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Handy calculations for computer music.

tutor for sprintf syntax and uses

sends a bang to all loadbangs

"set" message: theory and practice

Beginning Max users see the manual with a couple hundred max objects and get intimidated. But this is like trying to learn English by looking at the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary. In fact", most of those 200 objects are special-purpose, or could be programmed with a few more "primitive" objects.

objects that reassign the priority of max messages

Like selector~ but with a settable ramp time instead of abrupt click.

Basic ideas about DSP and scheduler settings

Outputs difference between current and previous input.

A gate for floats that outputs a zero when closed and then outputs the most recently received input when its reopened.

Like "select" with one argument, except that the value it's looking for must be held for long enough (i.e., no different inputs may come) to get the bang out the left outlet.

Like "pipe" but accepting lists and messages as well as floats and ints.

randomly reorders a list

The nothing object doesn't do much, but it can be handy for wiring.

outputs list of last n inputs

round to nearest integer, even if negative

By default, Max "truncates" floats when turning them into integers. That is 1.01 would turn into 1, as would 1.999. If you want 1.999 to be rounded to 2, then use this abstraction.

An example patch for auditioning arbitrary stoppings of a string. Both sides can be plucked.

A patch for exploring relationships between various ratio-derived intervals.

*Five pieces for Guitar and Live Electronics* was commissioned under a UC Discovery grant from the University of California's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP) and Gibson Guitar Corporation. It was made possible through the support of the Center from New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley.

All the in-class and activity patches from the Day School