Granular Synthesis patch

HI all,
This is the fourth time I have begun learning Max. but this time I have a definite goal in mind. I would like to build a granular synthesis patch that not only is asynchronous as in the patch in Tutorial 2, but also synchronous. In particular, I am interested in implementing many of the processes that Roads talks about in his book Microsound.

The thing is I still have quite a lot of learning to do before I would be able to create something like this. I am currently working my way through the books by Cipriani and Girl which are excellent.

Roads also said that SuperColider is/was his synthesis environment of choice, however, I don't want to learn that as well, when I think it is now possible for Max to do the same thing.

Do any of you know where I could get a patch that would be able to do various types of synthesis? Ideally I would like to be able to do some of the experiments Roads talks about in his book. I would like to be able to reverse engineer it as well.

Of course I am more than happy to pay for the patch.

Cheers,

David