Network Port Panel

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The Network Port panel displays all settings related to score-following and the receiving of remote messages from interactive performance software such as MaxMSP and Pd.

The Incoming Data area of the Network Port panel allows up to 6 TCP ports to be actively receiving data. These ports should correspond to the ports being used to send data on the server application (MaxMSP or Pd). If the Show Activity radio box is selected lights will flash and any received synchronize messages will be tracked in the graph located near the bottom of the panel. The Send Beat Data to Max check box cases measure and beat data to be send to MaxMSP or Pd during score playback. This data is sent out the first network address and port specified in the Network Connections area of the Track Setup panel.

The score following area of the panel is used for controlling the mode of score following, the number of milliseconds that NoteAbilityPro is running ahead of the connected software. and the minimum time that new synchronize messages will be processed. As well, you can format the outgoing data for either the netreceive object (MaxMSP or Pd) or the OSC (udpreceive) object in MaxMSP.

The Send Score to Suivi button is used to update the internal score representation in the MaxMSP suivi.score object (which is the score following object developed at IRCAM.

The Remote Max Patches button displays a sliding pane which allows MaxMSP or Pd patches to be loaded on remote computers.

Each row of this panel will send a remote message to the Network Channel as configured in the Network Connections area of the Track Setup panel when the Load button is pressed. The message will load the MaxMSP or Pd patch at the path indictated in the text field. To send a load message to all network channels at once, click on the Load All button. In the example above, there are 3 remote computers with patches ready to be loaded - network channels 1 and 3 are running MaxMSP, while network channel 2 is running Pd.

In order for the patch to be loaded, the application must be running on the remote computer and the appropriate loading patch should be open. For MaxMSP, the NAStarter patch (available as part of the UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox) can be used.