#61

I don’t have Max 8 and haven’t used the object you’re talking about so sorry if this is completely off the point as a result! When I want to do stuff with long lists I tend to use the coll object. Maybe that could feed the mc.list~ object in some way?

https://docs.cycling74.com/max5/refpages/max-ref/coll.html

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#62

i would do:

[uzi 100]
[i 0.]
[zl.group 100]

replace the [i] with some other operation, i.e. [random], to generate a list that isn’t just zeros

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#63

Sorry for the confusion, apparently I didn’t state my problem correctly: I do already have the long list (generated a bit differently, because I actually needed to calculate all the different values, it’s not supposed to be 0s, but a long list of frequencies).

I just need to convert the list I have to an mc-signal and that’s what I’m struggling with. This conversion of list to mc-signal is what mc.list~ is for, but you need to specify how long the list is supposed to be (it discards all values in lists longer than that) and the only way I found to set the expected list length of that object is to give it an according number of initial values, i.e. “mc.list~ 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. […]”, which just seems silly for very long lists.

Optimally, I’d want something like “mc.list~ @listlength 100”, but no such thing seems to exist.

#64

I see. Yes, looks like mc.list~ would require 100 arguments… hmm that’s a weird one

#65

I figured it out! [mc.targetlist @chans 100 @listmode 1] will do what you want:

list to mc.maxpat (5.0 KB)

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#66

I posted the same question on the Max list. They sent me two examples for creating mc lists from massive multislider banks:

mcLists.maxpat (4.2 KB)

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#67

Thanks to both of you!

#68

I didn’t know about the applyvalues message. Useful. Thanks.

One thing I have to say about Max 8 so far is that the mc documentation seems to be all over the place and sometimes hard to find.

Right clicking an mc.sig~ for example gives me an “extra help” menu containing “mc wrapper features help” and “mc message features help,” but neither of these options open a help window, nor any documentation, they just cause the message “menu_generalhelp generalhelp2” to be printed in the console. Weird. Seems like a bug.

#69

yeah - that sounds like a support issue…

[ddg]

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#70

I recently upgraded from v5 to v8 and it seems that the option “all windows active” is gone… pretty annoying. anyone knows why?