I just checked 7.03 and the serialosc is working perfectly.
good tip on the mlrv standalone.
Hi There,
Iām trying to run the stand-alone app on a Mac with the latest OS. The program appears to open, but I only get the title in the menu bar and services menu. Nothing else. Program doesnāt open or anything.
Also, when I try to run a prior version on 6.1 runtime, the patch opens, but Iām not able to get my Grid128 to see the patch.
Thanks for your help!
Uhhā¦ How frustrating. I guess Max 5 standalones wonāt work with 10.10 and above then. Iām on 10.9 because everybody with a mac more than 2 years old says how slow 10.10 is.
Iād like to do an update to make it work on 10.10 sometime soon. There are zero features I want to add though, so itās just a boring compatibility update for free software that I rarely use anymore myself (thus hard to be motivated). Downloading 7.0.3 now to see whatās changed.
Particularly as I shelled out Ā£1400 for a new 13" MacBook Pro today, for music purposes.
I understand your reluctance, but hereās an ideaā¦
How about the ability to set up inner loops independently of the position of the play head, say by holding down a top row button, selecting the inner loop region, then when the track plays through that region it loops it until the end button is pressed, at which point it runs out to the end of the line. At the moment the behaviour Iām seeing is it jumps into an inner loop as soon as ones set up and exit has to be timed correctly in terms of a manual press. Or am I missing somethingā¦
Well, if you get around to doing it, I will send you some nice beers. 
Youāre not missing anything - thatās the classical implementation of inner-loops from @tehnās original mlr. I donāt have any issue with the āperformativeā element of such a gesture, as mlrv has always been about focussing entirely on performance (rather than composition).
The idea you propose is certainly interesting and has appeared in a number of recent monome step-sequencers in various forms, but it wonāt make it into the mlrv update. The code to handle button presses is already seriously overcomplicated and honestly unsuited to visual-code (would really need a text-based rewrite).
Of course the software is open-source, such that users with different needs to my own can manipulate it to their own needs.
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I am now working on a simple compatibility update to get everything working effectively in Max 7 & 10.9 / 10.10 (maybe even Win8?). I will be building standalone applications where possible to avoid the bulky max project and have a higher likelihood of success for first-timers.
windows 10 will be out in a couple months (almost used an emoji but resisted)
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The last mlr style clip slicer I made I coded the press data processing in js. Easily took about a quarter of the time and is way more friendly to look atā¦
Thanks Galapagoose, thatās much appreciated 
@stevieraysean I did this for the mlr sub-patch in monome_sum but find it runs into performance issues when you start pushing the CPU with audio stuff (as js is all low-priority in max).
That being, said Iāve done some minor updating to get things to work properly for me on Max 7 in 10.9: https://github.com/trentgill/mlrv2
This is not an official release, but download the zip and let me know if you have any feedback.
@Galapagoose cool, iām out of town at the moment. will have a look when I get back.
the mlr/mash sampler I made is a small part of a much bigger environment iāve been working on so I havenāt exactly stress tested it yetā¦ probably end up making it in mxj if thats the case. Iāve found that to be pretty good performance-wiseā¦
Iāve hardly touched mlr in quite a while
For completenessā sake, to note that I have followed the method I described above in 12 steps, on my new MBP 13" running Yosemite 10.10.3 and have achieved a correct installation with fully working MLRV. Happy :O)
More updatesā¦
In Max 6 the preset management doesnāt appear to work, itās ok with Max 5
In Yosemite the Rewire functionality doesnāt work
Iāve never found Max 5 particularly stable and itās no exception under Yosemite, in particular, switching sound cards appears to permanently disconnect the grid, requiring running a test patch and/or Monome Sum to get it connected again.
Essentially, I would say that in my view unless there is development of MLR-V for OXS 10.10.x and Max 7 this implementation of the Monome on new Macs is becoming obsolete. I think people should be aware of the strife involved in trying to do this before committing. If you have an old Mac running a 2011 OS and Max 5 and you donāt want to rewire into anything later than Live 7 or 8, say, then possibly go for it, but otherwise I would give it a miss.
havenāt used it in a while, but this was always the most stable/working serialosc version of mlrv in my experience. never had any rewire or driver problems that newer versions have in max6.
http://monome.org/community/discussion/13529/mlrv2.2-serialosc-edition-with-alphanerd-plugins/p1
Hi there
A few questionsā¦
Whatās this supposed to look like? Is it standalone or do you need to open Max7 first? When I open it I just get a list of patches down the left and the delay window on the right, nothing elseā¦
First close the delay patcher.
You then need to load the ā_mlrv.maxpatā file from the list of patchers (double-click). I had it auto-loading the delay patcher to avoid the long load time when working on things and often having to reload Max.
I need to do some heavier duty testing (of the file save/load system in particular) then Iāll build standalones for Mac10.10 & Windows 8.
Of course any feedback is appreciated. Iāve been successfully using it on a brand new mac on 10.10.3 and an older box on 10.9.4. Havenāt tested it on my micro Win8 computer yet.
ok, Ill try that.
This is probably a stupid question but will the standalone be 64 bit, rewirable into Live 9 64 bit?
Indeed it will be 64bit. Iāve spent some time removing the āxsampleā external requirement which was the cause of the 32bit restriction.
Thereās definitely some things missing in the version mentioned above which Iām working to conquer today / tomorrow.
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quick appreciation post, putting all this work into an essentially free tool
Yes indeed, itās a lot of work and not taken for granted.