Max~

MellowTron was designed per the request of a musical theatre company for their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. In order to facilitate audio playback in a hostile space (not a theatre/concert hall), a patch that could quickly read in a large amount of audio files, list them in any order the user desires, and play them back in an efficient manner triggered by MIDI controller was required. In this case an AKAI MPK Mini 25-key was utilized.

The patch utilizes a specialized abstraction that uses most of the features of the polybuffer~ object. This allows for fast read in of a folder and the ability to reorder samples through a coll object. From there, the samples are read in through the KeyAssign subpatch, which allows for immediate assignment of samples to keys on the MPK. Use of the stripnote object allows for Start/Stop capability without holding down the key while the sample is playing. The next step in the project is to integrate UDP control of projections through jitter.

MellowTron was designed per the request of a musical theatre company for their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. In order to facil

mellowtron-dynamic-multiple-sample-playback-for-musical-theatre-applications

MellowTron - Dynamic Multiple Sample Playback for Musical Theatre Applications

Steve Valentin

This is the result of 2 years of development and we now give up disillusioned. Too many bugs could never be killed completely. Therefore: Whoever is interested in helping out and has ideas how to make certain things simpler and/or integrate e.g. a save function is very welcome to help!

The concept is an audio player that works a bit like Ableton's Clip view, with the difference that its functionality focuses on mutichannel playback. Entire folders, with "any" number of audio files in it, can be dropped (folder) into a clip and played back in different Modes. Every Clip/Scene has its own routing matrix for quick channel routing.

The area of application would be e.g. for exhibitions or installations, where multi-channel playback with a quick routing interface and simple cross-fading of scenes is helpful. 

The player is controllable via MIDI or OSC and also has some other nice features: Time triggered Playback, Clip Follow, Crossfade Loops, and much more.

This is the result of 2 years of development and we now give up disillusioned. Too many bugs could never be killed completely. 

audio-scene-player

Audio Scene Player

Video Trigger is a free standalone motion detector application tailored for media artists. Attach a camera and trigger sounds whenever occupancy is detected in six user-defined areas of the video image. You have complete control over the playback logic and signal routing. Surround is supported, and the source patches are included.

project71-video-trigger

Video Trigger

robertcampbell

This generative playback patch buffers up to four samples and then plays them back up to seven times each at random intervals over a period of up to two seconds. each playback event has a random playback speed, amplitude, and stereo pan. The best results come from loading short samples (less than about second). It is a similar random playback effect to granular synthesis although I find with this you can shift between the boundary of perceiving texture and discrete sound events.

There is user control over all the ranges that values are randomised over, as well as the number of events. I have used this patch in a musical project by routing the output to audacity and recording some 'scatters' which I then composed in a DAW. The effect could be described as generative and is very simple but powerful in my opinion.


scatter-sound-design-tool

Scatter Sound Design Tool

jackdeacon

Uses MAX to allow the user to control sample banks, sample playback, filters, and a simple synth using just their voice.

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