Gewalter Benjamin

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with using Max as a primary tool for giving talks, presentations. I'm giving a lecture soon (it's on philosophy, not on Max) and I figured that Max may be an interesting way to leave the generic powerpoint setting, using jitter to animate some of the concepts I'm explaining.

The issue is that I'm looking for a simple, non-distracting way to move from patch to patch... essentially a "next" button. I would really rather not open each patch individually, as I'm worried that it would distract the audience too much (my experience is that the audiences of philosophy lectures are particularly susceptible to distraction, as the matter of discussion is very dense). I'm really trying not to even leave full screen.

I'm wondering if it's simple to do this with many patches, as opposed to integrating everything in to one very large jitter patch. I guess there are a lot of patches from my past that I would like to use, without having to put them on the same rendering context -- it's a great idea but I don't want to have to spend a whole night to put together my presentation if I could do it in an hour in Powerpoint.

Thank you guys so much! This could be the great way to use Max as the ultimate tool for giving incredible talks!

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with using Max as a primary tool for giving talks, presentations. I'm giving a lecture soon (it's on philosophy, not on Max) and I figured that Max may be an interesting way to leave the generic powerpoint setting, using jitter to animate some of the concepts I'm explaining. 

Thank you guys so much! This could be the great way to use Max as the ultimate tool for giving incredible talks!


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I just opened the "Welcome to Max" tour (I'm new Max 7) and it occurred to me that this format is exactly what I am looking for. Unfortunately I can figure out how to unlock to see how it works. Is anyone able to shed light on this for me?

This could really be an incredible new way to teach and give lectures! Very excited!

The CNMAT spectral tutorials are my biggest example of how to do this. They're part of the CNMAT MMJ depot here:

The CNMAT spectral tutorials are my biggest example of how to do this. They're part of the CNMAT MMJ depot here:
https://github.com/CNMAT/CNMAT-MMJ-Depot


Also, you may want to give a look at the bach package notation center helper :)

Mzed, thanks, I think that was exactly what I was looking for!

I haven't been using Max as much in the last years since RaspberryPi came out, so I had forgotten about "thispatcher"

for anyone else looking for this, the patch z.nav_buttons gives a great example.

i'll share one of my examples once I've made it.

Mzed, thanks, I think that was exactly what I was looking for! 

i'll share one of my examples once I've made it.


last time i prepared a presentation about philosophy i was thinking about using max/msp too - but finally decided to mockup the usual black and white pdf file. the audience still thought i am a bit crazy, but a pdf at least does not get you sidetracked from a linear causal train which can be very handy when you try to explain complex systems to complex system noobs.

i totally missed how the cnmat tools made it into this thread but i´d like to add another approach: look into bpatcher and lcd/jit.lcd.

bpatcher can be great when you want to switch pages only partially, let things evolve, or put charts side by side for comparison.

put the main window to fullscreen, make the content with "iframe" bpatchers, and control the bpatcher content by scripting.

haha.
last time i prepared a presentation about philosophy i was thinking about using max/msp too - but finally decided to mockup the usual black and white pdf file. the audience still thought i am a bit crazy, but a pdf at least does not get you sidetracked from a linear causal train which can be very handy when you try to explain complex systems to complex system noobs.

i totally missed how the cnmat tools made it into this  thread but i´d like to add another approach: look into bpatcher and lcd/jit.lcd.

This sounds interesting. I'm quite a noob so far, would love to see what you eventually come up with and how it goes. :D

Using Max as a Powerpoint/Keynote presentation tool