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Devices by greaterthanzero

stepArp Version 1.0
Drum Thinner Version 1.0
Blobber Version 1.0
SWAM Thing Version 1.1
Global Transpose Version 1.0
Multronome Version 3.0
note speed limit Version 1.1

Total Downloads: 2,984


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I'm so glad someone else has a use for it. I held off on publishing forever, because it just felt too niche. But it's been very liberating for me as a songwriting tool.
Posted on April 25 2020 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

It does seem to work now!

Might be worth editing the form so it doesn't specify (.jpg only)...
Posted on March 13 2020 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

Regarding screenshots:

The site accepts only JPG. Other sites (Facebook) accept the PNG files that OSX natively captures, so I understand ehere that expectation comes from, but you have to convert them to JPG before they can be used here.

(This extra step has stopped me from uploading a few devices that weren't really that important. Whether that's a good or bad thing, I couldn't say.)
Posted on March 12 2020 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

I, too, forget to check Live itself to see if the thing I want to build is already a feature. It's a good learning exercise, regardless. And users can learn from your code as well, so it was all worth doing.

(still, see the "random" knob on the Velocity midi device.)
Posted on March 11 2020 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

UPDATED to v1.1

I've been up all night setting ranges for all the new SWAM Brass instruments. Double-checked them all, but let me know if there are problems.

I may decide to reorganize the drop-down menu, and possibly split things up by family. (e.g., a secondary dropdown to select between woodwinds/strings/saxes/brass) It's getting cluttered.
Posted on February 26 2020 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

Hey, sorry everyone. I had no idea the ddg patches weren't included with max by default. They were made by a Cycling74 employee, and I can't think where I would have obtained them from if not the official distribution.

Unfortunately, this site isn't great about sending notifications (special thanks to Dan Derks for emailing me personally!), so this has gone unaddressed for three or four months now, and none of you will likely ever know that i'm correcting the situation.

(New upload momentarily. I'll update the version number to 1.02, I guess)
Posted on December 16 2019 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

Hey, that download link seems to be broken. Just FYI.
Posted on August 13 2019 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

It adds a minimal amount of latency in the note collection phase. There's a [thresh 1] object in play which delays things by 1ms. And there are two of those, though I don't believe the timing of one is dependent on the other's completion. So I would say that there is either one or two milliseconds of known latency added.

For a MIDI drum track, that difference shouldn't be perceptible, but if you're using those midi notes to trigger audio effects, it won't be considered sample-accurate timing.

...but as I noticed your question a full year after you asked it, you've probably evaluated for yourself by now.
Posted on April 18 2014 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

@synnack,

I'll run some tests and re-evaluate.


@bootykowski,

"Useless" is relative.

Presets aren't currently stored, no. You'll find, if you try to add that, there are a couple of clean-up mechanisms in play that are going to interfere in surprising and nasty ways. Those will need to be restructured before it becomes viable.
Posted on May 12 2013 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

Just a simple example, my patch includes a file called "matrix.png". What are the chances that no other patches anywhere also include a file called "matrix.png"?

Isolated by directory, they can coexist happily. But unfreeze any two such patches for editing, and you've created a file conflict that will never resolve itself without user intervention.

So, maybe I name my files more uniquely. And that'd solve it for sure, until someone builds on my patch and reuses the file. Which I'd totally encourage in any other circumstance, but now?

Technically, that last bit isn't my problem, but it is completely avoidable. Responsible file management means I package the files separately.

We've got a great platform for distributing open source apps, with a convenience feature that discourages modifying each other's code. Refusing to acknowledge it seems the only sane answer.
Posted on May 12 2013 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

You'd be surprised.

I hate frozen devices like nobody's business.
Posted on May 12 2013 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)

@emf,

Max For Live can't tell the difference between incoming notes from your controller vs from your clips. It's all just incoming notes from earlier in the chain. This is a blessing and a curse.

It sounds like you've put the device on your instrument track, affecting every note that reaches the instrument. That's clearly not what you want. Instead, bring your controller in on its own track and put the device there. Use the "MIDI TO" drop-down to send notes from that track to your instrument. Use that same drop-down to send your clips to the instrument from their own track. The effects you place on each source will only affect that source.

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I've hacked a few versions w/ mappable timing control. Haven't liked any of them yet -- what's your vision for how you would use it?
Posted on December 12 2012 by greaterthanzero (report comment) (Goto Comment)