Why don’t you have time for the tutorials? Did you wait too long to start your homework?

If you don’t work through the tutorials, you will probably never be a competent Max user.

Adam, let me try to make my reply pointier:

I tried to be helpful in other threads you started, but because you’re seemingly not willing to learn the basics, my patience is at an end. I spend a fair amount of time helping people here, and creating example patches, but like any wartime triage medic, I only try to help people who look like they might make it.

@aja26
I too feel Chris’ frustration; just slightly less so as I am a relative n00b (Maxing for 4 years).

The documentation tutorial may at first seem a little daunting; I still find some of the stuff head-melting. BUT. They are truly invaluable and some time spent with them will exponentially increase your understanding of Max.

There are of course numerous video tutorial series out there, which can make the process quick and painless:

http://www.peterbatchelor.com/maxTuts.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/BazTutorials

and I love this guy’s stuff, real quick and fun:

http://www.youtube.com/user/dude837

Brendan

ps
if you’re a college/uni student, your tutor really should be giving you this support too…….
pps
most if not all Max n00bs want a big big book called "How to Build Your Patch that does ##########". This book would be infinitely large, as MaxMSP allows us to do almost anything.

thin line between teaching & solving a problem :}

It does take a while to get through the max tutorials but they’re some of the best I’ve ever gone through. I’ve spent off an on about 3 months going through them and after the first 10, you really get jamming on them once you get the general feel and layout for how they present their info.

I fortunately (or rather unfortunately) don’t have to deal with the schedule that comes with formal training lol, so I got all the time in the world.

Good luck Aja26; and if the juice is worth the squeeze, always always always RTFM!
c]:{D