timepoint

The timepoint object sends out a bang when the transport reaches a specified time position. This can be useful for causing something to happen—or for starting an entire process—at a particular instant during the transport's progress. A timepoint might, for example, even trigger a new time position value to be sent to the transport object itself, thus causing the transport to leap to a different time.

In Max there are many ways to schedule an event to occur at a certain time in the future, using delay, pipe, or timepoint, for example. What if you want to schedule a whole collection of triggers or messages to occur at different specific points in time? Here are a few approaches.