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Comment on Latch Object by bennyfromtheblock

bennyfromtheblock — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:45:15 +0000

It’s a pleasure mister, I’m glad you like it.

Comment on Freq Mod by Al Thumm

Al Thumm — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:37:13 +0000

Hi Peter, Thanks so much for this — looks eminently useful. I’m always looking for ways to simplify the MIDI mapping experience!
I’m thinking also of eventually incorporating a pop-up window for defining ranges

Comment on grainstretch~ by vichug

vichug — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:39:34 +0000

looks like the utlimate ready-to-use pitchshifter/granulator

Comment on Soundflower by Success! Interactivity with Ableton and Isadora « Project Warlock

Success! Interactivity with Ableton and Isadora « Project Warlock — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:17:49 +0000

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Comment on Gen Tutorial 2b: Adventures in Vectorland by Erik Oña

Erik Oña — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:36:35 +0000

Hi,

nice tutorial. Interestingly, Y get marginally better performance (a couple of fps more) in swizzlemap_1a than in swizzlemap_1b. May be due to that couple extra multiplications?

Comment on Latch Object by willum0id

willum0id — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:52:36 +0000

That is very sweet indeed. Thank you, sir.

Comment on Polyphonic Synthesizer Tutorial by Les Stuck

Les Stuck — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:14:01 +0000

Thanks everyone for the good feedback. It looks like UncleChubb figured out that I was making a “/ 127.” object at 2:22. Yes, the space between the object’s name (/) and its argument (127.) is important. UncleChubb also figured out that the patch needs to be taken out of Edit mode in order to double-click a patcher to open it. If you’re in too much of a hurry to switch modes, you can just command-click (Mac) or control-click (Win) to operate a patcher when it’s in Edit mode.

Lucycle, keep in mind that the synth_voice patch must be saved to disk before the changes are loaded into poly~. I tried swapping a cycle~ for the saw~ and didn’t hear any problems. Also I tried feeding MIDI notes from live.step to the synth and didn’t hear any portamento happening. Hmmm…maybe there’s something else going on?

Sorry some things weren’t clear. It’s tough being really clear without making the tutorial ending up being an hour long. I’ll definitely keep your comments in mind for the future. Happy patching!

Comment on Latch Object by bennyfromtheblock

bennyfromtheblock — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:59:21 +0000

Thanks mate, let me know what you get up to with it

Comment on Harmonic Architect by Al Thumm

Al Thumm — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:34:24 +0000

Hi Moxy,

Just follow the links under the tags section above. You can download free trials for all my instruments.

Or just go here:

http://www.lamplightforestboutique.com

Apologies for not having any audio / video here, I’ve been flat out finishing and updating all my instruments, so I simply haven’t reached that stage yet. But I fully intend to have video tutorials for all of them eventually.

Enjoy!

Comment on Polyphonic Synthesizer Tutorial by UncleChubb

UncleChubb — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:21:12 +0000

@1diot8ox;
I had the same problems. Through extensive trial and error, I found the solution to our problems. @2:22, you need to create a new object, and simply type in “/ 127.” (no quotes). to open the sub patch, right click and de-select “edit”. then, you can double click the box that says p and the sub-patch will open in a new window.

Comment on Latch Object by nazcaman

nazcaman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:11:39 +0000

super useful! thanx!

Comment on Harmonic Architect by moxy

moxy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:53:58 +0000

SO how do I hear this?
or all these sort of “feel-good” pages with no content?

Comment on Freq Mod by Peter McCulloch

Peter McCulloch — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:43:31 +0000

Hi Al, thanks for the explanation. Something that I’ve done for midi mapping that works really great is the following:

----------begin_max5_patcher---------- 647.3ocuVssbZCCD8YyWgGM8QfhLXtzouz9azoCivdAThsDijfPZl7uWoUVf cvPfzR7CVxqVs5bN6JI+RmHxB4dPSh+V7uhihdoSTDZxYHp56HRIaeVASitQ xjkkfvP55Gy.6Mn8u2qWuXX+FovNJmUDWx1rgKVEbTrsjKJ.CFEZkwkRgQy+ Cf1R5O3nuxslfyAqaXlr01HNWAYFOjmMvNmX5rwXS5PWSh0V7uqlCOGAmbwC 8lRpsnBVItnjenbX8mxhbhazW6zw8p6UJF5BdNntHEaxkfUuIyya.OQHjCPt EZlN0QL+aZJx4jIsyxwjCgQY4nATyAAaQAtNC9.TrDzZ1J3j7sh8zxBIyD+E Zq7O4VRweLYY3LTPFl5ZlfIe5z1kkz6PxW.OYC8IByWszbR+6nlfx9UHLyv5 kQzKsoX3cPWJ36f941HDh8Nl5XnMFV1iGJRURizQsCia3kvMreJ4rENcudgh NA0nQiv2mYiUxk1XQqUDjIKjJe3GzmNvd3DsqqWBMc7Lr2jjzQ1dzZKjlsCx myLFEewVCbrmtRnqTZmXVrEjKClC1qiK8F.xK3k3V9P0USjWcNsyizV8Xqfa zlm8zKoEGJs4bj5CrOsFBtMDtp.uTDnZCWJ3hGco95Y3FNDxnWH9mlFZJFqk JS6keMghTr5st48BK+CM+eNiHyXYdL8e+twyV+ycWQ6ad+M.I9J+zKcRA8FN o.mu8b.wa+0BDAN6MkLsbqJKf7pawNVwPxAsgKXFtTTymgM7YMOOGD0+cgbt 1UWje9K9tVzjdEnI4SCMCuBzj9ogF5cLS4Kir+F4NPoqBIBD6drG7mwNtK9I W3+DiHQA63A+G0wEsW67WHdkW5O -----------end_max5_patcher-----------

This shows it for the attack time for an envelope, which is one of those situations where you mostly need short values, but you might want a really long value (here, 10 s). With an exponential mapping you can have it both ways, and using the rawfloat message with the live objects works great for this. You also get all the benefits of slider/dial + number-box. Only down-side is that you can’t change the range on it’s set, but I’ve found that for most of my applications this doesn’t matter.

Comment on Soundflower by “Stompy” – Free Host for VST Effects and Instruments - Digital DJ Tools

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:25:26 +0000

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Comment on PM.StilsonMoog~ by Peter McCulloch

Peter McCulloch — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:45 +0000

Yes, it’s written in gen~.

Comment on Freq Mod by Al Thumm

Al Thumm — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:34:08 +0000

Hi Peter — thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. What I ended up doing with the harmonicity dial, was to leave as mostly as a MIDI mapping indicator (the MIDI mapping has a multiplier, so if you set the multiplier < 1 you can get good ranges).
For purposes other than MIDI mapping, it is best to use the number box rather than the dial. My old method was to use an additional number box below the dial, which was a multiplier value for the dial's output — perhaps I can revert to that idea, I took it out simply to clean up the interface.

Graphic displays are a nice idea — I could certainly do that in a pop-up window. Did you have anything specific in mind?

As to the Waveshaper, it is simply a modulation source — it shapes a buffer, which is cycled through at the determined freq. Then, combined with the other parameters in the Edit window, it is sent as the modulation signal into the heart of the synth. So yes it changes the harmonic content, but in a pretty freaked-out way — more useful for tweaky sci-fi kinds of sounds really

Comment on grainstretch~ by hds11

hds11 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:24:22 +0000

Thanks a LOT ! this is a powerful and easy to use object =)

Comment on Older Versions of Max/MSP/Jitter and Cyclops by Sound Draw

Sound Draw — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:59:42 +0000

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Comment on Freq Mod by Peter McCulloch

Peter McCulloch — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:37:21 +0000

Seems like there’s some weirdness in some of the ranges. The FM ratio starts at 0.33, but then the dial moves in increments of 250! (I’m assuming this is the harmonicity ratio; you rarely see > 10-20)

Some graphic displays would be really nice, particularly in the modulation section so you could see the effects. (For instance, is the waveshaper changing the harmonic content or directly changing the shape of the wave?)

Comment on Open Source EML-200 modular synthesizer with sequencer by Peter McCulloch

Peter McCulloch — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:29:35 +0000

Link is now fixed.

Comment on Polyphonic Synthesizer Tutorial by 1diot8ox

1diot8ox — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:40:33 +0000

the sub-patch does NOT open upon double click, nor does a separate window open after selecting and “encapsulating”
is this a preference, am I an idiot, or can you at the least explain without the glaring gaps in this tutorial?

Comment on Polyphonic Synthesizer Tutorial by 1diot8ox

1diot8ox — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:23:33 +0000

@2:22 the divider /127 is not created.. or at the least it is not evident what the instructor is doing
I am using MAX6 and there is no /1`27. object that i can find..
that works anyway
Can not the lesson be just a little less arcane for idiots like me?

Comment on Open Source EML-200 modular synthesizer with sequencer by anke

anke — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:51 +0000

hi,

where can i find this modular synth ?

Comment on Open Source EML-200 modular synthesizer with sequencer by andy rowe

andy rowe — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:25:01 +0000

hi, is there a link to this project so we can have a look at it and use it please? sorry if i haven’t seen it

thanks

Comment on The Video Processing System, Part 4 by loadmess

loadmess — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:27:48 +0000

Sorry, I should had more details in the previous question just to make sure.
So imagine, if several QT objects are playing at the same time inside one POLY~, how would I MIX or SUM the output of each active QT instance playing?

thanks,
dc