Using Maxuino to trigger an LED light show

[exaltron]

So I just picked up an arduino this week and I was able to get the Maxuino device to talk to it and light up as well as fade in/out various LEDs. The problem I am having is that the device is set up with faders that can be mapped to a controller or even to midi notes coming in, but I can't seem to get it to respond to Live clips. I would like to have clips with either notes or automation (or both) triggering the lights but I can't figure out how to make this happen. The obvious thing would be to open up the device and turn it into an instrument that can "play" the data to send to the arduino but the device seems to be frozen. Any help would be much appreciated.

[exaltron]

I would like to have clips with either notes or automation (or both) triggering the lights but I can't figure out how to make this happen. The obvious thing would be to open up the device and turn it into an instrument that can "play" the data to send to the arduino but the device seems to be frozen. Any help would be much appreciated.

I have absolutely no idea what kind of stuff you're talking about. A quick googleing pointed me to the Arduino website but even so it seems more Max than Max for Live related. Also because Maxuino looks like a Max patch.

Alas; to try and break this down: you have MIDI data which you want to send to your "Arduino" device. Not really M4L related but...

Make sure Arduino is recognized by Live. In your Midi preferences make sure that the "track" option is enabled. This allows Live to use Arduino as an instrument.

Now make sure that no instruments reside on the midi track which contains the clips which you're trying to sent do the arduino. Pull up the i/o section then change "MIDI to" into the arduino.

Now it should directly receive the MIDI data from the clips.

Hi and thanks for the info. I posted here because I'm using a Max for Live version of the Maxuino patch which actually sends serial data directly to the arduino, so it's really converting midi data from Live into data that the arduino can understand. I think what I need is something that can convert notes to cc data or automation and send from one track to another maybe? I am going to do some searching as I seem to recall that was pretty simple to do with M4L and there were some patches out there that could do that.

[exaltron]

Ok I messed around a bit more with it and I was able to get midi clips to play. Nothing to do with configuring the midi outs though. Per this page, it's using OSC routing to accomplish this so there was no need to send midi out at all and I was able to get the light show going
Still just switches the lights on and off though, I'll need to figure out how to get gradual pulses and other effects.

Here's what it looks like with fiber optic strands. Nothing earth-shattering but I'm very excited!

[joshuagoran]

@exaltron Did you ever get your setup to work with fades or anything like that besides just on-off? I was going to start a new thread about this but figured I'd start with this existing one