Nicholas

I was wondering if I could call on your advice. I am currently a postgraduate student looking to create a tutorials book of simple to create max projects. I started using max 2 years ago as part of my masters course. I researched in our University library and realised there was no literature. Realising it is all on the net this provided a great utility and resource for my development. I would like to produce a tutorial guide for University and schools that use this software as an aid and guide in creating simple projects, and learning how to use the software. I would be using many screenshots of my patches and the software. Is this permissible at all? I know they do it on Youtube through video tutorials. I have researched other websites with mixed results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
Thanks, Nick


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Your institute isn't giving you value for money if they can't get you access to the following core texts:

https://cycling74.com/project/maxmsp-book/

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8218

Have you encountered Peter Bachelor's excellent course:

http://www.peterbatchelor.com/maxtuts.html

A very good syllabus 'template', with excellent resources and materials.

As for the use of screenshots in a commercial text, I guess it's public domain stuff, at least until you publish; but I could be wrong.

Maurizio Giri
https://cycling74.com/project/maxmsp-book/

Eduardo Miranda
http://www.lsionline.co.uk/books/?hiw0jd

Curtis Roads
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8218

Have you encountered Peter Bachelor's excellent course:
http://www.peterbatchelor.com/maxtuts.html

Many thanks for your quick reply. All of these texts seem very useful, especially the last one with the youtube videos. Will look into this further.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/AKPetersBook.htm

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8679

LoadBang is an online PD book that I find really great. It's very straight forward and there are lots of example patches. Also I like how basic techniques are developed. So there isn't for example just one complex granular patch and then a lot of words theorizing about granular synthesis but rather a lot of granular patches each one another small step in complexity. So in the end all of granular synthesis is covered in a practical way.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716276/description#description

It's more basic but more focused on hardware synths and the techniques they use. It is simple and easy to read and a good introduction to block diagrams.

LoadBang is an online PD book that I find really great. It's very straight forward and there are lots of example patches. Also I like how basic techniques are developed. So there isn't for example just one complex granular patch and then a lot of words theorizing about granular synthesis but rather a lot of granular patches each one another small step in complexity. So in the end all of granular synthesis is covered in a practical way.
http://www.pd-tutorial.com/

I like this book as well:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716276/description#description

It's more basic but more focused on hardware synths and the techniques they use. It is simple and easy to read and a good introduction to block diagrams.


I would add Miller Puckette's "Theory & Technique of Electronic Music", which is available online as a PDF from 

Written by the father of PD himself (hence the grandaddy of Max), it produced quite a few 'ah!' moments for me.

+1 for Music, Cognition & Computerised Sound, btw,

I would add Miller Puckette's "Theory & Technique of Electronic Music", which is available online as a PDF from http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm
  Written by the father of PD himself (hence the grandaddy of Max), it produced quite a few 'ah!' moments for me.
+1 for Music, Cognition & Computerised Sound, btw,
cheers
Roger


The fact that Puckette's book also features a lovely foreword from Max Mathews pretty much tells you that it's a quality read for computer musicians. +1

Cheers everyone! Many thanks for your responses. There are some fantastic resources posted here, these will help greatly.

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