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#Overview
The Suggest A Term feature aims to create a more useful tagging vocabulary and better-classified nodes by allowing users to submit whatever terms they believe best match the nodes that they create.

#How it works

#Overview
Users can now suggest terms that they feel should be added to the CNMAT website vocabulary. It is up to the website administrators to decide which of these terms should be added to the permanent vocabulary set. This feature will hopefully make the website taxonomy more useful and relevant for the website users.

# Overview
The weblink node type allows users to share and categorize content from the internet on CNMAT's website. For example, a student could share a new audio visualization tool that he found, or a professor could link to an article that she was mentioned in.

# Why tag?

#Sound
##The easy way
Coming around the right side of the desk, there is a bundle of cables for laptop connectivity. One of these is an 1/8" plug that can be plugged directly into the audio output of your laptop. It routes to channels 1 and 2 of [cnmat:node/3233|the mixer].
## The better way

The Motu 828 is a firewire audio interface, and its firewire cable is routed to the laptop cable cluster. Its primary purpose is to provide 8-channel output from a user's laptop into the studio sound system.

#Driver:

#General information
The MOTU 2408 Interface in the rack is connected to the PCI-424 card in the computer. All communication to and from the 2408 is through the PCI-424 driver, so these are somewhat synonymous when referred to by audio applications.

Video Tutorials:
[inline-center:Resetting DM-3200 Mixer To Its Basic Setting.mov=Resetting Mixer to Basic Project]
[inline-center:Getting Computer Audio To Mixer.mov=Getting Sound out of Audio Applications]

##Here are a few things to check if you can't get sound

- **Is everything on?** Although this seems obvious, it is very common. Always, this is the first thing that I check.

Documentation on CNMAT spherical speaker arrays.

Network Route:

From CNMAT network or AirBears:

Host: teacup.berkeley.edu (128.32.122.183)
Port: 4000

From an Ethernet cable patched into switch (on MacPro desk)

Host: 10.0.0.1
Port: 4000

* MUST USE OSC BUNDLES *

OSC Schema:

- /system
- /icos
- /gain (db, default 0., min -120., max 12.)
- /dodec
- /gain (db, default 0., min -120., max 12.)

- Random noise / glitches in audio stream
- Did you forget to connect word-sync clock?
- Failure of single face or side
- Check all channels before operating speaker system
- Network configuration goes crazy--multiple builtin-ethernets, etc
- Delete /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist and restart
- Kernel panic after Software Update

#Overview

- The blog node is a very flexible node type that is useful for quick communication in a particular group or any website user.

#Possible uses of the blog type

- Broadcast messages intended for particular groups or the general public.

- Post videos.

# STEP 0. Prepare

Reserve the main room. Pull the MacPro out of the cubby and plug in the power. Pull out the multi-sphere array, move it by pushing on the sub. Move it VERY SLOWLY.

#Morning Session (10am-12)

- review of previous day and assignments
- data storage and recall - i/f/zl/coll
- more on data visualization
- new gui objects
- models of working
- patching session

#LUNCH BREAK (12-1)

#Lab (1-2:30)

- patching session

#BREAK (2:30-3)

#Afternoon Session: Gesture Input and Actuators (3-5)

#Morning Session (10am-12)

- review of previous assignment
- debugging part 2- gated print, visualization, etc
- presentation mode / usage of colors (alpha) / other interface details
- encapsulation, abstractions, etc

#LUNCH BREAK (12-1)

#Lab (1-2:30) - processing data, brightness, polyphony, reuse

online documentation:
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/vignettes/intro/docintro.html

basics:
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/vignettes/core/shortcuts.html
http://cycling74.com/category/articles/did-you-know/
http://cycling74.com/2008/08/11/create-your-own-default-workspace-in-max-5/
http://cycling74.com/2008/05/23/freshening-up-giving-old-patchers-a-new-...

This will be used for the hands-on sensor explorations

#OSCulator
[[http://www.osculator.net| OSCulator]]
[[node/5240|Wacom Tablet]]
[[node/5198|Wii Remote]]

#USB HID
[[node/5235|PlayStation Remote]]
[[node/10720|Casio DP-1]]
[[node/5710|GameTrak Controller]]

#Keyboard/Mouse Input
[[node/2424|SpaceNavigator]]
[[node/10718|Keyboard Number Pad]]

#Serial
[[node/10724|iOS Serial Cable]]

#Gesture Interfaces

#Morning Session (10am-12)
- Intro to MSP

#LUNCH BREAK (12-1)

#Lab (1-2:30)

#BREAK (2:30-3)

#Afternoon Session (3-5)
- RBFI
- Jitter/Image Tracking

#DINNER (5-6)

#Advanced Class (6-8:30)
- Advanced MSP
+ Analysis/resynthesis
+ Envelopes and granular synthesis
+ poly~ (introduction)
+ The spectrum as a probability distribution

#Morning Session (10am-12)

- what is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_%28software%29|Max]?
+ patch cords, objects
+ help / getting help
+ patch locking/unlocking
+ printing
+ displaying values
+ tutorials
+ gate (control flow)
+ ints vs. floats, lists, symbols
+ message box
+ comment box
+ basic gui objects (flonum/numbox/toggle/bang)