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Turn Max patches into drawings with this browser-based SVG export tool for pen plotters.

https://kevinkripper.github.io/patch2plotter/

Turn Max patches into drawings with this browser-based SVG export tool for pen plotters.

https://kevinkripper.github.io/patch2plotter/

patch2plotter

Patch2Plotter

A Max external that generates invented language — pseudo-words that hold the shape and internal consistency of a language without belonging to any existing one.

One [ortho] object mints a language substrate from a seed and then draws every word from that same substrate, so its output reads as one tongue rather than a fresh scramble. Names recur. Phrases return whole. Things get quoted. Every seed names a different language, and the same seed always names the same one.

Seven dials, each 0 to 1, control how much the language repeats itself and how it is punctuated. Three further attributes shape how much text comes out without touching the language. Words arrive as a list of symbols; a parallel list reports each word's origin, so patches can treat a recurring name differently from a freshly minted word.

The generator is a host-neutral C library shared with a JavaScript reference implementation and an openFrameworks addon. A seed produces identical output in all three, proven against published golden vectors rather than assumed.

ortho

A Max external that generates invented language — pseudo-words that hold the shape and internal consistency of a language without...

ortho-external

ortho external

Ian Dicke

Antenna is a Max for Live audio capture utility that records sound from anywhere in Ableton Live, including external inputs, and loads it immediately into Simpler.

Each slot stores both the captured sample and its Simpler parameter settings, allowing complete sounds and variations to be recalled instantly. With a dedicated Push takeover layout for recording, slot selection, copying, and performance control, Antenna is designed for fast sampling workflows, live performance, and creative exploration.

Antenna is a Max for Live audio capture utility that records sound from anywhere in Ableton Live, including external inputs, and loads it...

antenna

Antenna

Venn is a MIDI router that distributes notes across two outputs using a weighted random algorithm. It is useful for shaping the orchestration and density of any arrangement dynamically. Designed to work with multiple instances, Venn’s settings are easy to control within a rack or across an entire Live Set.

Venn is a MIDI router that distributes notes across two outputs using a weighted random algorithm. It is useful for shaping the...

venn-dynamic-midi-router

Venn - Dynamic MIDI Router

Riccardo Carbone

Original Copy is a project that explores the translation of visual material into sound, text and musical notation. Visual input is generated by a combination of bespoke mechanical devices as well as video footage and material recordings/documentation made on specific site visits. Material generated by the project has taken the form of short film works, a collection of audio releases, installations in exhibitions and live performances. The project is a collaboration between Bristol based Riccardo Carbone & London based John Strutton

This was a live improvised performance by Original Copy, Stephen Dunne & Mark Titchner at Townhall Arts Centre, Cavan, Ireland, as part of Stephen Dunne's exhibition "Outside the Hermit's Cave". A Séance of sorts, transforming Stephen Dunne's drawings via electronic voice phenomena, broken radio and hermetic intervention.

MaxMSP was used in all aspects of the performance, audio and visual.

Original Copy is a project that explores the translation of visual material into sound, text and musical notation. Visual input is...

diving-the-cloudy-envoys-of-stagnant-self-hypnotismoutside-the-hermits-cave

Diving the Cloudy Envoys of Stagnant Self Hypnotism/Outside the Hermit's Cave

The Hermit's Song was an installation and live performance in Newtown Castle, in the Burren, Ireland. The film is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Burren College of Art exploring the Burren landscape, and documents the installation and performance in the castle in 2025.

Max was used for audio soundscape creation, text creation for live dialogue/spoken word, and interfacing with an arduino controller embedded in an old stick!

hermits-song

Hermit's Song

bbox is a transparent UI object that reports when a point enters or exits a rectangular region, along with its position and motion.

It takes coordinates from two sources interchangeably: the mouse (place a transparent bbox over any visual and it tracks the cursor), or [list x y] from any source — Jitter blob tracking, OSC, Python/OpenCV or MediaPipe over udpreceive. Both paths share the same hit-test and output, so the input source doesn't change the behavior. Output fires on enter/exit transitions or continuously every frame.

A built-in motion follower smooths the tracked point and derives velocity, acceleration, and angle of travel, emitting them as tagged pos/vel/accel/angle/moving messages for downstream routing. Smoothing, movement threshold, and start/stop debounce are all adjustable, and the follower coasts naturally to rest when the point leaves the region.

Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS, Max 9. Free and open source under the MIT license.

bbox is a transparent UI object that reports when a point enters or exits a rectangular region, along with its position and motion.

It...

bbox-external

bbox external

darkInteger

A powerful suite of Max for Live audio processing devices from debut Isotonik developer 

 — built to reshape, sculpt, and transform sound in ways Ableton’s native tools simply can’t. If you’re serious about your signal chain, audiopack belongs in it.

YOUR AUDIO TOOLKIT, SUPERCHARGED.

A powerful suite of Max for Live audio processing devices from debut Isotonik developer darkInteger —...

audiopack

audioPack

Dealga McArdle

Here is the start of a tracker interface for max. It's gone through a few iterations already. The bulk of this project is currently a JS/v8 GUI object, which writes to a multi-channel buffer. I chose the buffer as data-storage because (unless i am mistaken) its indices can be looked-up sample accurately by a phasor,  and in turn can trigger a gen~ object. At the moment it only supports one pattern, but it can be as long as you want, and has no hard limits to the number of channels. There will be further abstraction and facilities to store/retrieve patterns, sequences of patterns.

The columns can be any type from the following: Note, 2Hex, 4Hex, FFXXYY, and trigger.

nnn	| note                      |  ... === ^^^  notes
hh      | 2hex                      |  ..
hhhh	| 4hex                      |  ....
b 	| bang/trigger  ( 1 or .)   |  .
ffxxyy	| COMMAND+ARG               |  ......

and a pattern markup in js like this:  ( each track needs to have a param-type, a param-name, and a group index. )

var pattern_markup = {
    length: 64,
    descriptors: {
        track: {
            0: ['nnn', 'Note 0', 0],
            1: ['hh', 'Volume 0', 0],
            2: ['hh', 'Duration 0', 0],
            3: ['hhhh', 'Offset 0', 0],
            4: ['nnn', 'Note 1', 1],
            5: ['hh', 'Volume 1', 1],
            6: ['hh', 'Duration 1', 1],
            7: ['hhhh', 'Offset 1', 1],
            ...
            16: ['b', 'Trigger', 4], 
            17: ['hh', 'Volume', 4],
            18: ['hh', 'LDelay', 4],
            19: ['hh', 'RDelay', 4],
            20: ['ffxxyy', 'Effect 1', 4],
            21: ['ffxxyy', 'Effect 2', 5]
        }
    },
    data: [],          // filled at runtime
    lexical_track: ""  // this is compiled automatically from the descriptors
};

keyboard shortcuts, at the time of writing, constricted by existing Max kb shortcuts: 

- spacebar           : enter/exit edit mode
- arrow keys         : navigate cursor
- ctrl + arrows      : faster navigation
- ctrl + x           : cuts
- ctrl + c           : copy
- ctrl + v           : paste
- shift + arrows     : set the selection rectangle
- shift + i          : interpolate selection
- shift + plus/minus : (not numkeys) transposes
- alt + up/down      : shifts content of selection
- ctrl + pg up/down  : cycle pattern -/+ 16 rows

It will write data to a multi-channel buffer, and you can read from that buffer at desired time-intervals. I'm still adding some UI/UX for swing (i'm partial to shuffle techno). For the inquisitive the JS module has routines for writing to matrices and Ableton midi tracks (in realtime).

I come from old school trackers, 4 channels then st3, impulse tracker, buzz, sunvox. Of the list of trackers I've used, I think impulse tracker came closest to a direct link  between thought and pattern data, and reproducible happy accidents. Everything could be done via keyboard. I would like to achieve some kind of platform where i can drive soft-synths or samples or send midi / CC changes.

The current maxpat that might be interesting to look at in the repo is : 

Yes, serious goals. This thing has been on my mind for maybe 25 years. I'm keeping the tracker part open source, because - if you think about it - it's just a glorified excel-type interface. Agnostic to the final use-case. Personally I want to make hardware that runs this patch and a variety of max/msp synths/samplers which can be surgically controlled via the tracker interface. I've wanted this stuff way before hardware trackers emerged.