Problem automating M4L device

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gross9978
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Problem automating M4L device

Post by gross9978 » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:49 pm

Hey:) I’ve started making a remote for my Hydrasynth with M4L and after getting a few parameters setup I thought I’d test it out. I have bidirectional control of Mutator 1 seemingly working using NRPN fine when using the hardware and/or the M4L ui but when I tried to automate a knob it’s not working the way I’d expect. When I draw in automation or record automation the playback isn’t sending the info to the synth until it reaches the highest value even though the UI is updated correctly. When I turn the knob manually in the ui on the screen it sounds as expected and if I modulate it with an LFO in Live it sounds as expected. I’ve made other remotes for synths using CCs and they work fine so I’m not sure where my errors could be except with the NRPN somehow, but they seem to work fine except via automation. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks
I’m on Live 11.0.5 And Mac OS Catalina

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Re: Problem automating M4L device

Post by [jur] » Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:59 pm

Weird.
Did you try hooking up a software like Midi Monitor to check what's getting out of Live? You can also do it with Max actually.
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Re: Problem automating M4L device

Post by gross9978 » Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:33 pm

I didn’t but managed to fix the problem by enabling the defer automation checkbox. No clue why it worked but it did?

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Re: Problem automating M4L device

Post by [jur] » Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:26 pm

I'd be curious to check, could you share the patch or an example bit of it?
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Re: Problem automating M4L device

Post by gross9978 » Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:43 am

Sure I'd be happy to, I'm not sure how to upload an amxd to the forum?

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Re: Problem automating M4L device

Post by [jur] » Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:59 am

You can copy-paste the device as text here.
When the device is open in the Max editor > cmd/ctrl+A to select everything > click "Copy compress" in Max's Edit menu > you can now paste this in here.
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Re: Problem automating M4L device

Post by gross9978 » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:56 pm

Here you go, I think its more likely to be an issue with the way I've done things than a bug of some kind but you never know. Be warned its messy haha

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