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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
1. Introduction 1.1. Sound card and microphone 1.2. Do you want the input to be heard too? 2. The effect unit model 3. Pitch and amplitude tracking 4. Pitch shifting 5. A kind of ring modulation 6. Spectral shaping 7. …
In which we briefly contextualise the course to come by considering sound, structure and time and draw some distinctions between the analytical and experiential. We then get started with a practical demonstration of software in-action. Time-scales at work in this …
In this session we’ll be experimenting some more with our Software. Practically, we’ll be looking at procedural synthesis because the theoretical frame for the session is the notion of timbre. What is Timbre? We’re going to situate our discussion in …
NOTE videos and patches from the session are at the foot of this post. Things we must do today discuss the submission and the project brief and submission requirements and workflow – 10min discuss sampling – 40min show some sampling examples …
Introducing programming languages for sound, performance and composition We know that the work of the sound designer or composer is not bound to the manipulation of pre-recorded sound, or the synthesis of new sound. The art and craft of sound …
01 – Introduction to the course and your starter patch Read more »