MY FRIEND MAX

We had some problems getting the midi suit working today but found out it was due to a button being pressed in on the firewire!! Nicola wore the suit today. The samples sound so much better now they have been re-done...very harmonic. The problem was, though, the samples were cutting each other out. Even though we have the max patch set so each one plays for 4000 ms, this only enables them to play if it's the only sample being activated. So because the suit is mapped to pick up, say 7 samples per twist of the wrist, they are stopping each other when the next one is switched on. Re-mapping would help to some extent, which we had planned on doing for more freedom of movement, but not enough for each sample to play fully. So it was back to Max to create another patch in which we had to give a message to tell poly to be mony. Patch will be put here....
Tomorrow we have to find the best way to re-map the suit. We can switch off some of the smaller movement samples like the wrist but we still have to place them somewhere else so maybe on the shoulder, where we have the least control, may be the best place.