Author: Keith Kothman
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(maxmsp) MSP reading and tutorial assignment 1
The documentation and tutorial text is online at: http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/vignettes/intro/docintro.html You can read online without having the application. Read the following sections of the documentation for MSP: MSP Introduction How MSP Works Audio I/O Go through MSP Tutorials 1 – 5. These tutorials do not require you to modify anything, but I want you make a…
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(maxmsp) MSP basic demo patchers
Demo patchers from yesterday’s lecture are in iLocker. Look for patchers MSPBasic1[a – e].maxpat. Outline of topics covered: Digital Audio basics relating to how computers generate audio samples (in blocks, or vectors). The larger the vector sample size, the less strain on the computer, more latency. Audio Rate and Control Rate, pertaining to patch cord…
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(maxmsp) More Tips for Assignment 2
Following up on previous set of tips, I’m offering up some more help for translating the assignment into programming tasks. The second part of the problem asks for a “gesture generator” with several options. It is best to pursue each option as a separate patch. All versions must start with a MIDI key press, use…
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(maxmsp) Notes on Assignment 2
Given the scarcity of finished assignment 2’s in my possession, I’m assuming you’re having a lot of problems getting started with your first guided Max patchers. My experience leads me to believe that there are a couple of reasons for these troubles: You need to take notes in class. I don’t see anyone writing anything…
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(musTh2) Phrases, Periods, Sentences, Motives and more
Chapter 6 of the Roig-Francoli lays out the material fairly well. I’m going to put it a bit more hierarchically. At the smallest levels of organization you have motives and phrase segments (sub-phrases). Motives are the smallest recognizable musical elements, with identifiable rhythmic or rhythmic and melodic characteristics. You recognize motives partly by their repetition…
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(musTh2) Assignment 2: Phrases
EDITED! Due Friday, 1/29/2010 From Chapter 6 of the Workbook: Exercise 6.1 (pp. 60 – 62), numbers 1 – 3, and 5 – 6 (6a, 6b, 6c). For number 2, only do measures 1 – 8. Number 5, the Trio starts on p. 314. Number 6b, look at the first 20 measures. For numbers 1…
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(maxmsp) Assignment 2: MIDI patchers
Due Monday, 2/1/2010 As a warm-up exercise for your first project (an interactive MIDI performance patcher), program patchers based on the following directions: 1) An arpeggiator that starts with the playing of a key on a MIDI keyboard, uses the MIDI key pressed as the bass note of the arpeggiator, plays the MIDI key pressed…
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(maxmsp) More Examples – gates and offsets
I saved these example patchers in the wrong folder, so they didn’t go up with the regular weekly review. These patchers have to do with the gate object, graphic switch object, and using math to offset values and scale them to a range. Look for the Day4 patchers in iLocker.
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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…