I especially liked how it rotates slowly when you change orientation, real slick.
I canāt figure it out from the code though, as it refers to static āmoviesā named āarc_indicator.pngā, but canāt seem to find the actual assets for them to see how/what they are made and oriented.
Iām trying to find what you took a screenshot of, and canāt. Where is that?
Inside the Gridlab ArcControl.amxd device. The graphic elements I added, in order to visualize what the matrix is dumping out. Just out of frame is a subpatch that contains all of the .png file names.
I presume the image itself is 64pixels wide, and from the labelling of the main matrix, I guess 500 pixels tall?
I still canāt find this subpatcher with the filenames. Cmd-F for āpngā returns 0 results. I bet Iām staring right at it and not seeing it.
Thank you! Wouldnāt it be nice if that was part of the Cmd-F scope? Sigh.
great visualization. itās curious png files are used to store that - wonder how/why (but i have pretty much zero knowledge about max - perhaps it makes perfect sense).
Well, Iām really curious about those PNGs too, but I also couldnāt find them. Wish I understood more about the amxd file format and how it embeds other binaries. On a hunch I tried renaming it to .zip to see if itās just that, but no dice.
Yeah Iām curious about it. Iāve done those kinds of visualizations using list management and interpolation, but Iām presuming itās easier just having a matrix with the interpolation built in, that you then rotate.
The embedded assets is weird. I canāt find which devices have it now, but he does the same .png trick in the BEAP modules as well, and similarly, I canāt find the source png files anywhere.
Hi. I am not able to load the device into Ableton, what could be wrong?
Thanks, Kurt.
Ah, totally forgot that @stretta is on here (just saw his mention in the newsletter), so maybe he can chime in with how/why the .png thing.
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I encounter a lot of problems with ArcControl. I never used my arc with my computer so it might be a setup problem.
The Arc is sometimes recognized, sometimes not. Led feedback is most of the time not working.
Also i noticed that my Arc doesnāt have the same name depending on if itās connected thru a usb hub or directly in a usb slot.
I just ran a fresh install of the serialosc package.
Well, it seems to work super nicely with another computer so it looks like a setup problem.
Computer that works :
Os 10.10.15
Live 9.7
Max 7.3.1
Computer that doesnāt work :
Os 10.11.16
Live 9.7
Max 7.3.1
On the working computer (that has quircks as well in the end) iāve got a lot of āchanges cannot be triggered by notificationsā.
My problem is solved: I had to download the whole āgridlab-masterā-package - the download of the single āArcControlā didnĀ“t work.
Thanks a lot Stretta - great tool !
just tried it out. iām able send encoder data to the patch, but there is no led feedback. also changing the arc orientation doesnāt re-order the encoders.
i downloaded the whole gridlab-master.zip and loaded arcControl from within that directory.
ableton 9.5
serialosc 1.4
os x 10.11.6
any tips?
edit: updated to live 9.7 no dice.
I donāt own an arc yet but all of the grid patches have worked flawlessly for me so far. Great stuff from @stretta!
I got a similar response (though ableton 9.7). The led feedback wasnāt working for a while and then just turned on all of the sudden. Trying to figure out what cause the lights to turn onā¦still quite usable without the led though!