Gregory Taylor

 contained a nice surprise for us here at Cycling '74: we were mentioned in the "thanks to" section of the album notes.

Suddenly, we had a whole bunch of new people who'd never heard of MSP googling us, what with 

stage shots of the mysterious MSP stuff in action

gear-o-centric web articles with MSP patches on those laptop screens

 and everything. Things like that floating about in the interwebs shook loose all kinds of interest by the band’s legion of fans.

It was a little vexing for us at Cycling ’74, though – several Roman legions’ worth of bedsitter Radiohead fans downloaded the Max 5 demo, fired it up, were presented with the standard pristine white screen, and went crazy – "How was this supposed to make me sound like Radiohead?" they cried in frustration. Shout-outs from famous stars can be a mixed blessing.

That interest remains, enshrined in the occasional 

video demo of someone's version of it in action

My "look what I found on the Web" pointer for you this week follows in the train of this interest: a nice, straight-ahead tutorial on creating Jonny Greenwood's stutter-effect. It combines the kinds of insightful thinking that reverse engineering patches often provides with a great presentation of how to do it. Watch it below, and then write the guy a nice thank-you note.

I was asked to create some crazy guitar effect and so I tried to emulate one of the Max/MSP patches that Jonny Greenwood uses. Its definitely my own take on it, so its not what he uses exactly, but it sounds cool! Who could ask for anything more?

If this doesn't make any sense, I'm making a beginner version which goes step by step how to make an ultra simple version of this patch.

I'll be making a version 2 of this patch, which will be more full featured and less hacky. That version I'll have for download when its done.

EDIT:
Ok I decided to have everything I do on here downloadable. So now you can download this patch, but its completely unfinished in this version.
http://www.joelisrich.com/MAXIMUSPEE/mistergreeenwoods.maxpat

Max/MSP Tutorial HD - Jonny Greenwood style stutter effect

The arrival of Hail to the Thief, Radiohead's followup release to Kid A contained a nice surprise for us here at Cycling '74: we were mentioned in the "thanks to" section of the album notes.

Suddenly, we had a whole bunch of new people who'd never heard of MSP googling us, what with stage shots of the mysterious MSP stuff in action and gear-o-centric web articles with MSP patches on those laptop screens and everything. Things like that floating about in the interwebs shook loose all kinds of interest by the band’s legion of fans.

That interest remains, enshrined in the occasional video demo of someone's version of it in action, as well as the ever-popular patch grovel.

learning-how-to-stutter-to-good-effect

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/1613/mrgreenwood2

This is very good patch.
And, I imported to Max For Live.

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/1613/mrgreenwood2


I remade your M4L patch as a Max 6 project, but I think I may have done something incorrect. After each stutter, when the signal coming into the number~ object drops to zero, I get a high pitched "squeak" sound. This does not happen when using your M4L version of the patch, and while I've compared my recreation and your original many times, I still can't get rid of this high pitched sound.

Would you be able to take a look at my patch and let me know if I'm doing something wrong? Thanks!

Hey, a lot of clicks in this patch... why ?

some gen~ versions of stutter-engines if anyone likes to add to their repertoire:

https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-for-asswipes-fart-noises-in-gen-aka-stutters-d

(please don't mind the title and silliness... haha: text is not my forté 😜😊😇)

some gen~ versions of stutter-engines if anyone likes to add to their repertoire:
https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-for-asswipes-fart-noises-in-gen-aka-stutters-d 
(please don't mind the title and silliness... haha: text is not my forté 😜😊😇)

Learning how to stutter (to good effect)