Darwin Grosse

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Gen Patch-a-day

Get helpful and fun examples of Gen, the new Max add-on.

Working with Hardware: Livid’s Code

A series devoted to building software for hardware.

November Patch-a-day

Exploring MGraphics for UI Design

An Interview with Ali Momeni

Long-time Max user, artist, and educator Ali Momeni discusses his current projects including Minneapolis Art on Wheels and the Spa...

An Interview with Chris Coleman

Artist and educator Chris Coleman is recognized in the Max community for his work on Maxuino, a Max interface to the popular Ardui...

Creating a “Sketchpad” for jit.gl.sketch

Lately, I've been working on some "classic" OpenGL programming within Jitter, and I've been using jit.gl.sketch t...

Max for Live Presentation at Expo ’74

In this presentation, I spoke directly to people that were already familiar with Max, explained some of the details of working wit...

Experiences from “Welcome Sound”

Many of us are invited to perform in unique circumstances – it’s a part of the Digital Media life. Recently, we’ve been feat...

Max 5 Guitar Processor, Part 5

In this, the final episode of our guitar processing extravaganza, we are going to step away from making effects and focus on perfo...

Max 5 Guitar Processor, Part 4

At this point, we have a pretty useful guitar processing "rack", but it could use a little spice. This spice will come from two ad...

Max 5 Guitar Processor, Part 3

In the last article, we added some basic tonal effects: distortion/overdrive and EQ/filtering. This time, we will expand our virtu...

Max 5 Guitar Processor, Part 2

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...

Max 5 Guitar Processor, Part 1

In an earlier article, Andrew Benson and Ben Bracken went through the process of connecting a guitar to a Max-based processing sys...

Rewire 3: Subversion with ReWire

The ReWire concepts we've discussed in the previous ReWire articles were based on the typical needs of most users -- piping inform...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP (Introduction)

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #8

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #7

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #6

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #5

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #4

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #3

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #2

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

Synth-Building with Max/MSP #1

This series of tutorials first appeared on my CreativeSynth.com website between 2001 and 2002. Due to their popularity (especially...

My Wii Life…

In this article, Darwin Grosse explains how to use the Wii video-game controller to interface with Max/MSP.

ReWire Essentials, Part Two

In this second installment of the ReWire Essentials series, we are going to look at hosting ReWire client applications. Clients ro...

ReWire Essentials 1: From Max/MSP to Your Host

While there are many methods to move MIDI and audio data between programs on a computer, ReWire (developed by Propellerheads) has ...

MIDI and the Lemur

The JazzMutant Lemur is an incredibly versatile control surface for media applications. It allows you to create an interface match...

The Poly Papers (part 1)

One of the more difficult things for many beginning Max/MSP users is dealing with polyphony. So I thought I'd write up a few artic...