A question I can't find a simple answer to… Converting Max patches

if it’s simple enough that you just playback those files,
you can convert it to a flash file.
flash is probably much simpler and easier to start than java,
although it is not a very cheap program.
(but you get to do a lot. like audiotool.com)

i think i saw a similar question in the past in this forum.
if you do a search you may find a better solution.

nice project! i love train sounds…

i looked into your patch and it looks very straight forward as far as sound processing goes.
all i saw were fade-ins and fade-outs (correct me if i’m wrong).
this should be fairly easy to convert to flash, or other formats.
html5 maybe able to handle it although i don’t know in detail how to…
javascript probably can handle it as well.
processing too maybe? (it’s essentially java, but probably easier…)

if the main issue is having to download max runtime,
you can also build max application of the patch.
(but this will not run on the browser.)

This is a nice idea. The stuff is still downloading, so I haven’t looked at it yet.

Short term, you could save people one step, by building Mac/Win applications in Max, so they didn’t have to download the runtime.

Longer term, this could be recoded in HTML5 or Java (for the widest audience) of Flash if you had too.

so, i was looking for a web-oriented project to do, and I’ve had some (too much) spare time, and after i saw this my brain kind of ran with it and…

http://bgruber.github.com/tubemap

It’s not quite finished but all of the basic functionality is there. There’s a fair amount of optimization to be done about when the sounds are loaded, the buttons have to be tweaked so they look right in IE8 etc. Let me know what you think.

was the max patch doing the fade-ins/fade-outs live, or are they pre-rendered to the audio files (i don’t have access to a copy of max right now)? i hear there’s at least some fading in and out on the audio files. for the webapp it will certainly be easier to pre-render that. making the sounds overlap is quite simple though.

i held off on doing a blink or animation of some kind on the buttons because i have to do some research on how to make them look right cross-browser (I checked them out on an iPad and they looked real ugly–surprising because they look fine in safari on a mac). i did put in some feedback by turning the current station green.

glad you like it.

I converted them to mp3 because yes, it loads quicker, but also because few browsers support wav files for html5 audio. One of my goals is to have this work, properly, on a variety of browsers.

Don’t bother doing the fades; it’s not much more work for me to do it myself than it is to start downloading it and re-encoding it to mp3 etc.

All of the files (audio, etc) are living on github right now. see http://github.com/bgruber/tubemap for complete version history etc. Actually, you’ll see there are also ogg files there, although i haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to get soundmanager to use those if a browser has no flash and no mp3.