#38

paging @taubaland for this, as I’ve not yet messed with windows myself

#39

Hi @zaqwithaq,

As far as I can tell, the reason it isn’t working for you is a lack of a Microsoft VS Redistributable.

Try installing from here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

#40

Hey,

Just checking if this worked? Not sure if I need to look into to the Windows version more!

If anyone can chime in with if they have the Windows version working apart from me?

#41

Just coming into this (after interviewing Andrew…). It’s been a minute since I messed with softcut on the norns, and I’d like to try this in Max. I got a good compile using the 8.0.3 SDK, but the test patch doesn’t do much for me.

What’s a good step-by-step testing procedure to figure out if I’ve got it? It just might be that I don’t know (or can’t remember) what I’m supposed to do…

[ddg]

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#42

the compiled binaries are under releases if you want to try that first ! there are a couple things that need to be initialized to get it going - I think they’re in the help patcher but it’s been a sec

Ekphras might be a better test/reference than the help patcher, it’s literally just all the ins/outs plugged into a m4l device

#43

Yeah, man - that helps. Interesting to see the softcut parameters laid out like that…

[ddg]

#44

tiny update: PR’d a phase poll message (get_position) and a data outlet to go with it. will test further via new app but it probably works ! !

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#45

@Taubaland I"m having difficulty getting the Windows builds of softcut to load. Whenever I instantiate it, I get the dreaded Error 126. I’ve installed the latest VC++ redist per your suggestion above, but still no joy. Any other ideas?

#46

@FinWanker,

On a stackoverflow thread, I saw that it recommended using a dependency walker to determine what dll’s are required. After running on my machine, I saw that I needed:

MAXAPI.DLL
MAXAUDIO.DLL
KERNEL32.DLL
MSVCP140D.DLL
VCRUNTIME140D.DLL
UCRTBASED.DLL

Maybe try installing it at running on your system to determine if all the required dependencies are installed?

Alex

#47

Hmm…appear to be missing the MAXAPI.DLL, MAXAUDIO.DLL, and the URCTBASED.DLL.

#48

So I was also missing maxaudio and maxapi, but I’m guessing they are used by maxmsp. Hopefully finding urctbased.dll fixes it.

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#49

It’s odd that I need to install either VC++ Tools or the Windows 10 SDK to get this run. Is this an issue with the compilation?

#50

Quite possibly.

Leave it with me, I’ll try and get something else out.

#51

Can you please give that a go and see if there’s any improvement?

softcut~.mxe64 (33.5 KB)

#52

Well, it loads without error, but M4L devices that use it (e.g. ekphras) still don’t work. Thanks for the help though.

#53

@Taubaland I was able to get anachronism working smoothly on windows with the latest file you’ve posted.

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#54

Thanks for letting me know!

Any luck with your setup @FinWanker?

#55

Just implemented this softcut~ port into a multi-track looper I’ve been working on: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_A8GOyBKlW/

It took me a while to get it to behave similarly to @Rodrigo’s karma~ (which was what I was trying to use before) but in the end I’m quite happy with the results. It seems to require a lot more initial settings to get going but it definitely makes it a lot more flexible.

Thanks for the port @andrew! Been having a lot of fun with it.

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#56

nice ! lovely to see grid v1 still proving infinitely useful.

initialization is the same situation as norns I believe, but yea it’s a lil bothersome in max, took me a second to sort it all out as well (the example patch is a good reference).

enjoy softcut ! that bit of code changed my life, no joke

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#57

Haha yeah, I’d love to get my hands on a new grid but the 40h is what I have for now (and for the future considering the usd exchange rate).

Yeah, the initialization is not that bad, it makes sense.

One other thing, have you considered adding a second outlet for play / read position? I thought about forking it and adding it myself but I figured I’d ask first.
I was using karma~'s position output to drive a row of the grid so I could visualize where Im at within the loop and that’s the one thing that Im missing in softcut~.
Totally understand if it’s not in the scope of the project tho.

Edit: I digged through the sourcecode and turns out you’ve already added a data outlet however it wasn’t showing up on the compiled object I got from github. I messed a bit with the sourcecode, re-compiled it and it now has both outputs and the get_position message seems to be working well. This should be enough for me :partying_face:

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