craftycurate

I have recently purchased Max 7 and am picking my way through the tutorials to try to get some grasp of things. Loving it so far.

I'm quite familiar with coding and generally pick things up pretty quickly but I'm feeling a bit lost in the Max ecosystem with its great variety of objects, tools and processes.

I'm especially interested in Jitter\OpenGL, and also controlling Resolume VJ sofrware with OSC as I have a couple of projects in mind and I know Max has all the tools to build at least a proof of concept if not a finished piece of software.

I'm doing the hard work of wading through manuals and tutorials, making notes, and trying stuff out, but sometimes a couple of pointers or key concepts need to be grasped to get up to speed more quickly and avoid a lot of head scratching.

So my question is ... are there forums here (or elsewhere) where it's fine to ask beginnerish type questions? Techie type forums can vary in their tolerance of this kind of thing e.g. whether you get helpful advice or an RTFM kind of thing. I will have sweated over it first and at least had a go.

where-to-ask-newbie-questions

Welcome to Max-land. Feel free to ask your questions in the appropriate forum section. Newbie questions are totally fine. The more it shows that one has put effort in finding the solution by themselves first (in docs, tutorials, forum) the bigger the chance of getting a useful answer.

Hi Richard,
Welcome to Max-land. Feel free to ask your questions in the appropriate forum section. Newbie questions are totally fine. The more it shows that one has put effort in finding the solution by themselves first (in docs, tutorials, forum) the bigger the chance of getting a useful answer.

Welcome! I think you'll find the Max community is very welcoming of all levels of question. Everyone starts somewhere. My advice is to do a quick forum search before asking, be prepared to share a patch that shows your attempts if necessary (use Edit->Copy Compressed and paste into the forum text), and follow up with any solutions you find. I also recommend checking out some of the Youtube tutorials out there (C74's as well as "dude837" are good), and doing the Lessons in the Lessons Browser. Once you are familiar with Max a little, check the tutorials and articles on this site as well. Jitter Recipes demonstrate a lot of OpenGL and graphics tricks in Jitter.

Where to ask Newbie questions?