Tutorial: Building a Max for Live Device
Added 2024-05-30 16:00:22 +0000 UTCIn this video we build a Max for Live MIDI device from scratch. We'll be releasing the finished device on Patreon soon, but in the meantime, you can download the rough device below.
00:00 - Intro
01:41 - Device Concept
02:28 - Generating sequences of numbers
10:18 - Creating MIDI messages
17:02 - Step sequence counter + timeline synchronization
24:43 - Pitch functionality
28:39 - Generating numbers with jit.bfg
36:58 - User Interface
40:06 - Step visualization
47:45 - Adding additional rate values
49:44 - Bug fixes + UI
Comments
By default jit.cellblock displays one plane only. You can send it the message 'plane -1' to show all planes. And also you can send the message 'colwidth #' where # is a number that defines the pixel width of each cell.
KOAN Sound
2025-01-27 16:16:10 +0000 UTCI've followed the tutorial exactly up to only 6:59 and my numbers outputting from jit.noise to the jit.cellblock are only being received as a single number (for example: 0.70, 0.86, 0.53, etc), not as the red, green, blue, and alpha values. I have checked the inspector for each component, even the plane count set to 4, and it wont change the amount of different numbers in the cells. I tried turning up plane count to higher values than 4 and it still outputs the values as 0.67, 0.51, etc each in a separate cell. I can't seem to figure it out. Anyone have any tips?
Siskow
2025-01-25 23:38:57 +0000 UTCI've been using Max/M4L for years and I'd have to say that this is perhaps the best possible introduction to the platform, everything is explained very well. Great video!
Lars van der Hooft
2024-07-13 22:33:32 +0000 UTCMax is GOATed, with a single paywall you have access to what modular synthesis can do and so much more... There's the possibility of building a M4L device that can create entire songs, if you fall deep enough into the rabbit hole. Too ambitious for me, but that's a definitive possibility with Max/M4L, and a great theoretical example of its power
Holland Vance-Wright
2024-06-28 07:47:14 +0000 UTCSome ideas for other features: built-in scale modes, grooves or delay effect affecting only certain steps in the sequence
Jakub Rehor
2024-06-03 08:27:24 +0000 UTCThank you for a great tutorial! I was just getting into max4live and browsing through some resources to get started. One thing I noticed is that multiple instances of the device will influence each other, when you change any parameter. After some digging around I found it's because of send/receive shares global names, to make them unique I needed to start the name with three dashes as 'send ---counter'
Jakub Rehor
2024-06-03 08:17:11 +0000 UTC
