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The original Push got no support after Push 2 was announced. I'm not talking about "fix what is already there", I'm talking about not updating the product to do better/mo' stuff. Push 1 got loads of new features, updates and fixes after Push 2 came out. They are listed in the Live release...

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Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:54 pm

PS. if you buy a new push, there is no rubber coating anymore. i remember it when i sold mine 3 years ago. now i got a new one from ableton and its just hardplastic.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Javascript always runs in the low priority thread in Max, so using it for real-time or time-critical applications is not advisable. What you're seeing is that a cascade of very quick calls to [js] will result in strange behaviour and lag, this is due to the scheduler throttling the messages. It's ok...

Steve Grimley-Taylor (user Monobass on Muffwiggler) is flouting UK trade laws by refusing to refund my payment outside of the PayPal dispute i have had to open against his company Thonk Ltd (www.thonk.co.uk). This is all because he misread a comment i made in an e-mail and is now expecting an apolog...

Right, from what i can gather this is happening on ANY number - not just 0.00 like i originally thought - that has a fractional part which is all zeroes due to the way Javascript handles numbers, where they are stored as double-precision floating point. This means that even if a number is representa...

Looks like i cracked it... using someNumberVariable.toFixed(6) and then passing that to Live in the function call works fine even though it is converting the number to a string, because it will then be reconverted to a number where Live expects a number, and it will have the right precision for myst...

I found this which is pretty comprehensive about the inadequacies of number arithmetic in js:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqHDDtVYJRI

Still doesn't explain max dropping the fractional part of zero as a float. I'll have to do some tests and see which conditions cause it.

Bloody useful lot here aren't you

I've been having a nightmare trying to place notes through the JS LiveAPI. If i sent a note position of 0.0 like this: parseFloat(Number(0.0).toFixed(5)) JS will output it as an Int, 0, which Ableton then kicks up a fuss about as it's expecting a float for the position argument. Ruins my whole messa...

Oh, and make sure it's pure talc, not with added corn starch. The best is to check ingredients. It should say either just talc, or talc & parfum (scent).

For sticky rubber use some talcum powder (unscented is best unless you want your Push to smell like a baby's butt), rub in a small amount on the face, being careful not to get it down the gaps in the surface, maybe put some in a dish and use q-tips to apply it. Looks awful, but then after a minute o...

sounds like a waste of time

Restarting the computer after having reset the Rewire engines fixed this. Couldn't do that yesterday because. Why did this work? Who knows. Computers are shit. Just leaving this here for anyone else who might run into the same problem. Bye xx

Oddly enough it doesn't work with Live 8.3.4 or Max 7.3.5 either... yet Rewire to Reason works just fine in Logic 9.1.7, Renoise 3.1.1, Bidule 0.9761, MuLab 8.0.66, REAPER 5.972.

I can't get Reason 7.1.2 to open via Rewire in Live 9.7.7 any more. It seems to be since I updated my computer to OSX El Capitan to run newer programs as 10.11 is the baseline nowadays for support from all these enlightened software companies. At first Reason wouldn't open at all as version 7.1.1 so...