please improve M4L

[tiago_vla]

three tips:

- improve LOM
- improve architecture design
- improve stability

[ian_halsall]

I think that the Max documentation is rubbish.

There's loads of it but it's not like any other documentation I have seen before - it seems inconsistent and is difficult to read and understand.

[pskept]

I think that the Max documentation is rubbish.

There's loads of it but it's not like any other documentation I have seen before - it seems inconsistent and is difficult to read and understand.

i could not disagree more. i think its excellent. i love the working examples right inside the pages.

[ian_halsall]

the examples are nice and it's good that you can actually open a real patch but the stuff with the messages and the difference between parameters and messages and the inspector is confusing.

if you come from a programming background it's even more confusing

[sigabort]

i felt that way to start with, after programming for many years found the docs on the LOM to be quite confusing and not very clear. ii learnt my way round it by finding examples of what i needed to do and asking around. i now know it quite well and now i understand the docs quite well and they are a good reference. as a learning tool tho, not great

[ian_halsall]

My main tools for learning are looking at examples patches, copying the patch and removing/adding objects and patch cords to see what they do.

And videos - there are some really good ones around - max4live.com is good but it doesn't seem to have a searchable index.

[S4racen]

try max4live.info and abletoncookbook.com as well... both essential to me when i started...

Cheers
D

[ian_halsall]

I meant max4live.info and not max4live.com as I mistakenly wrote in my last post.