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    Collaborative Drum Kit in Max

    by Andrew Benson on
    Sep 19, 2022 6:45 PM


    We invited five talented Max-patching artists to each contribute their voice to a shared drum machine patch.

    Content You Need: FluCoMa

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Sep 1, 2022 3:25 PM


    The FluCoMa (Fluid Corpus Manipulation) package now available in Max’s Package Manager lets you work with sounds and collections of them in amazing new and flexible ways—slicing, decomposition, and hybridization of sounds alongside the ability to use machine learning tools for audio-descriptor analysis, and making music.

    On The Road: Cube Fest 2022

    by Joshua Weatherspoon on
    Aug 31, 2022 11:10 PM


    For my first “On The Road” report for Cycling ‘74, I attended Cube Fest hosted by Virginia Tech.

    An Interview with Leafcutter John

    by Tom Hall on
    Aug 1, 2022 4:45 PM


    If you don’t know Leafcutter John’s recordings or his software (the astounding playground that is his Forester patch) work already, you’re in for a treat.

    Content You Need: A c74connect Patching Series

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Aug 1, 2022 4:35 PM


    This is a weekly series of Max 8.3-based patches hosted on the c74connect Instagram page.

    Garth Paine Patches for Max 8.3, Part 3

    by Darwin Grosse on
    Jun 30, 2022 4:45 PM


    Garth Paine and Darwin Grosse sit down to work through a patch that combines the mc.assign object and some clever use of pattern messages.

    Darwin's Greatest Hits

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Jun 30, 2022 4:10 PM


    Darwin's contributions to the Cycling '74 website were a source of inspiration to us individually. This is a compilation of "greatest hits" — those articles or reviews that Darwin penned and patched for us that we found useful or important.

    Jitter PBR Explorations

    by Andrew Benson on
    Jun 23, 2022 8:26 PM


    A collection of patches exploring jit.gl.pbr in Jitter.

    Working with Darwin

    by David Zicarelli on
    Jun 22, 2022 7:57 AM


    Stories about Darwin Grosse shared by his Cycling '74 colleagues.

    Garth Paine Patches for Max 8.3, Part 2

    by Darwin Grosse on
    May 31, 2022 6:05 PM


    Garth Paine has created a patch that can claim an ancestry from the astounding player piano work of Conlon Nancarrow and give a nod to its Black MIDI cousins.