Category: max
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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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(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…
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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) Assignment 1: Max Tutorials
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…
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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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(muMet 242) Assignment: Final Performance Project
Due Monday, April 28, during final exam time (9:45 – 11:45). Create a live-audio performance patcher and perform it in class. Your patcher must generate and manipulate digital audio from within MaxMSP. It can incorporate live audio input, and/or audio input from other software applications, but it is not required. You can (and probably should)…