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Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:07:01 +0000

Hello,

When I saw this video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3026912287343023659&q=keith-fullerton-whitman&ei=HVhKSObBKJSw2QKw9NnBDA&hl=ru I was really inspired by his music and I found at his site what max/msp patches he uses http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/projects/maxmsp.html

Well, can you please recommend me any patches which are like these especially for pads?

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Bertrand Fraysse — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:36:26 +0000

Thank you very much for the link to the beautiful live.

You should better take a look at this page if you want to create the kind of drones. It’s a great tutorial for Max/MSP, it helped me a lot to find how to make beautiful drones.
http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/projects/playthroughs.html

The main idea to create drones like this is to use a lot of delays with a lot of feedback.
You send sounds with smooth long attack, then you’ll get a continuous sound. Granulation with a lot of voices and long grains can work similarly as a delay

Here : http://www.myspace.com/sillons
The track Toulouse 01 Octobre uses a combination of delay and granulation with a lot of feedback between every modules.

Feedback is the key to get beautiful long auto-moving sounds.

Have fun.
Peace and Drones is a great road to Happiness.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:37:37 +0000

Thank you Bertrand, as you understood me right I want to create such kinds of drones yes.
I read the tutorial and it’s very interesting but not easy to understand because I’m newbie with Max/Msp and didn’t create patches by myself yet, though I will. I listened to your music and I like it very much.

Can you please share your any patch with such parameters for long auto-moving drones? It would be more easier to understand all the scheme.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Bertrand Fraysse — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:17:40 +0000

If you want to learn Max, you have to build things yourself, even if at the beginning it will sound rubbish.

If I share a complete system, you’ll get stuck to it because you will not see what to change to it.
You’ll maybe understand what everything do but you’ll miss the deep understanding.

I’ll help you to start your research.

Keith Fullerton Whitman’s big delay =

It consists of 16 delays in parallel (8 on the left and 8 on the right)

Left delay times = 610 987 1597 2584 4181 6765 10946 17711
Right delay times = 710 1087 1697 2684 4281 6865 11046 17811

Look at Tutorial 28 : Delay with Feedback

You’ll see, it’s not that hard.
Try to experiment on where to make the feedback loop.
There’s a lot of possibilities that will drastically change your sound.

An other point, don’t be afraid to try things, it’s the best way to finally understand and have a wide view of the possibilities.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

ComfortableInClouds — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:54:13 +0000

Feedback delay + matrix~/matrixctrl = lush, varying delays.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:29:40 +0000

Thank you, you’re right Bertrand
It would be much better to understand MAX learning it by myself, although I have some questions.
I don’t have a guitar and I’m going to use the samples as input for such drones, I talked with my friend and he told me that I can try NI Kontakt (as sampler) through Rewire to MAX instead of creating Sampler in MAX and I believed that it’s a good idea till my Lap and Max currently decided not to work together (well, maybe I’ll get any help http://www.cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=34538&start=0&rid=6983&S=6ad4603dbad9fbdd7d98086e02d95d92)
So, I continued experimenting with MAX and loaded sfplay~ and then connected it to delay~ and nothing happens, I hear just clear sound without any delay. What I do wrong? I didn’t find any information concerning this in tutorial and would be much appreciated for your help.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

cebec — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:39:08 +0000

connect the delay directly to the dac~ and the delay~, which is also connected to the dac~. you have to hear the non-delayed and delayed signal for the familiar ‘echo’ effect to work.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Bertrand Fraysse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:47:32 +0000

You should better use the duo tapin~/tapout~ than delay~.
Here is a simple Mono delay unit of 2500 ms with feedback possibilities.

Maybe nothing happens in your patch because to ear the delay you need to ear the undelayed sound, otherwise you’ll ear only one sound.

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:34:29 +0000

I can’t understand why I can’t do that simple patch, I do everything you recommend but something wrong with it.
Well, to be more concrete here is the sample http://visuel.strana.germany.ru/BNJ.EFF%2007.wav and my patch http://visuel.strana.germany.ru/delay.pat (version with delays~)
Sure there are mistakes, but what kind of? Please help me to make out this start and every thing else I’ll do by myself.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Bertrand Fraysse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:41:53 +0000

Here is what I got from your “.pat” file

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Bertrand Fraysse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:43:16 +0000

You should copy your patch and paste it directly to the forum.

It seems your are a Max 4 user.
I’d not be able to send you patches because I’m a max 5 user now…

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:45:54 +0000

Try this one http://visuel.strana.germany.ru/delay.rar
Yes, i’m using MAX 4

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:55:55 +0000

Here’s screenshot http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2627549081_a1212f7c75_o.jpg

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Bertrand Fraysse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:10:34 +0000

Well…

I don’t have a lot of things to say.
You really need to look at the Max tutorials.
Even if you’ll not make any sounds, it will help you to understand what Max is and how to use it.

You have to understand what means these terms in the Max language :

Object (function)
Message
Inlet
Outlet
Argument

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:58:06 +0000

So, I learned Max tutorials and created patch which you can see here http://i33.tinypic.com/i2lrfa.jpg as well I used all numbers which was used by Keith. I hear my sound, hear how delays occurs, but it sounds like “bum… (about 20sec)…bum”, hm, what I did wrong again?

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Stefan Tiedje — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:30:49 +0000

reeaks schrieb:
> So, I learned Max tutorials and created patch which you can see here
> http://i33.tinypic.com/i2lrfa.jpg as well I used all numbers which
> was used by Keith. I hear my sound, hear how delays occurs, but it
> sounds like “bum… (about 20sec)…bum”, hm, what I did wrong again?

According to your patch, that’s what you should expect. What’s wrong
with it?

Why don’t you use a single tapin~/tapout~??? That patch doesn’t make
much sense to me…
(You can have multiple taps in a single tapout~ by the way…;-)

Stefan

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Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:37:00 +0000

Stefan, do you mean it must look like this http://i37.tinypic.com/20pyekz.jpg ? If yes, I don’t hear any changes with my clear sound.

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

jonathan segel — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:59:35 +0000

i think more like the opposite?

max v2;
#N vpatcher 14 59 747 491;
#P origin 42 41;
#P toggle 299 369 15 0;
#P window setfont “Sans Serif” 9.;
#P newex 285 336 60 196617 normalize~;
#P newex 411 333 60 196617 normalize~;
#P newex 624 295 81 196617 tapout~ 17811;
#P newex 541 295 81 196617 tapout~ 11046;
#P newex 462 295 76 196617 tapout~ 6865;
#P newex 385 295 76 196617 tapout~ 4281;
#P newex 624 268 76 196617 tapout~ 2684;
#P newex 541 268 76 196617 tapout~ 1697;
#P newex 462 268 76 196617 tapout~ 1087;
#P newex 385 268 71 196617 tapout~ 710;
#P newex 475 184 71 196617 tapin~ 17811;
#P newex 241 299 81 196617 tapout~ 17711;
#P newex 157 299 81 196617 tapout~ 10946;
#P newex 79 299 76 196617 tapout~ 6765;
#P newex 1 299 76 196617 tapout~ 4181;
#P newex 241 273 76 196617 tapout~ 2584;
#P newex 157 273 76 196617 tapout~ 1597;
#P newex 79 273 71 196617 tapout~ 987;
#P newex 357 396 29 196617 dac~;
#P message 305 87 14 196617 2;
#P message 266 59 14 196617 1;
#P message 199 42 28 196617 open;
#N sfplay~ 2 40320 0 ;
#P newobj 199 125 206 196617 sfplay~ 2;
#B color 5;
#P newex 1 273 71 196617 tapout~ 610;
#P newex 95 166 71 196617 tapin~ 17711;
#P connect 0 0 1 0;
#P connect 0 0 10 0;
#P connect 0 0 7 0;
#P connect 0 0 11 0;
#P connect 2 0 0 0;
#P connect 0 0 8 0;
#P connect 0 0 12 0;
#P connect 3 0 2 0;
#P connect 5 0 2 0;
#P connect 4 0 2 0;
#P connect 0 0 9 0;
#P connect 0 0 13 0;
#P connect 10 0 24 0;
#P connect 1 0 24 0;
#P connect 11 0 24 0;
#P connect 7 0 24 0;
#P connect 12 0 24 0;
#P connect 8 0 24 0;
#P connect 9 0 24 0;
#P connect 13 0 24 0;
#P connect 25 0 6 0;
#P fasten 2 0 6 0 204 226 362 226;
#P connect 24 0 6 0;
#P fasten 2 1 6 1 302 220 381 220;
#P connect 23 0 6 1;
#P connect 14 0 15 0;
#P connect 14 0 19 0;
#P connect 22 0 23 0;
#P connect 18 0 23 0;
#P connect 21 0 23 0;
#P connect 17 0 23 0;
#P connect 20 0 23 0;
#P connect 16 0 23 0;
#P connect 15 0 23 0;
#P connect 19 0 23 0;
#P connect 14 0 16 0;
#P connect 14 0 20 0;
#P connect 2 1 14 0;
#P connect 14 0 17 0;
#P connect 14 0 21 0;
#P connect 14 0 18 0;
#P connect 14 0 22 0;
#P pop;

On Aug 2, 2008, at 12:37 PM, reeaks wrote:

>
> Stefan, do you mean it must look like this http://i37.tinypic.com/
> 20pyekz.jpg ? If yes, I don’t hear any changes with my clear sound.

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Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

Kyred — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:00:24 +0000

Do you know that trick.

max v2;
#N vpatcher 14 59 868 637;
#P origin 42 41;
#P toggle 299 369 15 0;
#P window setfont “Sans Serif” 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#P newex 285 336 60 196617 normalize~;
#P newex 411 333 60 196617 normalize~;
#P newex 624 295 81 196617 tapout~ 17811;
#P newex 541 295 81 196617 tapout~ 11046;
#P newex 462 295 76 196617 tapout~ 6865;
#P newex 385 295 76 196617 tapout~ 4281;
#P newex 624 268 76 196617 tapout~ 2684;
#P newex 541 268 76 196617 tapout~ 1697;
#P newex 462 268 76 196617 tapout~ 1087;
#P newex 385 268 71 196617 tapout~ 710;
#P newex 475 184 71 196617 tapin~ 17811;
#P newex 357 396 29 196617 dac~;
#P message 305 87 14 196617 2;
#P message 266 59 14 196617 1;
#P message 199 42 28 196617 open;
#N sfplay~ 2 40320 0 ;
#P newobj 199 125 206 196617 sfplay~ 2;
#B color 5;
#P newex 35 268 260 196617 tapout~ 610 987 1597 2584 4181 6765 10946 17711;
#P newex 95 166 71 196617 tapin~ 17711;
#P connect 0 0 1 0;
#P connect 2 0 0 0;
#P connect 4 0 2 0;
#P connect 5 0 2 0;
#P connect 3 0 2 0;
#P connect 1 7 17 0;
#P connect 1 6 17 0;
#P connect 1 5 17 0;
#P connect 1 4 17 0;
#P connect 1 3 17 0;
#P connect 1 2 17 0;
#P connect 1 1 17 0;
#P connect 1 0 17 0;
#P connect 17 0 6 0;
#P fasten 2 0 6 0 204 226 362 226;
#P connect 18 0 6 0;
#P fasten 2 1 6 1 302 220 381 220;
#P connect 16 0 6 1;
#P connect 7 0 8 0;
#P connect 7 0 12 0;
#P connect 12 0 16 0;
#P connect 8 0 16 0;
#P connect 9 0 16 0;
#P connect 13 0 16 0;
#P connect 10 0 16 0;
#P connect 14 0 16 0;
#P connect 11 0 16 0;
#P connect 15 0 16 0;
#P connect 7 0 9 0;
#P connect 7 0 13 0;
#P connect 2 1 7 0;
#P connect 7 0 10 0;
#P connect 7 0 14 0;
#P connect 7 0 11 0;
#P connect 7 0 15 0;
#P pop;

Re: Keith Fullerton Whitman patches

younger — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:19:27 +0000

jonathan segel and Kyred, Oh! thank you so much!
For best result we have to use in this patch veeery looong samples, right? (or live guitar f.e.) because if not, it sounds not so nice as in video due to my short sample of banjo which was used in my patch.