Luke Woodbury

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The Pop Up Play project explored how immersive digital technology can be used to create learning opportunities for children and young people, in order to enhance their creativity, language and communication skills. The project was funded by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts andwas a joint project between The Spark Arts for Children,De Montfort University and Dotlib Ltd (Luke Woodbury).

The Pop Up Play system is comprised of three parts - a video system, audio system and a lighting system. Each of these systems have a bank of selectable settings and media that can be linked together to provide one button scene changes. Accessible iPad controls enables the person using the technology to be mobile whilst running the session, and also for the young people themselves to be able to take control.

The visual system makes use of a 3D depth sensor, namely a Kinect camera, which can bring the participants into the screen, whilst cutting out the background. From here elements of the digital and real world can be mixed together and, due to the body tracking capabilities of the Kinect camera, it is also possible to track items onto a user's body or do full body digital puppetry. A further alpha enabled video layer allows environmental/ weather effects to be overlaid on the main visual and a USB camera can be used to bring real world items into the digital environment.

The audio system gives a bank of ambient background sounds and two further banks of sound effects that can be used, as well as microphone input. As with all parts of the system, all that is required to change or add to media is to simply add or remove things from a folder structure. The system will simply pick up new files at the press of a button. For example, users of the system could create their own body parts for a digital puppet and just copy them into a folder.

The lighting system is designed to work with 4x6 channel RGB DMX fittings, though by setting up the DMX devices with the same addresses you could have any number with four individual output colours. The lighting system is very simple to use; using a single finger a user can scroll through all the colours of the rainbow effortlessly.

Go to the Github link for the Max files, or the main website for the Windows exported application, the software is free and licensed under the MPL open source licence, though it does have some third party requirements. The main website also has some additional resources and details of the research that accompanied this project.


pop-play-mixed-reality-system

Pop Up Play Mixed Reality System

smugrik

This is an editor for Mutable Instrument's Shruthi-1 DIY synth.

Supports all the synth parameters and all the Shruthi-1 filter boards as of Shruthi-1 firmware 0.97

It is available as a Max 6 project and a standalone application for MacOSX.

The tool is open source and all Max patchers are available from GitHub.


shruthi-1-editor

Shruthi-1 Editor

IanniX

IanniX is a graphical standalone open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art. IanniX syncs via Open Sound Control (OSC) events and curves to your real-time environment, for example MaxMSP/Jitter.

— It can be used with a diversity of software and hardware tools,

— It can be modified and operated in real-time,

— IanniX's graphical space spans several dimensions and time scales,

— The OSC protocol allows fast network communication,

— It is licensed under GPL 3, free and cross-platform,

— Scripts for IanniX can be written using JavaScript to create complex and generative scores.


iannix-1

Julien Bayle

I needed my own controller for Ableton Live.

I built it in a diy mind and I'm using max for live as an interface between Ableton Live and the hardware. 

project6

Controller for Ableton Live with Max for Live as interface

Peter McCulloch

eml-200-modular-synthesizer-with-sequencer

Open Source EML-200 modular synthesizer with sequencer

Peter Nyboer

Audio looping environment for live and studio use. Up to 8 looping modules, each with 6 bins of files or recordings. "Gesture" recording for repeatable interface actions. Networkable, hackable, open-source. Well documented and commented. In standalone and source versions.

project24-livid-looper

Livid Looper

Alexis Baskind

Hedrot (for "head rotation tracker") is a low-cost (less than 40 euros) and efficient open-source hardware/software solution for head tracking. Hedrot is especially suitable for binaural rendering (3D-Audio on headphones), and has been initially designed for use with the binaural renderer Bipan as part of the Bili Project.

All the protypes were built in Max. A C-library that ensure the serial communication with the head tracker as well as the computing of the angles has been specifically designed for this project. A Max external based on this library has been programmed and used as core of the main receiver program, which is available either as a Max patch or as a standalone application.

Contributions to help developing this collaborative project further are warmly welcome. Please contact us for proposals and questions. 

hedrot-open-source-head-tracker

hedrot: open-source head tracker

Stefano Fasciani

The system is implemented in Max, which hosts VST-Plugin software synthesizer, performs the analysis and the real-time mapping. Max communicates via OSC with MATLAB, which computes the mapping using a unsupervised dimensionality reduction and machine learning algorithms. IRCAM FTM externals are extensively used in this project.

timbre-space-mapping-for-vst-synthesizers

Timbre Space Mapping for VST Synthesizers

jamoma

Max is used both as a prototyping tool for the various features of Jamoma c++ frameworks and for their implementation as a rich set of externals and abstractions.

Jamoma

Pierre Guillot

All the libraries are available at the website www.pierreguillot.com :

Dag Library is a collection of C classes and MAX/MSP objects destined to data analyse and generation.

dag.average : A moving average generator
dag.chaos : A chaotic attractor external
dag.distance : A distance calculator
dag.random : A random list generator
dag.scale : A scale object with autoscale mode and boundary mode
dag.gaussian : A normal ditribution generator
dag.smooth : A value blender
dag.statistic : A statistic calculator

Rev Library is a collection of C++ classes and MAX/MSP objects destined to the synthesis of reverberations.

rev.convolve~ : A zero latency convolution reverb
rev.freeverb~ : An implementation of the freeverb algorithm
rev.gigaverb~ : An implementation of the gigaverb algorithm
rev.rotate~ : A stereo field rotation
rev.width~ : A stereo width controler


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