Alex Ermolaev

VCF - Filter Cutoff/Resonance and Ring Mod

Scope- indicate Midi Signal. Push/On/Off

Noise ~Crackle-  Mechanism transform Noise to Crackle this special character 

Harmonizer effect Lfo Mod Harmonic, Scope harmonize,  Dry-Wet 

and more...                       

The filter VCF also cuts OSC 1-2, FREQ-GLIDE - and Glide LFO effects It works in conjunction with Glide, 
adding Noise transforming it into the Crack! Filtering we can send it to the ENV.

fluit-joint-mono-synthesizer-max-and-mini-variant

Fluit-Joint Mono synthesizer (Max and Mini variant)

Andrew Pask

Brian Crabtree creates objects, music, and objects that make music.

just prior to my teenage years my slightly older uncle showed me a video of himself and friends taking turns trying to sever aluminum cans with a homemade ninja sword. the soundtrack that played from a boombox in the background was depeche mode and nine inch nails. that pretty much set the stage.

i was fortunate enough to have grown up programming computers and making music at a young age. but the two didn't collide until i unknowingly found myself in classes taught by miller puckette and peter otto. commercial music electronics didn't do anything interesting, and computer programming wasn't very musical (computers were just at the threshold of being able to do live processing.) max/msp deeply changed the way i thought about composition, performance, recording and audience interaction-- many months were spent in the computer lab in an altered state of reality. so many possibilities began to unfold.

i changed my performance software every day, sometimes radically. this led to the necessity of a comparably adaptable physical interface. a minimal decoupled grid proved to keep up with this sort of drive for discovery.

now we ship these all over the world and people do things i never dreamed of. many share these creations back with the community which fosters an incredibly regenerative creative energy. for this i am very grateful.

How do you know when something you are working on is finished?

i suspect nothing is ever finished, which is both compelling and horrifying. a sense of completion would only signal a new transformation or journey which may include the destruction of the previous accomplishment. i feel like i'm constantly refining and redefining my work, so i prefer to think in cycles and continuums. i'm wary to assign the quality of finality as i'm sure i'll feel differently about it soon thereafter-- consider how we've somehow changed just barely our hyper-minimalist grids over the years. striving to make a simple idea almost imperceptibly more simple. it's nonsense. but it's real life, too. the new grids we are designing right now are totally going to be the best and last version, by the way.

with qualitative work, for example music, the situation is even more ridiculous for me. one of my favorite compositions started as a long improvisation which i painstakingly edited down, then unconsciously undid each edit until i was back at the full untouched recording. this took hours. it was a spectacular and somewhat annoying epiphany.

When do you like to use chance or random processes? 

i frequently reach for indeterminacy when trying to model some sort of organic process-- like two performers falling out of sync or tune, or pairing sets of tones together arbitrarily, or trying to recreate a forest full of birdsong. computers are really good at being computers. i enjoy trying to make them dress up and pretend they're something else.

i often get nervous calling this composition, however. i perhaps over-romanticize the scene of someone in a secluded cabin in the woods with a piano and some paper and a pen and firewood and enough rice and kimchi to get through the winter. sometimes it is too easy to let a machine generate art and then we take credit for it. this is perhaps why i'm most attracted to machines that can be completely redefined, to be used in ways the designer of the machine did not intend.

What’s something that you would like to be able to do with technology in your work but you can’t at the moment?

i aim to make the technology invisible. i often don't want to think about technology. it should be transparent and not get in the way.

energy is an exchange. we give and graciously accept, changing its form and method of delivery. the simple act of thoughtful transference tends to multiply its magnitude– heedlessly disobeying laws of physics. i find an overabundance of this energy in nature and in many forms of community (particularly of the local variety), in architecture and food and ideas, in conviction and in openness. it can be a fleeting smile or a three hundred page novel about rocks.

What is the most difficult obstacle you need to overcome in order to do your thing?

often the most difficult obstacle is deciding what to do, in the broadest of terms. there's this sentiment that things get easier the more you learn. i feel the more i learn the more conscious i am of what i don't know-- also more conscious of the universe of things i could be doing otherwise. so for me the opportunity to know more just leads to more of the unknown. it can become an overwhelming and noisy feedback loop. sometimes i have to inject some sort of randomness to stabilize, to become human again. see a foreign place. hear someone else's story. reconsider my belief in my own internal narratives.

it's all nonsense. really important nonsense.

mini-interview-brian-crabtree

Mini Interview: Brian Crabtree

readywater

Video mixer built entirely in max/jitter, used in multiple performances, audio/visual installations, and projects.

monomevideo

MonomeVideo

flec8

The concept of the project is to explore sonic content within audio samples at a granular scale, using the simple yet expressive monome Arc 4 controller.

Much of the device utilizes Ableton Live's own native plug ins, especially Instrument Rack macro mappings to trigger and modulate the audio files.

Max provides the bridge between the monome Arc4 and Live via Max for Live.

Using Max, the Arc's high definition encoders can be translated to messages to Live's various macro controls.

The minimal GUI was designed inside of Max for streamlined performance/composition and provides a seamless conversion to the hardware.

arc4-granular

ARC4 Granular

Julien Bayle

This project uses exclusively Max6 & MIRA framework.

miranome64-the-virtual-monome-on-ipad-with-mira

MIRAnome64, the virtual monome on iPad with MIRA

Sam DeLaughter

Simple 8-track MLRV style looper for the Novation Launchpad. Uses track 1 as the master, automatically syncs 2-7 to it. Each row is a sample, columns represent chunks of time. Scene launch buttons stop tracks, top buttons adjust speed in various ways.

launchnome

Launchnome

kkempes

Max is used to translate sounds into visuals. Incoming sound is filtered by an equalizer and each band generates a value related to the peak signal. Signal Values are used to drive a several number of parameters in jitter objects.

if you want, you can add some manual controls via monome arc4 

vidi

VIDI

Rodrigo

the-party-van

The Party Van

cbannis

The audio is developed entirely in Max/MSP and performed using Max for Live. Battery and Drumaxx are embedded in vst~ objects and the parameters are organized and controlled via Max. The audio is recorded into a Max buffer. The cut-up and DSP effects are developed entirely in Max using ~phasor and ~wave objects.

blip-shaper-creating-patterns-and-shaping-sounds

Blip Shaper, Creating Patterns and Shaping Sounds

andrej

Cycling '74 has recently given us some really nice updates such as the Mira update and the MPE & Blocks implementation. This is my project that implements the updates.

Granurise is a real-time Looper, Sampler and Granular synth which integrates with the outside world trough Ipad Mira, Midi–MPE & OSC.

•	»Human modulation« automation that follows a last gesture until a new one is recorded

•	Edit pitch, volume, pan, eq, density & scrub for each voice

•	Different windowing + design your own

•	Transforms the pitch without altering the speed of sound using the FFT transform

•	Slide can also control the position of each voice

•	Press can control the selection duration

Granurise is a real-time Looper, Sampler and Granular synth which integrates with the outside world trough Ipad Mira, Midi–MPE and OSC.

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