low level digital musical systems thread..max reaktor PD etc

oblioblioblio · Post by **oblioblioblio** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:28 am

So, all these programs are very exciting and the realms of possibilites for musical application are really unbelieveable, but unfortunately for a simple musician like me they can be pretty tough on the brain.

Obviously there are plenty of resources on various forums about them but I thought it would be cool to have a little home here for more techno related stuff... patches, solutions to problems and general collective helping hands.

Here's some stuff that I've found useful so far...

CNMAT archives thse guys are legends... really forward thinking university department and have made public pretty much all of their teaching resources... notes to lectures and accompanying patches, a very in depth guide to Open Sound Control. all very helpful.

Peter Elsea Max tutorials Does what is says on the tin. A lot of crossover with the native max stuff, but having a different perspective I found pretty helpful. cheers Pete!

Miller Puckette's book the Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music. another massively helpful resource here. this guy was heavily involved in the creation of Max and MSP, and his free offshoot Pure Data. This (free!) book covers lots of ground in using these programs, from the simple to the complex. And every chapter has plenty of exmaples you can copy straight off (they're pure data but very easily translated into max). lovely stuff!

oblioblioblio · Post by **oblioblioblio** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:40 pm

ooh, i forgot about this site: http://obiwannabe.co.uk/

it's focussed on sound design for computer games, but is equally useful for musical usages.

check out the synthesis tutorials (pure data but pretty much interchangeable w/ max)

and also the synths (pure data too)

Robot Criminal · Post by **Robot Criminal** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:05 pm

fck yeah!!!
i love u

had all these bookmarked though :p

sticky.

AVX23 · Post by **AVX23** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:01 pm

good call !

s.k. · Post by **s.k.** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:57 pm

sorry delete, didnt realise it was posted already

AVX23 · Post by **AVX23** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:21 pm

oblioblioblio wrote:ooh, i forgot about this site: http://obiwannabe.co.uk/

it's focussed on sound design for computer games, but is equally useful for musical usages.

check out the synthesis tutorials (pure data but pretty much interchangeable w/ max)

and also the synths (pure data too)

I only just noticed that particular link - great find !

minim · Post by **minim** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:36 pm

PD Forum:
http://puredata.hurleur.com/

Tutorials can be found by looking around:
http://footils.org/
http://www.skanskgardsost.se/puredata/tutorials.html

Other resources:
http://www.mortmain.com/pd.html
http://wiki.dataflow.ws/FrontPage
http://grrrr.org/ext/

minim · Post by **minim** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:39 pm

I forgot to mention, if you dig around on Google you can find thesis and research papers that are specific the Pure Data. Takes some digging but there are quite a few out there in the wild awaiting the hunt. I will dig around on my hard drive when I have access to them and zip some up.