Exercises for Beginner
Hey Crew!
Quick about me...musician/artist looking to expand his digital realm of possibility. No prior coding experience.
Have spent the last few weeks or so trodding through the included Max Tutorials eventually, to make it to MSP and beyond! I have actually found the tutorials very well written and the included patches quite helpful. I feel like I am learning a lot. As of recently been plowing through the tutorials at a high rate.
My one worry is about how much I am actually retaining..
PING to the Academic Professorial Learned Scholars! Does anyone have any suggestions of exercises or quizzes or brain cruxes I can keep up with as I continue the tutorials to make sure I am actually processing what is coming into my brain?
Or does everyone think thats unnecessary and the tutorials have been enough for everyone else?
Any help is greatly appreciated and very excited about the potential of the program.
I found the Electronic Music and Sound Design books quite helpful; they give you a bit more context and some exercises to test yourself.
You need some projects, what about Max interests you? Everything comes from that.
this page may be helpful:
http://music.arts.uci.edu/dobrian/Music215S12/examples.htm
it has example patches and some links
RE retention - unless you are superhumanly smart, you wont recall all you learn on first pass. Dont let this phase you - keep on pushing through, and every time you do something you will understand/ retain it a little more, and all the threads will start coming together. Good luck.