Category: max-lecturenotes
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(maxmsp) Weekly Review
Demo patchers are in iLocker now. Patchers are fairly well commented. You can experiement with them, make changes to make them do other things, etc. Tutorial topics are summarized in this earlier post. In addition to the tutorials, I covered: gate switch ggate and gswitch2 (graphic gate and graphic switch) umenu (drop down menu) table…
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(maxmsp) Tutorial Topics Learned So Far
Topics Covered in Basic Tutorials 1 – 7, and MIDI 1 – 2: Objects, messages, comments; the function of commas, and escape characters to treat special characters as text; adding objects and connecting. bang; multiple outs from one outlet; multiple ins to a single inlet; right-to-left order. ints, floats, lists; changing messages, set; limits to…
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(maxmsp) Turning in Your Work
Until we start working with digital audio, our turn-in process is quite easy. The short version: Put all your patchers in a single folder with your name as part of the folder name. Create a zip file of the folder. Attach the zip file to an email and send it to me at my gmail…
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(maxmsp) Week One Wrap Up
First Assignment is due Wednesday, 1/20. Demo patches from day 1, day 2, and day 3 are all in iLocker. Days 2 and 3 are just variations of day 1. The rounding patcher is also online, along with the outline I used to go from idea to algorithm to Max program. Key things to know…
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(maxmsp) Class Intro
I’ve posted the class syllabus with the full course outline for the semester in my iLocker account. I also posted a slightly cleaned-up version of the patch I demonstrated in class (you will have to control-click or right-click on the Day1.maxpat file, and choose save link as… from the popup menu to save the file…
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(maxmsp) Class Canceled 3/21/08
Class is canceled today, 3/21/08. Turn in your audio processing patchers. Come to the New Music Festival.
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(maxmsp) Notable Guest
Tim Place, one of the founders of Electrotap and an employee of Cycling74, will be giving a talk to the composer forum today at 4, in SoundHouse C. Other events on his schedule for Friday: He’ll be talking to our class at 11. He’ll be giving a “brown bag” lecture downtown on the soon-to-be-released Max/MSP…
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(maxmsp) Assignment 1 Solution Patchers
The two solution patchers I showed in class today (solutions to Assignment 1), and the stripnote patcher, are in my iLocker account. http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/maxmsp_examples/Assign1Solved/
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(maxmsp) Patchers in iLocker
The fft and lfo patchers are in my iLocker space. Since the recent examples are require sub-patchers, I’ve put them into folders. kothman1 has my wind machine (variable filter) patcher, along with some sound files to use. kothmanConvolution has my version of the Convolution tutorial patcher. kothmanSpatial has my fft-based spatializer (with time delay). LFOStuff…
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(maxmsp) Lecture Notes: Quiz 1 Review
Quiz Wednesday (1/30) The quiz will primarily focus on how Max sends and executes messages. Things to study: right-to-left order of operation. Understand that this applies to order of outlets, and to ordering of patch cords that branch from one outlet. Also with right-to-left order, a whole path/branch must finish executing messages and operations before…