Rodrigo

Cut Glove is a live sampling and performance instrument built using Max. It was programmed around the Xbox 360 controller. Additionally, the patch has MIDI learn functionality built in, so every parameter can be mapped to any MIDI controller.

Click here to read a blog post going into detail about the background, development, and technical implementation of Cut Glove.

Cut Glove shares much of the core feature set of The Party Van but massively updated/improved and based around a completely different control and performance paradigm (a game controller). The Xbox 360 controller is extremely common and cheap and can be used with a computer using this driver (both wired and wireless). A big part of the interest for me writing a patch around a gamepad is my background in playing video games. Most video games have quite deep, complex, and rich mapping schemes that become internalized quickly. That approach is taken in the mapping scheme here. Subsequent updates will expand on these complex mapping metaphors, but the initial feature set and mappings are quite deep as they stand.

Here are a few videos showing what Cut Glove can do:

Cut Glove is based on a custom external, karma~, which handles all the complex recording/playback in the patch.

You can download the patch (for 32bit Mac/Win) along with all the required externals here (v01).

You can follow the github repo here : https://github.com/rconstanzo/cut-glove


cut-glove-game-pad-based-live-sampling-processing

Cut Glove - game-pad based live sampling and processing

Andrew Benson

Lilli Wessling Hart

Within mere weeks of Microsoft releasing their Kinect camera for the XBox, excited developers have been racing to add support for different platforms.  Kick-started by a bounty from Adafruit.com, the DIY community was very quick to respond with Open Kinect drivers. 

As expected, the Max community has been bitten by the Kinect bug too, and some dedicated members of the forum community have already got a working Jitter object called jit.freenect.grab (currently Mac OS X only).  

To keep up with this object as it develops, watch the forum thread here: link

For background on why the Kinect is so exciting, Peter Kirn at CreateDigitalMotion.com has assembled a little roundtable of prominent artists and developers weighing in on how this technology will improve their lives: link
The Creative Applications Network has also assembled a few examples of interesting work already being done with the Kinect. 

We are excited to see the new projects that result from these experiments as things develop.  Combined with tools like Jean-Marc Pelletier's cv.jit library and Mathieu Chamagne's Max Multitouch Framework, this technology could offer some amazing opportunities for gestural interaction, live projection mapping, and tons of stuff we can't even imagine. 

Got something cool to show us that you've made with Max?  Get in touch on Facebook or Twitter, or submit a Project.


thanks jean-marc pelletier for jit.freenect.grab.  super awesome- a camera which can isolate parts of the image within a certain depth range away!

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