Detect playing position of clip - solution!?!

[olivierseb]

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?

I guess they are are song position related not clip related.

I am not surprised we have to wait for next clip refreshing to get loop start updated.
This is the way it works in Live when you assign a midi controler to such parameter.
Too bad we don't get more when using m4l
maybe later, after all this clip-position parameter is brand new , more will come.

Olivier

[S4racen]

I haven't played with trying to call anything on the playing position, but i can call a relative jump so maybe i'll be able to call an absolute jump??

Cheers
D

[jon_moore]

This is great news. Has anybody tested it on 8.1? I haven't installed 8.1.1b as yet.

[gavspav]

Edit - sorry missed those last posts. The below patch is working on 8.1.
It just demonstrates relative jumping but: Desired Position - Current Position = Amount to Jump, no?

No they both actually refer to clips.
They provide a way of moving the Clip playhead relative to the current position - skip forward/backward in beats.
With a bit of Maths you could go to absolute position.
Here's a quick patch. You might need to click on things to get it to work.



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[S4racen]

It didn't work for me on 8.1...

Cheers
D

[jon_moore]

It didn't work for me on 8.1...

Cheers
D

Thanks for the info.

[yop44]

I've tried to sync the call of plying_position with metra at 4n and autostart parameter.
First loop, value seems to be correct but after there is a delay.
Just compare to the clip tempo.

It's strange. Anyone did noticed that?

[gavspav]

It didn't work for me on 8.1...

Cheers
D

Funny - it is working for me on 8.1. On a Mac 10.5.8

[S4racen]

I'll try it on the other mac when i get home and see, not been down in the basement for a while...!

Cheers
D

[technog0d]

Edit - sorry missed those last posts. The below patch is working on 8.1.
It just demonstrates relative jumping but: Desired Position - Current Position = Amount to Jump, no?

No they both actually refer to clips.
They provide a way of moving the Clip playhead relative to the current position - skip forward/backward in beats.
With a bit of Maths you could go to absolute position.
Here's a quick patch. You might need to click on things to get it to work.



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You cannot do negative values. So, you would have to get the size of the clip and then use some math to make the offset wrap back around. I may try that later on.

Mike

[yop44]

I've tried to sync the call of plying_position with metra at 4n and autostart parameter.
First loop, value seems to be correct but after there is a delay.
Just compare to the clip tempo.

It's strange. Anyone did noticed that?

Here's a exemple, look at the playing_position result and the real clip position,
at 0 in track view playing_position's value is 7.91

Code: Select all

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[Korhan]

Very simple and perhaps silly question: how do we convert these text-format max patches to real ones and load them into M4L? Paste them into a text document and save it with an 'maxpat' extension?

Thanks,

Korhan

[S4racen]

Simply copy then paste them into a open max4live patch, it converts the text into objects majically!

Cheers
D

[S4racen]

This is what i've done with Olivers patch!

http://vimeo.com/8119382

Cheers
D

[hoffman2k]

This is what i've done with Olivers patch!

http://vimeo.com/8119382

Cheers
D

How did you get the text centered on your "macros"?
Is the text dynamic? As in, will the text you replace it with also be centered?