Archive for September, 2008

An Interview with Hans Tammen – Endangered Guitar

I’m always curious about how someone’s physical relationship with a guitar goes from the usual strumming to what some people call “tabletop guitar” – it seems like everyone has a different story about that. How’d it happen for you?

It was a gradual process – an acquired taste. I started with Rock music and classical guitar in the 70s, and played all sorts of Jazz in the 80s. After that I made a transition to music heavily influenced by the British Improvisers style.

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Data Collection: Building Databases Using SQLite

Those of you who are paying close attention already know that Max 5 includes a database that manages all the files in the search path and makes handy things like the File Browser possible. To enable this functionality, we wrote an SQLite object to do all the important work under the hood. However, the SQLite object in Max isn’t really something that you can type into an object box, and it doesn’t come with any help files or documentation. In this article, we’ll look at ways to interface with this mysterious “no box” object using JavaScript, so that you can build, query, and edit your own databases in Max.

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Max 5 Guitar Processor, Part 2

Introduction

In the last article, we did a lot of setup – we got input/output handling in place, and added a compressor to the processing chain as an example of an “effect module”. In this article, we will continue adding effects, including a dual overdrive module and a three-stage EQ/Filter module. With these additions we will further explore Max 5’s user interface options, as well as taking a look at some of the “tweaks” that make Max/MSP functions a little more guitar-faithful.

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