T Bruce

and this is it. I will try to chronicle my journey here.

I am doing this because I have a patch that is at the heart of what I do as a performing musician. It is my '62 Strat, my pre CBS amp, etc. This is not just a patch I threw together to create a one shot presentation (done dozens of those), it's who I am as a musician. I have been building and modifying it to make music since 2008, so there is a really big investment in the "sound" I get out of it. As an example, the difference between shifter~ and gizmo~, and any of a dozen different pitch altering objects is huge for me. So, besides the work involved in changing out old for new, I will lose the sound I have if I just generically swap similar objects.

You might ask, why don't I just stay with Max 5. The reason is that, as I have modified and added to the patch over the years, recently I have started having just plain old flakey, buggy behavior. Portions of the patch just don't pass audio at all, this is most consistently flakey in the poly~ objects I use (see the "poly weirdness" thread). I just feel that it would a wise investment in the ongoing evolution of this patch to jump to the head of the Cycling '74 development cycle, and then start weeding out possible programming errors on my part.

So, if this is of any interest to anyone out there, stay tuned. I will do everything I can to make this something that will be of value to the MaxMSP community in general. Not looking for a hand out, just a helping hand now and then. I will get down to specifics in following posts.

I am doing this because I have a patch that is at the heart of what I do as a performing musician. It is my '62 Strat, my pre CBS amp, etc. This is not just a patch I threw together to  create a one shot presentation (done dozens of those),  it's who I am as a musician. I have been building and modifying it to make music since 2008, so there is a really big investment in the "sound" I get out of it. As an example, the difference between shifter~ and gizmo~, and any of a dozen different pitch altering objects is huge for me. So, besides the work involved in changing out old for new, I will lose the sound I have if I just generically swap similar objects.

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Here's the control surface for the patch.

Well... good luck! You might get more mileage out of this endeavour if you post your findings in the form of a blog. Just a thought. Rest assured that I, who only fiddles with microscopic little shit projects, am deeply impressed with the scope of your project.

Max 5 to Max 7, a trip of a thousand miles starts with the first step