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A Brief Introduction to Vizzie

Vizzie was originally created as a way for absolute beginners to learn some basic techniques of Max and to start having fun right off. In this Vizzie Visions video series, we'll show you some interesting features of the Vizzie environment .

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by Gregory Taylor on September 29, 2015

Justin Goers's icon

The attractor module doesn't animate for me and outputs no values. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Rhys Chatham's icon

I have the same problem with attractr. I tried it with oscil8r and that works fine, but attractr does not seem to work.

Max Gardener's icon

What version of Max are you using, Rhys? What platform? What version of Vizzie are you using?

Rhys Chatham's icon

Thanks for asking!

I am using the Max 8 crossgrade, which I just downloaded today, so I assume that's the latest version? I am using the version of Vizzie that came with the download. I'm on the latest version of Windows 10 and my computer is fast.

Max Gardener's icon

Hello, Rhys. Hope you enjoy the crossgrade, but this means I have another question, however.

Are you running Max or Max for Live when you see the error? If it's the latter, do you have Live set so that it's using the bundled version of Max or the crossgrade you purchased [that's set in Live's Preferences under the Files and Folders tab]?

Rhys Chatham's icon

Hi Max, I am running Max 8 as a stand alone, I am not using it with Live yet whilst I am getting my head around how to program within it. At present, my plan is to work through the tutorials.

I programmed in Max extensively during the nineties and kind of dropped it for twenty years, I am only just getting back into it, and it has, um... changed a bit! ;-)

Max Gardener's icon

Thanks, Rhys. I've sent this on to gregory, who made this. He'll be in touch.

Rhys Chatham's icon

Thanks again for your help , Max. Gregory contacted me and it turned out that I had an older version of Vizzie that needed to be updated. I see how to do the updates now. Happily, it solved the problem, and ATTRACTR is now working well! Much obliged.

Pablo Szuster's icon

HI, iam in vizzie, how can i export the video in a mp4? thanx