max/msp thread

just bought this. thought i'd make a thread about it

i've been doing the "baz" tutorials on youtube. very nice

  On 3/17/2010 at 7:13 PM, vamos scorcho said:

just bought this. thought i'd make a thread about it

 

i've been doing the "baz" tutorials on youtube. very nice

i've not seen those. been trying hard to find max tutorials before i do my MA or buy maxforlive. i'll take a look.

definitely check them out. the guy that gives them is highly entertaining with his dry humor, and he goes very slow and explains all the basics. theres like 20 tutorials i think, i've done ten. easily taught me how to build delays, really basic simple subtractive synths and the like.

  On 3/17/2010 at 11:36 PM, vamos scorcho said:

definitely check them out. the guy that gives them is highly entertaining with his dry humor, and he goes very slow and explains all the basics. theres like 20 tutorials i think, i've done ten. easily taught me how to build delays, really basic simple subtractive synths and the like.

yeah, i'm really please you linked this actually. nice one.

second day into working with this program and i can tell it's going to be a long, beautiful relationship. absolutely.

made this experiment track, it's fucking terrible but give it a listen to see what kind of crazy things you can do with a little time and focus.

this program is really amazing

http://www.divshare.com/download/10801815-17e

  On 3/18/2010 at 3:23 AM, vamos scorcho said:

made this experiment track, it's fucking terrible but give it a listen to see what kind of crazy things you can do with a little time and focus.

http://www.divshare.com/download/10801815-17e

threw together a short little thing using the above file

http://www.divshare.com/download/10802652-46a

took a horrible sounding experiment and made it sound kind of cool

  On 3/18/2010 at 5:30 AM, vamos scorcho said:

  On 3/18/2010 at 3:23 AM, vamos scorcho said:

made this experiment track, it's fucking terrible but give it a listen to see what kind of crazy things you can do with a little time and focus.

http://www.divshare.com/download/10801815-17e

 

threw together a short little thing using the above file

 

http://www.divshare.com/download/10802652-46a

 

took a horrible sounding experiment and made it sound kind of cool

sounds cool!

I had a look at a couple of these last night. It made me consider spending a little time with it.

That second experiment was pretty interesting, man.

few months ago i bought a sound design book wrote upon max/msp (this, first book about max/msp in my language) and made it after the first 130 pages, covering sound from the very beginning. i find this way hugely slower, but more exciting in the long run. i just can't stand choosing between shitloads of samples, loops, and vsts anymore, my ears get carried away too easily using certain programs and i end up wanking myself over a sound or an effect for hours, just because i don't have a clue of what i'm doing.

I really want to be talked into MAX ... I've used Reaktor for a few years with mixed results in building and factory patch usage, though I've still found it quite useful. I just really doubt whether or not NI will continue to put as much weight behind it ... as long as they could make a line of fucking T-Pain iPhone apps or something...

Cycling74 is apparently in it for the long haul, though, and that just further sweetens the deal...

I picked up Max4Live about a month ago and I'm slowly getting my head around it. Haven't had a lot of time though...

  On 3/20/2010 at 2:50 PM, mohamed said:

few months ago i bought a sound design book wrote upon max/msp (this, first book about max/msp in my language) and made it after the first 130 pages, covering sound from the very beginning. i find this way hugely slower, but more exciting in the long run. i just can't stand choosing between shitloads of samples, loops, and vsts anymore, my ears get carried away too easily using certain programs and i end up wanking myself over a sound or an effect for hours, just because i don't have a clue of what i'm doing.

that books looks very intriguing, says the english version will be available 3rd quarter of 2010

picked up max for live today.

Hey, I'm having trouble with this js object in M4L. It refuses to show 2 outputs... any ideas? It should be set by the global command at the top of the routine, but it just won't show.

The code:

// MIDI CC constants

const CC_DATA_MSB = 6;

const CC_DATA_LSB = 38;

const CC_NRPN_LSB = 98;

const CC_NRPN_MSB = 99;

// inlets and outlets

inlets = 1;

outlets = 2;

// global variables and arrays

var nrpn_index;

var value;

var nrpn_index_lsb;

var nrpn_index_msb = 0;

var value_lsb;

var value_msb = 0;

var cc_index;

var cc_value;

// methods start here

// list - expects a CC Index + Value as argument

// filters out NRPN and RPN values and assigns to variables

// Passes through all other CCs

function list(val)

{

if(arguments.length==2)

{

cc_index = arguments[0];

cc_value = arguments[1];

switch(cc_index)

{

case CC_DATA_MSB:

// If we have a valid NRPN index, then the data is valid

if(nrpn_index)

{

value_msb = cc_value << 7;

if(value_lsb)

{

value = value_msb | value_lsb;

// We are now ready to send an index and value out!

send_nrpn(nrpn_index, value);

}

}

// If we don't have an index it's invalid

else

{

// So forward the value as a normal CC

send_cc(cc_index, cc_value);

}

break;

case CC_DATA_LSB:

// If we have a valid NRPN index, then the data is valid

if(nrpn_index)

{

value_lsb = cc_value;

value = value_msb | value_lsb;

// We are now ready to send an index and value out!

send_nrpn(nrpn_index, value);

}

// If we don't have an index it's invalid

else

{

// So forward the value as a normal CC

send_cc(cc_index, cc_value);

}

break;

// NRPN Index MSB - 7 high bits

case CC_NRPN_MSB:

// Save 7 high bits

nrpn_index_msb = cc_value << 7;

// Create the 14 bit NRPN index

nrpn_index = nrpn_index_msb | nrpn_index_lsb;

break;

// NRPN Index LSB - 7 low bits

case CC_NRPN_LSB:

// Save 7 low bits

nrpn_index_lsb = cc_value;

// Create the 14 bit NRPN index

nrpn_index = nrpn_index_msb | nrpn_index_lsb;

break;

default:

send_cc(cc_index, cc_value);

break;

}

}

}

// Send CC: Forward CC index and value to output 0

function send_cc(i, v)

{

outlet(0, i, v);

}

// Send NRPN: Send NRPN index and value to output 1

function send_nrpn(i, v)

{

outlet(1, i, v);

value = null; // reset the parsed value

value_lsb = null; // reset the LSB of the value

}

i gave up on this program pretty quickly. mainly because i don't see any immediate benefits that are worth the days of learning required

  On 4/16/2010 at 7:17 AM, vamos scorcho said:

i gave up on this program pretty quickly. mainly because i don't see any immediate benefits that are worth the days of learning required

Ya man, it's a steep learning curve. It will be a while before I start doing anything original, but with all the stuff people are doing/making available I figure I can learn from other peoples devices and try to figure it out. It's so open you can pretty much do anything you want, and that's where my interest lies.

I figured out my problem. The js object does not keep track of absolute paths so it wasn't even reading my file. I had to move the .js, and now it works

Just saw this on CDM today. Pretty cool ideas and shows how, once you know what you're doing, you can really start doing some cool stuff with this. This is all done live and legit. No tricks or anything.

[youtubehd]uS1exujG3cY[/youtubehd]

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