Switch to an all max implementation

[trentgill]

CC: @whimsical-sam

Four hours later I finally got this somewhere that feels ok.

I stripped out the lua layer from the max object, and specifically reimplemented crowmax.lua as a sub-patcher of raw max objects. It's a little more difficult to follow as it uses a bunch of [regexp] to parse the strings (and I'm a regex novice), but I think the code is actually pretty clean for what it achieves.

I also kinda drastically refactored the patching at the top layer, removed some repetition, and (i believe) made the logic easier to follow. I believe I covered all of the edge cases in the lua code, but I would suggest some heavy testing before we make it public.

A couple things I didn't touch, but could potentially be improved in light of this:

• the [qmetro] object could likely be a plain [metro] to get it into the high-priority thread
• the [deferlow] object is likely no longer necessary to avoid crashes for all input

This is only in the max implementation (not m4l) so that will need to be copied once we confirm it's still working. That said, the main reason I dove into this was to workaround the lua scheduling issues @dndrks has been mentioning.

Feedback is welcome, but if someone else wants to jump in and make changes / fixes I'm happy with that!

[dndrks]

oh, DOPE. I will thoroughly test this week with the existing m4l suite + @whimsical-sam 's abstractions.

this is huge, Trent -- thank you so much!!

[dndrks]

super great test results with m4l

this is fabulous!!!
pulled your branch into my own branch, so I could mess around with adjusting ^^command_center.

• I removed [deferlow] + reassigned [qmetro] to [metro]. the m4l devices are all way snappy now and Live actions don't stutter the data flow.
• I linked up [live.this_device] to refresh the device list + auto connect is finally working upon m4l device load! so stoked!! (addresses Max object should autoconnect to an available crow #22 )
• got rid of the delays imposed on jf_synth, which allowed full polyphony. I was sequencing arpeggios of 6 voice chords at random velocities without a hitch for like 30 minutes. the simultaneous message improvement coupled with cleaning out the lua stuff really really improved things!
• outs -> lfo now totally works cuz Lua's not crashing! (addresses crow m4l: ^^outs: lfo sometimes crashes Max + Live #20 )

huge improvements, thank you so so much @trentgill. I'll be testing max solo tomorrow.