This example shows how you can turn on and off audio files with a single toggle –– as in swapping between one and the other. Since 1 is on and 0 is off, you can use a == 0 object to produce the opposite (to turn one thing off when you turn the other on and vice versa). This can be seen in action in the example on the left.
This example shows how to get the output of a slider object to slowly ramp back down to 0 after 10 seconds of inactivity. While in this example we used the slider object, the same result will hold with other objects.
To better understand the function of a mtof object, it can be recreated with an expr object. There are very slight differences between the output of mtof and expr. The differences are pretty minuscule and should not be a problem in most cases, as they are on the order of a few 1/10,000ths of a Hz.
Int, float, and list are all (normally hidden) message selectors that are assumed whenever Max encounters a message that consists of (respectively) a single int, a single float, or a multi-item message that starts with a number. Similarly, typing a single int, a single float, or any multi-item list that starts with a number directly into an object box assumes an object of type int (or i), float (or f), or list (or pack).
To store all note on messages in a list and delete them when a note off message is received, use the bag object.
Floating-point numbers are necessary for representing fractional numbers, and they're useful for numbers that might range from very small (e.g., 0.000396) to very large, but it's important to bear in mind that they can't possibly represent every possible real number. So there are certain situations in which they misrepresent values.
Unlike the join and pack objects, which combine their inputs into a single space-separated list, the combine object concatenates its inputs into a single item with no space in between. This example shows how you can use combine to join things with no space. If one of the inputs already contains spaces, and you want to retain those spaces in the output, you would need to convert the input to a symbol first, using the tosymbol object.
This example shows how you can continue to output random numbers without duplicating.
The prepend object allows you to concatenate two messages. The argument(s) of prepend will be placed before whatever comes in the inlet (with a space separating the two), and the combined message is then sent out the outlet.
This exmaple demonstrates how to synchronize MIDI note length with a tempo determined by the transport object. The translate object has a "transport" attribute which allows control through the transport object.