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Lecture 1 – patch that we built

By Martin Parker Posted on 17/09/2019 Posted in Lecture notes

If you want to up skill and improve the above without reading further, please, go ahead. IF you’d like some further help nailing down some improvements to the above, read on. First of all, it’s visuall a mess. So let’s …

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Advice on Encapsulation

By Martin Parker Posted on 04/10/2019 Posted in Supplementary Materials, Tutorials

Encapsulation – 1 Encapsulation – 2

Week 5 Seminar: Moving Forwards (sonic structures)

By Martin Parker Posted on 05/10/2019 Posted in Seminars

This seminar is intended to continue our work on developing our understanding of designing sound in context. The focal question of the session is what might an instrumental approach to software design involve? How might it be useful for sound …

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Screen grabbing your software for submission

By Martin Parker Posted on 07/10/2019 Posted in Supplementary Materials, Tutorials

These two videos show how to setup a Zoom H6 to record your software in use. The H6 is setup as an audio card and you can use a cable from your computer into the Zoom and mix the microphone …

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Lecture – 06 – anatomy of a process

By Martin Parker Posted on 22/10/2019 Posted in Lecture notes

Structure of a process in MaxMSP A working demonstration of the approach Download it here: Video showing how to make a reusable wet-dry mixer from the code structure of a process above.

Lecture 07: Interface and devices of control

By Martin Parker Posted on 25/10/2019 Posted in Lecture notes

Some of these notes originally produced by Owen Green: Preamble What do we mean by ‘interface’? It’s easy to collapse the idea to just being about knobs and dials but this approach misses a lot and is prone to produce …

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Lecture 07 – demonstrating interface control

By Martin Parker Posted on 28/10/2019 Posted in Lecture notes, Supplementary Materials

One to one Here, we take a simple model, where a fader is connected to a parameter in Max, directly. We’ll use the built-in mappings tools for this. First we have to scale the values of the fader to something …

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Homework – list of possible films

By Martin Parker Posted on 28/10/2019 Posted in Project brief & submissions

This year’s films are on the subject/theme of physical movement. In particular human bodies, but not nescessarily all of the films, there is a strong emphasis on dance in the selections below. Watch these films. DO NOT listen to their …

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polyphony and the poly~ object (also adsr~)

By Martin Parker Posted on 04/11/2019 Posted in Supplementary Materials, Tutorials

In this tutorial, I introduce the poly~ object and its best friend adsr~. Poly~ is a rather useful but slightly complex tool that allows you to have multiple instances of the same DSP stacked on top of one another, waiting …

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Tutorial 01 – sorting buttons, making sounds

By Martin Parker Posted on 16/09/2019 Posted in Tutorials

Students on the PG version of this course should select which hour they want to take: doodle.com/poll/5xfaygypyrkke6xy Undergraduate students will take tutorial 12:10-13:00 on every other Wednesday. Tutorials will be run by Marcin Pietruszsewski: www.marcinpietruszewski.com

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