Jason Charney

I am pretty new to MaxMSP but have been discovering some cool things. I'm working on a generative patch that triggers audio samples at varying rates depending on a metro which is given different trigger times from a random object. New random times are selected via a bang. This group of objects is repeated six times throughout the patch, each with a different audio sample.

Is there a way to set it up so ONE bang can be hooked up to a metro and randomly change the retrigger of all of these objects? I assume it would be something like having a random number outputted that would correspond to each bang. This way the patch could change texture on its own without me having to manually click each bang to change the sample retrigger time.

I hope I've explained this well enough. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello all!
I am pretty new to MaxMSP but have been discovering some cool things. I'm working on a generative patch that triggers audio samples at varying rates depending on a metro which is given different trigger times from a random object. New random times are selected via a bang. This group of objects is repeated six times throughout the patch, each with a different audio sample.

I hope I've explained this well enough. Thanks in advance for your help!


outputting-numbers-to-correspond-to-bangs

Thanks for the help! That little patch will be of use for another part of it, and I think trigger IS the right object I need to use to do what I want to do, but I don't know how to incorporate it. I've attached a basic component of the patch, a mini patch...the whole thing is six of these with some extra modifiers.

So basically, that metro at the top controls when the audio sample is started over...when the random is banged, it outputs a new re-trigger value in ms.

Ideally, a metro at the top will send out a bang at a constant rate, which will randomly trigger one of those buttons connected to the random object on each mini patch. I assume the process of randomly allocating a bang from the "master" metro is something along the lines of assigning each mini patch a number, and having a random object connected to the master metro generate numbers between 0 and 5. When the corresponding number is outputted, the random object on each mini patch is banged.

Is there a way to get output to rename a "send" object? That way I could just hook up that master random to a send object, have it modify the argument in the send object, and just have a corresponding receive for each mini patch.

Hope this makes more sense! Thanks for the help!

I see... use random and route (see the patch). Could you explain what you are actually trying to do with this?

When you set a new time for the metro it won't take effect until the next cycle!!!!

Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed. I just hooked up each to its distinct send and had those go to the bangs. I'll keep that object in mind for future use...

The not-taking-effect until next cycle thing is okay, as the samples are like 4 seconds long at most. I basically have a bunch of teeny audio samples (actually different clips of Obama stuttering in an interview) and I'm just creating a texture out of them...there are drunk objects hooked up to the gain for each sample so they fade in and out.

If you are using sends and receives I would probably do something like what I have below. It's a bet cleaner I think. Although there is nothing wrong with using route and sends...

Outputting numbers to correspond to bangs