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Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:26 pm
by db
Hi all,
We've created set of Max for Live device guidelines. The purpose of these guidelines is to help programmers build devices that work and can be shared with others:
http://downloads.ableton.com/misc/maxfo ... elines.pdf
The guidelines are based on our own experience and known issues, the evaluations of some devices from the community and talks with patch programmers over the past few weeks.
We consolidated the most common errors to help you troubleshoot your devices. We'll add practical examples later to demonstrate how you may solve specific programming problems related to these guidelines.
I hope you find it helpful.
Daniel
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:35 pm
by S4racen
Good guide, a number of things i wish i'd known at the start!
Cheers
D
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:08 pm
by julienb
yep!
nice
+1
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:25 pm
by synnack
Cool stuff. I will certainly encourage people to adhere to the guidelines on maxforlive.com.
The new "beta/work in progress" tag could represent devices that don't confirm to all the recommendations in the guide.
Thanks Ableton!
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:30 am
by olivierseb
Very good initiative !
This could really improve overall quality and consistency
Thank you
Olivier
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:29 pm
by docprosper
Really nice checklist, this will really up the average device quality if people adhere to it. Thanks!
Hamish
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:39 am
by tomatoe_joe
Howdy:
Could someone recommend some good patches that incorporate the guidelines?
I'm sure there are many of us who are crappy programmers and we could learn alot from looking into actual examples of solid code, rather than just blindly reading the guidelines.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:37 am
by db
tomatoe_joe wrote:Howdy:
Could someone recommend some good patches that incorporate the guidelines?
I'm sure there are many of us who are crappy programmers and we could learn alot from looking into actual examples of solid code, rather than just blindly reading the guidelines.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Thanks for the feedback. We're currently working on a few examples, they'll be coming out soon.
Daniel
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 1:45 pm
by jeremy.west
really thank a lot. it will help newbie like me. lots of thing i dont know still
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 10:50 am
by eshaa83
nice guidelines...
keep it up...
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:00 pm
by FORMAT
db wrote:Hi all,
We've created set of Max for Live device guidelines. The purpose of these guidelines is to help programmers build devices that work and can be shared with others:
http://downloads.ableton.com/misc/maxfo ... elines.pdf
The guidelines are based on our own experience and known issues, the evaluations of some devices from the community and talks with patch programmers over the past few weeks.
We consolidated the most common errors to help you troubleshoot your devices. We'll add practical examples later to demonstrate how you may solve specific programming problems related to these guidelines.
I hope you find it helpful.
Daniel
Re: Ableton Max for Live production guidelines
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:35 am
by Jdudeo
I would add to this list that a device's UI should play nice with alternative Ableton skins, for example a skin that's primarily black with white text as opposed to the standard grey with black text, the device should still be usable (ie parameters visible)