Stuff in Max4Live you wish you'd worked out ages ago….

[S4racen]

@S4racen :
So sorry to mess up this topic as soon as it started... Great idea btw !

Not a mess, this is exactly what I wanted!!

Cheers
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[toscanini]

Yes, great thread!

[S4racen]

Wish i'd known that @parallel 1 on a poly~ has no effect in max4live… doh!

Cheers
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[toscanini]

With Command pressed (don't know the equivalent for PC) you can press buttons and messages in Edit mode.

[Johnisfaster]

heres one I'm sure one of you can answer me and then I'll say "I wish I learned that a long time ago" how do you add breakpoints to connections while you're still drawing them?

[stringtapper]

Hold shift then click on the outlet/inlet. Then you can click on the background to place segments.

[Myralfur]

@John is faster

The functionality changes if you have the "segmented patch chords" option on or not.

Turn it on from the Max application Menu Bar in the Options drop down menu and see if you prefer it on or off.

[Myralfur]

This is turning into just plain Max tips, but just in case...

You can make multiple connections with patch chords from one object to many others. After clicking on an inlet or outlet to create a patch chord hold down Shift, you can then click on many other objects inlets or outlets to create a patch chord to each of them from the original object.

[S4racen]

This is turning into just plain Max tips, but just in case...

You can make multiple connections with patch chords from one object to many others. After clicking on an inlet or outlet to create a patch chord hold down Shift, you can then click on many other objects inlets or outlets to create a patch chord to each of them from the original object.

Theres so much plain max tips that would be invaluable, I'm guessing many of us had our first experience of max in max4live, i wish i'd spent a little more time at the beginning learning max stuff!

Highlighting multiple patch cords and moving them all together has been a saviour for me so many times now!

Cheers
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[Myralfur]

To select multiple objects you can click and drag over an area in the max patcher window.

If you hold down alt while clicking and dragging you also select patch chords.

So you can select numerous patch chords by holding down alt, then click and drag over a number of patch chords (no objects). With all the patch chords selected you can now organise them, drag the green or red nodes to move what object they are connected to, press shift+command+y or alt+command+y to arrange the patch chords.

Holding down alt to select patch chords also works when individually selecting a number of objects by holding down the shift key and clicking on them.

So rather than dragging you can hold down alt+shift then click on a number of patch chords, or objects, to select them. You can then organise and arrange them using the commands mentioned above, and those found in the Arrange drop down menu in the Max application Menu Bar.

[Johnisfaster]

@John is faster

Depends if you have "segmented patch chords" on or not.

Turn it on from the Max application Menu Bar in the Options drop down menu and see if you prefer it on or off.

Thanks so much. Now I can say "I wish I worked that out ages ago"

Serious though I've been wondering that for a while. I see people do it on youtubes but I couldn't find the answer in the docs or on google and I didn't want to ask on the cycling forum, but for some reason felt comfortable asking here.. go figure.

[stringtapper]

@John is faster

Depends if you have "segmented patch chords" on or not.

Turn it on from the Max application Menu Bar in the Options drop down menu and see if you prefer it on or off.

The bolded part is incorrect. You can create segmented patch cords in the manner I posted previously without having "Segmented Patch Cords" checked in the Options menu.

Having this checked only means that you don't have to hold shift to do it, but it can still be done without it checked.

[Myralfur]

@Stringtapper

what i said is perfectly correct!

it does depend if you have "segmented patch chords" on or not. you can create segmented patch chords without the option turned on, as you perfectly described above, i never said you couldn't.

just advising that you should try out both ways and see which one you like best

edit:
i could have worded it better, so have edited the original comment above.

[stringtapper]

@Stringtapper

what i said is perfectly correct!

it does depend if you have "segmented patch chords" on or not. you can create segmented patch chords without the option turned on, as you perfectly described above, i never said you couldn't.

just advising that you should try out both ways and see which one you like best

edit:
i could have worded it better, so have edited the original comment above.

But the function can't really "depend" on the option if there's a way to do it without the option selected.

Nevermind! I think he's got it and you were right to point out that it's an option.

[Because789]

Right click on a patch chord and choose Color to set... the color of a patch chord. Took me only about 6 months to figure that one out

I was just messing around with the [live.observer value] method Myralfur described above. It works great, but can you disable such an observer? I thought it should be possible to just send an "id 0" message to the object, but the observer continues to spit out values for the last valid id.