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    Writing Reference Pages

    by Timothy Place on
    August 6, 2019


    In this article, I’ll share the guidelines we use at Cycling '74 for writing our reference pages to help you guarantee that your materials will fit seamlessly into the experience of patching in Max.

    Best Practices in Jitter, Part 2 - Recording

    by Rob Ramirez on
    June 26, 2019


    For our second best practices in Jitter article, we wanted to take a crack at answering one of the most frequently asked questions on the forums and in the socials: How do I record my Jitter output? Seems like a simple question, but as is often the case with Max, simple questions have complex answers. We’ll start with the basics, and work our way to more advanced (and costly) solutions.

    The Great jit.gl.bfg Round Up

    by Andrew Benson on
    May 28, 2019


    Many of my colleagues have already started using jit.gl.bfg in highly personal ways for their own projects. Rather than let all this creative energy sit idly by the water cooler, I challenged the team to each come up with a unique example of jit.gl.bfg in use and to share some of their enthusiasm.

    Best Practices in Jitter, Part 1

    by Rob Ramirez, Cory Metcalf on
    May 14, 2019


    One of the most important changes to computers since Jitter's release is the general move away from faster and faster CPUs toward faster GPUs - the graphics processing unit cards in your system. Jitter has the tools to leverage your machine's power, but you'll need to learn some new techniques to access them. This series will focus on ways to maximize performance and efficiency in Jitter by laying out some current best practices.

    Node Recipe 02: The Crowd

    by Andrew Benson on
    March 19, 2019


    This time out, our Node For Max recipe is going to keep things simple. We’ll be using only one NPM library (flocc), and making full use of its features to create a simple simulated crowd visualization that should spark your imagination.

    Node Recipe 01: Installation Calendar

    by Andrew Benson on
    March 5, 2019


    In this recipe we put Node to work as a portal for us to control and build a schedule for an audiovisual installation patch via a dynamic web page. To accomplish this we lean on some popular web libraries and the built-in features of Node for Max to communicate with a running patcher.

    Node Recipe 00: Socket Drawings

    by Andrew Benson on
    January 22, 2019


    Connecting a Max patch to interactive data is a fundamental interest many of us share. This recipe provides a quick dive into Socket.IO, a full-featured realtime data package for Node that can handle everything from chat to image and data transfer. Here, we create a simple drawing interaction that has both a web and Max front end that can communicate together. This could serve as the first step in an interactive art installation or crowd-interaction performance experience when combined with the rich media available in Max.

    MC Recipe 05: EvolvingTrain

    by Darwin Grosse on
    November 21, 2018


    Another patch by Manuel Poletti, this recipe digs into the time-saving mc.evolve~ object to create a team of pinging filters.

    MC Recipe 04: ClassicSurround

    by Darwin Grosse on
    November 21, 2018


    This week's recipes come from Manuel Poletti. In this one, he shows how to use the mc.mixdown~ object for surround panning and control

    MC Recipe 03: MultiPan

    by Darwin Grosse on
    October 23, 2018


    With MC Recipe 3, use the deviate message to generate two different audio functions: deviation of the playback rate of the instances of an mc.groove~ object, and automated pan movement of each voice.