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Multichannel audio for Max4Live - would mean surround sound, live convolution & resynthesis, sidechaining, cross-synthesis, surround granular effects and so on. I really can't get the above mentioned in anything other than Kyma and even then... Kyma is not as powerful a DAW as Ableton.

I'd also ...

If your not sure how to build you own algorithms then you could look at using some externals - I like the soundhack ones - http://soundhack.henfast.com/freeware/ and the FFT ease ones - http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~elyon/Lyon ... P/FFTease/

Sample & hold as an effect is fairly new to me

Oh right... sample and hold is an analogue circuit that will sample a momentary frequency and hold it until it gets a new trigger then it will sample another momentary frequency and hold.

Usually it is used by triggering it periodically or on beat ...

There is a sample and hold object called sah~ - it would be pretty straight forward to turn it into a M4L device.

I don't think there is a problem. I did not have to download a new version of M4L. I got Ableton 8.2.6 and then just switched the Max path in the prefs to Max 6 and no problems.

I have used some of the newer modules in M4L and it is fine - here is a basic test just using the new filterdesign ...

...and you should check out shelLuser's synthfan blog. He has some very useful posts about the LOM which I must thank you for kind sir

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=331

too unmotivated to look at your patch right now but the device above helps me to stumble through when I need to do something specific.

sending cc's out is pretty easy - Ableton filters SYSEX which is a pity

multi-channel support.
Automation Envelopes with Bezier curves or ones with bends not just straight lines.
A Pitch Estimation Plug-In.
A Convolution Reverb.
Timecode Ruler.

I love Live - I hope it gets a lot better not just a little better.

I did try to send a new size message to the buffer~ while it was recording and it did work. I used large messages like one every 2000 ms but it worked. You'd have to do more then, maybe a clocker or something to set the size message dynamically - the buffer needs to be cleared everytime before you ...

I think you might have to set a limit but it can be very large. Yo could set a very big buffer~ size say 600000 which would be 10 mins and then a user set option for even bigger? In Pro-Tools you have to set a max recording time limit.

Out of interest why do you need an infinite buffer~? I am not ...

There are a lot of ways to do this - below is a simple one.


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----------begin_max5_patcher----------
752.3ocyX9zjZBCFF+r6L62gLb15.g+Zu0N8xdnW6kN6zIBupoERrPbVa2oe
2aHQbXU.ihr3AlnuDHO4mOuuIwWe7gIVK36fBKzGQeGMYxqxHSTwJiLoJvDq
Lxt3TRgpiVw7rLfIrlt+lBXmPciBPfdYMQf95Se4IDiK.jHmtZEjWfDqATA7
6s ...

I think this does it... if anybody has a better solution (for example using attributes or messages) I would be interested to see it.


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----------begin_max5_patcher----------
4488.3oc6cs0jaaaE9YmY5+AN6zmZcTItPBxNsO3D6Loy3F2X6jW73wCWQnc
YLEoBI0tdalt+1KtPJQpkTDRBfTqWFOQb4EAA7QfuyAGbNG7G ...

.... maybe they heard you - look at this weeks Did You Know vid.

http://cycling74.com/2011/06/20/week-22/

Has no one suggested using an effects rack and Utility Plugin??? 8O
Yes, the first responder did; he mentioned the thread in which the guy who originally came up with this idea explained this trick.

Ahh I must have missed it when I was looking through the post.

Thanks very much. This is the one ...