Audio Patches and Standalones
The Flex Processor by Nick Longo is a demo of a gesture synthesizer that synthesizes control data such as pitch bend that can be triggered and modified in real-time.
An 8 track sequencer with FM modules, plus a grain and FFT delay.
drmArm is a concise sequenced synth/drum machine/live performance tool that allows for control of almost every feature via MIDI.
Standalone software for sound design, experimental music and generative ambient music players.
A program designed to benefit from interaction among a community of users. As more people design new modules and share them, the musical possibilities are exponentially increased.
You can download Karlheinz Essl's Max-based interactive compositions on his web site: fLOW ambient sound generator, Amazing Maze, and Lexikon-Sonate.
A tool that allows sound to move in a multiphonic sound space. A sequencer where "spatial events" are written.
A collection of more than 60 patches written by various artists forming a powerful tool for live improvisation, compositional work and installations. The patches share an overlaying general structure which provides open message/signal/matrix routing, preset-handling and environment-storing (environment = patch&routing setup). lloopp is used by a couple of well known artists and can be developed further by any maxer. besides that it can run together and interact with own max-patches. (OS X and XP)
Several useful audio + MIDI patches including the infamous PX18 sequencer.
Otto Henry has uploaded a number of his interactive compositions to the MIT info-mac Hyperarchive. Choose from Aeaea, Crooked Sky, Odyssey, Green Music, Parade, and Red Sky Music.
This software library - a collection of patches and externals for Max (an interactive graphical programming environment for multimedia, music, and MIDI running on a Macintosh; © by IRCAM / Cycling74) - offers the possibility to experiment with a number of compositional techniques, such as serial procedures, permutations and controlled randomness. Most of these objects are geared towards straightforward processing of data. By using these specialized objects together in a patch, programming becomes much more clear and easy. Many functions that are often useful in algorithmic composition are provided with this library - therefore the composer could concentrate rather on the composition than the programming aspects.
deconvolution - a patch which sucks the spectral content of one sound from another; convolution - an easier to use version of the convolution patch from the msp examples; dingmod - a ring modulator gone bad and nasty; abs - a computationally expensive, and sonically unpredictable absolute value function.
A collection of stand-alone Max/MSP patches written by Shawn Hatfield (twerk) which attempt to exploit chance, randomness, and improvisation. All programs on this page are free.
Support for the volume/mute/balance/gain controls when Soundflower is the system out/in device. Binaries, sources and a patch file can be found at
http://thirdcog.eu/apps/soundflower
Yowstar's G is a collection of up to 16 modules. A module is composed of stereo sources (Looper, fmTone, VST instrument, Audio input, DJ player) and stereo effects (pitch, volume, granulator, ringmod, distortion, downsample, delay, two multimode filters, and up to four VST effects). There's also an integrated Quicktime movie sampler for simultaneous control of movie playback.
The commercial software at zeep.com that controls the Yamaha O2R and 01V digital mixers was developed in Max (if you look carefully you can see traces of the interface in the screen shots).
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