#1

Hello! I encountered this issue in the past, now it’s back…

I’m building a patch in Max 4 Live, and I can’t make serialosc.maxpat work in my patch. I tried editing the patcher, pasting it from the Grid Studies pack, and from working M4L devices such as Terms. All I get is a dropdown menu with “none”, or sometimes my monome appears but I can’t send or receive any message.

Now, I have put a serialosc.maxpat in the Max 6.1 / patches folder but still nothing. Is there a particular location where it’s supposed to be? Should I keep a copy in my device folder?

Please advise, this thing is driving me crazy!

#2

I definitely had some frustrations with serialosc.maxpat inside of M4L devices. Often seemed to have to restart Live in order to re-activate the connection for some reason.

#3

Yeah, I’ve been getting mixed results restarting Live… It sort of works now, I probably wasn’t getting the prefix right. Now, the new issue is that serialosc.maxpat works only in edit mode, so when I save the patch and close Max I still get the “none” message. Sooo frustrating! :pensive:

#4

until these issues get sorted out, u may want to use the older serialosc.maxpat
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35035949/serialosc.maxpat.zip

i’ve never had the issues u described in m4l with this version.

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#5

I still use that old version too(even though the JavaScript engine in max7 was greatly improved, it’s still klunkier than regular max).

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#6

Thanks guys! It seems to run fine now, and that’s the latest version included in the grid studies. I also downloaded the version shared by elquinto, just in case.

#7

@CrackaAttacka @elquinto:

Do y’all think this is a JS issue? I found it to be terribly difficult to pin down exactly what was going on (specifically because you can’t use the Max Console while a M4L patch is running and not being edited). If it really is a JS issue I’d be happy to rollback to the older version, but need to add/change a few things so it behaves identically to the new version with auto-connection etc.

I’m about to install 9.2 & run with Max 7 and see if that feels any more reliable. Thoughts / theories welcome!

#8

not really sure, i haven’t used the new version much, but u CAN use the max console while a patch is running- right click on the device’s title bar and choose ‘open max window’

#9

Thanks for that tip!

#10

actually, i don’t even have M4L/Ableton, so my comment might not be as relevant(but have heard some people have had initialization-ordering probs using javascript with other regular max stuff(wasn’t m4l related, though)… will look for the thread(s) on c74 forums, but can’t find it right now…), been awhile since i changed my serialosc.maxpat(i’m actually using my own which is a simplified version of what elquinto posted), i’ll try the newer one more closely soon.

#11

I had to revert back to max 6.1 in Ableton 9.2 because opening projects that contain my work-in-progress M4L device makes Live hang forever. Will check if it’s a particular subpath/device or just my live set.