Day 174 / Banging My Head Against The Wall

Last night I worked on my Monome App 64(video)Fingers.  I drove home feeling very confident of how I was going to proceed.  I wanted to add the option of live quantization of the button presses.  Then I wanted to work on the pattern recorders so that they didn’t screw up if you accidentally press the pattern button twice (which can happen)

 

Anyways, I knew how I was going to accomplish it.  Then I got to patching and ran into brick wall after brick wall after brick wall.  Max 5 can be the most frustrating software.  Searching for answers in the documentation can very time consuming.  I usually think I’ve found my answer but then run into another brick wall.  You’d think it’d be a breeze because it’s a visual programming environment except sometimes I think it hinders me from making clean patches.  I have the tendency to make gigantic mouse traps just add up some numbers.

 

Oh well.  I posted on the monome forums and my good buddy Raja came with an answer.  He actually pointed out that I had the right idea!  The problem didn’t have anything to do with my quantize patch but has everything to do with my 64(video)Fingers patch.  Unfortunately, I think it might just be another monster mouse trap without needing to be.  I will be putting a bit more attention on this app because I want to use it soon.

 

I have been selecting out some of the shots I recorded a long time ago for my office Instruments posts.  I really want to put together an office instruments preset on my 64(video)Fingers.  Anyways, thanks for listening.