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#A list of audio software installed in the CNMAT Rear Studio: (updated 4 May 2010)

**Applications**
- Audacity 1.3.9
- AudioSculpt 2.9.4v2
- CSound 5.09
- Digital Performer 6.02
- Diphone Studio 4.2
- Finale 2007 c.r2 (plus Garritan Personal Orchestra)
- Finale 2010 b.r1 (plus Garritan Instruments for Finale 2010)
- Garageband 4.1.2
- Kontakt 3.5.0
- Kontakt Player 2.2.4

# Power

As with all speakers, on last, off first. Find the array of power switches, it is the one labeled "HD1".

# Use

Max/MSP for Beginners, Special Topics for Advanced Students

Special topics presented by a different person each night

--Spectral tutorials
--SDIF
--Live analysis: iana~, fiddle~, yin~, etc.

10--11.30: Beginning/Intermediate Lecture
11.30--12.30: Lunch break
12.30--2.30: Beginning/Intermediate Lab
2.30--5: Max for Live
5--6: Dinner break
6--9 (10?): Advanced Max Programming

# Ideas
Max is a graphical programming where messages are passed between objects using patch cords. Today's lecture begins with the mode of interacting with the Max environment (locked/unlocked, patching/presentation). It moves on types (ints, floats, symbols, lists, audio, matrix) of messages, and how they can be formed and transmitted. Basic debugging techniques are addressed.

#Topics

# What we have provided
- "percussion-buffers", a small patch which reads nine percussion sound files into nine buffers.
- "simple-sampler~", a straightforward sample-playback synthesis patch based on play~. There is also a help patch that shows how to use simple-sampler~.
- "simple-draw.maxhelp" draws triangles, squares, and circles into an LCD object.

# Your assignment

# Ideas
A common and powerful method of control is grouping messages together into lists, and storing lists in collections to be played back, like a musical score. Methods of creating an playing scores will be discussed.
Also, as projects get more complex, it becomes useful to organize one's patches. Two useful tools are: Sub-patchers and Abstractions.

# Topics

# Your assignment

Play with the additive synthesizer instrument we have provided (named simple-additive~) to get a feel for additive synthesis.

Play with the slide show patch we have provided, named "simple-slideshow."

# Your assignment

Play with the additive synthesizer instrument we have provided (named simple-additive~) to get a feel for additive synthesis.

Play with the slide show patch we have provided, named "simple-slideshow."

#Ideas
Much Max programming can be thought of "getting the right message to the right place at the right time". Today we examine more nuanced temporal behavior, using objects to smoothly move from one state (keyframe, sound) to the next.

#Topics
- transitions in the control domain
- transitions in the signal domain
- transitions between images

#Objects
- line and line~
- adsr~

Max/MSP/Jitter is a graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia that runs on both Macintosh (OSX) and Windows XP platforms. In use worldwide for over fifteen years by performers, composers, artists, teachers, and students, Max/MSP/Jitter is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams.

##Topics:

- Navigating the user interface

# Your assignment
## Sound

Play with the patches we have provided for making envelopes with line~ and adsr~ to get a feel for amplitude envelopes, and make yourself a collection of amplitude envelopes that you like. Name them envelope1, " envelope2", " etc."

Friday Lab

Friday Lecture

Live processing

# Ideas
Max is often used is inter-device and inter-media "plumbing." In other words, some sensor, controller, or input device is connected to a computer, running Max, which then outputs some audio, video, motor control messages to realize the artists wishes.

# Topics
- Keyboard and Mouse as controllers
- External devices (joystick, tablet...?)
- Open Sound Control

Resources for Further Study

websites:
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/GlobalJOSIndex.html

books:
[http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Tutorial-Curtis-Roads/dp/0262680823...|The Computer Music Tutorial, by Curtis Roads]

http://code.google.com/p/maxtoolbox/

3rd party objects:

+ Monday: Data in Max/MSP/Jitter
- Intro
- Who is Max?
+ Who made Max?
- David Zicarelli
- Miller Puckette
+ Who uses Max?
- David Rokeby: Very Nervous System (1986-1990)