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Thanks for the reply. Already downloaded the new beta and it works great.

Im finsihing up my M4L device and soon I’ll provide the examples to you which I think you will find VERY interesting mainly because I have found ways to sync Iannix to Live (evwen though Iannix doesnt feature a BPM based timeline).

To be sincere, what Im trying to achieve goes away from the purpose of this software I suppose as it is targeted to more « defined » created music and not ayto-generated triggers.

The examples will showcase what Im saying but in the meantime my problem is this: my script creates 8 circles and 8 cursors and sets them into groups. I was hoping to provide to the end user a « Cyclic Sequencer » where the end user will add the triggers (by clicking his mouse) where he pleases without getting in the hassle of using scripts. This gives me the problem that the triggers do not belong to any group so I cannot target them from M4L.
I even thought of creating an M4L « add created triggers to groups » button but still I cannot target « current » objects via osc (only via script – or am I wrong?)
The only solution would be to provide ready-made scripts-scores (with ready made triggers grouped) which is not what I want.

Also, as a feature request, it would be perfect if we could define (via script) default messages for triggers, cursors and curves, in other words everytime the end user adds a trigger (via mouse-click not script), it will have a script-designed default message for example
« registerMessage triggers 1, trigger_value cursor_id »

Anyway, all the above sound pointless unless you actually get to see what Im trying to achieve, and that will possibly be during the weekend! So, talk to you soon.

Woow, I’m amazed by the work you did! It looks really cool!

Ok guys, here is a short demo video on Vimeo. In a couple of days (after fixing some glaring mistakes in my programming) I will provide you the download links for all associated files (actually just a background image, a iannix script and the MaxForLive device) 😉

http://www.vimeo.com/25686727

From the designer perspective, it was fairly easy to group the cursors and the curves (circles) into groups inside my script. Afterwards, it is easy to ‘associate » triggers with the circles-cursors due to the cursor_id being sent by each trigger. In other words, as far as triggering goes, Im using each trigger’s cursor_id value to trigger corresponding notes, in a the fashion of « cursor_id (sent by trigger) -> bang -> specific midi note (the user can also define this through the « Notes settings » in my patch.
So, targetting from MaxForLive the circles and the cursors (which remember have been script-created) is easy because they are grouped as soon as they are created (upon running the script). So its easy to affect their opacity or other properties by sending OSC messages to their groups from my M4L.

Now, from the user’s perspective it would be cool if velocity and mute-unmute buttons could « affect » the triggers opacity associated with each circle and not just the circles and the cursors. For this to happen however, the designer must find a way to group the « user created triggers ». Since we dont know the id of a trigger untill it is created, how can we target it in a message created in M4L beforehand? Do I make any sense? lol

FWIW, i tried a cunning way to solve this…..
Lets say the user creates a trigger (remember, by user I mean that the trigge ris created by mouse, not script)…this trigger by default sends out its id and its cursor_id (amongst the rest of the values). I used the triggering itself to cause a message to be sent from M4L to Iannix which uses the transmitted trigger_id and groups it to the group « circleX » (where X= cursor_id)
In other words, if we create a trigger by mouse, and it automatically gets the id 1009 and is triggered by cursor 4 then a message triggered IN M4L by the trigger does the job

iannix/setGroup 1009 circle4

My problem however was that each time the specific trigger is triggered, the message is being re-sent to Iannix causing havock.

And here I need your help: im not good with programming and i was thinking of Javascript (in the form of a js object in Max). IF I could make a simple Javascript that could check an incoming variable against the previous incoming one and only « pass » a variable if it is found to be +1 from the previous I could solve this.
Say if
trigger_id = 1009 -> send the message: iannix/setGroup 1009 circle4 (or whatever the cursor_id is)
if trigger_id = 1009 for a second time -> do nothing, wait for 1010 (in essence it will wait for the second trigger to be created from the user, so that it can be grouped)

So what do you say? is it possible?

Ummmmmm,

Cool, thanks for the info! Already had a look yesterday night on those LObjects. I think though I have figured out a solution. Will try and see! 😉

Thanks again!

If I had M4L I’d be running this right now! But just through taking in the video, I’d say this project is an enticing way to indicate the potential of Iannix in combination with other software. You must have solved your OSC denial-of-service message cloud problem :–)

Cheers,
–Bob