Paris, France
Le Synthé V5 is an emulation of the mythic Synthi AKS realized by EMS in 1972.
A while back, I wrote a series of four tutorials based around the idea of how you could generate and organize variety in Max patches. I wrote them first and foremost because that idea of generating and organizing variety by some means other than random numbers or noise sources has been an interest of mine for a long time.
In this article, Jim Aikin reviews the new add-on product to Live, developed by Ableton and Cycling ‘74, with a detailed account of his experience. In you are new to Max for Live, this is a helpful introduction before downloading the demo and trying it out yourself.
Matthew Davidson aka Stretta is a talented guy. He’s an accomplished graphic artist and video producer/editor but we talked to him about his music. Stretta’s music is lush, modest and dreamy in the tradition of Brian Eno but it definitely has character of its own. Stretta comes from a tradition of modular synthesis that led him to discover Max/MSP.
While many people are looking at Max for Live as a great way to integrate their favorite hardware controllers, build really unique effects, and add variety to their productions, I was eager to explore what could be done with video inside of Max for Live.
