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Tutorial: Building a Max for Live Device (Patreon)

Published:
2024-05-30 16:00:22
Edited:
2025-01-06 17:59:55
Imported:
2026-06
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In 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 - Intro01:41 - Device Concept02:28 - Generating sequences of numbers10:18 - Creating MIDI messages17:02 - Step sequence counter + timeline synchronization24:43 - Pitch functionality28:39 - Generating numbers with jit.bfg36:58 - User Interface40:06 - Step visualization47:45 - Adding additional rate values49:44 - Bug fixes + UI

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Jakub Rehor

Thank 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

Some ideas for other features: built-in scale modes, grooves or delay effect affecting only certain steps in the sequence

Holland Vance-Wright

Max 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

Lars van der Hooft

I'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!

Siskow

I'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?

koansound

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.

Siskow

Thank you so much for the help!

ebro

dang having trouble getting my octave selector working.. i made patches when i was in college but haven't touched max in years. so this was an incredible way to be reintroduced to it again. thank you for making this!

ebro

ahh nm didn't realize i needed to hit the bang to make it change. i think my favorite part about max is the instant change or data output to understand what's going on