MUC6446: Composition of Electroacoustic Music/Digital 2
MAX Assignment No. 6

    The objective of this assignment is thus.

    1) To develop a patcher that will track either the activity of a live acoustic source through the use of sigmund~ (pitch), fiddle~ (pitch) and/or bonk~ (amplitude). Both of these objects are non-standard objects.

      The patcher should be able to:
      • use sigmund~ or fiddle~ in collaboration with score following (remember, from the Max course (MUC 4401/6444), change live processing through the triggering of qlist (now available on the PC platform).
      • if available, use bonk~ to identify "small" percussion instruments and, perhaps in collaboration with thresh~, change live processing (with or without qlist).

    Though you should no longer need a shopping list, here are a few new Max/Msp objects with which you should be familiar (but, as is always true in "Max-land" there are numerous other ways).

      sigmund~
      fiddle~ (obsolete)
      bonk~ (obsolete)
      thresh~

    BONUS: Compose a short musical example showing the possibilities of your patcher.

  • The paper Real-time audio analysis tools for Pd and MSP by Puckette, Apel and Zicarelli should also be of interest [click here]

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