Digital Music Programming II: Links

Bicycling links:

• The main webpage
• Max FAQ
• Max/MSP FAQ
• Max Documentation
  • What's New in Max 4 manual (311 KB)
  • Max Getting Started (1.7 MB)
  • Max 4 Tutorials and Topics (2.7 MB)
  • Max 4 Reference Manual (2.6 MB)
  • Max4/MSP2 Software Development Kit.
• Biking Community -- listing of external objects.
  • Max/MSP Annotated Resource Guide -- links to 3rd party externals for hardware connectivity and external objects.

Max/MSP for OSX:

• OSX Max/MSP mail group mail xmax-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to subscribe, or xmax@yahoogroups.com to post a message.
• Max/MSP 4.2 Beta 13 for Mac OSX (8.2 MB)
• Max/MSP for OSX software development kit (preliminary version) [local uncompressed]

Other Max/MSP resources

• Max Tutorials by Peter Elsea.
• Max/MSP Objects of Eric Lyon, Dartmouth University.
• Max4/MSP2 download page for Mac OS8 and Mac OS9
• MSP Tutorial

Resources for writing objects in Max/MSP and Pd

• Flext -- seeks to provide a unifying interface for APIs of Max/MSP and Pd in C++.
  • Sample tutorial: xsample
• writing Pd objects in C.
• How to write an External for Pd. by Johannes M. Zmölnig. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz, Austria.

PeRColate: Signal Processing algorithms in C++ for Max, MSP, and Nato

• PeRColate homepage
• PeRColate manual [PDF]

Example External Objects

• Digital Music Programming 2 Objects
• Tap.Tools by Timothy Place.
• Eric Lyons' Max/MSP objects: granola~, phasemod~, distortion~, oscil~, waveshaper~, killdc~, FFTease.
• VBAP by Ville Pulkki.
• etrof (forte spelled backwards) -- converts a Forte code into its prime form. by Matthew McCabe.
• SetCalc -- set theory calculator, by Matthew McCabe.
• butterhighhandband~ -- Emulation of a Butterworth type high-pass then band-pass filter, by Hon-yiu Ng.
• notch~.c, Emulation of a Butterworth type band-reject filter, by Christopher Dobrian.
• bandpass~, by Raghu Nayani.
• gaze -- 3d to 2d perspective projection by Jan Schacher.

Jitter Links

• Jitter homepage -- describes jitter and documents the jitter objects,
• Jitter 1.1 beta 2 (4.5 MB) Install after Max/MSP
• Jitter 1.1 beta 1 (4.5 MB) Install after Max/MSP
• Jitter docs and media (17.7 MB)

Pd Links

• Pd Homepage
• Pd mailing list archive
• Pd External Repository
• GrIPD -- Graphical Interface for Pd by Joeseph Sarlo.
• PDX7 -- FM Synthesis in Pd by Frank Barknecht (manual).

jMax Links

• Homepage of jMax at IRCAM.
  • Download Page (Latest)
  • Mailing list page
  • FTP archive of releases
• A jMax Tutorial by Fabrice Medio.
• Links about jMax
• About jMax
• SourceForge page for jMax
• Brief history of Max
• mamalala resources for jMax
  • jMax templates/patches/objects
  • jMax source code

SuperCollider

• SuperCollider Homepage
• SuperCollider3 linux Alpha 1
• SC-SWIKI links, code, and tutorials for SuperCollider.
  • Writing Plugins for SuperCollider

Related Courses

• Advanced Multimedia Development taught by Ichiro Fujinaga at McGill University, Montreal Canada