News / Technology Reviews
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Max/MSP Live Coding
Read more . . . →A realtime performance of creating a Max-patch, starting from zero. This is a lot like the final project in third year computer music at Carleton University. The only difference is we had all semester to make something that complex. The other minor difference was that we had to make a midi note engine rather than an audio engine, but I'm sure this would pass as acceptable. The Rules: You have 6 minutes to build a Max-patch and do a performance with it. Start with an empty patch. Only use the standard objects that are part of Max/MSP/Jitter. Don’t use externals,...
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Little Boots Laser Harp Part 2
Read more . . . →Little Boots is building a special light based synth, it looks almost like percussion at this stage, pretty cool@
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Ableton Live Webcam Music Generator
This is a demo of some of the powerful stuff you can do with Max 4 Live, the new Max API for Ableton Live 8. ... The video demonstrates a webcam plugin that turns on-camera movements, quantizes them to pre-defined notes, and then further adjusts them to a preset musical scale. the result is an instant midi note generator that is controlled by your movement in front of a camera.Read more . . . → -
Ableton Live by 11 year old
Read more . . . →Having some problems hooking up your Ableton Live rig together? Take a lesson from this 11 year old who picked up his brothers Ableton rig and taught himself to do this in 30 minutes: This video just speaks to the easy concept within Ableton. It is not necessary to be a computer scientist to operate this software (although if you are . . Max for Live offers some wicked coding opportunities!). You can be a musician, and in fact the session view speaks to this side of the brain very intuitively. This kid was able to pick up his brothers...