Category: max-assignments

Due Monday, January 31 We need to start programming some patchers to build up skills ahead of our first big MIDI project. Towards this goal, I want you to create the following Max/MSP patchers, each as a separate patcher/file. 1) A gesture generator/arpeggiator patcher that Uses a pressed MIDI key for transposition input and to…

Read David Zicarelli, “How I learned to Love a Program that Does Nothing.” Although Zicarelli was not one of the original developers of Max, he is the head of Cycling ’74 which now develops and markets it. Take notes on the reading. I could ask you a few questions about in quiz form Friday. If…

Your first assignment will be to do the Max Tutorials: Basic, 1 – 7 (through numerical user interfaces) MIDI 1 & 2 Due 1/17 (Monday). The point of the tutorials, and this assignment, is to get you familiar with basic processes and help facilities in Max/MSP. I could assign something different, but these tutorials are…

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…

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…

Your first assignment will be to do the Max Tutorials: Basic, 1 – 7 (through numerical user interfaces) MIDI 1 & 2 Due 1/20. Remember that the tutorials are accessed via the Help menu in Max/MSP. Under Help, open the Max Tutorials. This will give you a full list of the tutorial topics in a…