Yep, waveform shows up, can also ‘record’ and get a waveform, but don’t here any audio. transport is engaged to ‘play’.
weird, I’ll try and look into that - assuming the same situation for @eblomquist ? so basically, it’s recording to the buffer but not playing back ? (which would mean the external is loading in)
As far as I can tell, yes.
OTOH I’m having great fun throwing everything else at the wall.
Here is a cellphone sample of a playground chime run through the below (plus a little reverb):
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Hey,
Try setting start position to 1 then back to 0, and also length to 0 and then back to 1.
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Hmm good idea but no dice I’m afraid
mayb try downloading softcut~ and dropping it in documents/Max <version>/Library just to get that possibility out of the way.
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Hmmm looks like I am using Max 7 SDK not Max 8. But I have Ableton Live 10.1 so perhaps that’s why there’s also a Max 8 folder in my Documents/ ?
Anyway I downloaded the softcut.mxo.zip from the other thread, put the softcut
~.mxo file in both Library folders, and it still doesn’t work.
Don’t mean to take up your time though. Thanks for putting this all together!
yea kinda didn’t think that would be it - just confirms it’s the device not softcut~
if u have any comfort level w/ max (or none) - and feel like helping - I would encourage opening it up and poking around (meter~ will let you see where audio is coming through)
EDIT: got it working! Think it was putting softcut~ in the library after all.
This patch is amazing, wow.
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By the way just a few words to point out how wonderful I think it is that somehow, an embeded platform like norns, is pushing new developpements to grid apps for Max / M4L / Ableton. This is an unexpected and fantastic turn of events.
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it’s all just C++ swimming around at the bottom !
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Yeah I really never swim that deep so, thank you for making these fishes surface for us creatures of the earth.
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Having a similar issue as to @healthylives had. I read through what y’all were talking about, and then tried putting the softcut~.mxo in the ~/Documents/Max 7 (and Max 8)/Library folders. After this, tried restarting live, then restarting my computer, still no sound. I see the waveform updating in the UI. On latest macOS 10.14 and latest Live 10.1 as far as I know. Any ideas of other things to try?
ive not been able to get sound working either.
Mine is working fine. I tried putting softcut~.mxo into the Library folder and it stopped working, so I deleted it and everything works again.
errrr it’s possible the package may be silently breaking as I’m versioning it ? maybe just to confirm re-download ? I just pushed a version that should be packaged right
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cloned prosody (and used that ekphras.amxd instead), deleted the softcut~.mxo files from my documents folders. Works great!
This device is really great thank you, I’ve been using M4L macros in Ableton to get a stereo version working.
One thing I’m looking to do is use some kind of Macro button (this would work https://maxforlive.com/library/device/5353/simple-one-button-macro) to bang specific values for the ‘Coarse’ and ‘Fine tune’ controls so I can get eg a Fifth or a Seventh instantly. Currently in Ableton all the Macros default to a 0 - 100% range which I don’t think you can change.
Are there any more succinct ways of achieving this? btw I’m no programmer and don’t own a copy of Max so my current option is to have a row of huge ‘Off’ ‘On’ buttons.
given yr the second or third person to bring it up i think it’s about time to add more quantization options to coarse/fine. I’d like stereo as well but it’ll take a bit more work on the external
The quantizations would be awesome. Stereo is great using two instances panned hard left and right and Map8 in Max for Live Essentials. It’s interesting too when slightly offsetting values for the Macros.
This is how I’m using it currently:
btw I’m curious what ‘Position’ is actually doing, there’s audible effect when moving the control but I can’t hear what is different to the loop after?
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