Noise Tutorial 1: Riding Tandem With The Random. In the last several tutorials I’ve written, I’ve been talking about a subject that interests me a great deal – how to add variety to a Max patch in ways that both provide you with surprising and interesting combinations and do so in ways that make the transition between your input and what your patch is doing more subtle than hitting a button object and having everything start behaving in ways that are obviously not you.
To be more specific, I’ve been talking about ways to use the humble LFO as a generator of that variety by summing, sampling, and otherwise using it to produce less ordinary control curves than can be easily intuited by your audience by the time the second sweep of the LFO comes around. There’s another obvious source of variety generation that Max users often gravitate toward: random number generators. The problem with randomness Okay – the header was supposed to be provocative to grab your attention. Max for Live Tutorial. Using pattr objects in your device adds flexibility above and beyond the process of creating Live device presets you already know and love – you can store pattr presets as a part of your Live session and easily import collections of those presets with a single mouse click, use pattr presets to create and explore subsets of your Live device’s functionality, and switch pattr presets using MIDI messages or internal programming.
Here’s how you can pattrize your devices. Max for Live differs from Max by itself in some important ways. Max for Live is a hosted application – it needs to work cooperatively with the Live application when handling things like parameter initialization, parameter automation, and MIDI mapping. If you’re a Max user who’s already familiar with using the pattr family of objects, you’ll discover some interesting Max for Live tricks: Max for Live user interface objects don’t require naming or binding to pattr objects to make them “visible” to pattr. The unofficial Max4Live information base. Www.maxforlive.com - The Free Max for Live Device Library.