Max/MSP diary part 3: learning the basics. Afflicted with an almost unnatural desire to learn Max/MSP properly (read fear of blog-publicised failure), it took me two instalments of my Max/MSP diary just to ensure I wasn't holding the program upside-down. This week, however, certain I was approaching my quest to learn the ludicrously involved program from the right direction, I actually dived in and started using the thing. And it's brilliant. Despite my preconceptions, Max was surprising easy to make sense of right off the bat, although that's not to say there wasn't a fair amount of head-scratching involved too… Starting out On the advice of Tom Newell, one of my Maxite (not a type of industrial glue) consultants, I started with the Max side of the Max/MSP/Jitter parcel.
Max 5's tutorials are fantastic. Patches Max patches, I learnt, are made up of different objects all connected together. Above: Max patches are made up of several 'objects', each of which performs a small task Syntax error? I'll post part four soon. Www.maxforlive.com - Download Max for Live Devices. Www.maxforlive.com - Download Max for Live Devices. Software. Max Stuff. Here are a few things that the Max/MSP community might find either useful or amusing: Scrambler - last modified 3/13/07 Maxie Control - last modified 2/16/06 Gesture Recorder - last modified 3/2/07 The Mill - last modified 4/22/08 Time Lag Accumulator - last modified 6/26//08. Examples sent to the list. Max Objects Database.
BAT - Bangor Audio Toolkit. Andrew Lewis.
Learning Max/MSP. Learning Max/MSP.