Claude (this is Opus 5.5 Medium) is getting really, really good at maxing. I haven't tested the models for a while, so was pretty shocked to find just how good Claude has become the last months or so. Just for the fun of it, I have been asking it to build various stuff, like the 40 band vocoder screendumped below. The most shocking thing is there were NO errors when loading - the thing just worked from the first try. So, hopefully I will get some learnings out of this when building stuff myself 🤓

Getting started

1. Keep the .amxd and its three .js files in the same folder, then drag the .amxd onto a MIDI track, before an instrument.

2. Press Play in Live: the runes light up and the wizard starts stirring.

3. Choose Key and Scale, then write your notes (see below).

4. Press To Clip to save the result as a MIDI clip.

Writing notes

• Draw: in the Note lane, click or drag across the columns.

• Keyboard: click a key on the left. The note goes into the white cursor step, then the cursor moves on.

• Record: turn on Rec and play your MIDI keyboard.

• Random: press Rnd for new notes from the scale.

The arrows above and below the keyboard change octave. Notes recorded off screen are shown automatically.

Controls

• Ring / step switches: click a rune or a switch to turn a step on or off (off = rest).

• Lane tabs: edit Note, Velocity, Ratchet (1–4 repeats) or Chance (0–100 %) for each step.

• Rate, Feel: step length (1/1–1/64), straight, triplet or dotted.

• Swing, Gate: shuffle on every second step; note length (over 100 % = legato).

• Key, Scale, Octave: 13 scales, or Chromatic for free notes. Going back to Chromatic restores your original notes.

• Steps: sequence length, 1–16. Odd numbers make polyrhythms.

• Play: Forward, Backward, Pendulum, Zigzag, Converge, Diverge, Random, Drunk.

• Euclid + Hits: spreads Hits evenly over the steps. Hits never exceeds Steps.

• Shift < >: moves the whole pattern one step.

• To Clip: writes the sequence, as it sounds, into the first empty clip slot.

Every control can be automated and MIDI-mapped, and hovering over it shows a description in Live's Info View.

I've created an interface for and audio-visual performance and instead of having [jit.world] windows floating above the patch I thought I would incorporate [jit.pworld] into the interface. However, I noticed that effects using [jit.gl.pass] don't show within the [jit.pworld] object. I tried using [jit.gl.node] but still nothing. Is this something that just 'is' within Max? Or is it there something that I'm missing?

Just curious if anyone else has experimented with this. I leave a basic patch here to illustrate my point:

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