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Takumi Ogata creates custom instruments for performing with Max. We caught up with him to learn more about his approach to Max patching, how he got started, and where he finds inspiration. Watch the video to hear more about how he is working with Max to explore unique interfaces and sound.

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Takumi Ogata creates custom instruments for performing with Max. Watch the video to hear more about how he is working with Max to explore unique interfaces and sound.

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An Interview with Takumi Ogata

 (Gabe Postle) began performing weekly ambient music streams on his 

 that each showcase a small galaxy of nicely-presented Max patches arranged across the screen, composited over some lo-fi 3D graphics. We reached out to Ends to see if we could collaborate on a couple of sponsored streams and offer up some of those lovely patches for the community to play with. We're so happy he agreed, and look forward to tuning in on 

for the first of these. Tune in for the second live stream on 

"These ambient live streams are meant to document the process of music making, intended for passive or active listening. I designed this Max patch to loop and process live inputs and audio files in a ways that allow one to recontextualize and transform sounds. I hope for the stream to provide a nice backdrop for people in their day to day lives, and by sharing this patch, I hope people can find new ways of processing familiar sounds." - Ends

If you'd like to try your own hand at creating an ambient soundscape, Ends has offered up a small set of his sample-driven patches for you to drop a few samples into and play. 

Download the patches from the first stream

Download the patches from the second stream

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You can find more of Ends' Ambient Sunday Live Streams on his 

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Ambient music artist Ends streams live every Sunday with an assortment of nicely presented Max patches. Try out some of his patches here.

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Ends: Ambient Sunday Live Streams

Machine Learning has long been a part of computer music, but with recent advances in the field we have been interested to see how these new tools could be put to use in Max. We invited Isaac Io Schankler to develop an example of their explorations with the 

object that implements the RAVE model in Max. We hope this offers a good starting point for experimenting with ML tools in Max.

There are lots of ways to use machine learning in music! If you are Google or OpenAI, you can spend millions of dollars to scrape the internet for data and train your models using thousands of GPUs. But even if you are not a tech conglomerate with endless resources and questionable ethics, there are ways to make use of machine learning at home that are slightly less resource-intensive and less fraught. Lately I’ve been having fun using Antoine Caillon and Philippe Esling’s 

 (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder). You can use RAVE as a kind of “timbre transfer” tool to make one thing sound like another, e.g. make a guitar sound like a violin, or make an orchestra sound like a Game Boy, or yes, make one person’s voice sound like another person.

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For this patch, I trained a model on the 

, which features recordings by Kinga Augustyn, Ray Chen, Oliver Colbentson, Ko Donghwi, John Garner, Karen Gomyo, Minji Kim, Silei Li, and Emil Telmanyi. (While there are no laws about using copyrighted material to train AI models yet, I tried to stick to recordings that were in the public domain or had similarly permissive licenses.)

If you want to explore further, there are a few other pre-trained models 

. If you’re interested in training your own model, you’ll need at least 3 hours of recorded audio and a computer with a capable GPU. If, like me, you don’t have access to a fancy GPU, you can use a cloud computing service like Google Colab or vast.ai. A Google Colab sketch, helpfully provided by 

. After you run the patch and turn the audio on, you can try out the timbre transfer by turning on the mic input, or by playing back the little synth guitar loop that I provided. You should start to hear violin-like sounds that mimic the audio input—that’s the pre-trained RAVE model trying to reproduce your sounds!

You can then adjust the mix of the original input and the violin models (there are 2) to your liking. I also added some reverb to “soften” the noisy output you sometimes get from RAVE, but you can adjust that too if you like.

You might also want to adjust the delay of the original audio input. It takes RAVE a bit of time to generate its audio, so if you want the violin models to be in sync with the audio input, you will probably have to delay the original signal a bit (usually between 250 and 1000 ms).

Okay, so far so good. But here’s where things get really interesting. To generate its audio, RAVE uses a bunch of constantly changing control parameters. Normally these parameters are controlled directly by the audio input, but we can hijack these parameters and control them manually if we want. RAVE gives us 16 of those parameters to play with. These parameters are created by RAVE during training, so they don’t really map onto the musical parameters that we know and love (e.g. high and low, loud and soft, etc.). But imo that’s part of the fun of it, the exploration and experimentation and noodling to try and locate the kinds of sounds you want!

Since 16 parameters is a lot to deal with, I also added some LFOs that slowly sweep through the range of each parameter, if you just want to hear how the sound changes over time.

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You’ll need to download and install nn~ first, and then download the patch and supporting materials. After you run the patch and turn the audio on, you can try out the timbre transfer by turning on the mic input, or by playing back the little synth guitar loop that I provided. You should start to hear violin-like sounds that mimic the audio input—that’s the pre-trained RAVE model trying to reproduce your sounds!

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Timbre Transfer with Machine Learning by Isaac Io Schankler

Drums and rhythm are a foundational element of electronic music especially, and every artist has their preferences in how they should sound. Drum voices can also be a fun sound design challenge for Max patching. For this community project, we invited four artists to each create their unique take on some classic percussion sounds - rimshot, clap, cowbell, and cymbal - along with a custom sequencer that puts this collection into action.

 first Collaborative Drum Kit project here.

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"I always enjoy making music more when I'm not totally sure what's going to come out of the sequencers next. This sequencer has the ability to generate sequences with semi - predictable variation using just a few parameters.

An initial trigger starts a cascade of possible patterns from the input of the matrix. The matrix basically tells the sequencer its possible destinations after the current step, except for position 0 which is instantly triggered when the sequence restarts. You can also set a delay time for each step to wait before triggering (0 being no delay, 1 being a 16th note, and 16 being 1 bar, etc.). There is also a control for the probability of the delay of a step being applied or ignored. Step size is the note duration and it works on the same time system as the delay.

We also have the optional function to mute (choke) all other voices with each trigger, which can create some interesting variation and unexpected results on its own.

This is a basic implementation of the concept but there are so many different directions you could take it and features you could add, depending on your tastes.." - nouserid. Find 

Note: The sequencer patch download includes all of the patches listed below.

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"Mesh is a physical modeling cymbal synthesizer, implementing a 2D waveguide mesh as its resonator with downsampling at the end." - babumamusic. Find 

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"This patch is inspired by the Roland 808 cowbell. I researched and reviewed how others were doing this, like reviewing old circuit diagrams and watching how others were recreating this sound in Ableton. It was a fun exercise." - melodycodes. Find 

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"rim_shot uses shaped noise, an envelope, a minimal feedback delay line with modulated params, and an optional chorus effect to produce a sound resembling a synthesized rim shot and other unusual percussive elements.” - onokio. Find 

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"I would like to introduce you to my interpretation of a clap synthesizer. The entire module is inspired by the 808 clap and is divided into two voices. You can independently modify the "Punch" and "Release" with the patch. I like to build the instrument into a clear interface as well, as this usually determines how quickly I can generate and create sounds. Have fun trying it out!" - Mjulev. Find 

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