Detect playing position of clip - solution!?!

[gavspav]

Am I hallucinating or is now there a method of detecting clip position using the api?

See the code below. Was this always there? Or was it slipped in quietly?

Or am I just hallucinating?

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[pukunui]

Far out.

First I've seen of it, and not documented.
How did you stumble on it?

Looks like it updates every 50 ms or so.

-A

[S4racen]

That's brilliant.....! Follow actions now solved....!!

Nice one fella!!

Cheers
D

[gavspav]

I just spotted it in api explorer and thought I'd try it out. Was it really there all along? Surely someone somewhere must have known about it.

I wonder what else there is to find? Sysex support? live.bugger (that was a typo but too good to fix) The lost chord?

Not sure if its quite up to driving video clips - 25hz (less?) is cutting it a bit fine - presumably it is running in low priority thread?

But with access to tempo information that doesnt necessarily matter too much anyway.

[pukunui]

If you poll live.object with a faster metro for the same property you should be able to match frame rate no problem

-A

[itsthejayj]

new to live 8.1 http://monome.q3f.org/changeset/53/trun ... /live8.txt

[Tarekith]

new to live 8.1 http://monome.q3f.org/changeset/53/trun ... /live8.txt

Everytime I get slightly motivated to try and learn Max4Live, I click links like that, my eyes cross, and my brain shuts down immediately.

[Machinate]

haha, awesome. One more thing to check off the list, eh?

:RAWK:

[S4racen]

What is that exactly.....??

Cheers
D

[mdk]

that is a diff, i.e. it shows what has changed between 2 versions of the document. old in red,new in green.

the actual document itself is a dump of the LiveAPI from python, probably some kind of recursive dir(obj) type code

[technog0d]

This is great! Just what i needed for some of my ideas in MSP!

[olivierseb]

If you poll live.object with a faster metro for the same property you should be able to match frame rate no problem

-A

thanks Gaspav and Andrew

here is a small patch exploring the 2 versions ( live.observer and live.object)
You can adjust polling rate

Code: Select all

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Olivier

PS: tested with live 8.1b1 ( not sure it will work with 8.1)

[mastahlee]

here is a small patch exploring the 2 versions ( live.observer and live.object)
You can adjust polling rate

Olivier

PS: tested with live 8.1b1 ( not sure it will work with 8.1)

This is great, thanks a lot! Hopefully this is undocumented only because they haven't finished implementing it yet and they won't change the syntax after officially releasing it as I plan to heavily integrate this into my sets.

It seems to only be an get & observe property as of now. I attempted the holy grail and sent a "set playing_position 0" to the live.object but no dice, get an "Invalid Syntax" error message in Max. Oh, how good would that have been if it had worked...

[technog0d]

here is a small patch exploring the 2 versions ( live.observer and live.object)
You can adjust polling rate

Olivier

PS: tested with live 8.1b1 ( not sure it will work with 8.1)

This is great, thanks a lot! Hopefully this is undocumented only because they haven't finished implementing it yet and they won't change the syntax after officially releasing it as I plan to heavily integrate this into my sets.

It seems to only be an get & observe property as of now. I attempted the holy grail and sent a "set playing_position 0" to the live.object but no dice, get an "Invalid Syntax" error message in Max. Oh, how good would that have been if it had worked...

I just found this out the hard way... I created a patch that gets the current position of a clip and sends it to the Launchpad. A button is pressed on the Launchpad and that allows you to change the start position of the loop. This works on loop restart, but it will not allow me to jump to that loop position when set. This greatly prohibits me from doing stuff like mlr. I hope it is added soon. Otherwise i will combine clip position with a buffer in order to accomplish something similar.

Mike

[gavspav]

Haven't tried this but I had assumed it was possible!

What do the functions jump In running session clip and move playing position do then?