Ricardo

Hi, I'v been looking into LFO's for quite some time now, but I cant seem to wrap my head around how I would go about creating one for my patch. To be more precise, I don't understand it. I'v looked into the tutorials on this web site and I'm looking into the tutorials in MAX, but I cant seem to understand how to hook this things up to my patch. I'm using sound clips loaded into buffers, and basically my aim is to play around with them using effects. Before I started using MAX i used Reason, and the sample-players there have great LFO's. I would like to create something like that in my patch. Until now, the way I'v learned MAX-MSP is to pick the example patches apart and putting them together to see how it works and how i can change them, and finally creating my own by incorporating what I'v learned from the different patches. But When it comes to LFO, I find the tutorials a bit over my head. 

Does any have some pointers for me, so I might get my head around this? Books? Other tutorials? Web-sites? Patches to explore?

Hi, I'v been looking into LFO's for quite some time now, but I cant seem to wrap my head around how I would go about creating one for my patch. To be more precise, I don't understand it. I'v looked into the tutorials on this web site and I'm looking into the tutorials in MAX, but I cant seem to understand how to hook this things up to my patch. I'm using sound clips loaded into buffers, and basically my aim is to play around with them using effects. Before I started using MAX i used Reason, and the sample-players there have great LFO's. I would like to create something like that in my patch. Until now, the way I'v learned MAX-MSP is to pick the example patches apart and putting them together to see how it works and how i can change them, and finally creating my own by incorporating what I'v learned from the different patches. But When it comes to LFO, I find the tutorials a bit over my head. 
Does any have some pointers for me, so I might get my head around this? Books? Other tutorials? Web-sites? Patches to explore?

lfo-i-find-this-part-hard

https://cycling74.com/story/2008/7/15/122424/991

https://cycling74.com/story/2008/8/19/152636/856

https://cycling74.com/story/2008/9/24/135824/196

essentially, you can hook up any kind of waveform (cycle~, saw~, tri~, rect~), or any combination there of, to any parameter you want. While in Reason, you have a given LFO that can be routed to control only x, y, and z parameters, in Max, EVERYTHING is a parameter and anything can control anything.

I would encourage you to post here a simple patch of yours, and to ask a precise question about what you don't manage to do.

The LFO tutorials make use of the new Max5 transport system. You can also begin without using locked phasor~ objects, but just slow cycle~, saw~, tri~, etc. Might be clearer to begin with.

I would encourage you to post here a simple patch of yours, and to ask a precise question about what you don't manage to do.
The LFO tutorials make use of the new Max5 transport system. You can also begin without using locked phasor~ objects, but just slow cycle~, saw~, tri~, etc. Might be clearer to begin with.
Jean-François.


Here's a patch with some basic explanation for both a signal-based and an event-based LFO, Gregory Taylor's tutorials are the best thing to read but this patch has some basics that most people would have had to learn pre-Max5(then again, you don't necessarily have to use a multislider as i have done, either). There is also the simpler way of using the basic signal object as Jean-Francois pointed is indeed a good way to start since they are like the basic necessary 'elementary' waveforms([cycle~], [phasor~], [phasor~] -> [

Thanks RabidRaja, that patch and the explanations in it are very helpful!

LFO. I find this part hard