^^ crow: max + m4l devices (currently testing refactor!)

[oooans]

After a quick test seems to work fine on my Crow.

One bug i noticed when using this on SOUND/TRANSIENT if you do send more than one note per channel (yes, i know this is designed as mono only) it will about half of the time freeze that current channel on that note until a new note arrives. This does not happen with SOUND/SUSTAIN.

Also pleased, that this seems to also work on SHAPE, which could be nice, to use all these channels as envelopes.

[oooans]

I know you’re a busy person, but having MIDI pitch bend support for these JF m4l devices would be awesome! (to allow some playing around with non-traditional tunings etc.)

[dan_derks]

hey hey! no worries at all

i was able to add pitch bend support, but unsure what the best use-case is – would it be enough to just give a “range” control where you can define how to scale the pitch bend messages, with a default of +/- 2 semitones?

[kasselvania]

Man, the JF might be an awesome tool to create funky chip tune style melodies with bend!

[dan_derks]

it’s honestly way more rad than i thought it’d be lol

[kasselvania]

I wonder/am excited to see how this handles. I haven’t tried pitchbend/glide on any midi out channels of my Polyend tracker, but being able to do that would be SICK. I guess even trying it on the OP-1 would be a good call, but we’ll see I guess. The JF is just a really fun play on the fundamental sine/square that it can kinda always sound great.

[dan_derks]

if anybody’s up for testing the m4l interface for crow 2.0 + w/ synth: ^^w_synth.amxd
plz direct all feedback + q’s to ^^ crow: max + m4l devices (currently testing refactor!)

[kasselvania]

Hi dan, this looks sick! Is there a download link for crow 2.0 anywere?

[dan_derks]

the bin file in trent’s top post just needs to be dragged into a fresh crow 1.0.3 firmware download, overwriting the 1.0.3 bin – here’s a zip of the whole pack, if helpful: crow-v2.0b.zip

[altoaiello]

I would love an option for dual’s envelope to sustain until the midi note is off.

w/synth rules btw! Imagining a w/delay device with a knob that would select a base loop time (32n-4bar or something) which could be modulated, doubled/halved, etc on the module itself.

Thank you for all this rapid, excellent work!

[kasselvania]

Hi everyone, could anybody help me out? I want to generate a crow object in my max patch, but when I add an object with the word crow, it doesn’t have the yellow boarder and, while it opens the crow connection window, it doesn’t properly work.

How do I properly populate my patch with crow (or other monome based) objects?

[dan_derks]

@kasselvania

it doesn’t have the yellow boarder

this is just a style in the help patcher. you can change the border color in the inspector to HEX F5D328 to match if you’d like

@kasselvania

while it opens the crow connection window, it doesn’t properly work

any more info on what’s happening? are you able to select your connected crow? if so, what happens when you send it messages like print(time()) and monitor the crow object’s third outlet?

[kasselvania]

I will try and take a deeper look at what’s happening. I found I needed to cut and paste the full crow connection tool from the crow helper patch previously to fix my issue, but that was actually some time ago. I will poke at it a bit more and see if I can pinpoint what was happening.

[tyleretters]

If you want to share some screenshots and/or patches I’d be happy to look. My hunch is it has to do with your search path?

[jlmitch5]

@dan_derks

2.0 + w/ synth

this looks like a really cool interface! I do not have a w/ so i started looking at the patcher to see if i could figure out how to port to the jf synth m4l device…it looks like there are a number of ii.wsyn commands that allow that to happen which I can’t find analogs to in ii.jf. most all seem to be covered with the panel controls so it’s nbd, except for the ratio…looks like the numerator/denominator can be set up to 20 which leads to some more complex fm ratios than is possible with the run cv’s 1:2 @ -5v -> 2:1 @ 5v. would it be possible to add that command to the JF synth mode?

[lanserdj]

I second this - having that option for JF synth would be amazing as well.

[dan_derks]

i think JF.RUN might be able to get you there — i haven’t messed with that op in a long time. happy to investigate whether that is helpful, tho! but there’s no separate addressable FM ratio op in the Just Friends firmware.

might be a good feature request for Just Friends proper? if RUN value modulation is useful, i’ll add it to the device

[jlmitch5]

Yeah I think this is more of a JF firmware feature request (cc @Galapagoose). I think you can do 20:1 ratios (and everything in between) with the w/synth but as far as I understand 2:1 (and everything in between) is possible w jf run jack cv

[dan_derks]

closing for new version in new thread: ^^ crow: max for live + max v2.0

!!!