[please note: the compressor i used on the video file has made a big fat mess of the audio - but i kinda like the distortion so here it is...]
I did some live coding in Max last night but did not record it - by 20 minutes in there was some really intricate stuff going on, which was then explored with little re-coding for another ten minutes or so. Here is an example of just two elements conceived on-the-fly last night (and put together less convincingly today): gesture capture and loop with [mtr]+[timer]+[del], and a one-oscillator drum synth.
With more practise things and stuff could happen much quicker, but still I think that MSP as live code instrument works best in an ensemble situation.
_ #hackpact day 4 from Samuel Freeman on Vimeo.
first live code i've done for a long time. think it shows. The only plan i had was to use adsr~ inside poly~ , but then i forgot to do that…
also part of #hackpact → my blog page for which is here
20090801 Live Code Max MSP from Samuel Freeman on Vimeo.
looping a live input.
there must be more Max coders out there who can do better than this…
5 min with Max 5 - live coding 20090612 from Samuel Freeman on Vimeo.
My idea for this experiment was to generate sound with the midi synth and then to process that signal in MSP via soundflower - by definition this meant there would be a feedback loop because we are using soundflower to route audio to the screen-grab video app . . .
The use of modulo operators to get a rhythm is something i've used a few times in the past - usually with much better results; I was tempted to have another go at recording this idea, but at this stage, in this context, for me, it is the thought that counts…
Max 5 - 5 min patch based on pink~ and fffb~ from Samuel Freeman on Vimeo.
for this, my 2nd response, I set out with three objectives; first, to get sound out sooner (managed 1 minute, which is half the time of my previous post), second to impose an ending (a few more seconds and I'd have had it!), and lastly to attempt to make dsp connections rhythmically (this I forgot to do until half way through…)
Live Coding Max 5 - 5 min patch 20090223 from Samuel Freeman on Vimeo.
It took me 2 min to get the sound going on this, my first live code composition. I might do another take at the same idea some time, but there are other ideas to explore…
5 minutes is enough time to get something going in Max, another 5 min to explore and expand the sounds would be welcome, but that's not the point of this project. So, with some practice maybe a self contained, start to end piece of music could be possible within the remit… we'll see